On Watching Back to the Future
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 Posted in Movies | No Comments »I spent the two days before Christmas watching the complete Back to the Future trilogy (and I'm a little shocked that you can buy the whole thing from Amazon for $20 right now). I haven't seen the movies in a ...
Go See Juno
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 Posted in Adoption, Movies | 2 Comments »A little more than a month ago I asked if you could do a funny movie about adoption. The answer? You bet your sweet bippy. We went to see Juno last night, the adoption-related movie penned by the former stripper and ...
Juno: Can You Do a Funny Movie About Adoption?
Saturday, November 10th, 2007 Posted in Adoption, Movies | No Comments »From Minnesota--the adoption state--comes stripper-turned-screenwriter Diablo Cody and her debut movie, Juno, about a teenage girl who gets pregnant and decides to place her child for adoption (notice a theme?). It's got Rainn Wilson, Michael Cera and some other folks ...
Parents: What’s the Best Viewing Order for Star Wars?
Friday, September 28th, 2007 Posted in Movies | 1 Comment »Jason Kottke posed an interesting question on his blog: In what order should a parent show their child the Star Wars movies? Kottke rarely opens his entries up to comments, but for this one he opened the floodgate and so ...
Addicted to Sci-Fi
Sunday, August 26th, 2007 Posted in Books, Movies | 2 Comments »In addition to my blog bender, I'm on a bit of sci-fi bender of late. I've always liked sci-fi. For the longest time Star Wars was my favorite movie and it was only dethroned by another sci-fi flick (Serenity). But ...
Arr, Pirates! Groan, Bratz!
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007 Posted in Movies | No Comments »Went to see Pirates 3 on Saturday night (if you want my take you can check my quick review) and I think my favorite part had to be the collective groan when the title was revealed at the end of ...
Ice Bound on Last Flight Out
Friday, March 9th, 2007 Posted in Movies | No Comments »A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away I worked for an organization that produced the movie Last Flight Out. I've talked before about how horrible the movie is and perhaps it holds a special place in my ...
Serenity Fans Invoice Universal
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007 Posted in Business & Marketing, Movies | 1 Comment »Read this little bit about the fan promotion of the movie Serenity (best movie ever) and how the studio reacted: As the release date neared, fans tried everything to raise the film's profile, from holding bake sales to selling amateur-designed T-shirts. ...
Reinterpreting Star Wars: R2-D2 & Chewbacca the Heroes
Sunday, January 14th, 2007 Posted in Movies | 1 Comment »I love this article: A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope. Based on the info from the Star Wars prequels, we need to reinterpret the originals and it appears as though R2-D2 and Chewbacca are incredible Rebel spies. I also ...
A Bit Mad
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007 Posted in Domicile, Movies, Technology | No Comments »It's been a bit mad around here lately. After returning from our 2,500-mile holiday (that's about how many miles we drove) we kicked into high gear getting our house ready to sell. Then Abby got sick. Nevertheless, we struggled on ...
