About seventeen or so years ago, kid world was charged with the kind of excitement that you usually only see in ads. Was it free Froster day at the corner Mac's? Nope. Free preview weekend of all the tv channels that we couldn't afford to get? Not that I can recall. It was only one of the greatest things to come along since humans evolved opposable ( Read more... )

Ever since I was a little girl, I loved video games. From the Donkey Kong at the bowling alley to the Paperboy at the Safeway, from the Nemisisters' Colecovision to my friend's brother's Nintendo, I loved them all. Naturally, I wanted a home video game system of my own: an NES Action Set, the one that came with the Zapper and Duck Hunt as well as ( Read more... )

Ever since Hollywood ran out of ideas, they've been going back and mining our collective childhood memories for potential material. Usually, I'm able to judge a movie based on its quality and not on how well it services my semi-precious memories. But Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was going to be harder, for a multitude of reasons. First, there ( Read more... )