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 […]

The third movie in the rebooted ‘Star Trek’ series is must see movie for Summer 2016. Even if you haven’t seen Trek before, it’s easy to hop on and not feel completely lost. The format of the plot is nothing too terribly unique, we still have a somewhat generic bad guy named Krall (Idris Elba) […]

Jondee here at the masquerade, As the Phantom song goes, “Masquerade! Hide your face so the world will never find you!” This applies to one of the most mysterious counselors at Camp Stillwater, Drew played by Zelda Williams. A girl, Andrea, posts a picture of girl with a red balloon in Chicago, 1978. The picture […]

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 […]

Jedi Jondee here at Star Wars: Celebration Europe, The live stream returned to Andi with Ashley Eckstein and Dave Filoni. They just finished the Ahsoka panel. She introduced the “Ahsoka’s Untold Tales” with Pablo Hidalgo and Dave Filoni. The empty chair between them was “symbolic” Filoni joked before Ashley Eckstein was brought on with the […]

Jedi Jondee here at the Excel Center (via the live stream), The Star Wars Show is streaming Star Wars: Celebration Europe 2016 live on Star wars.com. Host Andi Gutierrez did the requisite London opening next to Big Ben running down the events for the Celebration. On the show floor, Andi and co-host, Peter Townley, came […]

Jondee here in the woods, This episode focuses on “Cricket”, Carolina Diaz. It opens at a bathroom, a hand reaches for a robe, it’s Cricket. She hears a door close, then walks into the foggy night with a flashlight. Several Satanic figures appear from the shadows. On the television, Cricket’s mother, Marta, is making bacon […]

Jondee here at NYC, Actor, Jaime Camil, of Jane the Virgin, attended last night’s screening of Elena of Avalor with his daughter, Elena in New York. He is one of the performers on the soundtrack of the show. Also at the event was Aimee Carrero (voice of Elena) and Jenna Ortega (voice of Elena’s sister […]

Do you have Poke Fever? Do you “Gotta Catch ‘Em All”? Check out our review of the game app that is taking the world by storm! How to get more candy, attract more pokemon, and more!

Jondee here at the city (not identified, New York? Metropolis?), Bryan Hitch has guided the greatest super team into the Rebirth, the special has a Bryan Hitch cover with the Batman and Superman in the back and the other Leaguers, now with two Green Lanterns, Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz, facing front. The Justice League […]

Jondee here in Fair Verona “where we lay our scene”, Shakespeare is fascinating in the different time periods revealing something of the characters and forms (a musical like West Side Story). In this case, the Kenneth Branagh co-production, is filmed in black and white to bring a film noir quality. The starkness of the film […]

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 Kamar-Taj, The Marvel prelude comics, written by Will Corona Pilgrim (and Fred Van Lente) bring readers and MCU fans up to date, but no big spoilers before the films. Still, potential spoilers! The film by Scott Derrickson is set for release on November 4th. This issue, Doctor Strange Prelude #1, features the […]

Jondee here at the Cantina, Han Solo #2 features a cover by Lee Bermejo with Han leaning back with his blaster as two expired thugs are slumped around him. This continues the series with Marjorie Liu and Mark Brooks and throws you into a splash page of action. The Millennium Falcon is flying past ships […]

Jondee here at Atlantis, Aquaman continues with a fine cover by Joshua Middleton, Aquaman is the central figure with a closeup of Mera swimming at the bottom and at the top is the looming red eyes of Black Manta! This is the second part of The Drowning, “Full Circle”, by Dan Abnett with art by […]

Jondee here in the Soviet Union, Flashback, the Soviet Union, 1977, a little boy, Alexi (Anthony Shudra) is playing a piano when his parents tell him they are leaving for America. He is caught by his blind grandfather who tells him to take what he wants and gives him a pocket knife. Back to Summer, […]

Jondee here at Washington D.C., The Purge (2013) was an interesting concept, starting with the house defended by Ethan Hawke, it was a next door future (2023) where crime is legal for twelve hours. The premise is that one night of sin purges all of it for the rest of the year, but it ends […]

Jondee here at the Belgian Congo, The “Me Tarzan” stereotype is persistent, even nodded to in this film, but the character apart from Johnny Weismuller to Ron Ely went through many incarnations. The closest was Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, but that film went astray and of course there was even a Disney cartoon. I […]

Jondee here at Camp Stillwater, The creators of Once Upon a Time, Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis, are collaborating with fellow producer on Once, Ian B. Goldberg, to bring some terror back to summer camp. The premiere has debuted on Freeform. It opens at Camp Stillwater, Wisconsin, in 1871, a black piano player (Tony Todd) […]

What’s up, Trekkies?! A brand new trailer just came out for Beyond. Check it out below along with some new posters. Don’t miss the final trailer for Star Trek Beyond featuring the incredible new song, “Sledgehammer” from Rihanna.  STAR TREK BEYOND is in theaters July 22, 2016 “Star Trek Beyond,” the highly anticipated next installment in […]

Jondee here at Amnesty Bay, Aquaman swims out of Rebirth under the writing guidance by Dan Abnett with a cover by interior artist Brad Walker, it’s a jam cover with Mera and Garth swimming in Atlantis, Aquaman in the center with trident, flanked by Black Manta and Ocean Master (their weapons end with bloody blades […]

Jondee here at Bwunda, The cover to Wonder Woman #1 by interior artist, Liam Sharp, features the warrior Wonder Woman bearing a sword, Steve Trevor in the background, and a were-creature with the rest, Hippolyta, and Ares, not featuring in the story. Also in the corner is the logo celebrating 75 years of Wonder Woman. […]

Jondee here on the Finalizer, We finally have another Marvel adaptation of a Star Wars movie with this limited series. I’m not sure how many issues it will last; I’m guessing five issues. It has a nice painted cover by Esad Ribic with Rey standing in front of Finn and BB-8 with the Falcon overhead. […]

The sequel to 1996’s ‘Independence Day’ is now out in theaters nationwide. The new film features a recurring cast from the first film with big names such Jeff Goldblum reprising the role of scientist David Levinson, Judd Hirsch as David’s father Julius Levinson, and Bill Pullman as President Whitmore who gave the famous Independence Day […]

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 […]