Daily Archives: December 5, 2011

Great Things to Do With Kids At Christmas Time!!!!!

 in Fun / Holiday by

Getting into gear for christmas over here at MyLibraryCardWoreOut. I have my elf hat, elf shoes, and the Christmas spirit (pictures coming soon.) So, in the coming weeks, there will be posts on gift ideas, maybe some holiday decorations, awesomely lit up houses (like those crazy ones you see where you think to yourself “What the heck were they thinking?”) and maybe some recipes.

So as Christmas is just around the corner and kids are getting anxious about Santa coming, and “Will Santa bring me what I want?” and the perennial questions of ‘Can I see my gifts’, ‘Can we put up the tree,’ and ‘Will Santa give me coal this year?’ (that was one thing which I was mortified of happening – waking up and finding a stocking full of coal – luckily that never happened 🙂 ) Well to keep the kids busy with things to do until christmas time to get them more into the spirit and to maybe ward away those questions, Lillian at Domestic Simplicity did a great post on 50 Things to Do With Your Kid In December. Please head over to the blog and have a look at the post as there are some great ideas. If only my mother had done those with me every year – going to have to get some therapy because of that.

FlightPlan

 in Movies / Young Adult by

Starring
Jodi Foster – Kyle Pratt
Peter Sarsegaard – Carson
Sean Bean – Captain Rich

Summary

Nothing can go wrong at 40,000 feet in the air, right? No – think again. When Kyle Pratt’s (Jodi Foster) daughter goes missing without a trace, Kyle knows something is not right. She remembers bringing the child on board, the child’s possessions are on the plane, but there is no record of her every boarding the 2 story state of the art aircraft which she designed. But did she actually vanish? She is the only one who saw her and time is running out because someone is plotting something disastrous. Will she be able to clear her name and prove she is sane, and find her child in time?

Review
This was a heart stopping, action packed, distressing, and amazing thriller. This movie was not scary in the sense that there was blood and guts, but loosing your child at 40,000 feet in the air, while you are transporting your husband’s body to be buried, can be kind of distressing – well, not kind of, really distressing. I cried quite a lot in this movie because there were a few sad scenes, but it was mostly just nail-biting. This movie kept you thinking because you did not know who was actual baddy was until the end. I thought it was one person but in the last 15 minutes of an 1 hr 30 min movie you find out that is it someone completely different and there are so many people to choose between.

Jodi Foster (Contact, Silence of the Lambs) played her character very well. She was a mother who was distressed, and determinate to find her child even when no one else had actually seen the children. I was amazed at how good her acting was. I would describe some of the other characters and how they were like, but I may give something away.

This is a great movie, but this is like Jaws for the sky so if you were nervous about flying with children, or just flying in general, this is not a great movie for you. But otherwise, this is a definite watch. I would give it 5/5 stars as the acting was superb, and the story line was fantastic.

It is rated PG-13 and CommonSenseMedia.org says its ok for 13+ and I completely agree.

Hope that you enjoy it.