SDG Reviews ‘The Pirates! Band of Misfits’

New movie offers swashbuckling, stop-motion silliness from Aardman Animations, the creators of Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run.

SDG Reviews 'Chimpanzee'

Amazing documentary footage highlighting the winsome and wild sides of chimp society is undermined by pedestrian narration.

SDG Reviews 'Mirror Mirror'

Tarsem Singh’s visually stunning Snow White movie is a revisionist fairy tale that blends sweetness with occasional rude humor.

Register Radio: Morally-Tainted Products and Family Films

Technologist Rebecca Taylor and Film Critic Steven Greydanus

Are the Borrowers thieves?!

Parents: Your kids can do better at the movies!

SDG Reviews 'The Secret World of Arrietty'

There’s a world of wonder under the floorboards in this gentle, wholesome family-film delight.

Which Disney Villain is the Most Evil?

SDG Reviews 'The Muppets'

It's time to play the music: The Muppet magic is finally back in this refreshingly old-school family film.

Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Happy Feet 2, Descendants: In 30 Seconds!

SDG Reviews 'Happy Feet Two'

Darkness falls on Antarctica: The dancing-penguin sequel is the grimmest animated film in years, a global-warming disaster movie rife with problematic themes.

Puss in Boots, Anonymous & The Three Musketeers in 30 Seconds!

Broken Family Films

How family films reveal or obscure the realities of divorce and brokenness — and how literal a “broken home” can be in films like Zathura, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Monster House and Up.

Girls Rule, Boys Drool? Stereotyping the sexes in family films

Dumbo & The Lion King: Overrated or Must Haves?

Why I’m not a big fan of two of Disney's most beloved films … and, for all-y’all who disagree with me, what's on the new Blu-ray/DVD special editions.

SDG Reviews 'Winnie the Pooh'

The Disney throwback is the summer’s best family film.

Cars vs. A Bug’s Life: What’s Pixar’s least impressive film?

The Hunt for bin Laden May Be Over, but…

Let's Avoid the Hop (oh baby)

Let's Avoid the Hop (oh baby) Part 2