Celebrating Mom’s Big Birthday with One Goofy Cake

Goofy Cake Disney

This weekend we went upstate to visit my parents and celebrate my mom’s birthday. This Tuesday, she turns the big 7-0, though she certainly doesn’t look it. Come to think of it, she certainly doesn’t act it either. How many of you have a senior citizen mother who watches Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Doctor Who and even the Lord of the Rings movies? She’s always loved dogs (especially Shih-Tzus), British mysteries, and tea. And the one …

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Kristen Bell Discusses Being a Weird Little Girl, Growing Up in Detroit, and True Love #DisneyFrozen

Kristen Bell Frozen #DisneyFrozen

No, I’ve never seen Veronica Mars. Sorry. Shoot me. But I’ve never seen it. Doesn’t mean I won’t blow through the entire series with my wife if it ever shows up on Netflix! But I’ve never seen the cult-favorite show starring the one-and-only Kristen Bell. In fact, the only thing I really knew Kristen Bell from was TV’s short-lived Heroes series. Oh yeah, and as the title character in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Then I learned …

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Disney Wins the Winter Games with Frozen – #DisneyFrozen

Elsa #DisneyFrozen

I’ve already teased you with the fact that my family and I saw Disney’s latest animated hit Frozen back in October. By now, hopefully, you’ve had a chance to digest from Thanksgiving and catch the movie yourself in theaters. Or maybe you’re still stuffing your face with turkey leftovers and seeing Frozen for a second time. Or a third… Whatever your status, I’m taking this opportunity to share my review of this truly unique Disney …

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I Was Frozen Back in October #DisneyFrozen

Frozen Ice Sculpture Olaf

About a month ago, I got to do something pretty amazing. Thanks to my wonderful blogging credentials (they really need to make Blog Passes, like they do for the Press), I was invited by the wonderful folks at Disney to participate in something truly magical. I was invited to an early screening of Frozen, as well as asked to be a participant in the Frozen Press Junket the following day. And best of all, my …

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Disney’s Maleficent Actually Looks Magnificent

#Maleficent movie poster

Leave it to Disney. I’m a guy. I dig movies about superheroes, zombies and baseball. Not all in one mind you, though that’d be one heck of a movie! I also have two boys into typical boy-type things. And yet, this latest Disney trailer has me seriously excited for a… well, a Disney Princess movie. Yeah, I want to see a Disney Princess movie. Seriously. I really, really, really want to see a movie about …

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