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You know how having kids means you end up watching the same movies over and over (and over and over)? Well, if I have to watch Disney and Pixar movies a million times, I’m going to start analyzing them and searching for little details I never noticed as a kid, to keep from going crazy. …

I have never read Madeline L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, conveniently avoiding that assignment in fourth grade. With the release of Disney’s movie version, my husband was inspired to read the book himself, and then, despite the fact that he didn’t particularly enjoy it, he decided to read it with the kid. Fortunately, she has …

Going to the movies over the past few months, I’d seen a couple of teasers for Peter Rabbit, but I didn’t see an actual trailer until I went to see The Last Jedi. And do you know what I learned in that trailer? Apparently, Peter Rabbit is a rom com! All this time, I thought …

The new Star Wars film opened on December 15 and lucky us: today was a half day of school so my family got to see Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Episode VIII)! Wondering how it was? Want to know if you should take your kids? Here’s my review of the movie. As noted above, this …

My family has been impatiently waiting to see the new live-action Beauty and the Beast since we first heard about it forever ago! We weren’t able to go on opening weekend (ballet recital practices and performances), but we did get to go on day four of the release. Here’s our movie review! Oh, before I …

My daughter loves movies. She has since she was very, very young. Lest you think she has a general love for screens, she self-regulates her iPad use and has no patience for television shows. She’s just started getting into classic cartoons over the past few months. (Inappropriate? Probably yes. But I grew up watching them …

I’m so excited for Halloween this year! All my kids are finally old enough to really enjoy the festivities, including some family-friendly Halloween movies. If you have little ones like me, and you’d like to watch something fun, spooky, and exciting for the whole family, check out these… 8 Halloween Movies the Whole Family Will …

Disney’s Maleficent movie starring Angelina Jolie is one of the early blockbusters of the summer.  This is the untold story of Disney’s most iconic villain from the 1959 Disney film, Sleeping Beauty. We had a chance to see the movie today with seven children ages 4-11 years old. With a rating of PG and a quite …

We recently took our twin boys to the movie theater for the first time to see Disney’s Frozen. They had just turned 2 1/2. We’d toyed with the idea for months, but were unsure whether the boys were ready to sit through an entire movie in a dark theater. Ultimately, we decided to take a …

My son absolutely loves Disney movies. Really, what kid doesn’t? When I was a child I had every Disney movie ever made on VHS and I love that my mom still has every single one of them so my son can watch them, too. Yes, we are weird and still have VCR’s. I wanted to …

If you’ve been reading my posts here at Baby Gizmo for a while, you know my family recently moved to Freeport, Illinois. (Bring on the stalkers!) One of Freeport’s claims to fame is that it’s known as “Pretzel City, USA.” Seriously—it’s in the Wikipedia article. We have our own brand of pretzels, and may God …

Halloween is my four year old son’s favorite holiday. It doesn’t matter if it’s October or not, any month of the year you can find him requesting to watch every Halloween movie ever made and every single week when we go to the library for new books, he always chooses Halloween books complete with monsters, witches, …