2009 August | Table for Five

Watch This With Your Kids- Pete’s Dragon

August 22, 2009 By Elizabeth

Academy Award-nominated music and an eye-popping combination of animation and live-action, PETE’S DRAGON: High Flying Edition is a new DVD release of this Walt Disney classic. This 1977 musical adventure about a young orphan and his unusual friend boasts a star-studded cast including Mickey Rooney, Shelley Winters, Jeff Conaway, Helen Reddy, and Sean Marshall as Pete. Set at the turn of the century in a coastal New England town, the story starts with orphaned Pete on the run along with his dragon pal Pete, who only he can see. They meet Nora, who has no family and feels instant kinship with Pete. When the townsfolk see the Pete seems to be able to do "magical" things (that are actually the work of Elliott), they try to exploit Pete's talents for their own gain. The DVD is packed with Bonus Features including: "Brazzle Dazzle Effects"- includes a new look at Disney’s pioneering work in the magical mix of live-action and animation Deleted storyboard sequence with a rare … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DVD and Blu-Ray reviews Tagged With: movies, Pete's Dragon, Walt Disney

Watch This- I Love You, Man on Blu-Ray or DVD

August 20, 2009 By Elizabeth

I Love You, Man is a hilarious (and somewhat raunchy) movie starring Paul Rudd, Jason Segal and Rashida Jones is an interesting twist on the summer "buddy" movie, with Rudd playing Peter Klaven, a sensitive real estate agent who realizes after getting engaged to his girlfriend Zooey (Jones) that he has no close male friends to ask to be his best man or groomsmen. On the advice of his mother and brother, he sets out on a series of "man dates" trying to find a guy to be friends with. Written and directed by John Hamburg (Along Came Polly), I Love You Man has a terrific ensemble cast that also includes Andy Samberg (SNL) as Peter's gym trainer brother Robbie, Jane Curtin (also from SNL) as his Mom, J.K. Simmons (Juno) as his Dad, Jaime Pressly (My Name Is Earl) as Zooey's friend and Jon Favreau (director of Iron Man) as her husband, and Lou Ferrigno as himself. With this much talent, Hamburg pretty much just had to turn the camera on and GO. I recommend listening to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DVD and Blu-Ray reviews Tagged With: i love you man, Jason Segal, movies, Paul Rudd

My OfficeMax shopping spree

August 18, 2009 By Elizabeth

I went on a shopping "spree" today. To OfficeMax. I was only going to get a few things, but then in a total coincidence, I had just happened to buy last Sunday's paper, which I rarely do, I had left it in the van on the passenger seat, I flipped through the paper just on the off chance there were any coupons I could use, and lo and behold, there was a brown paper grocery bag for OfficeMax in the paper. Anything that fit in the bag was 20% off. It was like the universe was telling me to go shop there. Before I viewed a webcast run by TLC's Peter Walsh and posted tweets during it last week, I received a package of the new Schoolio-Von-Hoolio school supplies to check out from OfficeMax. It is the cutest line of folders, notebooks, journals, backpacks, drawstring bags, crayons, and all kinds of other great stuff for back to school. There are three different designs- Cupcake, Darling, and Body Art. I had received products from the Cupcake and Darling designs, so I wanted to go check … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Shopping Tagged With: back to school, OfficeMax, organization, Post-It, school supplies, Scotch tape