Mendon Movie Mews:

Last night we piled up on the Sofa in our SNUGGIES to have a movie night. All four of us, well, Koda was unsnuggied, Pookie was under mine. ( also Koda will not sit beside Pookie, so Neil had to sit in the middle.) 

FROZEN RIVER : 

Wow, It always sort of fascinates me that Hollywood is just fascinated by the working poor. My life is as much realism as I need in the day! This movie was nominated for two Oscars : Best Actress - Melissa Leo and Best Writing - Courtney Hunt ( She was also the director) They were both very good, but the top 5 of the year?

Poor family lives in a truly nasty part of up upstate NY , with only a river between them and Canada, well, and an Indian Reservation. The father ran off with the money the family had saved to buy a new trailer ( he gambles) The mother works at the dollar store. Ummmm, is this a movie or just another day at the Moose Lodge in Winder ? Stuff happens, people drive across the frozen river. NOT a feel gooder.

See it IF gritty realism is your thing. All the critics, who I am guessing have never been to the dollar store, LOVED it...

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

Fine, not as good as the first, seemed some corners were cut, and they just sort of JUMP into the story. BOOM talking moose or what ever. I have never read any of the other books in the series, only LWW, they are around here I should. Ummm, sort of the exact same story, without the  fablous Tilda Swinton. Always good to see Peter Dinklage in anything. It would have been a fine movie, but I really liked the first one. It cleared a little over two hundred mil at the box office, so I am guessing we will see the rest of the books.