Category Archives: movies

Life As We Know It

It’s really not a big secret that I am a Katherine Heigl fan, and that I even like a few of her movies that I probably would not have seen if she hadn’t been in them. I had half a … Continue reading

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Tangled: End of the Princess Era Just as They Get it (Mostly) Right

Not that I believe Disney when they say anything, but as they tell us that they are done with the Princess and Fairy Tale genre, they present us with the model for how to do it better than they have … Continue reading

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Diva is the New Bitch

Melissa Silverstein at Women and Hollywood is apparently, like myself, a bit of a Katherine Heigl fangirl. I am not exactly her biggest movie fan, though I do own a couple of her Rom-Coms (on Blu-Ray AND I WILL NOT … Continue reading

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Ramona and Beezus

While I have been taking a day or two from the internet for some mourning time we took Kid to see Ramona and Beezus, which if you are not familiar with it, is a movie based on the Ramona Quimby … Continue reading

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The Cosmically Forbidden Romance…

This is one of my favorite (and by favorite, I mean, really, I love a good romance story or sub-story, but do they ALL have to have apocalyptic consequences?) TV Tropes. The forbidden fruit. Angel stalks into Buffy’s life in … Continue reading

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The Bad Guy and His Redemption

We had a string of family nights here at Chez Babble recently. We took a break from watching Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince on repeat (it’s our grown-up Finding Nemo, the Felix Felicis scene cracks me up every … Continue reading

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Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief — That Special Thing About You

Every now and then a movie comes out and I get super excited about it because it sparks something form my childhood or youth that I love. Percy Jackson and the Olympians did that. I loved Greek mythology in High … Continue reading

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The Weight of the World…

Kid and I sat down to watch Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior on the Disney Channel tonight (OK, not ALL the programming is horrendous) b/c she as been wanting to see it (apparently it’s been out a while *shrugs*).  I am … Continue reading

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