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The Hobbit at midnight

We only go to the movies once every year and a half. It’s so much money that we really only spend money on seeing movies in the theater that we already know we’re going to love.

We love going to midnight movie premieres – everyone in the theater REALLY wants to be there, is [...]

Happy Halloween and Scary October

You may have noticed, this year we watched SIGNIFICANTLY fewer scary movies than last year. Thank goodness.

We were TOTALLY overwhelmed

2008 2009 2010

(listed in roughly the order we watched them)

The Fog – John Carpenter’s 1980 film about killer creatures that come in with the fog … It *could* be really creepy, [...]

Top 5 Favorites: Reasons we love Netflix Instant streaming

It’s no secret Andrew and I love Netflix.

Obviously.

It’s pretty much one of our favorite things. We won’t pay for cable TV because Netflix is enough ….

And then Netflix did one better and offered unlimited instant streaming via the internet.

And THEN … they hooked up with Nintendo and let us [...]

Christmas – 23 – movies

We didn’t watch nearly as many movies for Christmas as we did for Halloween … but still some good ones…

Although, please notice – many (kids) Christmas movies operate on the basic assumption that Santa Claus is real.

After watching all these movies, I kinda wish he was.

Elf – Possibly my favorite Christmas [...]