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Family Movietime – Pirates Band of Misfits

Timothy J. Lavallee | Destination Wake Forest Hugh Grant lends his voice in the latest animated film from the people who brought you Wallace & Gromit. The Pirates! Band of Misfits is a story about a relatively tame and wildly unsuccessful pirate named Pirate Captain, and his crew who are equally inept. Every year the Pirate King who is dressed [...]

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Now Playing – The Five-Year Engagement

April 30, 2012 No Comment

On the 1 year anniversary of the day they met Tom and Violet get engaged. They don’t originally intend to have a super long engagement but life sometimes has other plans. That’s the premise of The Five-Year Engagement. The movie stars Jason Segel of How I Met Your Mother fame, and Emily Blunt who was in The Adjustment Bureau. This movie [...]

Movie Night In – The Descendants

April 23, 2012 1 Comment

If you are thinking of something to rent for a movie night in Golden Globe award winner The Descendants fits the bill. George Clooney stars as Matt King, a Lawyer who’s in charge of the family trust that owns this amazingly beautiful section of Kauai. The movie shows some gorgeous views of Hawaii. In the beginning of [...]

Now Playing – Mirror Mirror

April 2, 2012 No Comment

What happens when you decide to retell the classic fairy tale Snow White as a comedy? You get the latest film from Brett Ratner, Mirror Mirror. The Film stars Julia Roberts as the Wicked Queen, Nathan Lane as the Queen’s most loyal servant Brighton, Lily Collins as Snow White, and Armie Hammer as the Prince of Valencia, [...]

Now Playing – The Hunger Games

March 27, 2012 No Comment

It’s the most anticipated movie since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows parts 1 & 2, it was predicted to have a larger opening weekend then any of the Twilight releases and now it’s here. That’s right I went to see The Hunger Games. As you may already have heard it was the 3rd largest [...]

Sandler’s Latest Brings Back Memories of Great Roles

March 5, 2012 1 Comment

Nostalgia strikes in the oddest places. This time it was while I was trying to find something, anything, left in my local Redbox kiosk to watch that would be entertaining to both my wife and me. It was slim pickin’s on a Saturday night. Not seeing anything on the screen, I quickly scanned the pictures [...]

Now Playing: Act of Valor

February 27, 2012 1 Comment

Act of Valor is a loosely fact-based story about real life Navy SEALs. This movie is different in that the “actors” are mostly active duty SEALs. Their names are not used in the credits and I’m sure the names they have in the movie aren’t real to protect them and their families. So what do you say about a [...]

Family Movietime: The Secret World of Arrietty

February 24, 2012 No Comment

The Secret World of Arrietty as released in Japan in 2010. Many people are familiar with the books, this is the story of a family of Borrowers, Pod and Homily voiced by real life couple Will Arnett and Amy Poehler and their daughter Arrietty voiced by Bridgit Mendler who most would know from Good Luck, Charlie. David Henrie [...]

Now Playing: Safe House

February 13, 2012 2 Comments

Safe House What happens when you are a lower level agent bored from a 12 month assignment, guarding a safehouse and you get the guest of a lifetime? Seems like an interesting task, until someone breeches your safehouse to get him and kill anyone in their way. In Safe House we have Ryan Reynolds as [...]

Now Playing: Man on a Ledge

January 30, 2012 1 Comment

It’s a new year and so its time for new movies. I attended an advanced screening of Man on a Ledge almost a month ago. The movies stars Sam Worthington as Nick Cassidy a cop convicted for stealing a huge diamond from real estate mogul David Englander (Ed Harris). It also stars Elizabeth Banks as Lydia Mercer the [...]