I did myself and this film a favor, I think, by not revisiting the original Aladdin first. I know that if I’d watched the 1992 classic before seeing the 2019 remake, or if I’d even watched it before writing this review, the new movie would seem worse to me. My memories of the original aren’t enough to color my opinion here, because as was the case with Dumbo, I haven’t seen the original on which this new remake is based since the 1990s.
Continue reading “Aladdin (2019)”Here is the original post. You can listen to the episode there, or in your podcatcher of choice. If you’re using Apple Podcasts, we’d love it if you gave a quick rating and / or review! Thanks ❤
I went back and forth on whether I expected to enjoy this film. I was 11 when I got my first Pokémon game: Pokémon Red. I was at the perfect age to be in the first generation of children entranced by Pokémon.
Continue reading “Pokémon Detective Pikachu”In honor of the release of the trailer of It: Chapter 2, I’ve re-released Season 1, Episode 23 of the classic The Good, the Bad & the Unwatchable. Download it on Apple Podcasts or your podcatcher of choice, and while you’re at it, maybe give us a nice rating and review? Love you bae ❤
This was an awkward recording and you can hear it in every cringy moment on-mic. I thought about pretending that wasn’t the case, but in the spirit of living up to the Candid Podcast name (which means less than nothing, by the way) I figure, let’s just come out and acknowledge it.
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Let’s try this again.
My friend Cea came into town and brought with her a copy of Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow, starring Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, and half the cast of Harry Potter. Based on the short story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving, this adaptation was a movie! From the early 2000s!We watched it, and had opinions!
Continue reading “GBU Season 2, Episode 7 – Sleepy Hollow”Sometimes you write a blog entry while thinking you’re connected to your college’s wifi, but you’re not, and when WordPress gets locked up trying to update, you mean to hit Command+A to select everything for copying, but you accidentally hit Command+W because you’re frustrated, and close out of your unsaved blog post, and you tell yourself there’s no fucking way I’m going to sit here and write that all again right now, which is also why you never finished Final Fantasy VII after you got stuck in the desert swamp with the Basilisk because you accidentally saved there, and you promise yourself that at some point you are going to write the post for Sleepy Hollow, it just can’t be right now, but you know in the back of your mind that there’s no way this post is ever actually going to get written, and you’re not proud of yourself, but you pack up your shit and go home because it’s been a long day.
