I've been visiting my family and friends this last week, so I've been pretty busy hanging out and having fun. I'm sure a lot of other people are doing that, too (I know that's the main reason it's been quiet at Cinematic Attic in the last week or two), and it's good people are having a nice break. I've also been watching a lot of movies, about 5 or 6 in the last week, and I've been meaning to write a review of at least one. We'll be doing a series of year-end/new-year posts in the next week, but Read more [...]

I have a little bit of free time, so I was able to put in some movie time. Here's three movies I've watched lately, in the order I watched them: Feature 1: The Lorax. My daughter received a few movies for Christmas and this was the first one she wanted to watch. I have not read the book, so I didn't know what it was about, but Sam said it was this book that made her learn that humans are capable of hurting the environment. The makers of Despicable Me made this movie, which made me think I Read more [...]

It seems I haven't gotten over my horror movie fixation since October was done and it's just carried over into December. It also seems that I've now watched two movies in a row now that depict our jolly ol' cookie-eating, toy-toting, bearded friend as an evil killer of sorts. This movie had me convinced, the whole sleigh-ride through, until it veered way off course at the end. So, like my last post about evil Santa, this one was also European (Finnish) and this time, it had subtitles, so I wasn't Read more [...]