If you’re a mom taking your daughter to the movies, get ready for a big bear hug after the credits roll. I took my little girls to a “Brave” preview at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank yesterday and Brave really hit a chord with our family. I got a big bear hug and heartfelt [...]
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Brave the movie comes out this week and Disney Studios sent me these two recipes inspired by the movie. I wanted to share them because animated movie-inspired food is a great way for kids to try something new. Now you too can organize a Brave-inspired menu – cold showers optional but bagpipes background music encouraged. Scotch [...]
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What’s the best part about being a pirate – the plunder? the looting? scurvy? scantily-clad mermaids? Believe it or not, it’s Ham Nite. Literally, eating a leg of ham on a pirate ship. On these goofy premises, The Pirates! Band of Misfits unrolls 88 minutes of a seriously wacky stop-motion pirate movie. All the pirate [...]
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Before I started reading the books three years ago, Katniss Everdeen, the strong girl protagonist of The Hunger Games was already coined as the anti-Bella - Twilight‘s star – of young adult literature. That alone was reason enough for reading the first book. I got hold of The Hunger Games a month before book 2 Catching Fire was released (November 2009), read book [...]
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I speak for the Lorax who speaks for the trees. Take your kids to the movies and teach them to care for the trees for Thneedville is not the town we all want to live in. If you believe in the message of The Lorax, the movie will show that it’s more relevant than ever [...]
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