The Looney Tunes celebrate Halloween! Daffy and Porky take a dear friend to a final resting place. Witch Hazel chases down an ingredient for her spell. Sylvester finds a suspicious motel, and Bugs meets a mummy. (synopsis courtesy YouTube (c) HBO Max) Halloween is usually all for really scary stuff. Continue Reading
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Coming together to find their way home: Disney’s Strange World’s fun mix of family and adventure
SNAPSHOTTravel past space and time to a place of infinite mystery… Jake Gyllenhaal lends his voice to Searcher Clade, the son of a steadfast explorer. The original action-adventure journeys deep into an uncharted and treacherous land where fantastical creatures await the legendary Clades, a family of explorers whose differences threaten Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The hauntingly uplifting renewal of Castaway
SNAPSHOTA lonely girl is living in the sky, far from the world on the ground that frightens her. One day, an unexpected visit will turn her routine upside down and make her fall from her cloud. (courtesy Filmaffinity) There are a lot of truly remarkable short films out there that Continue Reading
Movie review: Minions – The Rise of Gru
Life is hard. Life is grim. Life is, dare I say it, evil at times? Which is why, whether you’re a kid or an adult, but I would wager especially if you’re adult, you need some silliness, some whimsy, some off the chart mischief, best delivered if you’re looking for Continue Reading
The greatest adventures are the ones that bring us home: Thoughts on Lost Ollie
Can you hear that? The sound you hear so thunderously and warmheartedly is the massive heart beating at the core of Lost Ollie, a limited four-part series based on the 2016 novel Ollie’s Odyssey by William Joyce, which rips your soul from your body over and over before putting it Continue Reading
Doing a Die Hard, exploding cars and obvious traps: Rick and Morty S6 has it all
SNAPSHOTIt’s season six and Rick and Morty are back! Pick up where we left them, worse for wear and down on their luck. Will they manage to bounce back for more adventures? Or will they get swept up in an ocean of piss! Who knows?! Piss! Family! Intrigue! A bunch Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Inside Pixar reveals the journey of inspiration behind Dan Scanlon’s feature Onward
Where do the great storytelling ideas come from? If you’re a creator, you’ll likely shrug your shoulders and mutter a resigned “I have no idea” since inspiration seems to often strike out of nowhere, with little warning and some strange weird portal inside you for which there is no good Continue Reading
Movie review: Luck
Whether you are of a superstitious bent or right, we live in a world which seems to believe that much of what happens to us in life is beyond our control. It’s hard to say if this is the result of some pretty determined blame-shifting or hardcore laziness or simply Continue Reading
The epic saga of two friends searching for home: Trailer and post drop for gorgeous series Ollie
SNAPSHOTLost Ollie is an epic adventure about a lost toy who braves the many dangers of childhood as he searches the countryside to reunite with the boy who lost him; and the story of the boy who lost more than a best friend. It’s a heartwarming tale for the child Continue Reading
Teaching isn’t as easy as it sounds: Find out why in new Peanuts animated special, Lucy’s School + season 2 trailer for The Snoopy Show
SNAPSHOTThe Peanuts gang are anxious about starting at a new school in the Fall, inspiring Lucy to start her own school instead, but teaching isn’t as easy as it sounds. ‘Lucy’s School’ is a love letter to teachers, and an appreciation of the impact a teacher can have on a Continue Reading