My 12-year-old son is a movie aficionado. Name a movie and he can tell you what it's rated and why; the director and what other movies he or she directed; who composed the score and what company created the special effects. We're that family in the theater that stays through the entire credits while everyone else is scrambling to get out the door.

I'm not sure what started this, but I do remember years ago watching a movie that had one of those unexpected epilogues at the very end after the credits ran. We had been tipped off about it so we stayed. This became a habit during which we would look for someone in the credits with my son's name, just for fun. As a result, he started learning all of these facts. If there were baseball cards for movies, my son would be the local kid who had all the stats memorized.

His love of movies carried through to not only watching them but making them as well. Starting out using iMovie, then moving on to Final Cut Express and now, Final Cut Studio, he is a self-taught editor. My wife calls him the next Sam Peckinpah, I sometimes think he's more the Quentin Tarantino type. He loves anything gory, including zombies, graphic gun battles or just the typical slash 'em up. He is always looking for special effects clips to include in his movies and he learns how to work with them by finding instructional videos on YouTube.