Netflix sent Oscar and Lucinda (1997) this weekend while we were gone.  Ironically, while we were visiting my mother she raved about how good this movie was and recommended it, and I already had it in my queue, as it turned out.  Anyway...  it's a fascinating character study, and the narration was interesting, rather like a documentary for the ( Read more... )

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles  **

Okay, I didn’t go in expecting much, so I wasn’t too disappointed.  The boys loved it and I giggled a few times.  It was blessedly PG, there was no swearing like the live action movies from years past (Important when your target audience is 5 & 7).  Splinter sounded a little like a stroke victim, and the animation ( Read more... )