So far, July has provided a rich trove of fantastic entertainment options, useful tips and interesting articles. I enjoyed a great movie, watched a new episode of one of my kids’ favorite TV shows and learned some new and exciting things. Here’s a monthly summary of some interesting topics.
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I don’t watch much TV and rarely get too involved in any show that interests my girls, ages 5 and 11. “My Little Pony” and “Littlest Petshop” just don’t do anything for me.
However, I’ve become hooked on DisneyXD’s “Gravity Falls,” a creative story about the 12-year-old Pines twins, Mabel (voiced by Kristen Schaal) and Dipper (voiced by Jason Ritter), sent to spend the summer with their great uncle in a small town called Gravity Falls, Oregon.…
The “Minions” movie starts off hysterically funny and never loses its groove throughout the film, with its scores of Despicable Me characters taking center stage.
If you’ve seen “Despicable Me” and/or its sequel, you’re familiar with the cute little yellow Minions, the somewhat hapless Despicable Me characters who serve super villain turned good guy Gru in those movies. The “Minions” movie explains where Minions came from and what they were doing for the eons leading up to their association with Gru.…
My answer to whether Next Issue is worth trying was much different a year ago, when the service first dropped support for single issue magazine subscriptions and started pushing their all-access plans.
When I tried Next Issue last year, I loved the service’s vast selection of popular magazines, but lamented the Next Issue app’s snail-like performance and clumsy overall navigation.…
I don’t recall ever seeing my 11-year-old daughter cry at the end of a movie, but we both had tears streaming down our faces during the climactic scene of the new Disney Pixar movie “Inside Out.” They were happy tears, of course, kind of like at the end of “Homeward Bound.”
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If you still need some great Father’s Day gifts for men, you might want to think about whether Dad enjoys watching TV but doesn’t like paying ever-increasing cable or satellite bills. Moreover, despite over 100 or even 200+ channels, there’s rarely anything on that’s worth watching!
With a Roku device, Dad can always find something to watch – TV shows, sports, movies, documentaries and much more.…
I recently took my two daughters on a brief jaunt to the mountains, staying in a luxurious house in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and visiting Tweetsie Railroad amusement park for the first time.
We stayed in a spacious, brand new mountain home with breathtaking views of the mountains. The house offers numerous amenities, including video games, skee ball, basketball game, pool, stair climber machine, DirecTV, high speed Wi-Fi Internet, fully equipped kitchen, deck with picnic table and much more.…
If you’re hesitant to give up your pay TV subscription because you don’t know how to watch pay per view on Roku, you’ve come to the right place. There’s one caveat, though – you won’t be able to watch many large sporting events through pay per view on Roku media players.
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I’m not sure when someone came up with the idea for Star Wars
I’ve always loved listening to music, and some songs have taken on a whole new meaning since I had my first child 11 years ago this month. Not only does everything change when you have a kid, but you can also finally appreciate everything your parents went through to get you successfully to adulthood. Many of these probably weren’t written specifically as parenting songs, but they sound that way to me now.…