It’s the last free Friday of summer, and we’re getting nostalgic, not only for the summer that was, but also for all of our Summer of Funner activities and posts from 2011 until now, the whole six years of ’em. As with every summer, we wonder, is this it? Is this our last summer of posting on this […]
This week’s Best Summer Movies of All Time are all about kids’ summers. The first, Kings of Summer, is a fantastic recent film about three older boys who “run away from home” to a fort in the woods for the summer. [Anyone who hasn’t seen it should. Hence, why I’m showing it to the kids […]
Things got a little heavy last week, what with Jaws and In The Heat of the Night. So, this week, we’re showing playful movies with a projector out on the back deck, movies that we could never go a summer without laughing over: Tati’s Jour de Fête and the Marx Brothers’ A Night at the […]
Last Friday, we screened Jaws and In the Heat of the Night as part of our Summer Film Fest. Afterwards, the kids said that both movies were “scary.” So, we got to comparing how these movies chilled us to the bone. Sure, Jaws had its shark and its shark music. But the shots of the crowds […]
You didn’t think we’d run a Family Film Fest dedicated to the Best Summer Movies of All Time without showing the kids Jaws, did you? [Thank goodness they’re finally old enough!] But what the heck would you pair it with? I suppose the easy answer would be Star Wars, or American Graffiti. But we’re going […]
This week’s Best Summer Movies of All Time are all about “brainwashing.” We’ve chosen Farenheit 451 and The Manchurian Candidate. First up is Truffaut’s excellent take on the famous novel in which novels are contraband and wall-screens are all the rage! Next up, and in honour(?) of the recent U.S. National conventions, we’re presenting a noirish […]
This week, the kids have picked their favourite films and what they consider to be the best summer movies of all time. The birthday boy chose The Last Starfighter – his fave movie about a kid from Silver Lake, California who gets “sucked” into a video game. And, the big sister chose The Count of Monte […]
Our Family Film Fest Continues with two “crime” stories, quite different in style – or are they? First up is one of our family’s favourite summer murder mysteries, Hitchcock’s, Rear Window [1954]. Next on the list is a movie which came out in Japan 4 years previous to the Hitchcock, Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon [1950]. This film tells the […]
What? Last week wasn’t hot enough for you? You’re in luck! It’s week two of our Summer of Funner Family Film Fest : The Best Summer Movies of All Time. And, this week’s best-ever summer films are Do the Right Thing and 12 Angry Men. Now, if you haven’t seen these movies or if you don’t […]
Our annual Summer of Funner Family Film Fest begins tonight. And, this year’s theme is The Best Summer Movies Of All Time. While we’ll mostly be picking movies with a bit of a “hot summer” aspect, our main focus is to show the kids the best of the best. Of course, not all of the […]
Summer of Funner 2014 is coming to a close. And so is our Backyard Campout Week! You know what that means…. It’s time for our Backyard Summer Film Fest! Last week, I asked everyone in the family to pick two summer movies that they’d love to see outside. Tonight, and over the next two nights […]
Somebody’s birthday is right around the corner, and we’re trying to come up with some fun ideas for a party. Whether you invite a large group of friends or just your parents and your sister, you still need invitations, don’t you think? One of the films that’s coming out soon is the Pixels Movie. So, we made an […]
Our Family Film Fest is over for the Summer! Here’s a look at the films we caught this summer to go along with our theme of Super-Anatomy in Space and Time! First Views Dark Passage [1947] The Man Without a Body [1957] The Goonies [1985] Unbreakable [2000] Treasure Island [1950] Treasure Island [1972] Treasure Island [1990] […]
July is almost over! And this means we’re already at the half-way point of our Summer of Funner! With this in mind, we thought that we’d keep you posted on the progress of our Family Film Fest. Here’s a list of the movies that we’ve watched so far! As you can see, there’s a bit of […]
Last night’s Family Film Fest selection was M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable. The kids really enjoyed the comic book angle and the way that Bruce Willis’s character, David Dunn, comes to understand his physical capabilities as heroic qualities. They weren’t so keen, in the end, as to exactly how he came to these conclusions. Still, the kids’ dissatisfaction led to […]
Summer of Funner Family Film Fest 2014: Super-Anatomy in Space and Time Night One: Double Feature! Dark Passage (1947) and The Man Without a Body (1957) Happy Independence Day to all of our Friends and family in the USA! This year’s Summer of Funner is all about the fabulous ABILITY of the human body and […]
Last year, we had quite a formal Summer Film festival. We made tickets and produced a “Film Review” worksheet for the kids. This year, our Film Festival was fairly casual, but we still managed to produce quite a dialogue about each movie. There was a nice mix between new, popular releases and older classics. Many […]
Today, I read the kids a large section of Book 9, Paradise Lost [from about l. 415 to the end]. In their Yesterday Books, I asked them to write down any particular words or ideas they liked and to sketch as I read. Mostly, though, they just luxuriated on the couch and listened. Tobes loved […]
