Back to skool

Tomorrow, or so, school starts for my boys. One will be a big second grader, the other starts kindergarten. So of course, tonite was “meet the teacher” night. Heh. Where we say such nice things to each other as “how nice to meet you!” and “I can’t wait to talk to you again!” This is, […]

Ben’s monday morning movie review

We saw “The Pacifier” yesterday; the boys and I. Pretty good, here are some highlights (not necessarily in order): Cute kids. A duck. Gratuitous Vin Diesel in the shower scene (with followup of Vin Diesel in a towel scene). Helicopter crash (1). Minivan driven like Nascar racer (three or four times). Vin Diesel pretending he’s […]

Constantine, revisited

Heh. Yeah, what they said. JoBlo’s movie review of Constantine: Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Djimon Hounsou Phew. For a second there, I thought we were gonna get nothing but dogshit, recycled, former TV-show, remake-of-a-remakes starring Ice Cube, some kids and that Dakota Fanning chickie-dee for everything coming out of Hollywood in 2005, but thanks to […]