So, I guess it's just the law now that Planetarium shows have to blow. Today, I took my family to the Maryland Science center, which includes a different free planetarium show every hour. Our schedule worked out to see one called "Stories in the Stars"...sounds cool, right?

First of all, it wasn't a movie, it was literally just a dude talking to us ( Read more... )

Spoilers ahead (obviously).

First of all, all these recent movies have had a ton of plot holes and random "what the hell?" moments, and I could spent 8 blogs writing about all of them. But today was the grand finale, so I'll just focus on that... but first I'm going to remind you of two things from "The Last Jedi" to help you understand my absolute ( Read more... )

Ok, you could close your eyes and pick any website on the internet, and it's going to tell you how freaking bad "Cats" was.  So I'm going to skip over coming up with metaphors more profound than "Pile of steaming excrement". BUT much needs to be said.

"Cats" is weird af. I have no idea why this was ever a musical, or why it ran as long as it did. ( Read more... )

Soooooo, today I lead a field trip of my sweet little innocent 3 year old preschoolers to Robinson Nature Center. We saw a turtle, a cute little puppet show about habitats, and took a nature walk to see some real habitats. All lovely, age-appropriate things.

Then our tour guide tells us it's movie time, in the planetarium! So cool! So we go in, ( Read more... )

I imagine everyone has seen the cartoon of Aladdin, so you don't really need to worry about spoilers as I discuss the Will Smith remake of Aladdin that I saw today. And the remake was fine, it was entertaining, but 6 hours later I'm STILL super bothered so here we go...

Movie begins with Jasmine already in the marketplace, in disguise, taking bread ( Read more... )

So, there's this new agey place that opened about two years ago called "Haven on the Lake". I had never set foot in it, because you have to pay like $100 a month JUST TO WALK INTO IT. Then if you actually want to take a "class" (and we'll get to that), it's an extra like, $35. No thanks, Sharon.

Recently they had a sale, in which for $14, you could ( Read more... )

So my son decided, instead of a party, he wanted to celebrate his 8th birthday at a Great Wolf Lodge type of place. Now, here are the two problems with that.

A) Both my kids are absolutely terrified of that giant "dump bucket" that most water parks have; that dumps gallons of water from the top of the water park structure. They know it's "just ( Read more... )

So once a week I volunteer in my son's second grade classroom, and his teacher always has me read a book to the whole class. Today's choice, for no reason I can discern, was "Dr. DeSoto Goes to Africa"; and I have just been exploding on the inside to come share this gem with you all.

Dr. DeSoto is the best dentist in all the world, mostly thanks to ( Read more... )

SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS AHEAD.

I want to start by saying my little Linnamon Roll, Lin-Manuel Miranda, was flawless in this movie, as we ALL KNEW HE WOULD BE. HE WAS THE ONE SHINING LIGHT.

Now that that's out of the way, oh my GOSH I HAVE SO MANY POINTS TO MAKE.

We start on Cherry Tree Lane during "The Great Slump", where Michael Banks is a ( Read more... )

So 15 years ago (wow), after a couple drinks and a lot of hilarity, my sister and best friend and I naively walked across the street to see "Click". A quick reminder: this movie was promoted as a lighthearted, hilarious COMEDY starring Adam Sandler and a Magic Remote Control. Christopher Walken was in it, the previews were all funny...what could go ( Read more... )