I remember catching the X-Men cartoon as a kid in the 1990s, though it always seemed to air at inconvenient times. It was my first real introduction to the team, and when X-Men ’97 arrived and picked up the old series as though it had never stopped, I was genuinely excited. Season 1 delivered on…
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Things I Like: King of the Hill (TV Series) Season 15
Last year Disney rebooted King of the Hill on Hulu, and I went into it with high expectations that were fully met. The reception was clearly strong enough to justify another season, which got greenlit fairly quickly. Thankfully, Mike Judge and his team do not operate on the same two-year-per-season timeline that has become standard…
Fun Facts and Trivia About The Parent Trap (1961 Film)
The Parent Trap from 1961 is a classic Disney romantic comedy in which Hayley Mills impressively plays two roles at once, portraying identical twins who were separated at birth and meet by chance at a summer camp. The film’s story centers on the twins’ clever plan to switch places in order to reunite their divorced…
Things I Like: Ugly Betty (TV Series) Season 1
I vaguely remember when Ugly Betty was a new show, but I was almost done with high school at the time, and it just was not my cup of tea as a near-adult. After watching Superstore with America Ferrera, though, I became genuinely interested in going back to Ugly Betty, despite the two being very…
Fun Facts and Trivia About One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961 Film)
The 1961 Disney animated film One Hundred and One Dalmatians was based on the 1956 children’s novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith. It follows two London dogs, Pongo and Perdita, who rescue not just their kidnapped puppies but dozens of other Dalmatian pups, bringing the total number of dogs in the story…