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Another Sick Day and Alice in Wonderland on Blu-Ray

February 1, 2011 By Elizabeth

It started with Kaitlyn and a runny nose last Friday. By Sunday, Ryan had a heavy cough and I had a completely stuffed up nose. I kept Ryan home from school yesterday, and then again today when I heard him still coughing.

I hate being sick. I hate having to constantly blow my nose. I can’t find any hand sanitizer and I don’t have the car to go get some, so I wash my hands about 20 times a day which is making my hands dry.

Waaaahhh, poor me.

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So, there’s the blizzard coming. The news said to expect 40 mile an hour winds and 10 to 18 inches of snow. I had planned to go to the grocery store today to stock up in case we’re snowed in tomorrow, and then Chris’ coworker who drives carpool called in sick, so Chris had to take the car.

I checked the pantry – there’s a couple of big cans of soup, some diced tomatoes, and corn muffin mix. I’m sure I can do *something* with that. Chris is going to try to get to the store after work, I’m nervous about him driving in the first place but he can’t exactly call in sick because there might be a lot of snow AFTER work, you know? I’ll just be biting my nails until he pulls in the driveway.

Ryan and I are bundled under blankets, me with my box of tissues (and a steadily growing pile of crumpled up used ones, I should really get a wastebasket) and him trying to be a tough guy but really feeling pretty miserable, while Kaitlyn bops around the house. I can hear her in her room playing, making up some story for her My Little Ponies or something, she puts a smile on my face.

We’re watching the original Alice In Wonderland, it’s come out on Blu-Ray in a 60th anniversary edition. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment sent it to me for review, and do I recommend you buy it? HECK YES. The transfer looks amazing, every color is bright and vivid. There are two versions you can buy, one is the Blu-Ray + DVD combo pack that I got, it’s $19.99 on Amazon. The other adds a third Digital Copy disc and bumps the price up to $27.99. I was surprised by how much Ryan enjoyed it!

So that’s what’s going on around here. I don’t feel like getting up and doing anything, so I’m just going to keep writing blog posts. And if somebody could just send me a new nose to replace this leaking one, that would be great.

Filed Under: DVD and Blu-Ray reviews, Personal Tagged With: Alice in Wonderland, blu ray, cold, ryan, sick, Walt Disney

Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue Giveaway – 3 Winners!

September 16, 2010 By Elizabeth

Read my review of Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue here. Thanks to the fine folks at Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, I have a fantastic giveaway for Table for Five readers! There will be one Grand Prize winner and two runners up.

The Grand Prize includes:

1 copy of Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue Blu-ray + DVD Combo Pack
2 pairs of Fairy Wings (assorted colors will be selected at random; photo is an example)
1 Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue Picnic Blanket
1 Do-It-Yourself Fairy House (to be assembled, as shown here)
1 Disney Fairies Crayola Neon Color Explosion coloring pack

The Runners Up Receive:

1 copy of Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue Blu-ray + DVD Combo Pack
2 pairs of Fairy Wings (assorted colors will be selected at random; photo is an example)
1 Do-It-Yourself Fairy House (to be assembled, as shown here)

WIN IT: To enter, ask your child what they would do if they met a fairy and leave their comment on this post. This entry must be completed before any bonus entries will count. Open to U.S. mailing addresses only, entries must be received by September 24 2010 at 11:59 pm ET.

HOW THE WINNER IS CHOSEN: I use a plugin called “And the Winner Is” that searches through the comments and pulls one at random. If it’s a bonus entry, I verify that the commenter also left the required main entry. If they did, I close the comments and notify the winner by email.

Bonus Entries: Once you’ve posted your main entry, earn additional entries for each of the following that you do or have done. These are all worth ONE ENTRY, please leave a separate comment for each -

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disclosure: I received Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue Two Disc Blu-ray/DVD combo from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment for the purposes of review.

Filed Under: Contests and Giveaways Tagged With: blu ray, dvds, Great Fairy Rescue, movies, Tinker Bell, Walt Disney

Watch this with your kids – James and the Giant Peach on Blu-Ray

September 1, 2010 By Elizabeth

: Cover via Amazon

The James and the Giant Peach Two-Disc Special Edition Blu-ray/DVD Combo was released on August 3rd, and the James And The Giant Peach Special Edition DVD is available for pre-order and will be released on September 14, 2010.

Based on a book by Roald Dahl, who also wrote the books “Shrek” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, “James and the Giant Peach” was made into a film in 1996 by Tim Burton (“Nightmare Before Christmas”, “Alice in Wonderland”). Burton, Denise Di Novi, and director Henry Selick combined a fascinating mix of live-action, stop-motion animation, and computer-generated special effects to create a an imaginative and fascinating world.

James has this wonderful life with his parents, until they are killed (by a…stampeding rhino? that comes out of the clouds?), and he’s sent to live with his two spinster Aunts, who have to be the meanest characters ever created for Disney. They treat James like their slave, deprive him of food, belittle him, but James hangs on to a postcard his father had given him of New York City, where they were supposed to go to live.

After a mysterious stranger gives him a bag of…crocodile tongues?…and James accidentally spills them, a peach tree begins to grow out of the ground in front of the house. A peach appears that begins to grow, and grow, until it falls off the tree. James crawls inside and finds talking bugs who set off with him on an adventure. This is where the movie really picks up and becomes enjoyable, as the peach bounces along and James and the bugs head for New York City.

My word of caution about this movie is to be prepared for how dark the beginning of the movie is. Younger kids might be upset by the death of James’ parents, or by how cruel the Aunts are to him. The animation is amazing, moving from live action to stop motion, and the talking bugs, voiced by Susan Sarandon, Richard Dreyfus, Jane Leeves and others, are delightful. So once James gets into the peach, the movie becomes much more enjoyable for younger kids.

If you’d like to buy either the Two-Disc Blu-ray Combo or the Special Edition DVD from Amazon.com, and want to help support Table for Five a little bit, please consider clicking the links at the top of the post to use my Amazon Affiliates code to make your purchase. If not, that’s okay too! Look for James and the Giant Peach on Blu-ray now and on Special Edition DVD on September 14th.