Old School Lane

In this episode of DreamMachine, Arun and Patricia discuss about the third installment of the Trolls franchise, Trolls: Band Together. Branch gets a visit from his oldest brother John Dory that their brother Floyd has been kidnapped by a brother-sister singing duo named Velvet and Vaneer. They're using Floyd's essence to be great singers when they're not. It's up to Branch, Poppy,...

In honor of Season 2 of the Disney Channel animated series Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur premiering on both the channel and Disney+, Patricia and Arun discuss about their thoughts of the episodes with its plots, characters, major reveals, theories, and final thoughts. Warning: major spoilers ahead! 00:00 Introduction 5:05 Moon Girl Landing & The Borough Bully 20:05 Run the Rink 31:20 Check Your...

In this episode of DreamMachine, Arun and Patricia discuss about the 2023 DreamWorks animated film Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken. Ruby Gillman is a 16 year old teenager who is trying to fit in at her high school, but is restricted by her mother whenever she goes to activities involving with water. One day when trying to ask her crush to the prom, he is knocked into the water. Ruby rescues, but real...

In the final episode of Casual Chats of 2023, Patricia and special guest Arun Mehta from The Arun Mehta Show discuss about a book titled Video Games of the Year: A Year by Year Guide to the Best, Boldest, and Most Bizarre Games from Every Year Since 1977 written by video game journalist Jordan Minor. They discuss about his choices of the best video games from 1977 to 2022 and why they're some...

In this episode of Casual Chats, Patricia and special guest Arun Mehta from The Arun Mehta Show discuss about the 2023 Netflix/Happy Madison Productions animated film Leo starring Adam Sandler, Bill Burr, Cecily Strong, and Jason Alexander. Leo is a 74-year-old tuatara living as a class pet with a turtle named Squirtle. After learning that tuataras live up to 75 years, Leo decides that he's go...

In this episode of Casual Chats, Patricia and special guest Arun Mehta from The Arun Mehta Show discuss about the 2023 stop motion animated film Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, the sequel to the 2000 stop motion animated film Chicken Run animated by Aardman Animation. Taking place after Chicken Run, the chickens from Tweedy's farm have settled in a bird sanctuary. Ginger and Rocky have gotten...

In this episode of DreamMinis, Arun and Patricia discuss about the most recent DreamWorks Christmas special, The Bad Guys: A Very Bad Holiday based on The Bad Guys film released on November 30, 2023. Mr. Wolf, Mr. Snake, Mr. Piranha, Mr. Shark, and Ms. Tarantula come up with a plan involving with pulling off the biggest bank heist in the world. However, they accidentally pop the Santa balloon and...

In this episode of Casual Chats, Patricia and special guest Arun Mehta from The Arun Mehta Show discuss about the 2023 Disney animated film Wish, a milestone movie to celebrate Disney's 100th anniversary. A young teenage girl named Asha lives in an island called Kingdom of Rosas led by a sorcerer named King Magnifico and his wife Queen Amaya. Every month, King Magnifico grants a citizen a wish...

In this episode of DreamMinis, Patricia and Arun discuss about the 2022 DreamWorks Christmas special The Boss Baby: Christmas Bonus based on The Boss Baby franchise. Tim recalls to his daughters the time his baby brother Ted a.k.a. The Boss Baby was celebrating his first Christmas. He's overwhelmed with the family's traditions and doesn't want to be a part of it. Things get more compli...

In this episode of DreamMinis, Patricia and Arun discuss about the 2021 DreamWorks Christmas special Trolls: Holiday in Harmony. Christmas is approaching and Poppy announces that everyone is going to be doing a gift exchange with someone. When picking a name, Poppy ended up with Branch and Branch ended up with Poppy. Branch struggles to come up with an idea of what to give Poppy for Christmas. Mea...

In this episode of DreamMinis, Arun and Patricia discuss about the 2019 DreamWorks Christmas special How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming. Taking place after How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World where Hiccup and Astrid are grown up, married, and have two children, Snoggletog is approaching. Hiccup and Astrid's daughter Zephyr reads Stoick the Vast's old journal about Old Berk and dra...

In the final episode of Journey to the Blue Sky, Arun and Patricia discuss about the top 5 best and worst Blue Sky Studios films according to your votes. What made the best and worst lists? Listen and find out.

In this episode of DreamMinis, Patricia and Arun talk about the 2017 DreamWorks Christmas special Trolls Holiday, based on the Trolls films. Poppy wishes to share the Trolls holidays to the Bergens, a group of goblins who don't have a holiday. But when they present a holiday to them, it blows up in their face...literally. What did they think of this special? Listen and find out.

