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Bluey is an Australian animated television series geared toward the very young (preschool) crowd, but can be enjoyed by anyone. The show follows the lives of a family of anthropomorphic dogs, and the fun that can be had with a loving family. The series has won the Best Children's Program award for 4 years in a row at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards. Advertising Inqu...

The Secret of Kells is a 2009 animated movie about the making of the famous Book of Kells. The animation in the movie is visually stunning. The movie tells the story of Brendan, a young boy living in an abbey under the watchful eye of his uncle the Abbot Cellach. Brendan longs to learn the art of illumination from the monks at the monastery, and when Brother Aiden arrives (along with his cat Pangu...

Nimona is a 2023 animated movie directed by Nick Bruno and Troy Quane, and available on Netflix. The movie is an adaptation of ND Stevenson's graphic novel of the same name, and is set in a sci-fi/fantasy world of knights and monsters. The movie features the voice acting talents of Chloë Grace Moretz, Riz Ahmed, and Eugene Lee Yang. We reviewed the graphic novel on episode 67 back in January 2...

Season 2 of the Disney+ animated series The Bad Batch was released weekly from January to March of 2023. The 16 episodes continue the story of Omega, Hunter, Wrecker, Tech, Crosshair, and Echo, as they travel the galaxy and learn more and more of what the Empire has become. While most of the season followed a mission of the week format, the last 4 or so episodes really cranked up the action and st...

This week, Linnea, Evan and their friends went to the local Pride Festival, and talk about their reactions to the event. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Season 3 of The Mandalorian first aired on Disney+ from March through April of 2023. The 8 episodes followed our main character Din Djarin and his little pal Grogu, but also veered off into other characters, factions, and storylines that felt somewhat out of place. This week, Evan and Brian have a brief discussion about the show. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Ou...

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is the 2023 animated film that serves as a sequel to Sony Animation Studio's wildly successful 2018 film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse . Once again, we follow the adventures of Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy, as they leap between dimensions to try and stop the latest super-villian, The Spot. Along the way they meet friends both new and old, explore their g...

Sony's animated movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse debuted to critical acclaim in 2018. The movie follows the life of Miles Morales, a teen-ager of African-American and Puerto Rican descent, who is bitten by a radioactive spider and if thrust into a battle with Kingpin to stop a world-ending trans-dimensional super-collider from being activated. Assisting him in his pursuit are several Sp...

This week we discuss the unique universe inhabited Marvel's group of super-hero misfits, the Guardians of the Galaxy. The ensemble cast includes series veterans Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldaña, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, and Pom Klementieff, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, and the movie was written and directed by James Gunn. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https:...

This week we're pleased to present part 2 of our interview with game designer Charlie McCarron, creator of the board game Four Humours. In part 2, we talk about the art for the game, some of the other games Charlie has worked on, and whether a person can work as a game designer for a living. Charlie even joins us for our weekly fortune cookie reading! You can find our more about Charlie at cha...

This week we interview game designer Charlie McCarron, the creator of a unique game titled Four Humours . In Four Humours, you are a medieval doctor who travels the kingdom and uses potions to win over the citizenry. In part one of our interview, we talk with Charlie about how he first got interested in game design, how long it took to develop Four Humours, the process of play-testing the game, wh...

Big Hero 6 is a 2014 animated Disney movie loosely based on a Marvel comic of the same name. In the movie, 14 year old Hiro Hamada tries to solve the mystery surrounding the untimely death of his older brother Tadashi. Hiro is joined on his mission by Baymax, a huggable health-care robot build by his brother, along with a group of Tadashi's college friends. As their adventure unfolds, they bec...

This past weekend our very own Evan performed in Shrek the Musical Jr. as Donkey. We talk a bit about the show, the music, and the characters in the show. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio is a 2022 retelling of the classic tale of a wooden puppet come to life. Set in fascist Italy during World War II, the stop-motion animated movie is at once a story of one child lost and another found, how life and death are both interconnected and inevitable, and the lengths one would go to to save a loved one. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands...

The Owl House series recently wrapped up the 3rd and final season with a 3 episode send-off. The previous 2 seasons had around 20 episodes each to tell the story of Luz, Eda, and King, and their adventures on the Boiling Isles. Unfortunately, the show was cancelled by Disney Execs, and the storytellers were left with only 3 extended episodes to bring the show to a conclusion. On this week's sh...

In the new movie Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves , Edgin the bard (Chris Pine), plus his barbarian, druid and mage friends, embark on a quest to right past wrongs and save Edgin's daughter from their former colleague Forge Fitzwilliam and the evil Red Sorceress. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Lockwood and Co. is a supernatural young adult television series that premiered on Netflix in January, 2023. The story is based on the Lockwood and Co. series of books by author Jonathan Stroud. The 8 episode series covers the events of the first 2 books, which were titled The Screaming Staircase and The Whispering Skull . Lockwood and Co. has a unique story: it’s set in present day Britain, but i...

In addition to its job cleaning the house, is the vacuuming robot known as the Roomba a pop-cultural icon? We think so, since an original model sits in the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. Join us this week for a not-so-serious discussion about the Roomba. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In the game Canvas , you play as an artist competing against your fellow players. You draw a series of transparent cards with images on them, then layer 3 of the cards together to create a unique picture. Icons at the bottom of your painting will show if you've met any of the requirements to earn points. Each player creates 3 pieces of art during the game, and when the scoring is done, the pla...

This week Linnea and Evan take over the show, and discuss the 2022 adventure/comedy movie Puss in Boots: The Last Wish . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The 1998 movie The Truman Show stars Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank, a person who lives in a TV show where he is the star and doesn't know it. The film is both comedy and drama, and is even a bit prophetic in its look at how television creates celebrities and how reality shows appeal to audiences who want a peek into the private lives of others. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brand...

Monopoly Empire was a family board game by Hasbro. It was a variation on the classic board game Monopoly, was first published around 2013, and discontinued around 2018. Why was it discontinued? We'd love to know that answer, because it is one of our favorite games! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Disney's animated series  The Owl House  follows the adventures of Luz, a girl who travels through a magical doorway to an enchanted land called the Boiling Isles. The 21 episodes of season 2 aired from June 2021 to May 2022, and felt much more cohesive than the first season. It also saw the introduction of some new fan-favorite characters, and ended on a huge cliff hanger that will lead into...

This week we play a few rounds of Boggle, the classic word-finding game that premiered in 1972. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Cascadia  is a habitat tile placement and animal collecting game that features the wildlife of the Pacific Northwest. The game was published in 2021, and is for 1 to 4 players ages 10 and up. The game take about 30-45 minutes to play.  Also this week: College watch: University of Tampa A live action How to Train Your Dragon Marvel's animated Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur Bob Born, creator of Pe...