The Oscars are a little over a month away, and round about now all the holiday flair at the movies is replaced with some of the best movies of the year, and so I try to catch quite a few. Amongst the movies I have particularly enjoyed recently is The Town which is directed by Ben Affleck and in which he stars and while it is a long movie, it is well worth watching and superbly acted.

My children loved the latest episode in the Narnia Chronicles and I thought it was a well put together movie of the adventure-type that a child cannot fail to love. Megamind is another one that really pulls out all the stops for the children and has a lot of laughs for the parents, although taking the whole family along to watch in 3D, together with the obligatory popcorn, is an extremely expensive exercise.