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Movie review–A stylish, classy, and fun retro fix, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Review by C.J. Bunce It’s almost a shame this weekend’s big screen release The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is a retelling of the 1960s television series. It’s an adaptation in that it takes the framework of...
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Retro Fix–Butch and Sundance return to theaters
TCM Big Screen Classics and the Fathom Event series are bringing one of the top ten Westerns of all time back to theaters for a limited engagement. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is returning to...
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Cubs take the World Series and other science fiction predictions
As predicted by Bob Gale in his script for Back to the Future II, it was the destiny of the Chicago Cubs to be playing–in fact sweeping–last year’s World Series. As we sat in Kauffman Stadium last...
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Now streaming–Robert Redford’s subtle, sweet, and sentimental The Old Man &...
Review by C.J. Bunce It’s not that often actors that make it to the level of movie stardom get to have that curtain call. Robert Redford announced after the filming of The Old Man & the Gun that...
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The Mandalorian–Season 2 begins heavy on throwbacks, light on plot
Review by C.J. Bunce One of the oldest sayings of actors is never take a role with an animal or a child, because you’ll always get upstaged. That’s where the Disney+ series is currently stuck–they...
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Review–The Art of Star Wars: The Mandalorian tops four years of the best Star...
Review by C.J. Bunce It really is the ultimate holiday gift for your favorite Star Wars fan. The nostalgia in the ideas for the Disney+ series The Mandalorian, as illustrated and explained in The Art...
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Bullet Train–The novel behind the next Brad Pitt movie arrives next week
Review by C.J. Bunce Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s All You Need is Kill is an example of a spectacular Japanese novel that translated perfectly to the English language and Western audiences in the movie...
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Rogue Elements–New Star Trek Picard novel reveals the many faces of the...
Review by C.J. Bunce Of all the new characters created since Scott Bakula’s Enterprise went off the air and J.J. Abrams and Alex Kurtzman took the reins of the Star Trek franchise, one of the best...
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Bullet Train–Brad Pitt dazzles in action-filled trailer, looking much...
Before you go out and read the novel the movie Bullet Train is based on, check out my review here at borg from last year. Perhaps the English edition is a poor translation of Kotaro Isaka’s novel...
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Danger on the Silver Screen–TCM celebrates more than 50 of the greatest stunt...
Review by C.J. Bunce TCM’s film reference library of books has looked at the best sci-fi and horror movies, dynamic actresses, Christmas movies, summer hits, noir and war movies, plus it’s highlighted...
View ArticleWaiting for Cowboys and Aliens, Part 1: Best western movies
After a year of advertising, Cowboys and Aliens finally arrives in theaters June 29. With a sci-fi western starring the coolest James Bond ever (Daniel Craig) and our favorite scoundrel/spice smuggler...
View ArticleCW Network to give Green Arrow series a shot with ex-Arrow writer Kreisberg
What better way to celebrate borg.com’s 100,000th site visit than share some news about one of our favorite superheroes? Hollywood writer Jason McClain alerted me to this news item, as it’s no secret...
View ArticleTop five characters of all time – friends
By Jason McClain (@JTorreyMcClain) Ok, here I am looking at a list of twenty characters that I have to cut to a quarter of that for this list. I didn’t even go crazy thinking about everything I’ve...
View ArticleDjango Unchained and the formula for a Western to win Oscar
By C.J. Bunce How does a Western get nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award in 2013? As recently as two years ago the remake of True Grit was nominated for Best Picture and nine other...
View ArticleBook review–New graphic novel recounts last days of the Knights Templar
Review by C.J. Bunce In Jordan Mechner’s new hardcover novel-formatted graphic novel Templar from First Second Publishing, he follows a small band of “everyman” Knights Templar as they attempt to...
View ArticleBryan Singer sets new standard for superhero genre in X-Men: Days of Future Past
Review by C.J. Bunce BOULEVARD DRIVE-IN — It’s hard to believe it has only been six years since Jon Favreau surprised the world, taking a typically underwhelming character like Tony Stark, casting...
View ArticleDead Man’s Hand–New anthology takes on the extremes of the Old West
Review by C.J. Bunce Who would have thought we’d be discussing a book in the second decade of the 21st century featuring new stories of the Old West? Titan Books has released such a work with Dead...
View ArticleNow streaming–Quirky fun hitman movie Bullet Train a major improvement on the...
Review by C.J. Bunce It’s always fun to report that a movie is much better than the novel, if the underlying novel isn’t very good. That’s exactly where I landed on the novel Bullet Train, the English...
View ArticleA Burt Bacharach movie tribute
This week saw the passing of Kansas City native, famed composer, record producer, and pianist Burt Bacharach. He was 94. Bacharach wrote literally hundreds of the 20th century’s most popular songs,...
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