Archive for the 'Movie reviews' Category

How to Train Your Dragon

At he behest of my college age daughter, I watched this movie the other night — another cutsie animated movie appealing to kids.  Well, I must say, I thoroughly enjoyed it!  Yes, it was cute…and animated…but it was a good story! The setting is viking land and the vikings are fierce fighting people so they [...]

Pacific (the movie)

I just finished watching PACIFIC, the HBO miniseries produced by Tom Hanks. What an epic! The special effects are great! It is rather graphic, but to me, that adds to the reality of the situation. I liked that it showed some of the Japanese as people, not just the enemy. I’m sure it did depict [...]

The Last Harry Potter Movie

Well, the last Harry Potter movie is in theaters now.  What will we all do next?  I haven’t read the books and I haven’t seen the movies, but my kids have read and re-read the books many times.  And of course they have watched the movies many times.  It’s hard to believe the first Harry [...]