Hi all Trust you are all enjoying what is more-or-less the start of spring. At the movies this week, we have Scooby-Do's back story in the form of Scoob!, while an older audience can enjoy the female-friendly The High Note. There are also limited screenings of Korean boyband supergroup BTS's documentary of their recent tour, in Break the Silence. The sad news is that Hollywood has decided to postpone the release of some upcoming big-budget films, including Black Widow, West Side Story, and Death On the Nile. For now, No Time to Die, Dune, and Wonder Woman 1984, are unaffected, but the situation may change depending on how things go with Covid, and probably the fallout from the US elections. Enjoy! :-) Cheers, Ian New this week * Scoob! (PG7-9 LVH) * The High Note (13 LD) * Break the silence: The Movie http://www.moviesite.co.za/new.htm Forthcoming attractions http://www.moviesite.co.za/4thcome.htm Updated the pic and quote on the home page http://www.moviesite.co.za/ This Week's pinup http://www.moviesite.co.za/pinup.html (cellphone wallpaper ...) Pick of the Week http://www.moviesite.co.za/pick.htm All the previews. Remember to check with the cinema first. http://www.moviesite.co.za/where/previews.htm List of all movies showing http://www.moviesite.co.za/reviews.htm Same list sorted by Age Restriction http://www.moviesite.co.za/showingbyage.htm Top Twenty, Best and Worst Movies by Critical Rating. http://www.moviesite.co.za/topten.htm Remember you can support the site by reading the ads... :-) Thanks, Ian --------------------------------------------------------------------------- When I got engaged in my early 20s, my wife-to-be was a soft-spoken young lady who rarely raised her voice or spouted off a retort regardless of the often snarky remarks I made about one thing or another. One day, I asked her why WE got engaged but SHE got a diamond ring. She said, “Well, you’re getting me.” I said, “But you’re getting me!” “Right,” she replied, just as calm as you please, “and you had to put up a diamond ring to make it an even swap.” --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process. —JOHN F. KENNEDY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- For the second week in a row, my son and I were the only ones who showed up for his soccer team’s practice. Frustrated, I told him, “Please tell your coach that we keep coming for practice but no one is ever here.” My son rolled his eyes and said, “He’ll just tell me the same thing he did before.” “Which was?” “That practice is now on Wednesdays, not Tuesdays.” --------------------------------------------------------------------------- My young son declared, “When I grow up, I’m going to marry you, Mommy.” “You can’t marry your own mother,” said his older sister. “Then I’ll marry you.” “You can’t marry me either.” He looked confused, so I explained, “You can’t marry someone in your own family.” “You mean I have to marry a total stranger?!” he cried. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Whoever coined the phrase “the pitter-patter of little feet” clearly never heard a four-year-old walk. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mail from the bank was piling up for my daughter, who was away at college. So I called her. “Open one up and see what it is,” she said. I unsealed an envelope. “It says your account has insufficient funds.” “That’s got to be a mistake,” she said. “I still have plenty of checks left.” --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Just as I got out of the shower, my three-year-old son walked into the bathroom. As I frantically grabbed for my robe, he quickly assured me, “It’s OK, Mom; I won’t laugh.” --------------------------------------------------------------------------- A friend knew that she’d overdone it with the gifts last Easter when her kid woke up to all the booty and shouted, “This is the best Christmas ever!” --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sitting on her mother’s lap, reading The Book of Shapes, my daughter came to the triangle page. “What’s this shape?” her mom asked. Wheels of cogitation began to spin (signified by a mouth scrunched to one side) and after a brief pause (and with the certainty of a jury foreman) she said, “A circle.” Mom asked her, “Are you sure?” (As she did whenever an answer was incorrect.) But my daughter, sensing that something was amiss, said, “Yep,” and then pausing, added, “but it’s not a very good one.” ---------------------------------------------------------------------------