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Fairy OddParents: Fairly Odder Review

Baker McNamara — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 00:25:33 +0000

Growing up, one of my absolute favorite cartoons was The Fairly Oddparents (2001-2017), the wacky comedy and colorful animation, mixed with wish-granting fairies was everything I loved in a television show as a child. When Paramount+ (the streaming service home to all of Nickelodeon’s content) decided to take a spin at rebooting the show I was intrigued. It is clear after the success of the iCarly…

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Angry Birds: Summer Madness Review

Baker McNamara — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 16:51:14 +0000

At this point, it feels like everyone in the world must knowt the Angry Birds. Having sold over ten million copies of the mobile game, spawning multiple movies, t-shirts, sweatshirts, plush dolls, Lego sets, mini figurines, and so on, the Angry Birds have been a merchandising juggernaut since the mobile app’s original release in 2010. With fewer markets left to explore, after spreading the Angry…

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Encanto Review

Baker McNamara — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 16:46:53 +0000

This past Sunday night Encanto, Disney’s latest animated musical, took home one of the most coveted awards in both the film and animation industries, “Best Animated Feature”, at the Oscars. The movie has been a mega-hit for Disney, being praised for its representation of Colombian culture, music, and animation style. Having been streamed for over 1.4 billion minutes across the Disney+ platform in…

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Supernatural Academy Review

Baker McNamara — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 01:47:41 +0000

For so long stories of witches, wizards, and werewolves have clouded children’s minds. Supernatural Academy the new show on Peacock, NBCUniversal’s streaming service, taps into these classic mythologies through the lens of a diverse, magical academy. The series is based on the popular young adult book series of the same name, written by Jaymin Eve. Supernatural Academy follows two teen girls…

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Pixar’s Turning Red Review

Baker McNamara — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:47:26 +0000

Pixar released their most recent collaboration, Turning Red, straight to their streaming service Disney+ on March 11th. The story takes place in Toronto in the early 2000’s and follows the story of preteen Meilien “Mei” Lee as she traverses eighth grade. On top of navigating eighth grade Mei must also deal with her overbearing mother, and turning into a giant red panda anytime she feels any sort…

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Little Ellen Review

Baker McNamara — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 21:28:17 +0000

With The Ellen Degeneres Show coming to an end, Ellen has begun to branch out with her deal with Warner Brothers to produce various content with her name on it. Of all of her newest productions, one that stands out iss Little Ellen, an animated kid’s show, with season two having just been released to stream on HBOMax. Little Ellen marks the first time Warner Brothers has produced an animated…

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CUPHEAD: From the XBOX to Netflix

Baker McNamara — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 23:09:02 +0000

Hundreds of video games are released every year, but not every game gets its own companion TV show. Recently Netflix has premiered a new kids show, CUPHEAD, based off of the highly successful video game franchise, of the same name, released in 2017. CUPHEAD, a run and gun style video game, follows the “misadventures” of two young brothers, Cuphead and Mugman, after they make a deal with the devil…

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We Baby Bears Review

Baker McNamara — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 19:39:14 +0000

I was first exposed to the lovable and silly bears that make up We Bare Bears and We Baby Bears in my senior year of high school during my AP U.S. Government and Politics course. After finishing the AP exam, with more time to kill in class than ever before, my teacher put on We Bare Bears, a show he enjoyed watching with his daughter. These three bears caught the attention of nearly everyone in…

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KIDSTV Festival Recap

Baker McNamara — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 21:23:49 +0000

The second annual TV Kids festival took place last week, from February 1-4. The festival featured over 32 different speakers from all kinds of backgrounds within the kid’s media space ranging from streaming, broadcast, acquisitions, production, and more. The event took place virtually, with all of the panels and discussion being live-streamed and later uploaded to TVKids website.

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Luca Movie Review

Baker McNamara — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 04:32:12 +0000

Luca, the latest Pixar film released on Disney+ in 2020, tells a classic Pixar story. It is a character-driven fantasy story that follows a young boy, Luca (played by Jacob Tremblay) who happens to be a “sea monster” living on the ocean floor, working as a shepherd for his overbearing and somewhat uptight parents. One day, Luca meets another young sea monster, Bruno (played by Jack Grazer).

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