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We’ve had to resort to watching movies from our youth for Family Movie Night–mostly because my parents take Jake to see almost all of the new movies that come out. But, this is ok. It’s kind of fun to watch movies we haven’t seen in 20 years. Last night, we …

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 …