(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
Halloween TV review: Something’s in the Water … Thoughts on Below
(courtesy IMDb (c) Netflix) Is there anything even remotely connecting, in narrative spirit at least, the wild Atlantic shores of Newfoundland and the startlingly beautifully and empty desert landscapes of Arizona? You may not think so, but if you’ve watched both The Boroughs and Below on Netflix, you may have Continue Reading
Yummy baked scary delights … or are they? Is It Cake? Halloween 2026
(courtesy Showbiz Junkies (c) Netflix) Cake is something that you presume you will be far happier munching on than evaluating since surely all the pleasure is in the creamy, gnashy, fondanty taste and not the look, no matter how artistic and hyperealistic. But it turns out that watching people bake 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
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
Tiny ton of TV and movie trailers 10/26: Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew, 12 12 12, Minimum Wage + The Child
(via Shutterstock) The tsunami of viewing possibilities continues, and while all this endless choice used to alarm and unnerve me because how could I possibility get to it all, now I see it as a TBW (To Be Watched) menu of possibility that’s exciting because who knows what I’ll watch Continue Reading
Christmas movie preview: The Christmas Switch, A Dog’s Perfect Christmas, Guarding Stars + In a Holidaze
(via Shutterstock) These trailers may be previews of Christmas Still to Come but the year is racing by and soon and very soon they will part of Christmas present. I am especially thrilled to have a new Nordic festive film to watch and while lay on the saccharine sweetness, I 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
Believe again: Thoughts on Ted Lasso season 4
(courtesy IMP Awards) Revivals are, in the land of TV and streaming at least, often bittersweet affairs. On one hand, it is a joy and delight with an added dose of a fizzy sense of euphoric reunion to be back with characters you know and love and were sorrowfully ripped Continue Reading