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Advance review–Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs is epic on many fronts
Review by C.J. Bunce In that niche area of dystopian dog movies (that’s the adaptation of Harlan Ellison’s A Boy and his Dog and… ?), Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs not only soars to the top of the list,...
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Book celebrates the movies of Ray Harryhausen via the poster art from his films
Review by C.J. Bunce The Cyclops, the bronze warrior Talos, the large dinosaur Rhedosaurus, a giant gorilla, a barrage of battling skeletons with swords, Raquel Welch as a cavewoman, the horrifying...
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Infogothic–New guide takes you back in time to the age of Hammer horror films
Review by C.J. Bunce For a generation of film fans, the words “Hammer Horror” are synonymous with the first color horror movies and studio stars Peter Cushing and David Prowse, who would go on to find...
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Mike Norton’s complete Battlepug is coming your way in giant hardcover edition
Review by C.J. Bunce Image Comics is giving the celebrated Eisner and Harvey Award-winning series Battlepug a giant hardcover collected edition this month. Written and illustrated by Mike Norton,...
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New book reveals auteur Ray Harryhausen’s lost scenes and projects that...
Review by C.J. Bunce As in any creative industry, as much as Hollywood is rife with successes, far more projects barely make it past the idea stage. Others make it through preliminary steps only to...
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The next Sigma Force novel arrives with James Rollins’ The Last Odyssey
Fans of James Rollins novels will be happy to hear the 15th novel in his Sigma Force series has arrived. Billed as a thriller, The Last Odyssey finds Rollins piecing together obscure and fantastical...
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SDCC 2020 free Souvenir Book–Your first step into the larger world of Comic-Con
In a normal year for San Diego Comic-Con, we at borg would be taking photos and checking out the new products, panels, and movie trailers, and trying to share as many as possible. But first we’d go...
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Boba Fett returns–A New Year, bacta tank jacuzzis, the 25th anniversary of...
Review by C.J. Bunce Happy New Year! My wish for everyone is they get their own bacta tank jacuzzi to help recover from last year… and the year before that, and… It’s been 38.5 years since I first...
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The Book of Boba Fett plus The Mandalorian = One incredibly fun Saturday...
Review by C.J. Bunce This year on January 1 I reviewed the first episode of The Book of Boba Fett, the show about the Star Wars bounty hunter’s return, 38.5 years in the making. The series’ first...
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Review–Red Sonja faces new challenges as Samurai Sonja
Review by C.J. Bunce We first previewed Samurai Sonja here at borg this past March. With comic publisher Dynamite rolling out multiple realities over so many titles for the character leading up to...
View ArticleOur favorite fantasy movies–fantasy classics
By Art Schmidt I have a few Honorable Mentions that I am going to list first, rather than sticking them at the end like after-thoughts. Since I didn’t include them in my actual Top Ten list, the least...
View ArticleReview —“Special Effects: The History and Technique,” a master class in film
Review by C.J. Bunce If you ever had an inkling to go to film school, if you are going to film school or if you teach film courses, Richard Rickitt’s Special Effects: The History and Technique should...
View ArticleJeff Bridges’ awesomeness highlighted in two new movie trailers
How can you get any cooler than Jeff Bridges’ hacker/video game mogul character of Flynn in Tron? As The Dude in The Big Lebowski? Two new trailers will no doubt elevate even diehard Jeff Bridges...
View ArticleAdvance review–Nick Park triumphs again with his next stop-motion animated...
Review by C.J. Bunce Oscar-winning filmmaker Nick Park is back with his next entry in Aardman Animations’ ingenious world of classic stop-motion animation. The family comedy Early Man takes audiences...
View ArticleMythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes–Edith Hamilton classic gets a...
Review by C.J. Bunce At some point early in life every kid gets the bug for Greek mythology. Suddenly you want to know how Hercules related to Zeus and you draw Cyclops on everything. But not...
View ArticleClassical Mythology A to Z–An encyclopedic reference of gods, heroes,...
Review by C.J. Bunce Last week here at borg I reviewed the result of classicist Edith Hamilton’s research into the Greek amd Roman myths that became her book, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and...
View ArticleAt last! Aardman stop-motion meets Star Wars in anthology series
The trailer for the second season of the animated Disney+ streaming series Star Wars: Visions looks a bit like the first season. It has a lot of Old Republic-era looking dark Sith bad guys facing off...
View ArticleStorm Kids’ Fetch mythology journey concludes next month in The Rescue
Review by C.J. Bunce Last year John Carpenter and Sandy King’s Storm King Comics published Fetch Book One: The Journey, the first half of a new adventure story for kids. Next month will see the...
View ArticleThe Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen–Explore the man behind it all
Review by C.J. Bunce Lost in Space, The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. In the 1960s and 1970s, these and more became The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen,...
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