In Contention

Tag: Voltron

  • CINEJABBER: Peace settled across the galaxy

    Catch up with the idea behind these weekend posts here.

    It’s been a busy week.  It’s snowing back home and boy do I wish I were there for that, but I’m spending the afternoon on the phone with the “True Grit” crew, so I can’t complain.

    It’s like the Oscar Season Film Festival in my house these days as I push through the remaining screeners of films that slipped through the cracks all year.  In some cases three films in a day.  Finally last night I watched something top 10 worthy (to say the least), but there’s still quite a few to push through, all in preparation for Friday’s top 10 podcast.  (Trying to cover all bases.)

    I’m such a perfectionist about stupid stuff that I literally sat down and racked my brain last night trying to decide what was honestly my favorite cartoon character from childhood (for the on-going Facebook movement against child abuse).  I mean, is Batman considered a “cartoon character?”  Yeah, there was the animated series, but still.  Then I thought maybe Beavis and Butt-Head, but that’s early 90s and late middle school, so it doesn’t really fit “childhood.”

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