One of my favorite things about attending these conventions is being able to meet the creatives behind the projects that you don’t normally get to see. Scoring the Future: Wiring Music for Sci-Fi was a fascinating panel about what it’s like making music for worlds and places that don’t exist. Hosted by Chandler Poling and
Riverdale, the CW Twin Peaks-ish take on the Archie comics, proved to be so popular the CW renewed it really fast, as we all knew they would. The show returned from hiatus this past week and now the cast KJ Apa, Lili Reinhart, Camila Mendes, Cole Sprouse, Ashleigh Murray, Luke Perry,Mädchen Amick, and Marisol Nichols
Delightful panels fill WonderCon and my day got off to a great start with the panel for Trollhunters. The hit Netflix show brought key forces behind the show: Marc Guggenheim, Rodrigo Blaas, Chad Hammes, Dan & Kevin Hageman, to chat about all things troll! On the Reaction to the Show All of the panelists remarked
“The shell belongs to them, but not your ghost.” This quote has been pinging around my head since I got home from a screening of what turned out to be an extremely disappointing film, Ghost in the Shell. The shell in this case, is the completely miscast Scarlett Johansson, her of the ivory white skin
When I first started typing this piece, I didn’t realize that this is my 5th time attending WonderCon. I’ve always had a blast at the convention, much smaller than Comic Con and not nearly as stressful. (Also the parking is decent) This year the schedule seems to be a bit lighter than normal, as is
Taking the crooked with the straights. That’s the best way to describe what you’ll be doing when you purchase a ticket to go see the new Power Rangers film. More entertaining than the raggedy trailers let on, but taking itself far too serious to be truly fun, the movie settles for a weird middle ground