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Retro fix–Spielberg takes audiences on an adventure in nostalgia and virtual...
Review by C.J. Bunce After its second week in theaters, Ready Player One is still chalking up sold-out screenings nationwide. Whether or not you’re a video game fan, and whether or not you read...
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First look–Paramount releases new trailer for Mission: Impossible–Fallout
In February’s Super Bowl barrage of commercials viewers saw their first look at Tom Cruise’s next outing in the American version of the James Bond movies. The sixth Mission: Impossible film, Mission:...
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First images, award-winning cast revealed for The Dark Crystal prequel series...
After seeing Jim Henson and Frank Oz‘s The Dark Crystal return to theaters last winter for its 35th anniversary, we were reminded why this movie kept up its status as the best live-action,...
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Fizzgig, Aughra, Skeksis, and more return in new Dark Crystal series coming...
After seeing Jim Henson and Frank Oz‘s The Dark Crystal return to theaters back in 2017 for its 35th anniversary, we were reminded why the movie kept up its status as the best live-action,...
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Breakneck–Swierczynski’s fast-paced crime/action graphic novel arrives this...
Review by C.J. Bunce A smartly constructed assemblage of events and characters collided in a tightly written crime story in Edgar-winning writer Duane Swierczynski′s mini-series, Breakneck. One of...
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Netflix and The Jim Henson Company release more footage from The Dark...
Netflix and The Jim Henson Company previewed even more from the forthcoming sequel series to Jim Henson’s fantasy masterpiece, The Dark Crystal this week at San Diego Comic-Con. We previewed The Dark...
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Dark and violent, Amazon’s The Boys delivers all of The Bad
Review by C.J. Bunce Underneath The Boys, a series so full of all things offensive, with language, misogyny, immorality, violence, sex–something sure to offend everyone, lies a backbone of a story...
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Now streaming–Netflix’s The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance rises to become...
Review by C.J. Bunce Nothing in my lifetime in the fantasy genre has had an impact as great as Jim Henson, his creations, and influence. That stretches to The Muppet Show and The Muppet Movie,...
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Truth Seekers–Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reunite in horror-comedy project
Before the actual Ghostbusters returns next year with its sequel Ghostbusters: Afterlife, you can relive the theme in a new Amazon series. Another new 2020 television series previewed at this year’s...
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Truth Seekers–A not-to-miss reunion of Nick Frost and Simon Pegg makes for a...
Review by C.J. Bunce Nick Frost and Simon Pegg are a magical team. Usually Pegg takes the driver’s seat, but not so in the Amazon Prime series Truth Seekers, which puts Pegg back in the office of a...
View ArticleFirst look–Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Martin Freeman in World’s End
Shaun of the Dead’s comedy team of Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Martin Freeman are back this summer with a new zombie-esque flick called World’s End. Not just a zombie apocalypse movie, World’s End is...
View ArticleDoctor Who–It’s official: Matt Smith to leave in 2013, hunt for new Doctor...
BBC announced yesterday that Matt Smith’s last episode as the 11th Doctor on Doctor Who, the oldest series on television, will be this year’s Christmas episode to air on Christmas Eve. He’ll also...
View ArticleThursday marathon Three Flavors event culminates with The World’s End
In your quest for the ultimate scrumptious sci-fi fix, if this doesn’t cure your munchies nothing will. Cornettos. They look like the American ice cream cone called the Drumstick but Brits claim they...
View ArticleFirst look–Simon Pegg in A Fantastic Fear of Everything
But did they really have to put the image of Simon Pegg in his underwear on the movie poster? It’s the next Simon Pegg comedy, A Fantastic Fear of Everything. Here’s the trailer: It came out last year...
View ArticleOn DVD and Blu-ray–Simon Pegg and friends head for The World’s End
Whether or not you’re a fan of British humor, like Monty Python or the comedy sitcom staples we get in the U.S. on public television, you will probably get plenty of laughs from the third entry in the...
View ArticleFirst look–Doctor Who Christmas Special features Nick Frost as Santa
Premiering yesterday in England during a charity special, the BBC released a preview of the 2014 Doctor Who Christmas Special showcasing Simon Pegg comedy film partner Nick Frost as Santa Claus. We...
View ArticleNew Star Wars book looks behind the scenes at original trilogy costumes
Review by C.J. Bunce Sci-fi movie trivia question: Which Star Wars actor played Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back and was a main character in Star Trek 2009 and Star Trek Into Darkness? More on that...
View ArticleFirst look–Simon Pegg churns out another action flick
This January the latest Star Trek news included Simon Pegg not only joining the cast for the latest in the reboot movies, but now he’s going to co-write the film as well. He’s written plenty...
View ArticleFirst look–Cruise, Rhames and Pegg return in Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
How does he do it? How does Tom Cruise keep churning out exciting movies, over and over again? We can count 27 of his movies that we’d watch all over again, out of a total body of work of 37 movies....
