The Value of One

The other night Benjamin Bunny was up late (12:30) and wide awake, so while feeding and rocking him I decided to check out The Nativity Story. I had got it from the library several times but had never gotten around to watching it. I love it! First off, it was great seeing actors who looked [...]

The Muppet Christmas Carol is one of my favorite Christmas films and one of my favorite versions of the Christmas classic, second only to the 1951 film version. Michael Caine is a wonderful Scrooge, and of course you can’t lose with Kermit the Frog as Bob Cratchit, Miss Piggy as Mrs. Cratchit, Fozzy Bear as [...]

Ask me how I went twenty years of my life without P. G. Wodehouse, and I will reply that I haven’t the foggiest idea in the world. I had heard of him, of course, but I guess I associated him with the fantasy genre (something about the initials…you know, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. [...]

“Look back…look back at me.”–John Thornton Forget Mr. Darcy’s title as the best and most famous costume drama hero ever. Colin Firth has been bumped over. Today I watched the BBC drama North and South for the first time. And I loved it. L-O-V-E-D it. Loved the story, the costumes, the drama… And of course, [...]

I found this fun tag of sorts on Ribbons of Light, a fun blog I found recently written by a fellow costume-drama fanatic. The “rules” are to list your top ten favorite heroes from “classic” flims (i.e., films based on classic books). This was hard because some of my favorite heroes (e.g., the man in [...]

Hello! It’s good to be back! Today I’d like to share with y’all a resource that has become a life-saver to our family: ClearPlay. A few months back, a friend recommended ClearPlay to us. It’s not your average filtering system. I used to get so fed up with the old closed-captioned reading filters…the ones that [...]

Wow. And again I say Wow!!! We got this on DVD the day after it came out. It is absolutely phenomonal!!!! I loved Flywheel. Then I loved Facing the Giants. I didn’t think anything could top it. I was wrong. Fireproof was absolutely amazing. From the moment it began until the credits it had me [...]

Mom and I stayed up late the last two nights watching the 1995 Pride and Prejudice. Wow. I’m not sure what to say. I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would!!! It was really good! It’s going to be much more difficult to compare the two, but I’m going to try. Ooookay. [...]

Hey, y’all! 15 years ago I saw the 1995 Pride and Prejudice. Barely remember anything other than it was very long and I fell asleep in the middle of it. (Gimme a break, I was six. ) So I rented it this week and Mom and I plan to watch it this weekend. Now, as [...]

Where has time gone????????? Addy announced today that there was only “four days until Christmas”. And I just realized today that I haven’t posted the list I promised of my favorite Christmas films. Christmas movies play a big part of our holiday. As I’ve all ready said, the 1951 version of A Christmas Carol is [...]