How's It Hold Up?

A boy who's scared of trees in the night, a dad who refuses to try to understand his son, and an animated adventure through different book genres - The Pagemaster has got a lot going on. And that's before getting to the fact that it's got live action segments, traditionally animated segments, and even a bit of computer animation. And the cast! Ed Begley Jr, Patrick Stewart, and Whoopi Goldberg! There's so much happening with this film, but in the end, does it all come together into a solid whole? Listen to find out!

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It's time for another Out of the Inkwell cartoon, and as you might surmise there's a puzzle in this one! There's also a high-speed makeshift car adventure, a wacky land of mazes and mischief, and a cartoon tunnel big enough for a live-action man to crawl into. Is the short any good? Listen to find out!

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It's time for another Disney live-action remake! Or, perhaps more accurately, a Disney live-action pseudo-franchise-sequel? Christopher Robin is a movie that takes the titular character, always a boy in Winnie the Pooh media, and asks 'what happens when he grows up?' The concept, at least, is more interesting than a straight-up remake... but still, is it any fun to actually watch? Listen to find out!

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It's time to finally watch a Felix the Cat cartoon! This one involves our mischievous feline getting dropped into the ocean and winding up in the far north, where he has various adventures before, well... the title might give you a clue. This is far from Felix's first short, but it's the first all three of us watched together... what did we think of it? Are we looking forward to more Felix shorts in the future, or is this cat best left in the past? Listen to find out!

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This time we go to the original four Winnie the Pooh Disney half-hour shorts, the first three of which are typically packaged together into a film. This is where the long-running Disney franchise begins! But how do these four shorts hold up individually, and how do the first three hold up as a movie? Listen to find out!

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Another 1920's silent short, and another Out of the Inkwell short, Jumping Beans nevertheless comes with some interesting surprises. It's difficult to predict where this short will go, and it's a wild ride the whole way. But is it any good? Listen to find out!

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Sometimes you watch a film when you're a young adult that leaves an impression on you, that feels 'important', that comes back to your mind every now and then. For Valerie and Danika, Persepolis is such a film. It's a film with emotional highs and lows and a salient message to get across. It also came out 14 years ago. How well does its message hold up now? Listen to find out!

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It's another Out of the Inkwell short, and this time the clown's family is coming over! What shenanigans do they get up to, and how's it hold up compared to the clown's other adventures? Listen to find out!

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What happens when you take the inherently absurd premise of 'a woman has kids with a wolf man' and then take it seriously? The answer is you create this Mamoru Hosoda classic from 2012! This is a movie Valerie and Danika have seen more than once, but not for a while... watching it again with Jan and Ryan in tow, what did we all think? Did it hold up almost ten years later? Listen to find out!

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It's the early 1920s and Walt Disney has finally entered the animation scene! While this isn't his first short, it's the first starring animals instead of humans, indicative of the sort of cartoons he would eventually become famous for.  But is it any good? Is there a reason to watch Walt's silent era shorts, or should you skip right to Steamboat Willie? Listen to find out!

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