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You’re Grounded (An Original Story by Timothy Murphy)
January 24, 2022 in Blogs
“You’re grounded”, three twelve-year-old girls had just heard from their parents/guardians. These girls were all best friends and hung out together whenever they could. There was Rachel Price, who lived with her single mother, Gretchen, and older sister Cassie. Though if you asked Rachel, her big sister wasn’t that much older.
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A Look at Disney’s LGTBQ+ Characters: Mrs. Roop (The Ghost and Molly McGee)
January 21, 2022 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
In the decade since the second to last episode of Good Luck Charlie featuring Susan and Cheryl aired, we have seen an abundance of LGTBQ+ rep in children’s media. I am so thankful and we are now getting to a spot where shows don’t have to wait until the final season to these characters any longer.
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A Look at Disney’s LGBTQ+ Characters: Anybodys (West Side Story)
January 19, 2022 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
Something I’ve noticed quite a bit when it comes to changing established characters is that people get quite a bit upset when you make a change that is different from what they remembered. Being a musical theater fan, I’ve seen this a little such as when the Fox production of RENT had Mark played by Jordan Fisher, an African-Ameican actor.
This is something I feared would be the case with Speilberg’s new take on West Side Story as they made a major change to one of the characters in the story but for the most part, this change has received positive reception. In the original production and the 1961 movie, Anybodys was a tomboy that so badly wanted to be a Jet.
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A Look at Disney’s LGTBQ+ Characters: Phastos (Eternals)
January 18, 2022 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
Back when I did my original entry on the LGBTQ+ MCU characters, I wasn’t too keen on the characters I discussed. I’d like to say that things have gotten better but to say that it’s a mixed bag is an understatement. While this entry is focused on Phastos, I do wish to bring up Loki, his titular show confirmed Loki is bisexual.
On the surface, this scene felt nice but at the same a little too late. It’s just I’m happy that it’s finally confirmed but it felt hollow at the same time. In many ways, that’s how I feel about Phastos as well. It’s not that he’s a bad character but the characters in Eternals barely get any time to shine as the movie is so bloated. There are some good things about him as he is in a loving relationship with a partner with a kid.
This is good and his family is important to him as they are the reason he joins his fellow Eternals in stopping the Emergence as he sees humanity in his husband and son every time he looks at them. And his husband is another person of color breaking from the norm as he is played by Haaz Sleiman, who is a Lebanese actor. This is key to bring up as often, with LGTBQ couples, it’s usually a white person and a black person or person of color. As much as I love Supergirl, this was the case there.
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A Look at Disney: Olaf’s Night Before Christmas
December 24, 2021 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
To close out this year’s Christmas blogs, I wanted to take a look at a Frozen spin on a classic Christmas story, The Night Before Christmas.
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A Look at Disney: Villains Profile: Mesogog (with Jim Bevan)
December 23, 2021 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
Moviefan12: I was honored to be asked to join my friend Jim Bevan in this year’s Red Ribbon Reviewers event. He approached me with a wonderful idea seeing how much I love covering villains and he is a Power Rangers fan, he suggested we look at a PR villain from the Disney era. Once I saw the list of names that he suggested and that is Mesogog. This one interested me because years ago I looked at the first episode of this season when I did a Dino-themed summer event. It is an honor to be doing this and while I don’t know as much about Power Rangers as my colleague, I’m still excited to take a look. As always, we will start with the actor that played Mesogog.
Jim Bevan: Always glad to work with you, Moviefan, and I’m glad you were down for this collab. While the Disney Era was a shaky one for the Power Rangers franchise, it did end up giving us some incredible seasons: SPD, RPM, and the subject of today’s piece, Dino Thunder. There are times when I wonder how the property could have changed had Disney chosen to hold onto the rights and treat it with some more respect, but that’s a discussion for another day.
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Christmas in Stoneybrook: The Baby-Sitters’ Special Christmas
December 22, 2021 in Blogs
I established earlier this year that I am a fan of The Baby-Sitters Club. That is in large part thanks to the wonderful Netflix series. Sadly, they have done a Christmas episode yet. Hopefully in the future. Though they do have a couple of Christmas books, one I wasn’t too keen on reviewing and the other my library doesn’t have.
Speaking of Mallory, it’s eerie how much the actress that played her in this show looked like her book counterpart.
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The Brick Theater: Charles Dickens Tribute
December 21, 2021 in Blogs, The Brick Theater, Toys
I’ve established many times over that I love A Christmas Carol. So imagine my excitement last year when LEGO released A Christmas Carol themed set. This set was a promotional giveaway if you spent a certain amount. I do not recall as this was a Christmas gift from my father last year. And if I am honest, this was my most anticipated LEGO set of 2020. So, the question remains, did this set live up to my expectians. Yes, it did.
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The Brick Theater: The Santa Claus Minifigure
December 20, 2021 in Blogs, The Brick Theater, Toys
LEGO has released many festive Christmas-themed sets over the year and with that have come many different Santa Claus minifigures. Now, this is not a look at every Santa minifigure. The first Santa Claus minifigure came in a polybag set in 1995
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The Brick Theater: The LEGO Friends Holiday Special
December 17, 2021 in Blogs, The Brick Theater, Toys
LEGO Friends is a line from LEGO that I admittedly do not have much knowledge of, though it does seem to have quite a few popular animated series, and it appears that this holiday special debuted last month. I decided to check it out and enjoyed it quite a bit. The story is quite good and I imagine that the fans of this line enjoyed the series. Something I noticed when researching this special is that this year’s LEGO Friends Advent Calendar seems to tie into a moment from this special considering that this special contain multiple flashbacks to the main girls as young children. Which has them presented in micro doll form and the micro doll versions of girls are present in the advent calendar for the Friends line.
That’s cute and a nice touch. Once again as I mentioned the story is quite simple but it does help in showing that these girls truly do care about one another. Even as someone who hasn’t seen much from this particular line before, it was easy to get into as it had similar vibes to something like Equestria Girls. Which funnily enough saying that is quite fitting as a lot of the MLP voice actors also voice the Friends characters. I first noticed this when I saw Tabitha St. Germain’s name in the credits. Ooh, Rarity.
As I mentioned, the plot is rather simple and a full breakdown would kind of spoil it.
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Holidays at The Loud House: A Loud House Christmas
December 16, 2021 in Blogs
Live-action adaptions are a fickle beast and I must admit that I wasn’t too excited when I learned that Nickelodeon was working on a live-action adaption of The Loud House. Were my fears justified? I don’t know but I do think there was no need for this film to be done in this fashion as it could have been perfectly told in animated form. Having said that, this being live-action isn’t my biggest issue. Rather, the story is rather unpleasant. As we’ve established, Lincoln can be selfish as we have seen with Season’s Cheatings but this movie takes it to an extreme and in the end, makes Lincoln come across as unlikable. I tweeted this out after watching the movie for a second time but animated Lincoln while having selfish tendencies ultimately cares about his family whereas live-action Lincoln comes across as whiny and I’m sorry but he does some stuff that I’d find hard to forgive. Three large examples come to mind that made me not like this Lincoln.
