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THE ORVILLE: NEW HORIZONS SERIES REVIEW The Orville: New Horizons. Space: The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterpri- oh, wait sorry! Wrong show! Ok, Let’s try that again. After a three-year hiatus, The Orville is back and…maybe better than ever? Ed Mercer (Seth MacFarlane) and his intrepid crew continue their exploration […]

LIGHT & MAGIC SERIES REVIEW If you’ve seen a movie in the past 45 years, there’s a very, very good chance that you’ve seen the work of Industrial Light and Magic, the most important visual effects company that has ever existed. What started with a ragtag group of film loving nerds working on a weird sci-fantasy […]

I AM GROOT SERIES REVIEW I AM GROOT: I AM GROOT! I AM GROOT? I AM GROOT… I AM GROOT… I AM GROOT. I AM GROOT. I AM GROOT… I AM GROOT, I AM GROOT. I AM GROOT… I AM GROOT! I AM GROOT, I AM GROOT, I AM GROOT, AND I AM GROOT. *TRANSLATION* […]

MS.MARVEL SERIES REVIEW This seventh Disney Plus MCU series is based on one of Marvel’s newer comic hero success stories, the teenager Kamala Khan. A huge fan of the Avengers and more specifically, Captain Marvel, Kamala dreams of what seems to be the impossible, becoming a hero herself. But, as it turns out she’s got […]

BAYMAX! SERIES REVIEW Based off of 2014’s Big Hero 6, Baymax! is a new series streaming on Disney+. It stars, you guessed it, Baymax, a loveable robot with a penchant for helping others in need. The series is only 6 episodes long and strung together, will take about an hour to watch. It’s not a […]

OBI-WAN KENOBI SERIES REVIEW A long time ago, before Disney purchased Lucasfilm and completely erased the Star Wars Expanded Universe, there were thousands of pages of comics and novels, as well as games, detailing every corner of the galaxy far, far away. There was so much content from so many different publishers, that even the […]

CHIP ‘N DALE: RESCUE RANGERS Don’t be fooled. This isn’t a reboot. This is a continuation of the characters Chip and Dale from the old Rescue Rangers series, but in this reimagining, those lil’ chipmunks were actors in a Roger Rabbit style world co-populated by humans and toons, Chip (voiced by John Mulaney)and Dale (Andy […]

MOON KNIGHT SERIES REVIEW In the latest Disney Plus/Marvel Cinematic Universe show, the action moves to first London and then Egypt. New York’s just got too damn many superheroes in it. Oscar Isaac plays Steven Grant, a man with sleep issues, lots of knowledge of Egyptian lore, but not much self-confidence. He works in the […]

BETTER NATE THAN EVER They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway. They say there’s always magic in the air. But when you’re walkin’ down the street, and you ain’t had enough to eat, the glitter rubs right off and you’re nowhere. But that nowhere is exactly where 13-year-old Nate Foster (newcomer Rueby Wood) […]

TURNING RED MOVIE REVIEW Let’s skip past the part where we talk about Pixar. We know what they’re about, and we know Disney makes a lot of money off of them. So what better way to boost Walt Disney Corps. stock by watching Pixar’s newest flick, Turning Red. Written and directed by Domee Shi (look […]

THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT SERIES REVIEW With the success of Disney’s The Mandalorian, it’s not surprising that spin-offs are starting to arrive, with more announced on the way. The Book of Boba Fett, however, is more of a The Mandalorian S2.5. In this seven-episode miniseries, Temuera Morrison returns as Fett and Ming-Na Wen as […]

HAWKEYE SERIES REVIEW It’s Christmas time in NYC and all poor Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) wants to do is get home and be with his wife and kids. But here comes this teenager, Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld), to mess up his holiday plans. She’s a very young woman who during the process of trying to stop […]

ENCANTO MOVIE REVIEW A large family named the Madrigals live in a secluded valley in Columbia inside of a magical house that grants a special power (and an TARDIS-physics bedroom) to every child as they come of age…except one. Poor Mirabel (Stephanie Beatriz), whose door disappeared on her when she reached for it. Still, the […]

WHAT IF… SERIES REVIEW We grew up reading those wacky “What if…” comics from Marvel that speculated sometimes seriously about alternate worlds where events happened differently in the comics, like ‘What if Captain America had not vanished during WWII?’ and sometimes not so seriously like with ‘What if the Avengers defeated everybody?’. This new anima...

MUPPETS HAUNTED MANSION REVIEW “Muppets Haunted Mansion” is a new Disney+ special featuring our favorite, fuzzy, Muppets (well mostly Gonzo and Pepe). Our furry friends find themselves at a Haunted Mansion, based off of the Disney ride, and not the greatest Eddie Murphy film of all time (Editor: what?). Gonzo and Pepe encounter The Host […]

STAR WARS: VISIONS SERIES REVIEW It’s no secret that George Lucas drew inspiration from Japanese culture when creating the world of Star Wars. Now Lucasfilm returns the favor by teaming up with several prominent Japanese anime studios (Kamikaze Douga, Studio Colorido, Geno Studio, Trigger, Kinema Citrus, Production I.G, Science SARU) to produce “Star Wars Visions”, […]

MONSTERS AT WORK SERIES REVIEW Starting off a day after the events of “Monsters, Inc”, the original film, “Monsters At Work” tells the story of Tyler Tuskmon (Ben Feldman), a recent graduate of Monsters University reporting for his first day on the Scare Floor. Unfortunately for Tyler, scream power has been replaced with laugh power, […]

STAR WARS: THE BAD BATCH SERIES REVIEW At the conclusion of “The Clone Wars”, a bad batch (ones with genetic mutations) clone commando team was sentenced as traitors by the Empire for crimes they didn’t commit. These clones promptly escaped from a maximum-security stockade on Kamino and went underground. Today, still wanted by the empire, […]

JUNGLE CRUISE MOVIE REVIEW Remember when they announced the first “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie and we were all like, really? Making movies out of your theme park rides Disney? Seriously? And then it was really good and we all ate crow (at least until the sequels). I can tell you that when they announced […]

LOKI SERIES REVIEW The third of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Disney+ tie-in shows is here as Tom Hiddleston returns as Loki. Yes, he died in “Avengers: Infinity War”. But if you were paying attention in “Avengers: Endgame”, that earlier version of Loki who was captured and still a big-bad right at the end of the […]

BLACK WIDOW MOVIE REVIEW The time has finally come, decidedly long overdue, for Scarlett Johansson as the Marvel character Black Widow, to have her own movie. This new adventure, while being released post-mortem, explores what happened to Natasha when she was on the run from the US after the events of “Captain America: Civil War”. […]

LUCA MOVIE REVIEW Buongiorno! Take a dive into the Italian deep with us as we review the new Disney Pixar film, Luca, now streaming on Disney+! This fantasy coming-of-age tale features the voices of Jacob Tremblay and Jack Dylan Grazer as Luca and Alberto, two teenage sea monsters who run away, disguising themselves among the […]