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Review by C.J. Bunce As Western movies go, the best have the simplest stories.  Look at Stagecoach or Angel and the Badman, and even High Noon.  You don’t need a cast of hundreds. Two movies that are the best of the genre are from this century, and it’s no accident they came from the mind […]

Review by C.J. Bunce For someone whose work has become synonymous with fantasy author Terry Pratchett, illustrator Paul Kidby has made his own name with his distinctive creatures and style, creating imagery for Pratchett’s Discworld series since the 1990s.  Their longtime relationship stands in parallel to Jim Henson and Brian Froud, whose illustrations for Labyrinth […]

Review  by C.J. Bunce What more can be said about Paul Bettany’s Marvel Avenger called Vision?  Five years after we last saw him with wife Wanda in the series WandaVision, he’s back again for the Disney+ limited superhero series VisionQuest.  The thirtieth Marvel TV series since Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., it is one of the most […]

Review by C.J. Bunce Yes, those cotton balls Will Farrell wolfed down in the doctor’s office were really cotton candy.  Comedian and actor Andy Richter takes Elf stars Will Farrell, Zooey Deschanel, and Amy Sedaris, director Jon Favreau, studio execs Toby Emmerich, Kent Alterman, and Cale Boyter, screenwriters David Berenbaum and Scot Armstrong, producer Shauna […]

Review by C.J. Bunce Think back to what you know of the year 1958 when it comes to science fiction.  The world was decades beyond H.G. Wells and Jules Verne.  It was three years after Forbidden Planet, seven years past The Thing from Another World, and it was the year of The Blob.  It was […]