Pink has a new song out on the radio these days called “Just Like Fire” and it is from the movie “Alice Through the Looking Glass,” which is shaping up to be one of the big summer blockbuster movies this year. It’s a good song, but it really doesn’t have anything to do with the […]
Category Archives: Pixar
What “Inside Out” Has to Say About Gender Roles
Warning: Once you get past this intro paragraph there will be plenty of spoilery talk about the new Pixar movie “Inside Out.” We saw it on Friday and I can’t stop thinking about it, and specifically how it presents the emotions with regards to gender. So I’m going to write about it and talk about […]
The 10 Movies You HAVE to See this Summer, If I Am Going to Win My Fantasy Summer Movie League
I was at my niece’s birthday party when Cave Dane jumped out of the shadows and announced a surprise fantasy movie draft. Some of you may remember that last summer my brother-in-law decided to run a fantasy league for summer movies, in which we all got a pool of money with which to purchase summer […]
What Kids Remember
Kids have weird memories. I always wonder what kinds of stuff they will actually recall from their childhood, and what will be lost to them. For instance, both of my children were born in the same house in Baltimore, and Ruby can still describe it pretty well. Edward only lived there for 6 months, so […]
Brave vs. Madagascar 3
Something crazy happened this past week. Somehow the universe aligned and, for the first time since before I had kids probably, I went to see three different movies. Not from the Redbox, not on the television, but in an actual movie theater! I feel so spoiled. Two of the movies I took my whole family […]