Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

[7] Director Tim Burton's career since 1999's Sleepy Hollow has been spotty at best, but Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is one of the brighter spots in his 21st century output. Asa Butterfield (Hugo) stars as Jake, an awkward…
Cinderella (1950)

Cinderella (1950)

[4] Cinderella was the biggest hit Walt Disney had since 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Walt credited it for saving the company from bankruptcy. While I'm certainly thankful the film allowed Disney's legacy to continue, I can't say…
Explorers (1985)

Explorers (1985)

[6] Three junior-high students interpret cryptic messages from outer space to build a ship and make first contact with extra-terrestrials in Explorers. Director Joe Dante (Gremlins, The Howling) launched the notable careers of young co-stars Ethan Hawke (Training Day) and…
Make Mine Music (1946)

Make Mine Music (1946)

[4] If musical animated shorts had to audition to be part of Disney's Fantasia, then Make Mine Music is a compilation of the rejects. Without an overarching narrative to connect these shorts in any way, the film hinges on the…
The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026)

The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026)

[5] After a seven-year hiatus, Star Wars returns to the big screen with The Mandalorian and Grogu. Based on a television series you don't need to watch to enjoy the feature version, the film features a loner mercenary nicknamed 'Mando'…
Bambi (1942)

Bambi (1942)

[10] With relatively little dialogue and an abundance of montage, Walt Disney's Bambi plays out like a beautiful tone poem on rites of passage, death and rebirth. There's a 'circle of life' undercurrent to the film that makes it especially…
The Sheep Detectives (2026)

The Sheep Detectives (2026)

[8] In this refreshingly sophisticated and highly emotional family film, Hugh Jackman (Logan) plays a sheep herder who reads mystery novels to his flock every evening -- and they understand what they hear. When the sheep find him dead one…
The Rocketeer (1991)

The Rocketeer (1991)

[9] Based on a graphic novel by Dave Stevens, The Rocketeer stars Bill Campbell as a young pilot in 1938 Los Angeles who comes into possession of a mysterious jetpack prototype and uses it to become a masked, flying hero.…
Hugo (2011)

Hugo (2011)

[8] In 1931 Paris, an orphaned boy named Hugo (Asa Butterfield) lives in a train station and gets caught up in a mystery involving a broken automaton and a cranky old toy-maker (Ben Kingsley). With the help of an adventurous…
Flow (2024)

Flow (2024)

[9] Flow, one of the most cinematic and meaningful animated films ever made, takes place in an unknown world and unknown time, where a cat must learn to trust animals of other species in order to survive a great flood.…