In this episode of DreamMinis, Arun and Patricia discuss about the 2011 DreamWorks Christmas special How to Train Your Dragon: Gift of the Night Fury, based on the How to Train Your Dragon franchise. It's Snoggletog and the citizens of Berk are preparing for the holidays. But one day, all the dragons mysteriously disappear and Hiccup tries to figure out why. Meanwhile, Astrid tries to come up...

In this episode of DreamMinis, Arun and Patricia discuss about the 2010 DreamWorks Christmas special Kung Fu Panda Holiday, based on the Kung Fu Panda series. Po is informed by Shifu that all the Kung Fu masters of China are coming over for the Annual Winter Feast and he will be the host of the event. While he is honored to be the host of the Winter Feast, it would take him away from his father Mr...

In this episode of DreamMinis, Patricia and Arun discuss about the 2009 DreamWorks Christmas special, Merry Madagascar. It's Christmas Eve and King Julian and the lemurs knock down a red meteor that shoots red ash down on Madagascar. It turns out that the red meteor is Santa's sleigh and the red ash are the hot coals falling down on King Julian for being on the naughty list. When Santa rec...

Continuing with looking back on the DreamWorks Christmas specials, Arun and Patricia discuss about the 2007 special Shrek the Halls. Taking place after Shrek the Third, Donkey pesters Shrek to get ready for Christmas. Shrek ignores him, but then Fiona gets excited about what Shrek is planning. Around Christmas Eve, Shrek heads to a book store and receives a idiot village's guide to Christmas....

The holidays are upon us and Arun and Patricia are covering the DreamWorks Christmas specials based on the animated films. The first DreamWorks Christmas special is The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper from 2005. The penguins Skipper, Riko, Kowalski, and Private are preparing for Christmas and Private sees a polar bear who is lonely and sad. He wishes to get him a Christmas gift, but Skipp...

In this episode of Journey to the Blue Sky, Arun and Patricia discuss about the final project Blue Sky Studios were working on before Disney shut them down in 2021: a miniseries called Ice Age: Scrat Tales. It focuses on Scrat and his son Baby Scrat going through a series of adventures. When the miniseries was uploaded on Disney+, critics and viewers gave it positive reviews saying it was a fun ro...

In this episode of the Roald Dahl Retrospective, Arun and Patricia discuss about the 2023 film Wonka, a prequel to the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory based on the 1964 book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It stars Timothee Chalamet, Calah Lane, Keegan-Michael Key, Patterson Joseph, Matt Lucas, Mathew Baynton, Rowan Atkinson, and Hugh Grant. A young man named Willy Wonka enters...

In this episode of Journey to the Blue Sky, Arun and Patricia have reached the post-Blue Sky Studios era where in 2021, Blue Sky Studios was shut down after Fox was purchased by Disney. The first animated film from this era is the 2022 animated film The Ice Adventures of Buck Wild exclusively on Disney+. Crash and Eddie want to become independent of the pack after destroying their summer habitat a...

In this episode of Journey to the Blue Sky, Patricia and Arun discuss about Blue Sky Studios' last animation film before Fox was bought by Disney and the shutdown of the company, the 2019 animated film Spies in Disguise. Lance Sterling is the greatest secret agent in the H.T.U.V (Honor, Trust, Unity, and Valor) agency. When he returns from a mission of stealing a suitcase containing a drone from a...

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! In this episode of Casual Chats, Patricia and special guest Alex from the Splat Attack Podcast discuss about their favorite Nickelodeon Thanksgiving specials, the Nickelodeon Thanksgiving marathons, and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

In this episode of Journey to the Blue Sky, Arun and Patricia discuss about the 2017 Blue Sky Studios animated film Ferdinand based on the 1936 children's book Ferdinand the Bull by Munro Leaf. Ferdinand is not like the other bulls. He's a sweet, kind, and gentle bull who loves flowers. But he is forced to become a bull to be sent away as a bull to compete in bullfights. As a young bull, h...

In the last episode of Old Spook Lane Creepy Chats, Patricia and special guests Nikki Blake from Scooby Addicts, Alexa Lawlor from the Unmasked History of Scooby-Doo podcast, and Cameron Bates from Scooby-Doo and Cameron Too discuss about the 1998 animated film Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island in honor of its 25th anniversary. Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby-Doo reunite after separating from My...