Category: Movies

  • Movie Weekend

    Thursday night was the Grand Opening for our local theatre. It’s something I’ve wished for, a long time, and that wish was granted rather close to home. Just a few miles away, there’s a brand new Carmike theatre, and it’s really nice. We usually drive over 20 miles to get to a shopping area that…

  • The Thing (2011)

    I knew about The Thing but never had seen any of the movies until recently. Since The Thing (2011) prequel was coming out, in the mass of movie channels on DirecTV one was showing the 1982 movie in HD. So I recorded it and watched it on the bigger widescreen TV at night a couple…

  • Saw IMAX 3D Tranformers: Dark of the Moon this weekend, FINALLY!

    Happy Labor Day! We (me and three of my children) went to see Transformers: Dark of the Moon in 3D IMAX on Saturday night. We saw the movie in Real 3D on my birthday in mid-July. Our area IMAX theatre had already kicked T3 out of IMAX for Harry Potty … which really ticked us…

  • Television

    In the last few months (I need to research this and input the actual date, it was in 2010) we got a new TV, eventually slated for the kitchen, but put into immediate use in the master bedroom replacing the finally dead Emprex piece of junk. It quit turning on via the button on the…

  • Alice in Wonderland (2010)

    My husband and I saw Alice in Wonderland (2010) in IMAX 3D on opening day, March 5, 2010. It was a very good movie, visually appealing and the story flowed well. I’m looking forward to seeing it again, with my children this next time. I know I’ve seen 3D something before, but I can’t recall…