Last year in June of 2019, fans from around the world descended in a buzz of excitement and nostalgia on the Westin Toronto Airport hotel for an intimate weekend with the cast and creators of the iconic Canadian series Degrassi Junior High, and Degrassi High. Passionate fans came from as far away as Russia and…
Tag: 2020
Bad Boys For Life (2020) – Adil El Arbi & Bilail Fallah
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence return for a third go round as those Bad Boys, Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett in Bad Boys For Life. It’s been seventeen years since we last saw these Miami PD cops ride together, they’re older, the world has changed and so have their lives. Marcus is now a grandfather…
The Peanuts Book (2020) – Simon Beecroft
Good grief, Charlie Brown you’ve got a new book from DK Canada! The Peanuts Book: A Visual History of the Iconic Comic Strip, is, for me, the perfect feel good book. Even my initial leaf through its pages caused me great delight, and sent me spiralling down the rabbit hole of nostalgia. Charlie Brown and…
Peninsula (2020) – Sang-ho Yeon
I remember seeing Train to Busan back in 2016, at my fave film fest, Toronto After Dark, and was excited to see it just from the buzz around it at the festival. I was completely wowed,and have since recommended it constantly. I loved what Yeon did with the film, the way the story played out,…
Scoob! (2020) – Blu-Ray Review
I have been a Scooby-Doo (voiced originally by Don Messick and now by the one and only Frank Welker (who played the original Fred Jones, and transitioned to Scooby in 2002)), fan since I first discovered him in the mid-70s as I spent Saturday mornings (the only time cartoons were on back in the day)…
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2020) – Dangerous Debt, Together Again, and Old Friends Not Forgotten
“Who you were does not have to define who you are.” Dave Filoni and Charles Murray continue the Ahsoka Tano (Ashley Eckstein) and Martez sisters arc, which still doesn’t seem to be as engaging as other episodes throughout the series. Captured in the previous episode by the Pykes, Ahsoka, Rafa (Elizabeth Rodriguez) and Trace (Brigitte…
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2020) – Unfinished Business, Gone With A Trace, and Deal No Deal
“Trust placed in another is trust earned.” Matt Michnovetz and Brent V. Friedman throw Anakin Skywalker (Matt Lanter), Rex (Dee Bradley Baker) and the Bad Batch (also Baker) together again as they go after Admiral Trench (also Baker). This episode of the final season first aired on 13 March, 2020. With the help of the…
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2020) – The Bad Batch, A Distant Echo, and On the Wings of Keeradaks
“Embrace others for their differences, for that makes you whole.” The final season of The Clone Wars got underway on 21 February, 2020 in this story written by Matt Michnovetz and Brent A. Friedman. Rex, Cody and a squad known as Force 99 (or The Bad Batch) all voiced by Dee Bradley Baker go after…
Be More Wonder Woman (2020) – Cheryl Rickman
Hope and courage. They can sometimes be found in the most unlikely of places. Who would have dreamed that a character created ninety years ago would still be such a powerful presence in the realm of pop culture and perhaps the most recognisable Amazon ever? And who, in this time of great upheaval as the…
Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (2020) – Blu-Ray Review
DC Comics and Warner Brothers brings Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) back to the screen in Birds of Prey, the latest blu-ray/DVD release in the DC universe. And I won’t lie, I was pleasantly surprised by how much fun I had with this one. It’s quite amazing to see how far the character has come and…
The Mind Reels 