Rebecca J. Carlson

This movie is actually called "Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'hoole"  but I didn't want to say all of that to the...

I was right. This is the movie I have been waiting to see all my life. Hiccup ought to get an Oscar nomination for best actor. The emoti...

Otherwise entitled "Motivations? Who Needs 'Em?" First, the good stuff. This film had clever moments. I especially liked ...

I love World War II historical fiction, and this is one of the best! Chilling, almost science-fiction-like, it deals with a relatively smal...

While you're all snowed in due to the marvelous winter weather we've been having, I recommend watching this marvelous family film. ...

I have one thing to say about Dreamworks Animation's "Kung Fu Panda." The characters and story were so good I entirely forgot ...

I first met Greetings From Planet Earth by Barbara Kerley a couple of weeks ago at the library. The spine really caught my attention. That...

No one ever comments on my reviews! Are they all that boring? Anyways, I just finished reading "Alcatraz Vs. The Scrivener's Bones...

Eight years ago, I missed "Titan AE" when it came out in theaters. It looked cool, but I was afraid it would be stupid. Don Blut...

I have wanted to read Hidden Talents by David Lubar for a long time. I started it once, but the first few pages were so much like Holes I...

Palace of Mirrors by Margaret Peterson Haddix is a princess tale of mistaken identities. The character, Ella, from Haddix's earlier bo...

City of Ember is built upon an intriguing premise. A two-hundred year-old city deep beneath the earth is the last refuge of humankind. Bu...

With a whole intra-galactic war going on, you would think they could have found something more interesting for Anakin Skywalker to do than r...

Harrison Ford: the man who can make badly written dialog sound good. Good thing for Indiana Jones. Our story opens with Dr. Jones being fire...

No author I know can top Brandon Mull for sheer imaginative power. Kendra and Seth Sorenson are the grandchildren of the caretakers of Fable...

It all began so well. The film opens by taking advantage of all the natural drama of cut-throat politics. Young Prince Caspian has to flee ...