Category: Daddy Mojo at the Movies

Avengers: Infinity War and the overall view of the cinematic MCU is fascinating. It’s an amazing cinematic experiment that, for better or worse, redesigned what people think of films. Avengers: Infinity War brings together almost all of the characters from the first ten years of the MCU on film in a fun-yet also quite dark at times movie that will satisfy most fans, but leave others in a lurch.

Bottom line: As an adult who has seen most of the Marvel movies I really liked it. It’s very quickly paced and has some great action sequences that will entertain people regardless of how many, if any, Marvel movies they’ve seen. The joy in seeing Avengers: Infinity War is the interaction that happens when the superheroes who don’t know each other finally meet.

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We were compensated for this post. All thoughts are our own. I don’t remember much of my childhood. It was a lovely childhood, very happy and not traumatic or anything, I just don’t remember it. However, more often than not, I recall things that weren’t there, but not in a whiny or pity party way. For example, I recall not practicing anything. Now that I have children I know the struggle of ensuring that your kids practice things. They need to practice whatever sport they play, their studies and they need to engage with their friends. Life is practice and error. With The Miracle Season being released it’s worth refreshing just how important practice and mastery are to people of any age.

First up, do you know the story behind The Miracle Season? I remember seeing the reports of this in the news. A high school team’s star volleyball player, Caroline Found is tragically killed and that fact puts their legacy and final season for the seniors at stake. The movie reminds us that there was more to that story. “Line” as the team called her was also considered to be the heart of the team. She was enthusiastic, vivacious, a team leader and a team player, selfless in her acts on and off the court.

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Sherlock Gnomes is a children’s movie that makes parents yearn for the days when their children only watched Calliou. It’s a film that only bored garden clubs or for kids that value the taste of popcorn more than the time it takes for a film to earn a laugh. For me, the laugh count was two, two laughs during the entire film.

But you say, it’s a family film so surely the kids liked it more than you? I took that question to our 6YO. “No, it was boring”, he responded when I asked that question. I further prompted him to explain which parts of the film were boring and he said “all of it.”

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