If you’re a longtime fan of A. A. Milne’s delightful creation, Winnie the Pooh, and well outside of the intended demographic (by a considerable margin), you may initially look at My Friends Tigger & Pooh: Super Sleuth Christmas Movie and wonder where all the British wit and whimsy went. But Continue Reading
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Go scarily and hilariously back in history with Scooby-Doo: The Sword and the Scoob
SNAPSHOTProduced by Warner Bros. Animation, Scooby-Doo: The Sword and the Scoob takes our favorite teen sleuths on a trip to England to trace Shaggy’s family roots, where they suddenly find themselves in the Middle Ages and meet the legendary King Arthur and his noble knights. It’s an unforgettable adventure inspired Continue Reading
Shaun the Sheep: We Wish Ewe a Merry #Christmas (review)
If you have watched any episodes of Shaun the Sheep, and yes, while the program is ostensibly aimed at kids, many adults will get a kick out of it too, furnished as it is with Aardman’ trademark silly wit and whimsy, you will have noticed the show’s protagonist is a Continue Reading
On 1st day of Christmas … I hung 15 new pop culture ornaments on my tree incl. Scooby-Doo!, Roger Rabbit, Onward, Laurel and Hardy + Captain Marvel, A Bug’s Life, Ghostbusters, Star Wars
If any year needs a filled to the tip of the needles Christmas tree, it is this one. (Let’s be honest, all years need festive decorating but 2020 really needs it.) I will admit to the fact that my Christmas in July tree never really came down – it’s a Continue Reading
The madcap peril of Bob’s Broken Sleigh (review)
Christmas is, next to Earth and its unending attraction to alien invasion (I swear there’s a queue out by Saturn with armadas lined up one after the other to have a rack at subjugating us), the target of more villains than you can poke a gigantic red-and-white striped candy cane Continue Reading
Gravity defying stop-motion festiveness: Alien Xmas (review)
One of the most comforting parts of Christmas, a season dedicated to making us feel like everything is gloriously and perfectly right with the world, is settling down to watch the slew of new and old Christmas specials, TV shows and movies at our disposal. Most people will have favourites Continue Reading
The short and the short of it #Halloween redux: A Night in Camp Heebie Jeebie
SNAPSHOTDuring a stormy night in Camp Heebie Jeebie, the ghost stories shared by a group of Jeebie Scouts become all too real. Happy Halloween! (synopsis via Vimeo) Yes, yes Halloween has shambled off this festive mortal coil for another year but it’s hard not to take one more scary detour Continue Reading
#Halloween movie review: Happy Halloween Scooby-Doo!
Isn’t it scary being chased by monsters? You might think that question has an obvious answer, especially if you’re Scooby-Doo (Frank Welker) or Shaggy (Matthew Lillard) and hiding from supernatural-looking trouble in the Mystery Machine is far preferable than actually facing it, but if you’re Velma, the brains of the Continue Reading
Go epic with Raya and the Last Dragon
SNAPSHOTLong ago, in the fantasy world of Kumandra, humans and dragons lived together in harmony. But when an evil force threatened the land, the dragons sacrificed themselves to save humanity. Now, 500 years later, that same evil has returned and it’s up to a lone warrior, Raya, to track down Continue Reading
Weekday pop art: If all the fictional world was Polly Pocket
SNAPSHOTNowadays kids have iPads, Netflix, and the Internet to keep them entertained. But back in the 90s, there were few things more exciting than getting hold of the latest Polly Pocket. To recreate that feeling for 2020, our team has imagined what would happen if Polly Pocket decided to ‘do Continue Reading