Because trouble comes in all sizes.
CuteMonster Staff 
Knowing how to match shirts and ties may seem like a mundane skill yet it can be an albatross around your neck. After all, what you wear makes or breaks a first impression. That means pressure. Lucky for you the good folks at Jacamo created a handy info graphic. Look at it as a guide to navigate you through the good fashion sense wilderness.
The historic toy maker partnership between Funko and Playmobil has now come to fruition in 2017. We’ve got images of the new figures that will be arriving soon worldwide. With the upcoming New York International Toy Fair right around the corner, look for more surprises in the immediate future.
In a strange blurring of the lines between Star Wars, DC animation, and President-Elect Donald Trump, our latest fun web video pick, albeit technically web audio only, features Mark Hamill reading a 2017 New Year’s Donald Trump Tweet as the Joker. As most of you know, Mr. Hamill’s best known for being Luke Skywalker. But he’s also revered as the voice of Batman’s arch nemesis, the Joker, in DC animation and video games for the past 25 years. As you’ll soon hear, his vocal rendition of Trump’s tweet couldn’t be a more terrifying yet fitting version of the clown prince of crime.
The quest to find quality children’s movies can be harrowing. Yet the price of admission continues to rise. Factor in the exorbitant cost of snacks and you have quite the conundrum as a parent. Oddly enough, movie studios only release a relatively paltry amount of new kid’s films a year. The quality can run the gamut from transcendent to trash. As the year comes to a close, we’re looking back at the top 5 Children’s Movies of 2016.
Parents with young children should love the Kickstarter project known as Moonlite. It’s a bedtime story projector and app for your smartphone. Imagine a full color HD projection on your wall or ceiling, an interactive story reel working in tandem with the accompanying app, and built-in sound effects. Seems magical to us!
Last year Star Wars fans were introduced to the instantly iconic droid known as BB-8. The world simply could not get enough of this little guy. Now this precocious little droid has been placed on a new mission thanks to the imaginative folks at Binx Films. The juxtaposition of BB-8 and the Star Wars universe with NYC will bring a smile to even the most disgruntled nerfherder.
Last year’s announcement that Nintendo would bring several popular characters such as Mario and Link to Universal Parks and resorts stoked the imaginations of millions of video game fans. Yet very few details were available about the video game giant’s plan at the time. All that changes with the recent release of a short video featuring the legendary Shigeru Miyamoto and Universal Creative’s president Mark Woodbury.
Over the past 25 years, there have been numerous incarnations of Batman presented on the big screen. Yet the upcoming version in The Lego Batman Movie may well be the best ever. Featured in The Lego Movie, the Dark Knight, once again played by Will Arnett, now has his own solo LEGO movie debuting in February 2017. Stating we can’t wait would be an understatement.
It’s always fun for a new monster movie to be introduced around Halloween. Scary movies go hand and hand with the annual supernatural season. Enter Gremlin, a monster film that promises all the thrills and chills of the best B-movies.