Bluff's Castle Corner

  Put on your yarmulke Here comes Hanukkah So much funukkah To celebrate Hanukkah! Even though I'm a goy, I enjoy learning about Jewish traditions, and Hanukkah cartoon episodes in particular taught me a lot as a youngster. Yesterday, The Ghost and Molly  McGee , a great show you should watch, premiered a special Hanukkah episode, "Festival of Lights". As tonight is the first night of Hanukkah, consider this editorial my Hanukkah present to my Jewish readers, subscribers, friends and followers. SPOILERS AHOY! As Libby has now found out about Scratch's existence, she invites the McGees and Scratch to celebrate Hanukkah with her and her mom in their family bookstore. There's a power outage in town, but luckily the bookstore has a generator. Molly and her family learn all about Hanukkah traditions, such as playing dreidel and eating latkes. Scratch in particular adores fried food. This is pretty basic stuff, but the way it's presented is so entertaining, like the...

  Series - Arcane I'm not fond of games with lots of microtransactions like PUBG or League of Legends. In fact, many players who started LoL regret it and actively advise against playing it. That's why I wasn't interested in this show at first. But then my Twitter mutuals began hyping it up, so I decided to give it a shot. After all, it was released weekly. I'm glad Netflix is dipping their toes into weekly releases, such as with Komi Can't Communicate . By far the best aspect of the show is the animation. Like Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, it's a unique blend of 2D and 3D, animated by a prestigious French animation studio - Fortiche. It also just so happens to share a lead voice actress with Spider-Verse -- Hailee Steinfeld, who once again proves to a compelling, emotional voice, like she was in Spider-Verse  and When Marnie Was There . It's a prequel to LoL, re-telling the characters' stories, but it can easily appeal to both people who don't...

  Welcome to my very first review on this blog. Series - Harriet the Spy. Apple TV+ isn't a very popular streaming service, and so cartoons on there sadly go under the radar. By sheer luck, my dad got a free year of Apple TV+ when he purchased a MacBook Air in late 2020. So I have been able to tune into some of Apple's finest offerings, including: The Snoopy Show, Stillwater, Wolfboy and the Everything Factory, and now Harriet the Spy . I know that this series is based on a book, but I never read it.   I do know it was a bit controversial for subverting gender norms, but it managed to gain a lesbian fanbase because of that. In fact, Louise Fitzhugh, the author of the book, was lesbian herself. I'm mainly familiar with the Nickelodeon movie from 1996. I saw it when I was little and thought it was  great, if a bit mean-spirited. There's also that one Disney Channel movie with gossip and texting...we don't talk about that. Anyways, 'Harriet the Spy' is a perfe...

  Welcome one and all, to CallanCove's corner. I'm your host, Elijah. You may know me from Twitter, where I'm your average cartoon funnyman and opinion haver. No, I don't have anything to do with skin wellness, that's just sheer coincidence. My username actually comes from two locations from Thomas and Friends: CALLAN Castle and Bluff's COVE. Because the IMDb user base is a toxic waste dump, I decided to move my written reviews to this blog instead. I'm not sure if anyone will read this, but I just like writing and analysis. REMINDERS  1) Watch Ready Jet Go, Steven Universe, Thomas and Friends, Infinity Train, Kid Cosmic, Amphibia, The Owl House, Invincible, Molly McGee, Trese, Animaniacs, Looney Tunes Cartoons, Middlemost Post, Jellystone, Arcane, Batman TAS, TUGS, Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum, Moral Orel, Regular Show, King of the Hill, Maya and the Three, Centaurworld, and OK KO Let's Be Heroes. Peak fiction for western animation. 2) Watch Neon...