Parenting in a Celebrity-Drive Society.
If you’ve had ambivalent feelings about Marilyn Monroe’s iconic status in our celebrity-driven society, then My Week with Marilyn will cement them one way or the other; you’ll either understand her much-publicized crumbling personality, or you will develop even more contradictory emotions about the real person behind the blond bombshell. My Week with Marilyn directed [...]
Tackling a movie about the afterlife is not a joyous (or easy) subject matter, but it is one we are thoroughly intrigued with; when we die, is it really just…over? In the film “Hereafter,” Clint Eastwood takes us on a journey to the unknown through the eyes of three people whose lives intersect by way [...]
“What will you Celebrate?” The Big Guy himself Unexpectedly cool temperatures, un-crowded and virtually no waiting in line for rides at Disneyland over the long 4th of July weekend was how we celebrated Independence Day! We were either lucky or everyone had the same thought and avoided going the theme park route for the patriotic holiday. [...]
With the first days of 2009 under our belts (only figuratively, of course!), it's a good time to take stock of those New Year's resolutions and make sure we are sticking to them. We resolved to do what every normal, average American family strives for: get organized, stay fit, do well in school and sports and travel. These five resolutions don't sound like much, but are at the core of family life today. Here's how we've tackled our five resolutions in the first five days of '09
Disney's High School Musical 3: Senior Year (PG), proved that a film can hold a 13 or 14 year old girl's attention without resorting to cheap skin scenes or potty-mouths. On the other hand, Max Payne (PG-13), staying true to it's rating was a pleasant surprise because apart from one revealing scene, the only body parts we saw in this movie were scattered around as a result of violent shoot-em-ups …
