Chasing Childhood

Welcome to the very last week of our Christmas Countdown! Once more we are finishing strong with a double feature of both How The Grinch Stole Christmas movies (1966 and 2000). A highly requested special guest also makes a return appearance in this week's episode. It goes without saying, these are two of our absolute favorite movies of all time, but when we take a critical stand on them, can they...

We are almost finished our Christmas Countdown! Today we're attempting our very first triple movie review of two Disney shorts, Santa's Workshop (1932) and Pluto's Christmas Tree (1952), along with our main feature Barbie in The Nutcracker (2001). This is perhaps our most daring endeavor yet and somehow we've managed to fit all three into one episode, but are any of them still worth the watch this...

Week 2 of our Double Feature Christmas Countdown has arrived! Today we're reviewing a pair of totally obscure Christmas cartoons that potentially only we remember: Annabelle's Wish (1997) and Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer (2000). For one, we totally broke the VHS player watching it repeatedly and the other was a more rare sight on network television, but are they equally as enthralling and he...

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Welcome to our Christmas Countdown! To start, we are taking on two stop motion holiday favorites: Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town (1970) and The Year Without A Santa Claus (1974). In the same line of familiar claymation greats as Rudolph and The Little Drummer Boy, these two films are prime material for stirring up those nostalgic wintertime feelings. There...

As we finish our Thanksgiving Countdown and transition into Christmas, this week we are taking on two world renowned holiday classics: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973) and A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965). Even though both films have fairly short run times under 30 minutes, their cultural impact on the holidays cannot be understated. We definitely watched them a ton as kids, but are they just a...

As we begin to round out the Thanksgiving Countdown, this week we are taking on the one and only Garfield's Thanksgiving (1989), a made for TV special that aired pretty frequently in the 1990s and early 2000s. While the film is short, it holds a lot of nostalgia and sentiment for many people who grew up with the Garfield comics and TV series. So we have to ask: is this cable classic is worth its w...

Week Two of our Thanksgiving Countdown is here! This week we're discussing Free Birds (2013), a relatively unknown animated film with some surprisingly famous names attached. Though it isn't a staple from our childhoods, we thought it might be fun to see what content is available to today's kids. Is this tale about attempting to change the fate of Thanksgiving as quirky as we hoped? Or is the bar...

Our first episode after the Halloween Countdown means it's time to begin our wintertime transition! This week we're discussing The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), a highly beloved classic pulled right from the imaginative mind of Tim Burton. It's Steph's all time favorite, but Lex has never actually seen the film before now. Is this sleeper success totally overhyped after a quarter century of r...

We've made it to the final episode in our Countdown to Halloween! But never fear, we have a new countdown coming real soon. For our longest episode yet, we are bringing you two reviews and a special return guest star. We begin with The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald: Scared Silly (1998), a strange short movie that we received in a Happy Meal long ago. The second and most anticipated review is...

It's the second to last week in our Countdown to Halloween! For today's review into the past, we are bringing you two absolute classics that are considered Halloween staples far and wide for those who remember the DCOM golden era: Halloweentown (1998) and Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge (2001). This is a special two-part episode where we explore both movies separately and see how they not only...

Welcome to our fifth episode of Chasing Childhood! We are once again continuing our Countdown to Halloween by reviewing a lesser known film: The Little Vampire (2000). This week we welcomed a special guest host to join us in an exclusive musical episode! Kidding, sort of.  We can remember the flying cows and terrifying vampire hunter, but is this movie still as adorable now that we've grown u...

Warning: this week's episode contains off-key singing, unfortunate snapping, and a really morbid sense of humor. Welcome to week 4 of Chasing Childhood! We are once again continuing our Countdown to Halloween by discussing a long time spooky classic: The Addams Family (1991). They're creepy, kooky, spooky, and ooky (or so the song goes), but is this movie less exciting now that we've grown up? Or...

Welcome to week 3 of our Countdown to Halloween! This Wednesday, we bring you a fairly specific film that was very dear to us during our childhoods called Scooby-Doo and The Witch's Ghost. Get ready for lots of fangirl tangents about Tim Curry, way too many laughs at our own bad jokes, and a questionable obsession with the Hex Girls. What do we think? Is this movie still worth the hype that we giv...

Technical difficulties and questionable internet recordings won't stop us from bringing you another week of nostalgia. Our second episode continues the Countdown to Halloween with Casper. What do we think of the world's friendliest ghost? Are the wacky adventures from this 1995 classic still belly laugh worthy? Or are we cringing pretty hard at the humor from our youth? Let's find out together.

This week's episode contains a Trigger Warning for mentions of suicide. Our first episode begins our Countdown to Halloween with Matilda. What do we think of the brainiac little girl with incredible mind powers? Is her story still just as fun and entertaining as when we were kids? Or are we a little bit more jaded about the story now that we have grown up? Let's find out together.