Category: Movies & TV

  • My Ultimate List of Scary Movies for Non-Horror Fans

    My Ultimate List of Scary Movies for Non-Horror Fans

    Note: This post contains affiliate links to items that you can purchase from Amazon. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Thank you. I don’t believe in ghosts, yet I am terrified of the possibility that I might be wrong. I guess that’s why those are the types…

  • 12 Shows I Binged While Social Distancing

    12 Shows I Binged While Social Distancing

    We’ve all been stuck at home for a long time. With social distancing in place, our main form of entertainment has become watching television. It feels like the next best thing to being with people and seeing friends. Here’s a look at everything we’ve watched while stuck at home. And…

  • This Altruistic Grinch Will Make Your Heart Grow 3 Sizes for Christmas

    This Altruistic Grinch Will Make Your Heart Grow 3 Sizes for Christmas

    You might want to grab a blanket and your favorite warm holiday beverage and get all snuggly for this one. Danny McCollum, of Sumterville, Florida, has a unique hobby–he visits retirement homes dressed as the Grinch to bring smiles to seniors. A Grandma’s Love It was his grandmother Fran who…

  • This Chicago Venue is Perfect for the Harry Potter Wedding of Your Dreams!

    This Chicago Venue is Perfect for the Harry Potter Wedding of Your Dreams!

    So you’d like to have a Harry Potter-themed wedding. But you live in the US, and Universal Studios won’t rent Hogwarts out to you, and Brian Thompson’s bedroom can’t accommodate your whole wedding party. Never fear–the University Club of Chicago has you covered! The University Club, founded in 1887, is…

  • Review of Disney Plus

    Review of Disney Plus

    Like 10 million others, I grabbed the Disney Plus app as soon as I could yesterday. I came home from work in a jiffy, signed up for the one-year free trial I get for being a Verizon customer, and prepared to buffer. Technical Difficulties But unlike (apparently) Disney, I was…

  • This Barista Just Designed the Most Creative Bedroom I’ve Ever Seen

    This Barista Just Designed the Most Creative Bedroom I’ve Ever Seen

    The most magical bedroom you’ve ever seen was designed on a budget by a barista in Thousand Oaks, California, just in time for Halloween. Brian Thompson, Gryffindor, worked for one and a half years to finish his creation, which would look right at home with the sets at Universal Studios…

  • Lookbook:  Amy Pond Style

    Lookbook: Amy Pond Style

    With her adorable miniskirts, leather boots and jackets, collection of sheer tights, and ability to layer, Amy Pond was a fashion goddess. And that hair! Simply to die for. I donned a red wig, applied some red lip liner to my brows, and found just the right shade of lipstick,…

  • Lookbook:  Buffy Summers Style

    Lookbook: Buffy Summers Style

    What can I say? I was a teenager in the ’90s. And like all other teens of the ’90s, I drooled weekly over Buffy’s fashion choices. Her look is iconic. So when I stumbled across these absolutely perfect mustard-yellow leather pants, I knew I had to put a look together.…

  • A Spoiler-Free Review of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

    A Spoiler-Free Review of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

    I thought when I walked into Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them that I already knew pretty much the whole storyline from the previews.  I was wrong.  The previews don’t even touch on the story.  They and the movie itself set you up to make you think you know…

  • Ilvermorny House Analysis

    Ilvermorny House Analysis

    If you’re anything like me, you were sorted into your Ilvermorny house the day J. K. Rowling put the quiz up on Pottermore, and now you’re “waiting until you know more” about the houses to “decide how you feel about that”.  Several people have done analyses of the quiz to…

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