• #TBT Movie Review: Star Wars – The Force Awakens

    As part of our journey to watch Episode VIII, we watched Episode VII: Force Awakens right after Return of the Jedi. We made it just in time, too, since we had bought our Episode VII tickets for Saturday, December 16th…

  • TV Series Review: Future Man

    I saw the preview of this series a while back and were not disappointed when it finally aired.  I knew it was about comic book-like characters and thought my husband would be a little reluctant to watch it with me…

  • Book Review: Mistborn

    My husband recommended I read this book, Mistborn: The Final Empire. He was really adamant about it. I was forced to break my book reading sequence because he just wouldn’t stop urging me to read it. And so, I did.…

  • #TBT Movie Review: Elf

    There are three movies we watch every holiday season, and one of them is Elf.  Apparently we’re not so special because I have heard many families go crazy about Elf; not only that, they’ve seen it so many times they…

  • #TBT Movie Review: Star Wars – Return of the Jedi

    Still on our challenge to finish the original trilogy (and Episode VII), we continued our Star Wars journey with Return of the Jedi. I have to say this is my favorite movie of them all (now counting Ep. VII and…

  • #TBT Movie Review: Star Wars – The Empire Strikes Back

    In our efforts to watch the first movies before The Last Jedi, we continued our saga with The Empire Strikes Back. The kids enjoyed this one, too. This movie is basically split into four parts, I think: Hoth, Degobah, the…

  • Movie Review: Jumanji – Welcome to the Jungle

    What a fun movie! I love Kevin Hart and The Rock together. They make me laugh so much! And then there was also Jack Black, who did an amazing job as a “teenage girl”. I only know Karen Gillan from…

  • #TBT Movie Review: Star Wars – A New Hope

    Since the new Star Wars Movie, The Last Jedi, was being released in December, we tried to watch Episode 4 to 7 before it came out with the kids. The kids had watched the original trilogy before (and the horrible…

  • #TBT Movie Review: Die Hard

    We wanted to watch Christmas movies this holiday season and we started with Die Hard. We have watched this movie many times, but it’s one of those movies that just never gets old. It was great watching the now late…