By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The first ever Halloween special featuring the Muppets, Muppets Haunted Mansion is a pretty irresistible crossover event that serves as both a return to form for Jim Henson’s creations, and also a fine tribute to Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion. The special is set in a Muppet version of the… Read More Disney+ Review: Muppets Haunted Mansion
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Following the wild successes of Loki, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and WandaVision on Disney+ earlier this year, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is now delivering its first official animated series with What If…?, which takes advantage of the medium to offer a series of condensed side adventures… Read More Disney+ Review: What If…? (First Three Episodes)
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) In 2019, Nickelodeon rebooted the fan favourite 1990s kids show Are You Afraid of the Dark? for a limited event series. The result was a surprisingly solid three-part miniseries that was successful enough to warrant renewal for a second instalment. The second season, subtitled Are You Afraid of… Read More DVD Review: Are You Afraid of the Dark? Curse of the Shadows
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The latest Disney+ show, Behind the Attraction, is a very good ten-part docuseries that sheds light on some of the famous attractions at Disney Parks and Resorts around the world. Five of the ten episodes in the series, which features Dwayne Johnson as one of its executive producers… Read More Disney+ Review: Behind the Attraction (First Five Episodes)
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Twenty years after the release of Monsters, Inc., which already got an official prequel in 2013 with Monsters University, we are now getting a spinoff and continuation of that Pixar classic in the form of the new Disney+ series Monsters at Work. The ten-episode series is set in… Read More Disney+ Review: Monsters at Work (First Two Episodes)
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Two weeks after the end of WandaVision, Marvel is debuting their new series The Falcon and The Winter Soldier on Disney Plus, the latest small screen tie-in to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I had a chance to preview the first episode in the six-part series, and I’m pleased… Read More Disney+ Review: The Falcon and The Winter Soldier (Episode 1)
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Based on Matt Ruff’s novel of the same name, Lovecraft Country is a TV series that certainly isn’t lacking in terms of ambition. The series comes to us from the mind of young TV writer Misha Green, who also serves as showrunner, with both Jordan Peele and J.J.… Read More Blu-ray Review: Lovecraft Country: The Complete First Season
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Over the past few years, Jordan Peele has gone from comedy star to one of our finest horror filmmakers, an unexpected but genuinely exciting career reinvention. In 2019, Peele leveraged his power to get a reboot of Rod Serling’s classic show The Twilight Zone on the air, updating… Read More DVD Review: The Twilight Zone (2019): Season Two
By John Corrado SpongeBob SquarePants has been on the air for over two decades now, and the complete twelfth season of the Nickelodeon cartoon is being released on DVD this week. The set comes with all 25 episodes from the season spread across three discs, and the Bikini Bottom adventures included herein serve as familiar… Read More DVD Review: SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete Twelfth Season
By John Corrado Before it became a blockbuster film franchise starring Tom Cruise, Mission: Impossible was an Emmy-winning TV series that ran on CBS for seven seasons from 1966 to 1973. Now Paramount is releasing the entire series for the first time ever on Blu-ray this week, in a mammoth box set that includes all… Read More Blu-ray Review: Mission: Impossible: The Original TV Series
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) First published in 1960, Dr. Seuss’ Green Eggs and Ham is one of the most beloved and enduring learn to read books of all time, with its irresistible rhyming scheme made up of just fifty words making it ideal for beginners, not to mention a delight to read… Read More DVD Review: Green Eggs and Ham: The Complete First Season
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Disney pays tribute to the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special in the LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special, which is premiering on Disney Plus today. The original TV special, which aired in 1978 between the releases of the first Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back, was so widely panned… Read More Disney+ Review: The LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The other day, I had a chance to review the first two episodes of Inside Pixar, the very good new docuseries on Disney Plus that introduces us to some of the individuals who help tell the stories we all know and love at Pixar Animation Studios. The show… Read More Disney+ Review: Inside Pixar (Episodes 3, 4 & 5)
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Pixar Animation Studios is one of those places that I have always been fascinated by and have long dreamed of visiting. Not only am I a huge fan of their movies and characters, but as a studio, the place seems to be a bastion of creativity. The new… Read More Disney+ Review: Inside Pixar (Episodes 1 & 2)
By John Corrado The idea of a primetime animated sitcom was very much a novelty when The Flintstones premiered in 1960. Created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera under their company banner Hanna-Barbera Productions, the show about the “modern Stone Age family” was the first “cartoon” to ever land a primetime slot. And it became… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Flintstones: The Complete Series
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Directed by Denis Theriault, expanding upon his 2014 short film of the same name, the six-part web series I Am Syd Stone follows a popular but washed up actor struggling with his sexuality during the production of a new film. The series begins with Syd (Travis Nelson), whose… Read More Inside Out 2020 Review: I Am Syd Stone (Web Series)
By John Corrado One of the movies that I really enjoyed watching at home this summer was We Bare Bears: The Movie, which serves as a feature-length finale to the Cartoon Network series created by Daniel Chong. After initially only being available digitally in Canada, the film is now receiving a physical release on DVD,… Read More DVD Review: We Bare Bears: The Movie
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The Canadian horror series Are You Afraid of the Dark?, which originally aired on YTV and Nickelodeon in the 1990s and also subsequently spawned a popular series of children’s books, has maintained a cult following over the years. The fact that the show gained such a dedicated fanbase makes… Read More DVD Review: Are You Afraid of the Dark?
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Based on his stage play of the same name, writer and director Drew Hayden Taylor’s engaging and informative documentary Cottagers & Indians, which premieres tonight on CBC, explores the fierce battle that is raging in the Kawartha Lakes between a group of mostly white cottagers and members of Curve… Read More Review: Cottagers & Indians
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) I first discovered the Cartoon Network series We Bare Bears last summer when I came across an episode entitled Shush Ninjas in which the show’s three protagonists, a trio of adoptive bear brothers named Grizz (Eric Edelstein), Panda (Bobby Moynihan) and Ice Bear (Demetri Martin), go to a movie… Read More Review: We Bare Bears: The Movie
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