View ArticleMission: Impossible returns this weekend–Why do the stunts look real?
This weekend in theaters across the country you could see some exciting previews of coming movies, including Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Everest (as well as some that look like duds, which shall...
View ArticleAll the Movies You’ll Want to See in 2016
Our annual “All the Movies You’ll Want to See…” series has been one of the most viewed of all of our entries at borg.com each year. So this year we again scoured Hollywood and its publicity machine...
View ArticleFirst look–Ice Age meets the final frontier in Collision Course
Blue Sky Studios–the same studio that brought the Peanuts characters to the big screen last year–and 2oth Century Fox are continuing the animated Ice Age series this summer with Ice Age: Collision...
View ArticleThe final trailer–If Star Trek were James Bond
It’s an unusual thing. We’ve seen plenty of unusual with the Star Trek reboot universe–also called the JJ Abrams Star Trek, and now the Kelvin Timeline because of the ship that as destroyed when Nero...
View ArticleOpening weekend review–Star Trek Beyond soars into the series’ 50th year
Review by C.J. Bunce In the fiftieth year of Star Trek, fanboy Simon Pegg proved that the franchise has never been stronger. Probably more so than any prior entry in the now 13-movie catalog, Star...
View ArticleNew Smithsonian documentary highlights the cultural importance of Star Trek
You can usually expect that the Smithsonian Institution productions will deliver quality programming, and its latest is no exception. The two-hour documentary Building Star Trek chronicles fifty years...
View ArticleFigure Fantasy–Photographer blends Sideshow Collectibles figures and real life
Anyone who has ever played with action figures has had the thought. What would it be like to be as small as the figures and roam around with them in their vehicles, or what if they were as large as...
View ArticleSDCC 2017–Spielberg releases first trailer for Ready Player One
We first mentioned the movie Ready Player One six years ago in our review of the Ernest Cline novel here at borg.com. Warner Bros. kicked off Comic-Con Saturday today at San Diego Comic-Con with...
View ArticleLove cinema aliens? A new Star Trek book is just for you
Review by C.J. Bunce When I was a kid Star Wars blew me away and when I think back it was the “wretched hive of scum and villainy”–specifically the creature cantina at Mos Eisley spaceport–that first...
View ArticleSpock, Kirk, and Khan costumes lead weekend Star Trek screen-used costume and...
Saturday entertainment memorabilia collectors and diehard Star Trek fans lined up in person, and bid via telephone and online as auction house Prop Store auctioned off 400 lots of screen-used props and...
View ArticleRetro fix–Warner Bros. releases trailer for Spielberg’s Ready Player One
Warner Bros. kicked off San Diego Comic-Con’s Saturday events this year with Ready Player One director Steven Spielberg, cast members, and the author showing the first teaser trailer for the movie (if...
View ArticleFirst look–It’s Cruise in the sixth Mission: Impossible and The Rock in...
In addition to the eagerly awaited first look at Solo: A Star Wars Story, today’s Super Bowl game included a look at Tom Cruise’s next go at the American version of the James Bond movies. The sixth...
View ArticleThe Cloverfield Paradox–Another solid entry for Abrams’ sci-fi monsterverse
Review by C.J. Bunce How far back has this latest chapter in J.J. Abrams mash-up of science fiction and giant monsters been brewing? Back to his 2011 summer coming of age release Super 8? Like M....
View ArticleWarner Bros. releases third trailer for VR-filled Ready Player One
We first mentioned the movie Ready Player One six years ago in our review of the Ernest Cline novel here at borg.com. Warner Bros. kicked off San Diego Comic-Con with director Steven Spielberg showing...
View ArticleSkydance’s animated Luck–The most fun you may have watching a movie this year
Review by C.J. Bunce Once in a while an animation company will release a film that reminds you of the best Disney classics. Perfect for any crowd and any age, count brand new production studio...
View ArticleThe Art and Making of Luck–Go behind the scenes of the year’s best family film
Review by C.J. Bunce Yesterday I reviewed a film here at borg that evoked the best of the Disney animated classics. Luck is Skydance Animation’s very first production, and it’s a CGI animated marvel...
View ArticleTrailer Park–The “Paramount Rolls for Sevens” Edition
Franchises. They keep going and going. And today we have so many you can barely keep up with all the big ones. Paramount Pictures has two heading to theaters in the coming weeks, both the seventh...
View ArticleSDCC 2023–A Talking Mongoose… Simon Pegg gets another Comic-Con trailer
Simon Pegg, the star of Paul, the far-out sci-fi flick set at San Diego Comic-Con, got another Comic-Con trailer this past weekend. Pegg, star of Spaced and the Abrams Star Trek movies, the Cornetto...
View ArticleNow streaming–MI: 7 or Top Gun 2? A Tom Cruise twofer
Review by C.J. Bunce After enjoying the unseasonably good weather on its way to what the groundhog promises as an early spring, what are you going to watch on the TV when you get home? Paramount+ has...
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