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airplane!

We hadn’t had a Family Movie Night in a while, so we were due (I spent all of last month renting Season 2 of True Blood). Our family movie list is getting short, so I’ve been resorting to movies from my youth. Airplane! went over well, so in coming months, …

it’s complicated

I thought this was a pretty funny movie. Not totally “laugh out loud” hilarious, but definitely funny enough. I might be showing my age here, but I imagine you need to be a little mature before you’d like this movie. For example, I can’t see 20-somethings liking this, but what …

fantastic mr. fox

While I wouldn’t call this movie fantastic, it was good enough for Family Movie Night. It was based on a Roald Dahl book, so it was weird like all of his other stuff. There was one funny recurring theme throughout the movie–the word “cuss” was substituted for swear words. Though …

julie and julia

We caught this movie over the weekend. It was pretty good. Brian didn’t think he was going to like it, but he did. The movie was about a woman (Julie) who decided to cook all of the recipes in Julia Child’s first cookbook and blog about it. The Julie scenes …

the hurt locker

This was a great movie. We watched it over the weekend. It had me on the edge of my seat the whole time–it was pretty much non-stop action. More action than you would expect from the “Best Picture”. Having grown up on Viet Nam movies, it’s interesting to see war …