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INFESTATION: ANNECY ANIMATION FEST 2024 – INTRO AND “THE MOST PRECIOUS OF CARGOES” Our man in Poland, Maciej Kur, gets to go to the Annecy Animation Festival every year (lucky bastard) and bring us back news of what’s good. This year, he again teams up with Spidermike to lay out what’s coming soon in the […]

INSIDE OUT 2 MOVIE REVIEW Riley is now a teen, and as we all know, a BUNCH of new emotions come out of nowhere with puberty, few of them terribly pleasant but all of them rather insistent. Thus have things changed inside Riley’s head with a group of new feelings suddenly taking the controls such […]

TALES OF THE EMPIRE SERIES REVIEW Following in the steps of Tales of the Jedi, which told the tales of Count Dooku and Ahsoka Tano in the prequel era, Tales of the Empire offers us another point of view. After losing everything, young Morgan Elsbeth (who we were introduced to in the Ahsoka series as […]

X-MEN ’97 SERIES REVIEW In the late fall of 1992 after a previous failed pilot, the X-Men animated series hit the airwaves, ushering in a new phase of animated Marvel cartoons. Despite being plagued with production, budget, and time constraints it remained popular enough to last until 1997. A few years later, X-Men the movie […]

INVINCIBLE SEASON 2 REVIEW Invincible is back! I mean it was back, and then 4 episodes in, Amazon was like “just kidding, still working on it.” but our favorite teenage Viltrumite Mark is back for another soul crushing season. After Omni-Man (Nolan) leaves Earth, Mark deems it crucial to take up the mantle, hopefully without […]

STAR WARS: THE BAD BATCH SEASON 3 REVIEW In the aftermath of the Clone Wars, The Bad Batch follows Hunter, Cross Hair, Wrecker, Tech, and Echo, a unique squad of clone troopers with genetic mutations who resisted Order 66 and go on the run in the early days of the Galactic Empire. They are joined […]

MARS EXPRESS MOVIE REVIEW In 1940, The Three Laws of Robotics were formulated by Isaac Asimov in his “Robot” series. And since then, these fictional guidelines intended to govern the behavior of robots and artificial intelligences have been used to explore ethical and moral dilemmas surrounding robots’ interactions with humans. They have allowed other storytellers […]

AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER SERIES REVIEW Netflix just isn’t gonna be satisfied with One Piece of successful anime adaptation. They want the whole cake, the bakery, the street it’s on, eventually the world. Avatar: The Last Airbender was Nickelodeon’s 2005 three season animated series about a young boy who could control the elements of earth, […]

ORION AND THE DARK MOVIE REVIEW All tucked into the One Of Us bunk beds, Mike, Chad, and T.C. have a whispered conversation about the newest Netflix/Dreamworks animated film Orion and the Dark. Orion is a severely anxious 11-year-old kid with an endless list of irrational fears, including toilets overflowing, public speaking, getting beat up […]

HAZBIN HOTEL SERIES REVIEW We’re all sinners, there is no denying that. Some of us commit little sins, like rooting for the Dallas Cowboys or lying to our spouses about diet and exercise. Others commit inhuman atrocities like murder and hosting a podcast. Sure, there’s always deathbed repentance to get away in the nick of […]