Tag: family activities
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Movie Review: Amazon’s Cinderella
If there’s one fairy tale that’s been done to death, it’s Cinderella. So, when Amazon announced their new pop musical version of the story, I wasn’t super excited. Through the grapevine I’d heard rumor that it wasn’t all that good, but I was intrigued. Armed with a bowl of popcorn and my favorite snarky movie…
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Throwback Movie Review: Pirates of the Caribbean, Curse of the Black Pearl
It’s been seventeen years since the debut of the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie, which means this movie has been around as long as my marriage. A few years ago we tried to show this to my kids and they decidedly didn’t like it. It was too spooky, had freaky skeleton pirates, and required…
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Watching the Extended LOTR with Kids – all Twelve Hours
Being stuck at home has very few perks, being able to watch the entire extended Lord of the Rings movies with the whole family ended up being one of them. My kiddos hadn’t seen any of them before. Until recently the youngest was too young to understand or be okay with the action scenes. It…