Jondee here at the Dark Sea, The Globe Theatre located on the London section of Universal Studios Hollywood showcased From Coraline to Kubo: A Magical Laika Experience. This exhibit closed on August 28th. Guests waited patiently outside as small groups were led inside for the tour. The first room had displays of artwork from the […]

Jondee here in the Vastlands, Kubo and the Two Strings is a Laika production that combines stop motion animation with computer generated imagery to create something beautiful. It is an animated film that stands apart from the other Laika films which are great, in that the darkness of the story does not overwhelm the fun, […]

Jondee here at the droid factory, A sighing noise from R2. News has come in about the passing of actor Kenny Baker at 81 after a long illness. He of course was known as Artoo Detoo whom he last played in 2005’s Revenge of the Sith. The design of R2 is perfect as is his […]

Jondee here at the Bleak House,  The Angel of Death. The Guillermo del Toro exhibit, At Home with Monsters, is currently at LACMA and ends on November 27th. If you have any interest in any of del Toro’s films, you must immediately get in your car and drive down to LACMA. The exhibit is located […]

Jondee here at Midway City, The Suicide Squad has hit movie screens, but this covers their comic book appearances. The original Suicide Squad was set in World War II led by Colonel Rick Flag. The original character was created by Robert Kanigher and Ross Andru, first appearing in Brave and the Bold #25 (1959). It […]

Jondee here at “fantastical” Japan, Kubo and the Two Strings is the next Laika film. Every frame looks beautiful, but now we get a glimpse at the monsters in the Creatures of Darkness featurette. They are kaiju in the Harryhausen tradition including the massive skeleton in the Hall of Bones, the Undersea Creature, the Garden […]

Jondee here at sea, The new trailer for Ben-Hur . Ben-Hur returns to the screen with Timur Bekmanthov’s new film. Ilderim (Morgan Freeman) asks the man his name and how long he was a slave. Jack Huston replies that his name is Ben-Hur. He tells about his family’s betrayal by his brother, Messala (Toby Kebbel). […]

Jondee here in the Dark Dimension, At San Diego Comic Con, the new poster for Doctor Strange dropped. It has the good doctor in full Sorcerer Supreme outfit emerging from the window of his Sanctum Sanctorum surrounded by mandalas of New York. The new trailer has the narration by the Ancient One played by Tilda […]

Jondee here at Wakanda, Black Panther, best part of Captain America: Civil War, a fulfillment having the character on screen, the cast is a who’s who of talent especially the additions of Danai Gurira and Michael B. Jordan as Killmonger, Ryan Coogler really seems like a fan, and it looks like the film is the […]

Jondee here at Hall H, First, this is a moot question, one does not win Comic Con, you can go and attend Comic Con, but the winners are those who survive Comic Con and think yeah, I should go next year. Next, there were a number of panels movie and tv that hit Comic Con […]

Jondee here at chariot races, Just in case, you didn’t see the 1959 classic, here’s the Press Release: BEN-HUR is the epic story of Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston), a prince falsely accused of treason by his adopted brother Messala (Toby Kebbell), an officer in the Roman army. Stripped of his title, separated from his family […]

Jondee here at Aduba-3, The Entertainment Weekly article (released online on June 22nd) introduced the characters that we saw in the cast photo from last year. Interesting was Donnie Yen’s character, Chirrut Imwe, a “warrior monk”, like the blind Zatoichi. This was a swordsman created by Kan Shimozawa and turned into a series of films […]

Jondee here at the Magic Kingdom, Here we go with the top three Disney Rides into Movies. 3 Tower of Terror (1997). This was an early attempt at making a film of a ride, made for television, it starred Steve Guttenberg which took away interest in this film, but he works here. It gives the […]

Jondee here on Kashyyyk, This is a re:tro of an article posted on April 19, 2015, photos were not allowed at the panels, it will be a two-parter: The highlight of the day was the panel, “Conversations with Gareth Edwards & Josh Trank.” Pablo Hidalgo, Lucasfilm Brand Communications Manager was the host of the panel, […]

Jondee here at the Happiest Place on Earth, Unfortunately, it is early in the game to see other studios and parks making the cross over, but I could see Universal Studios seeing possibilities. I would like to see the Jurassic Park river ride find its way into a Jurassic World sequel. There have been mixed […]

