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THE STORM MOVIE REVIEW Our man in Poland, Maciej Kur, gets to go to the Annecy Animation Festival every year (lucky bastard) and bring us back news of what’s good. This year, he again teams up with Spidermike to lay out what’s coming soon in the world of animation for the rest of us non-festival […]

With all the spectacle and extravagance of a Sunday Superbowl showdown, Boss Monsters from beyond the stars have attacked the earth. Thanks to a team of heros called The Dragon Keepers, the evil beings from beyond...

Now that we've had our run through the animated Superman that would conquer the world and the cartoonishly evil Superman trumping up the place, we're back with the classic boy scout in blue, now animated on Adult Swim with My Adventures with SuperMan season 2.

THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP MOVIE REVIEW Our man in Poland, Maciej Kur, gets to go to the Annecy Animation Festival every year (lucky bastard) and bring us back news of what’s good. This year, he again teams up with Spidermike to lay out what’s coming soon in the world of animation for the […]

THE GLASSWORKER MOVIE REVIEW Our man in Poland, Maciej Kur, gets to go to the Annecy Animation Festival every year (lucky bastard) and bring us back news of what’s good. This year, he again teams up with Spidermike to lay out what’s coming soon in the world of animation for the rest of us non-festival […]

EXPLODING KITTENS SERIES REVIEW This new Netflix series comes from humble kickstarter origins and the twisted mind of The Oatmeal‘s webcomic creator Matthew Inman. It’s inspired a card game, an NSFW version, Plushie merch, and even a pinball table. Now with co-creator Shane Kosakowski, Netflix presents a nine episode animated series based on Exploding Kittens. […]

INFESTATION: ANNECY ANIMATION FEST 2024 – “DIPLODOCUS” Our man in Poland, Maciej Kur, gets to go to the Annecy Animation Festival every year (lucky bastard) and bring us back news of what’s good. This year, he again teams up with Spidermike to lay out what’s coming soon in the world of animation for the rest […]

INFESTATION: ANNECY ANIMATION FEST 2024 – INTRO AND “THE MOST PRECIOUS OF CARGOES” Our man in Poland, Maciej Kur, gets to go to the Annecy Animation Festival every year (lucky bastard) and bring us back news of what’s good. This year, he again teams up with Spidermike to lay out what’s coming soon in the […]

ULTRAMAN RISING MOVIE REVIEW Every parent wants their child to shine on the stage of life and honour the sacrifices made to raise them into a brilliant independent hero amongst so much mediocrity. What happens though if the child in question is pushed in two different directions by their parents? Ken Sato (Christopher Sea) is […]

INSIDE OUT 2 MOVIE REVIEW Riley is now a teen, and as we all know, a BUNCH of new emotions come out of nowhere with puberty, few of them terribly pleasant but all of them rather insistent. Thus have things changed inside Riley’s head with a group of new feelings suddenly taking the controls such […]

TALES OF THE EMPIRE SERIES REVIEW Following in the steps of Tales of the Jedi, which told the tales of Count Dooku and Ahsoka Tano in the prequel era, Tales of the Empire offers us another point of view. After losing everything, young Morgan Elsbeth (who we were introduced to in the Ahsoka series as […]

X-MEN ’97 SERIES REVIEW In the late fall of 1992 after a previous failed pilot, the X-Men animated series hit the airwaves, ushering in a new phase of animated Marvel cartoons. Despite being plagued with production, budget, and time constraints it remained popular enough to last until 1997. A few years later, X-Men the movie […]

KNUCKLES SERIES REVIEW It’s been thirty years since Knuckles made his Sega Genesis debut in Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Now the chaotic mascot races onto Paramount Plus in a 6 episode mini series before Sonic The Hedgehog 3 lands in theaters this December. The master emerald has been protected and the evil Doctor Robotnik has […]

INVINCIBLE SEASON 2 REVIEW Invincible is back! I mean it was back, and then 4 episodes in, Amazon was like “just kidding, still working on it.” but our favorite teenage Viltrumite Mark is back for another soul crushing season. After Omni-Man (Nolan) leaves Earth, Mark deems it crucial to take up the mantle, hopefully without […]

STAR WARS: THE BAD BATCH SEASON 3 REVIEW In the aftermath of the Clone Wars, The Bad Batch follows Hunter, Cross Hair, Wrecker, Tech, and Echo, a unique squad of clone troopers with genetic mutations who resisted Order 66 and go on the run in the early days of the Galactic Empire. They are joined […]

MARS EXPRESS MOVIE REVIEW In 1940, The Three Laws of Robotics were formulated by Isaac Asimov in his “Robot” series. And since then, these fictional guidelines intended to govern the behavior of robots and artificial intelligences have been used to explore ethical and moral dilemmas surrounding robots’ interactions with humans. They have allowed other storytellers […]

AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER SERIES REVIEW Netflix just isn’t gonna be satisfied with One Piece of successful anime adaptation. They want the whole cake, the bakery, the street it’s on, eventually the world. Avatar: The Last Airbender was Nickelodeon’s 2005 three season animated series about a young boy who could control the elements of earth, […]

ORION AND THE DARK MOVIE REVIEW All tucked into the One Of Us bunk beds, Mike, Chad, and T.C. have a whispered conversation about the newest Netflix/Dreamworks animated film Orion and the Dark. Orion is a severely anxious 11-year-old kid with an endless list of irrational fears, including toilets overflowing, public speaking, getting beat up […]

HAZBIN HOTEL SERIES REVIEW We’re all sinners, there is no denying that. Some of us commit little sins, like rooting for the Dallas Cowboys or lying to our spouses about diet and exercise. Others commit inhuman atrocities like murder and hosting a podcast. Sure, there’s always deathbed repentance to get away in the nick of […]

ARCHER SEASON 14 REVIEW In 2008 the highly anticipated James Bond sequel to Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, premiered to much negative scrutiny. Long gone were the days of Roger Moore running across alligators while dead panning at the camera. The spy genre was now immersed in self seriousness with a tortured Daniel Craig more […]

WHAT IF… SEASON 2 REVIEW Time. Space. Reality. It’s more than a linear path. It’s a prism of endless possibility, where a single choice can branch out into infinite realities, creating alternate worlds from the ones you know. We are Harmoni, Sarah Jane, and T.C., and we are the Screener Squad. We are your guides […]

MERRY LITTLE BATMAN MOVIE REVIEW Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Batdad! Happy Belated Holidays. If you’re not quite hungover from all the parties, annoying family members, and binge eating… you may want to check out Merry Little Batman streaming on Prime. It’s a mashup of everything you love about the Batman universe […]

CHICKEN RUN: DAWN OF THE NUGGET MOVIE REVIEW It’s been 23 years since Chicken Run came into our cinematic lives one stop motion frame at a time. And like all sequels that come decades later, the bar and expectations have been set higher than the electric fence surrounding Mrs. Tweedy’s farm. Since Ginger, Rocky, and […]

THE BOY AND THE HERON MOVIE REVIEW In what seems likely to be master animator and storyteller Hayao Miyazaki’s final film (the man is 82), The Boy and the Heron returns to dark and surreal fantasy and I suspect long-time fans will be beside themselves happy about it. The story follows Mahito, a 12 year […]