Latest movies

We have recently started going to the base movie theatre to watch movies on the weekends. In the last two months, we have watched Prince Caspian, The Hulk, Indiana Jones, Wall-e, and Kit Kittridge. We are not a movie-going family and this is by far the greatest number of movies we have seen in a long time. I think the difference is that I have recently started checking to see what is playing for the month and adding those movies we are interested in to our calendar. We are even set to watch Journey to the Center of the Earth next Sunday afternoon.

I have been very pleased with all of the movies and have not left the theatre after any of them thinking it was a waste of money. For instance, today we watched Kit Kittridge: American Girl. A review of the movie can be found at Plugged in Online. ds-14 was not enthused to say the least about watching a "girl" movie, but he agreed with me at the end that it was a very good movie. I told my daughter she should read the Kit series and write a compare/contrast essay on the books and movie. I am not sure if I will actually have her do it, but if our writing program this year has her doing a compare/contrast I might bring it back up.