A Categories Features TV December 27, 2022 A Rugrats Chanukah was a light in the darkness for young Jewish children The rare Jewish holiday special was a bastion of representation that still resonates today.
W Categories Movies Reviews November 8, 2021 Who let the Clifford the Big Red Dog movie out and why? Why? Not even dogged canine punning can ease the tedium of miscalculated kids’ movie Clifford the Big Red Dog
R Categories Movies February 15, 2020 Review: Shaun the Sheep Flocks To Shear Sci-Fi Fun With “Farmageddon” Aardman is back with another charming children's romp in the Shaun the Sheep series.
B Categories Podcasts Right on Cue TV December 27, 2019 Behind the Songs of “John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch” "Sesame Street" and "Co-op" songwriter Eli Bolin explains how he crafted the catchy, kid-friendly tunes for "John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch".
T Categories Movies September 11, 2019 Tigers Are Not Afraid Review: Magical Realism Defies the Mexican Drug War Issa López captures the horror of growing up in a warzone with a gritty fairy tale that would make Guillermo Del Toro proud.
R Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies August 25, 2019 Reflecting on the musical theater magic of “School of Rock” Richard Linklater's 2003 Jack Black comedy is a riotous, rocking celebration of creativity and the joy of music, and holds up like a killer solo.
R Categories TV August 9, 2019 Review: “Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling” Goes Post-Modern Netflix brings back the classic Nick cartoon twenty years later for a one-off special filled with heart and surprisingly complicated musings on the passage of time.
S Categories Movies August 7, 2019 Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Review: Spinning Tales of American Woe A late-summer adaptation of the Alvin Schwartz stories turns out to be one of the year's biggest surprises in horror.
D Categories Movies August 5, 2019 Dora and the Lost City of Gold Review: Can You Say Exciting? Very Good! Nickelodeon's teenage live-action reboot of the beloved children's show brings a strong central performance and oodles of adventure.
H Categories Hall of Faces Podcasts TV July 30, 2019 Hall of Faces: Who’s the Greatest Character on “SpongeBob SquarePants”? Our monthly TV podcast returns to find Bikini Bottom's favored son for the twentieth anniversary of Nick's seminal kid's show.
