May the Force be with you, summer ’14

Backyard movies turned out to be a big deal at my house this summer.

We had two “Frozen” screenings for little girls, and a “Matrix” viewing for my teen-aged son and all of his friends.

For our film-season finale last night, we showed “The Phantom Edit.” This is a fan-modified version of the vile “Star Wars” film “The Phantom Menace” with clever deletions and other alterations to make the movie more palatable.

This was the perfect way to bid summer adieu, with a bunch of my supernerdy friends and neighbors in attendance, on what turned out to be an unseasonably summery night. It was magical.

I can’t wait until next summer.