Repossessed! As we head into my favorite time of the year, the city of Ontario, California once again embraces the coming Halloween season with its CreepIECon horror convention. The original convention known as CreepIECon debuted in February of 2022, but this biannual event has a late-September spawn now known as CreepIE Aftermath (nee: Son of…
Month: September 2024
Marvel’s “Agatha All Along” (2024) eases on down the Witch’s Road…
*****SUPERNATURAL SPOILERS!***** Despite my continual kvetching that “I’m done with Marvel,” I find myself back in Disney+’s Marvel-lined pockets after watching their latest miniseries, “Agatha All Along,” the long-gestating offshoot of 2021’s uneven “WandaVision”; a miniseries I had mixed feelings on, despite its clever TV sitcom-sliding premise. “Agatha All Along” has been in development since…
The collectible I just had to have for Godzilla’s 70th anniversary…
*****KAIJU-SIZED SPOILERS!***** As longtime readers of this column may (or may not) know, I’m a huge fan of “Godzilla” (aka “Gojira”). For those G-fan readers who want a more detailed account of my love and history with “Godzilla,” I wrote all about my favorite G-films from 1954 onward for the franchise’s 65th anniversary in my…
A voice heard around the world and among the stars; James Earl Jones (1931-2024)…
That Voice One of the hardest parts of getting older, as I’ve written many times before, is seeing so many of one’s childhood heroes and icons pass away. Today was another such day, as the world lost James Earl Jones; an amazing actor who could go from playing a boxer to a king on a…
Netflix’s “Terminator Zero” gives the 40 year-old franchise a fresh perspective…
******CYBERNETIC SPOILERS!****** I need to preface this column with an admission; I’m not the greatest fan of Japanese anime. Yes, I do enjoy some films of Hayao Miyazaki (“Spirited Away”) and other random anime here and there, but by and large, it’s not a genre I’m especially drawn to. However, I have been a fan…
Through “The Time Tunnel” and into “Deep Space Nine”; James Darren (1936-2024)….
One aspect of growing older I’ll never get used to is seeing so many names and faces I grew up with passing away. This morning, I’d read about the passing of actor James Darren (1936-2024), who died in his sleep last night (September 2nd), from apparent issues relating to an inoperable heart condition. He is…
The Force goes FM: NPR’s Star Wars Radio Plays (1981-1996)…
*****STAR DESTROYER-SIZED SPOILERS!***** In early 1981, within the pages of Starlog magazine (the internet before the internet), my then-14 year old self read about an upcoming series on National Public Radio (NPR) that was going to adapt 1977’s “Star Wars” into a 13-part radio play (pre-“A New Hope,” which was added for the movie’s 1981…