I’ve been reading that M. Night Shyamalan is persona non grata for the casting choices in his latest directorial adventure, The Last Airbender. Asians are being called upon to boycott the film. I know nothing about this movie or the anime show upon which it is based, but I gather that the main characters are supposed to [...]
When the boys were little and I had to take them to horrible movies like Pokemon 3, smuggling a book and a flashlight into the theatre was the only thing that saved my sanity. Chris drew the short straw on the Thomas the Tank Engine movie, as I recall. I still remember some of the brilliantly scripted moments [...]
We hadn’t had a date in quite some time. A family date that is, i.e. one in which it is just the four of us. We tend to get on each others nerves when there is no one else around to distract us. Yet despite our best efforts no one would go out with us [...]
I’m not a huge James Bond fan. I’m not even a small James Bond fan. And I have never found any of the actors who portray 007 the least bit appealing. But my house is filled with Y-chromosome type species which means James Bond will live another day. Yet despite my ennui for this misogynist [...]
Before having babies, I had illusions. My children would wear hand-knit sweaters, play with wooden toys, and eat what their parents ate. They would sleep through the night at four months, effortlessly learn a second language as toddlers, shake hands and make eye contact like small diplomats at 36 months. None of this folly came [...]
It’s Labor Day and last night we officially reached threat level orange at the house. With just 24 hours left before the school year started, the brothers had been deftly executing parallel jihads all weekend long — against each other and against their parents. Dave and I, having exhausted all diplomacy during these last weeks [...]
Continuing my mission to ruin teenage lives, I decided that Hugh should not see the R-rated movie “Wanted” over the weekend or ever, for that matter. Because 17-year-old Ian had already shown me the Russian trailer (even more explicit than the American one) on YouTube, I knew what this motion picture was about. Sexolence. Violex. [...]
By Monday afternoon I was getting a bit weary of all the Sex and the City talk. Major chick flick. Estrogen fest. X chromosomal experience. New York. Blah. Blah. Blah. I liked Sex and the City on HBO. I watched. I laughed. It was good, red-blooded American gal entertainment. But, puhlease. This movie was NOT [...]
