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Vacation

Posted on July 28, 2015 at 6:44 pm

I didn’t like the first one. I didn’t like the sequels. Keep that in mind when I tell you that I really did not like this latest in the gross-out, mean-spirited “Vacation” series, this time with the next generation going on another car trip to Wally World. You know how kids survive long car trips …

Bugs Bunny Turns 75

Posted on July 28, 2015 at 3:21 pm

A fascinating look at what made Warner Brothers cartoons work. Surprisingly, within these anarchic worlds, there were a lot of rules. This video has some very thoughtful commentary, including Leonard Maltin and Steven Spielberg.

4 Family DVD Giveaway! A Little Game, Horse Camp, Justin and the Knights of Valor, and An Evergreen Christmas

4 Family DVD Giveaway!  A Little Game,  Horse Camp,  Justin and the Knights of Valor, and An Evergreen Christmas

Posted on July 28, 2015 at 12:00 pm

This is a great time of year for families to share wonderful movies, and I am thrilled to have a terrific prize package of four great family movies to give away. To enter, send me an email at moviemom@moviemom.com with FOUR in the subject line and tell me your favorite summer meal. Don’t forget your …

Trailer: Nicole Kidman Plays Gertrude Bell in “Queen of the Desert”

Posted on July 28, 2015 at 8:00 am

Nicole Kidman plays Gertrude Bell, the first woman to earn top honors in history at Oxford, fluent in six languages, and one of the great adventurers and scholars of the 20th century. Her spiritual home was the Middle East, where she became a cartographer, archaeologist, writer, and photographer, and during World War I an advisor …

Trailer: Mississippi Grind with Ryan Reynolds

Posted on July 27, 2015 at 8:00 am

Ryan Reynolds and Ben Mendelsohn star in “Mississippi Grind,” about two gamblers, one successful, one not, who join forces and go on the road together.