(courtesy IMDb) I have been watching Scooby-Doo! cartoons in their multitudinous iterations since the 1970s – not that long after the franchise debited in 1969 so yes I am hauntingly old, thank you – and one thing that has struck all the way through is the way the show manages Continue Reading
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Hoops & Yoyo’s Haunted #Halloween: A frightfully funny adventure (review)
What’s the number one certainty when it comes to big seasonal events? (Wells, besides calmly accepting that you will eat too much and that your calendar will never be big enough to accommodate all of them so FOMO is real, my friends, it is REAL). Why it’s that you don’t Continue Reading
Peanuts Halloween special review: The Snoopy Show: The Curse of the Fuzzy Face
(courtesy Halloween Specials Wiki) While Snoopy remains as culturally ubiquitous as ever and Peanuts is still one of the most popular comic strips out there, that has more to do these days with the number of specials and TV shows that keep popping up on AppleTV than anything else these Continue Reading
Float away and save the planet with Cloud Girl
(courtesy Animation Magazine) SNAPSHOTCloud Girl tells the story of an 11-year-old avid reader entrusted with a magical quill that can grant any wish it writes. When she wishes to fly and for her guinea pig, Airbag, to talk, the duo embark on a dangerous adventure to save the planet. The Continue Reading
Want some hilariously hellish hospitality? Thoughts on Haunted Hotel returns S2
(courtesy IMP Awards) It may come as a surprise to those seeing a blog full-to-bursting of Halloween posts this October that this reviewer is not one for horror. That may seem to be a small and niggling liability in a season devoted to horror, both its manifestation and banishment, but Continue Reading
The Halloween short and the short of it: The haunting impact of Night of the Living Dread
SNAPSHOTWhen a power cut ruins Ruby’s bedtime routine, she finds herself haunted by some unwanted guests. The only way for Ruby to get a peaceful night of sleep is to confront her visitors. (courtesy Laughing Squid) What’s scarier than zombies and vampires and aliens and ghosts and werewolves and any Continue Reading
Christmas preview: Bob’s Burgers and the biggest holiday snow fort of all time
(courtesy IMDb (c) 20th Television) SNAPSHOTIn “On the Fort Day of Christmas”, a record-breaking Christmas snowstorm means one thing to the Belcher kids — a record-breaking Christmas snow fort. (courtesy Animation Magazine) I fear with Bob’s Burgers that the TV horse has bolted. For me, at least. Kicking off in Continue Reading
Happy Hell-o-ween: Family Guy Halloween special 2026 review
(courtesy IMDb (c) Hulu/Disney+) Who of us hasn’t at some time declared that their life is hell? Yep, I see your raised hands – all of us in fact have uttered those words at some point; it’s a common lament, one that thankfully with no fire, little brimstone and no Continue Reading
Halloween movie review: Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Soggy Bottom
(courtesy IMP Awards) In a bid to sell this movie to my full-on horror loving friend – turns out I didn’t have to sell it too hard; who doesn’t love some Aardman whimsy as it turns out – I told him it was Halloween-adjacent, embracing the season quite clearly but Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: An animated look at a “sensitive prince” and his brutal family in Wilem
(courtesy First Showing (c) Adult Swims) SNAPSHOT“Wilem is the story of a sensitive prince, living in a brutal world. With the help of his friend he attempts to escape not only his royal duties, but also, his crazy family.” Wilem is an animated short film created & written by London-based Continue Reading