Review by C.J. Bunce When we think of the big horror franchises, Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street come to mind. But for audiences coming of age in the 1990s, you may need to add Scream to that list. Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, David Arquette, and Skeet Ulrich are back again […]
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It all comes down to a single maxim: Be careful what you wish for. As often as not, in Fantasy Island’s seven seasons and 152 episodes, audiences never could be quite sure what Ricardo Montalban’s exotic island host Mr. Roarke was up to in his attempts to fulfill the desires of his exclusive guests on […]
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Fantasies rarely play out as you would expect. — Mr. Roarke You could have guessed from the trailers that Blumhouse’s Fantasy Island would cross the original 1977-1984 series with Black Mirror, but could you have guessed it’s also a sort of mash-up with The Dark Crystal and The Hobbit? Bloodshot, Kick-Ass 2, and Bates Motel […]
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After a painfully long wait for fans, the CW Network renewed the hit horror comedy/drama iZombie for a fifth season last May. A year later and that final season is here, beginning with its season opener next Thursday. What began as a successful comic book series by writer Chris Roberson and artist Michael Allred for […]
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Review by C.J. Bunce Today a new young heroine arrives in the pages of a graphic novel called Scoop. In Volume 1 with the first story arc titled “Breaking News,” we meet Sophie Cooper, a 14-year-old Cuban-American high school student in Miami. It’s not the red hair and freckles that make her an outsider, it’s her […]
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Review by C.J. Bunce Jupiter’s Legacy leads comic book creator Mark Millar’s “Millarworld” projects for Netflix. The eight-episode first season of the series introduces TV audiences to the latest new superhero world that–unfortunately–primarily serves to remind us why the DC and Marvel characters stand out as timeless after 80 years–and how those kinds of beloved […]
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Review by C.J. Bunce From 1977 to 1993, noted crime writer Max Allan Collins was writing stories “ripped from the headlines” in the Dick Tracy comic strip. Some of Collins’ proposed stories were too racy for the average daily newspaper, so Collins took this as an opportunity to introduce the stories in the pages of […]
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Review by C.J. Bunce With all the Netflix series being rolled out this year, October Faction might get overlooked. It’s the latest monster series based on a comic book and it arrived on Netflix this past weekend. Based on Steve Niles and Damien Worm’s graphic novel/comics of the same name, both the TV series (created […]
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Review by C.J. Bunce It’s one thing to make a film about a notably B-level filmmaker and arrive at a success like the 1994 acclaimed black and white biopic Ed Wood. But when you try the same thing about one of the best films ever made, you’re practically set up for failure. It would take […]
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After a painfully long wait for fans of the series, the CW Network renewed the hit horror comedy/drama iZombie for a fifth season late Friday. Even the folks at TV Guide had their fingers crossed for this renewal, stating, “At last, our long national nightmare is over,” in response to the news. What began as […]
