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Bee Movie
Sunday, November 4th, 2007

My mother-in-law, frequent radio contest winner, scored some tickets to see Bee Movie, the Dreamworks animation starring Jerry Seinfield.
Seinfeld voices Barry B. Benson, a “bee college” grad who doesn’t want to get stuck in a single job all his life, instead opting to see the world and ending up in the flower bed of a [...]

Nickelodeon, Eat Your Heart Out
Friday, September 14th, 2007

They don’t make kid’s shows like they used to. Jimmy Neutron, Fairly Odd Parents, and Ed, Edd, and Eddy, can’t teach like Elmer and Sylvester.
Someone found three videos that I remember watching long before I understood them. I may have to try and find these on DVD for the kids.
Check out these 7-minute shorts at [...]

Lady in the Water
Saturday, July 29th, 2006

I enjoyed The Sixth Sense more, but Lady in the Water is a beautiful, awesome movie.
It is a clear exposition on discovering what you can do and using those abilities to help other people, rather than letting someone else tell you what to do. Some critics have complained that the viewer is beaten over the [...]

Over The Hedge
Saturday, May 20th, 2006

Some lighter fare today with the kids and some extended family. We went to see Over the Hedge, a cute Dreamworks CG movie about a racoon and a group of foragers who go exploring into a neighborhood that sprang up around them over the winter.
Kids will like the cute characters and some burp humor (the [...]

Da Vinci Review
Saturday, May 20th, 2006

I had not expected to go see this movie. My wife had enjoyed the book and wanted to see the movie, so I went along. She looked my way several times as if to gauge my reaction during several scenes.
If one needs theological refutations to most of the claims in this movie they can start [...]