Jondee here at Rose Creek, Antoine Fuqua, who directed last year’s Southpaw, is back with the Magnificent Seven. This western is a remake of the John Sturges film with Yul Brynner (Chris Adams), Steve McQueen (Vin Tanner), and Charles Bronson (Bernardo O’Reilly) among the seven. The poster for the new film shows the seven with […]

Deputy Jondee here at Calico, Knott’s Berry Farm, the world’s first theme park, is celebrating the 75th anniversary of Ghost Town called Ghost Town Alive. This is the recreation of an Old West town, Calico, that was the interest of Walter Knott. Many of the buildings are open, that you could only see from the […]

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 at Woodbury, The Walking Dead mazes are incredible at Halloween Horror Nights. Now, there is the Walking Dead Attraction all year round at Universal Studios Hollywood. It officially opened on July 4th for the summer season. First I’ll note that I love Walking Dead, the first season, the following seasons departed from the […]

Jondee here at The Scabbard, Supergirl has gone through a mind-bending number of reboots (protoplasm from another dimension merging with a human and turning into an angel), retcons (Superman’s daughter altered by Brainiac), and reworking (back to Kryptonian landing on Earth except it was in Siberia) that any version is fine at this point. Now […]

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 Millhaven, The original Pete’s Dragon took place in the early part of the 20th century in Passamaquoddy, somewhere in the northeast of the country. The recent Pete’s Dragon discards the setting, the characters; Lena, Lampie, and Dr. Terminus, the songs, basically everything except Pete and his dragon. The heart of the story […]

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 the Hillcrest Department, Issue #4 has an incredible variant cover by Joshua Middleton, Aquaman is diving down towards you with the green of the depths and the head of a Poseidon statue, it is the best underwater cover I’ve seen. This is of course the fourth part of The Drowning, “Semper Fidelis”, […]

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 on Electric Island (Dendo shima), I’m a fan of Kenji Tsuruta, his Spirit of Wonder published by Dark Horse was brilliant, and now he has Wandering Island from Dark Horse Manga. It is in the handy manga size with a cover featuring our heroine, Mikura Amelia, a lanky girl with two long braids […]

Jondee here at King’s Cross, I took the Veritaserum, No Spoilers! basic plot and characters.  The story was by J.K. Rowling, but the new play is by Jack Thorne with John Tiffany also noted as a writer. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is divided into two parts with two acts each. The play begins […]

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 at Belle Reve, The DC Universe: The Exhibit is worth the price of a ticket alone. Not on a crowded convention floor, plus there is some interaction, handling Kryptonite with gloves, and a photo op behind Belle Reve bars. At the front is banners of the Justice League, plus comic books featuring the […]

Jondee here at Warner Brothers (really!), Summer, my birthday is coming soon, what to do? Go to the Warner Bros. Studio Tour! I haven’t been there since two years ago. The Beavis exhibit went up and now DC Universe: The Exhibit. It is interesting since after the security check-in, they moved the studio store and […]

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 […]

    Comic Con officially came to a wrap just yesterday and was a four day event stretching from July 21st to July 24, plus a preview night on July 20th. Due to the truly massive amount of people who want to come each year, it can be incredibly hard to get your hands on badge. […]

Jondee here at National City (now relocated to Toronto), Last installment, here are the shows that hit Comic Con and made an impression. Dead of Summer, loving this show, consistently good writing and acting, I don’t know what was revealed at Comic Con. American Gods, I didn’t finish the Neil Gaiman novel, but this is […]

Jondee here at Riverdale, Movies had some big announcements, but also the different tv shows were the talk of Comic Con. Wynonna Earp, covered the beginning of the season, but got too busy. I do like that it’s renewed, maybe we will get closer to blonde Wynonna. Legends of Tomorrow, lost interest about half way, […]

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 Avalor, Elena of Avalor debuted on the Disney Channel.  The storybook opens to the narration of Elena (Aimee Carrero) telling about her story, she is given a magical amulet that will protect her, then a sorceress, Shuriki, works to take over Avalor. The royal wizard, Alakazar, places Elena’s sister and grandparents into […]

Jondee here at the Paley Center, The Disney Channel animated series is set to debut this Friday and a Los Angeles premiere was held with cast at the Paley Center on July 16th. They included the creator and executive producer of the show, Craig Gerber, the princess herself, Elena, played by Aimee Carrero, Jillian Rose […]

Jedi Jondee here at Scarif, Celebration Europe came to the ExCel Center in London this weekend. One of the highlights was the Rogue One panel that brought the cast, director, Gareth Edwards, Kathleen Kennedy, President of Lucasfilm, Kiri Hart, part of the Lucasfilm Story Group and producer of Rogue One, and John Knoll, visual effects […]

Jondee here at Shanghai, Gene Luen Yang has brought in a new Superman to the DC verse. He was known for American Born Chinese, a brilliant graphic novel as well as many others including Paths & Portals in the Secret Coders series, Avatar: The Last Airbender comics for Dark Horse, and a run on the […]

Jedi Jondee here at Lucasfilm (via live streaming), Art of Storytelling panel. Knoll explained the Lucasfilm motto, “Is there a better way of solving a problem.” LED screens showing the graphics projecting around the spaceship set. The second shot was the ship headed towards the beach. Knoll also added that it helped actor performances. More […]

Jedi Jondee here on the Ghost, Warwick Davis host intro clip was shown. He went through the audience on a hover board to get to the stage. He showed some photos of Star Warriors sent in. Davis summed up Season 2. He welcomed Dave Filoni and actors of Star Wars: Rebels; Tiya Sircar (Sabine Wren) and […]

Jedi Jondee here in London (via live stream), The audience for the Anthony Daniels was cautioned about asking questions about the red arm in Force Awakens even though this was revealed in the C-3PO #1 by James Robinson and Tony Harris. All of the main stage panels were moderated by Warwick Davis. There was an […]