Jondee here in Singapore, Tom Hanks started the role of Robert Langdon from the Dan Brown books in The Da Vinci Code (2006), and then the thriller set in the Vatican, Angels & Demons (2009), superior to the book, and now Inferno. He stars alongside Felicity Jones as Sienna Brooks and also Irrfan Khan as […]

Jondee here in The Matrix, The early 90’s gave us potential in computer graphics to fulfill the wildest science fiction visions and soon every super power. Disney hit its heights in the early 90’s, but will stumble here, until finishing in the 2000s for computer animated films. 1995 gave us Waterworld which was a terrific […]

Jondee here at Isla Nubar, The Cold War was starting to go lukewarm, dot coms were the rage, and in the midst of all of this were the films. So get out your Discman, put on your Doc Martens, it’s time to Macarena for the 90’s movies! 1990 started with some sequels, there was Predator […]

Jondee here on Titan (moon of Saturn, birthplace of Thanos), The next phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe culminates in The Avengers: Infinity War films. Part I will hit theaters in May 4, 2018 and Part II in May 3, 2019. They are directed by the Russo brothers who started with Captain America: The Winter […]

Jondee here in the Labyrinth, The 80’s were reaching their heights with John Hughes chronicling most of it with Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club the following year, and then Pretty in Pink and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in 1986. The Cold War was reaching it’s apex, this was seen in the tv movie, The […]

Jondee sittin’ on the dock of the bay, Dwayne Johnson is busy on social media announcing the wrap on the filming for Baywatch which splashes in theaters on May 19, 2017. Johnson plays Mitch Buchannon and Zack Efron will be Matt Brody while Kelly Rohrbach is running in her swimsuit as CJ Parker. Alexandra Daddario […]

Jondee here on the Grid, Short recap of the 70’s, we have the end of the Vietnam War, Watergate; political unrest reflected in the dramatic films from Patton in 1970 to Apocalypse Now in 1979. We got a peek into the summer blockbuster with Jaws (1975) and triumph seen in Rocky (1976). A peek into […]

Lil’ Yoda reporting in with the UN sanctioned Avengers! After many incidents involving the Avengers that resulted in catastrophic collateral damage, specifically the incident in Sokovia, it was only a matter of time before the world demanded oversight and regulation of the Avengers. Lagos, Nigeria was the breaking point. In an attempt to capture Brock […]

Jondee here at the gate of Hell, Ron Howard has followed Tom Hanks’ Robert Langdon from The Da Vinci Code (2006) and Angels & Demons (2009) based on the Dan Brown novels. Now there is the Inferno. Here’s the press release: Academy Award® winner Ron Howard returns to direct the latest bestseller in Dan Brown’s […]

Jondee here in the Darkness, Greg McLean’s brings the curse of The Darkness to theaters next Friday the 13th. Now you can bring the app to corrupt your pictures! Here’s the press release: Take a minute to upload your very own photo and add your own creepy stickers, borders, and THE DARKNESS iconic handprints and […]

Jondee here at Hollywood, The Darkness from Greg Mclean’s new film connects a family to the supernatural found in the Grand Canyon. This of course matches us to the one actor in The Darkness who is connected to everyone! Here’s the press release: Prolific and beloved actor Kevin Bacon stars in the new supernatural horror […]

Jondee here at the Grand Canyon, Wolf Creek (2005) from Greg McLean was a disturbing movie about some campers that end up in the Australian Outback threatened by a disturbed, loner played by John Jarratt. It had some real life basis in the murder of some tourists, but now McLean is turning to a family […]

Jondee here at Gallery Nucleus, Jungle Book has been topping the box office in the theaters and the artists who helped bring it on screen were present at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra today. They include concept artists, Jonathan Bach and Seth Engstrom, illustrator, Shae Shatz, Vance Kovacs, concept illustrator, and storyboard illustrator Oliver Dear. All […]

Jondee here at the edge of Federation space, Paramount Pictures hits the summer box office with two action films from the past to the future; Star Trek Beyond and Ben-Hur. Star Trek Beyond comes out on July 22nd. The press release for Star Trek Beyond follows: “Star Trek Beyond,” the highly anticipated next installment in […]

Jondee here at Rose Creek, The Seven ride again! Director Antoine Fuqua teams up again with Denzel Washington, from Training Day (2001) to The Equalizer (2014), as the leader of the Seven. The classic western by John Sturges had Yul Brynner as the leader of a group of gunfighters defending a village. This was of […]