Helping you choose the best movies for your family
Movie Title: The Giver [HD] PG-13, 1 hour 40 minutes Grade: B In a Nutshell: If you haven’t read the best-selling young adult novel The Giverby Lois Lowry, you’ll understand the movie well enough, but also won’t know what you’re … Continued
Movie Title: Step Up All In PG-13, 1 hour 52 minutes PG Grade: A for dancing, D for plot In a Nutshell: The Step Up franchise always brings it when it comes to amazing dancing. This 5th installment’s story line … Continued
Movie Title: The Expendables 3 PG-13, 1 hour 43 minutes In theaters August 15, 2014 Grade: B- In a Nutshell: There is no shortage of testosterone, nor bad guys to fight here, folks. If you’ve seen the first two … Continued
Grade: C PG-13, 1 hour 41 minutes In a Half-shell: You’re about to get shell-shocked. OK, first of all…I have 2 water turtles. So there’s that. Secondly, I raised 4 sons who were obsessed with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles … Continued
Movie Title: Into the Storm PG-13, 2 hours 10 minutes Grade: C+ In a Nutshell: The theater lights fade and the tornado begins swirling immediately. Cue the jiggly camera and body count. This disaster movie’s strengths begin and end with … Continued
Movie Title: The Hundred-Foot Journey Grade: A PG, 2 hours 2 minutes In a Nutshell: Mmmmm…..a must-see for foodies. I’m an instructor at the famous Le Cordon Bleu CulinarySchool and so, obviously, I love good food. (You could also … Continued
Movie Title: Guardians of the Galaxy Grade: A PG-13, 2 hours 1 minute In a Nutshell: FAN-Friggin-Tastic! This movie is everything you want a summer popcorn blockbuster to be. By now, everyone has heard of Captain America: The First Avenger, … Continued
Movie Title: Lucy Grade: B+ PG-13 in the U.S.A. or R in Europe In a Nutshell: The evolutionary Big Bang theory meets Bang Bang. As long as you remember that this is a summer popcorn movie and not a documentary, … Continued
Movie Title: Planes: Fire & Rescue PG, 1 hour 24 minutes Grade: C+ In a Nutshell: You know when you make a Xerox copy of another actual Xerox copy and the quality gets worse each time? That’s kind of this … Continued
Movie Title: Hercules PG-13, 2 hours Grade: B In a Nutshell: The Rock. Man, that guy is huge…like a Herculean rock. Dwayne Johnson proudly proclaimed in a recent interview “I was born to place this role.” He definitely makes for … Continued