By John Corrado The winners of the 2025 Dorian TV Awards from GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, have just been announced, voted on by the group’s over 560 members (including myself). Leading the way as the winner in the Best Drama category is The Pitt, with Hacks taking home the award for Best… Read More Winners of the 2025 Dorian TV Awards
By John Corrado The nominations for the 2025 Dorian TV Awards, presented by critics group GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, have just been announced. In the drama categories, we got strong showings for Andor, The Last of Us, Severance and The White Lotus, as well as multiple nominations for Hacks, The Rehearsal and… Read More Nominations for the 16th Dorian TV Awards
By John Corrado In their thirty years of feature films, Pixar Animation Studios has been known for their innovative and imaginative storytelling. Now they’ve adapted that to a serialized format in Win or Lose, the new Disney Plus streaming series from co-creators, co-directors and co-writers Carrie Hobson and Michael Yates. It’s an ambitious gambit from… Read More Review: Win or Lose – Episodes 1-4 (Disney+)
By John Corrado Dream Productions, the new Disney Plus limited series “from the world of Inside Out,” presents somewhat of a departure for Pixar. It’s not only their first stab at episodic storytelling, but also done in the style of a mockumentary. The four-part series is presented as a “behind the scenes” look at Dream Productions,… Read More Review: Dream Productions (Disney+)
By John Corrado The group GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics has announced the winners of their 16th annual TV awards. Leading the pack is Hacks with four wins including Best TV Comedy, followed by Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, which racked up three wins including Best TV Drama. In third place is… Read More Winners of the 2024 Dorian TV Awards from GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics
By John Corrado This week, Paramount is releasing the streaming special South Park: Joining the Panderverse on Blu-ray. The 49 minute animated special from South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone skewers everything from “woke” culture, to useless college degrees, multiverse movies, and token diverse characters in Disney reboots. The wide-ranging special, which premiered… Read More Blu-ray Review: South Park: Joining the Panderverse
John Corrado Inspired by Pixar’s 1998 second feature A Bug’s Life, the Disney Plus series A Real Bug’s Life puts us on the ground to document the lives of real insects around the world across five half-hour episodes narrated by Awkwafina. Produced by National Geographic, A Real Bug’s Life begins on the streets of New… Read More Review: A Real Bug’s Life (Disney+)
By John Corrado The new eight episode limited series Fellow Travelers (based on Thomas Mallon’s 2007 novel of the same name) is a McCarthy-era period drama that is set against the fascinating political backdrop of the mid-20th century. But the handsomely mounted Showtime mini-series, which comes to us from screenwriter and executive producer Ron Nyswaner… Read More TV Review: Fellow Travelers
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Are You Afraid of the Dark? Ghost Island is the third season in Nickelodeon’s reboot of the kids horror series from the 1990s, banking heavily on nostalgia while also appealing to a modern audience of tweenaged viewers. Like the first two instalments of this limited series that began… Read More DVD Review: Are You Afraid of the Dark? Ghost Island
By John Corrado With the second season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds having just premiered on Paramount+, Paramount recently released Season One of the original series on 4K Ultra HD, including in a limited edition SteelBook set. Led by a diverse cast that includes a mix of new and pre-established characters (including cast members… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Season One (Limited Edition SteelBook)
By John Corrado The Western series Bonanza has long been one of the crown jewels in NBC’s roster, and Paramount Home Entertainment is now releasing the entire series on DVD in a massive box set that contains all 431 episodes of the show from across its fourteen seasons, which ran from 1959 to 1973. The… Read More DVD Review: Bonanza: The Official Complete Series
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Following in the footsteps of the Halloween special Werewolf by Night, Marvel Studios now switches their focus to Christmas with The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special. Written and directed by James Gunn, the special is designed as a loving homage to the infamous Star Wars Christmas Special,… Read More Disney+ Review: The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Tim Allen is back as Scott Calvin, the single dad who inexplicably took up the mantle of Santa Claus, in the new Disney+ limited series The Santa Clauses, which is having its two-episode premiere this week. Building on the trilogy of films that began in 1994 with The… Read More Disney+ Review: The Santa Clauses (First Two Episodes)
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Disney returns to the richly populated world of their 2016 animated film Zootopia in the aptly titled Disney+ series Zootopia+, a collection of six short films set in the animal metropolis. But rather than being a direct sequel to the movie, Zootopia+ is instead a collection of off-shoot… Read More Disney+ Review: Zootopia+
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Composer Michael Giacchino makes the switch to directing with the 52 minute Marvel Halloween special Werewolf by Night, a black-and-white tribute to the classic Universal monster movies that serves as a breath of fresh air in a slightly stagnant MCU. The special (which may as well begin with… Read More Disney+ Review: Werewolf by Night
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Cars on the Road, which premieres on Disney+ tomorrow as part of their annual Disney+ Day programming, is a short episodic series from Pixar Animation Studios that finds trusty tow truck Mater (Larry the Cable Guy) and race car Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) reuniting for a road trip.… Read More Disney+ Review: Cars on the Road
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) I Am Groot, the latest Marvel series premiering on Disney Plus, isn’t really a series at all, but rather a collection of brief little shorts featuring Guardians of the Galaxy breakout star Baby Groot (voiced once again by Vin Diesel) going on a series of adventures between the… Read More Disney+ Review: I Am Groot
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Hawkeye, the first two episodes of which premiered today on Disney+, is Marvel’s fourth television series this year, and it’s somewhat of a departure for the studio in terms of how grounded it feels. Following on the heels of WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Loki,… Read More Disney+ Review: Hawkeye (First Two Episodes)
By John Corrado The Haunting of Bly Manor is creator Mike Flanagan’s followup to his 2018 Netflix miniseries The Haunting of Hill House. This second instalment in the anthology series brings back some of the same actors in different roles to tell a whole new, completely unconnected story. The series, which premiered on Netflix in 2020… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Haunting of Bly Manor
By John Corrado This week, Paramount is releasing all three seasons of Star Trek: The Original Series on Blu-ray, in a limited edition Steelbook collection. The release coincides with this year’s 55th anniversary of when the show first aired on NBC in 1966. The hefty box set includes all 79 episodes of the series that… Read More Blu-ray Review: Star Trek: The Original Series (Steelbook Collection)
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