This Week’s Family Movie Night: Disney’s PLANES

We’ve covered Disney’s Planes quite a bit on here (thanks to some fantastic field work from my roving blog reviewer Kenda), including a red-carpet premiere. But I never had a chance to see the film myself. Until this weekend. Disney was mouse-erific enough to send me a review copy of Planes. Their timing couldn’t have been better, because we were in desparate need of a good Friday Family Movie Night film! We popped the movie …

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Star Wars: Episode VII Will Destroy Box Office Records on December 18, 2015

Star Wars Episode VII

I still remember leaving the movie theater when I was a kid. I was 7 years old and a one-handed Luke Skywalker had just been saved. On the flip-side, a frozen Han Solo had been carted away by that no-good, rapscallion Boba Fett. And well, then the credits rolled. And the crying and confusion soon followed. “What about Han Solo?!? The bad guys took him and he’s still frozen? I thought the good guys always …

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Free Coloring and Activity Pages for Disney’s Frozen

The coolest thing about being a blogger? Yeah, the perks. Sure I get free stuff sent my way to review. I get to meet other fantastic bloggers and make some incredible online friendships. And, of course, I get to interact with you, my faithful (and did I mention pretty or handsome?) readers. Those are all awesome perks. But recently, I took advantage of easily the “coolest” blogging perk ever. I got to take my family …

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Make Mine (Marvel) Lego!

It’s no secret that I’m a huge geek comic book fan. And I’m also a ginormous Lego fan. Put those two great tastes together and I’m on cloud 9. Lego Avengers? Yeah, a dream come true. And now, well, just when I thought Lego couldn’t impress me anymore… they come out with Lego Marvel Super Heroes. I love just about all the Lego video games. The Star Wars ones are still probably the best, but …

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Xbox vs PlayStation: A Mom’s Guide

The following guest post was brought to you by Tesco Microsoft and Sony both go head to head in the games market this fall with the release of new consoles. Microsoft’s Xbox One will retail at $499 whereas Sony’s PlayStation 4 will retail at $399, a hundred dollars less. So the latter may be better for your wallet, but which one is more suitable for your kids? If you’re unsure of the ins and outs of …

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