I wanted to go to Hebden Bridge today for some retail therapy so we decided to make an afternoon of it with a trip to the cinema to see Mr Peabody and Sherman. It was quite good, but not brilliant. There were jokes for the grown-ups, one or two of which were well flagged up, and while the story involved a boy and a girl together I wasn't ( Read more... )

We decided to go to the cinema this weekend and finally chose this morning's showing of The Lego Movie. Really good fun, some good voice cameos and nostalgia for the adults (80s space guy - we had those!). The animation was stop-motion and CGI and worked well - they'd made a proper effort to make everything Lego, so fire was those plastic flames, ( Read more... )

I thought we'd go to messy church yesterday, but YoungBloke wasn't keen and I don't see the point in dragging him out for entertainment that he won't actually enjoy. So instead we went to the cinema and finally saw The Rise of the Guardians which, despite coming out at Christmas, worked pretty well for an Easter film too. It was a lovely film, the ( Read more... )