Jondee here at the Academy, The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has announced the nominations for the 89th Academy Awards. Kubo and the Two Strings, released last August 19th, was directed by Travis Knight. He is a nominee as director and producer of Kubo and the Two Strings as Best Animated Feature Film. […]

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 “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 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 […]