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Alien 40th anniversary–Stream an eye-opening look at visionary artist H.R. Giger
Review by C.J. Bunce For the 40th anniversary of Alien, OVID.tv is streaming a stunning, eye-opening documentary about the life and visual creations of H.R. Giger, who won an Academy Award for his...
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The Mouse Guard movie that almost was
If you want to see a good argument for enforcing antitrust policy against mega-sized media corporations, here’s one. Along with so many other change-ups, delays and cancelations, add Fox’s...
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Now streaming–DC Universe’s Swamp Thing is not a superhero series to skip
Review by C.J. Bunce Although it wasn’t renewed for a second season, streaming service DC Universe’s Swamp Thing is the adaptation of a comic book series from 2019 that stood apart in a year where...
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San Diego Comic-Con 2020 at-home begins this week–Preview and Planning Guide
In-person cancellations have not kept every event this summer from canceling entirely. One of those is typically one of the summer’s biggest events, San Diego Comic-Con. Events for SDCC 2020 are...
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DC’s Swamp Thing begins again for everyone tonight on the CW network
Although it wasn’t renewed for a second season, streaming service DC Universe’s Swamp Thing was the 2019 adaptation of a comic book series that stood apart in a year where every other series seemed to...
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All the movies you’ll want to see in 2021, and a look back at the releases...
Happy holidays! It’s that time of year again, time to take a look forward at what movies should be on your radar for 2021! But wait! Next year’s list sure looks a lot like the the films we previewed...
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Underexposed–New book unearths 50 movies from major filmmakers that almost...
Review by C.J. Bunce Stanley Kubrick’s The Lord of the Rings starring The Beatles. Peter Jackson’s A Nightmare on Elm Street. George Miller’s Justice League. Robert Rodriguez’s Barbarella. Shane...
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Tech Noir–Delve into the imagination and creative process of James Cameron in...
Review by C.J. Bunce If you’ve read his book James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction (reviewed here) or watched his accompanying series, you can tell that James Cameron is first and foremost an...
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Vesper–Guillermo del Toro fantasy meets Luc Besson sci-fi in new dystopian film
If you thought that dystopian science fiction had exhausted itself, a new mash-up of future dreary and fantasy may change your mind. Vesper is an independent project coming this month from IFC Films,...
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Aliens vs Predators–Humans are caught in the middle in new “Rift War”
Review by C.J. Bunce If you’re like me and you’ve read nearly all of the adaptations, novelizations, sequels, and spin-offs to the Alien and Aliens movies, you might be surprised at how different...
View ArticleBook review–The Art of Drew Struzan (and the decline of the movie poster)
Review by C.J. Bunce If someone were to ask you whether you prefer covers to books or movie posters or compact discs that were either (1) painted or (2) created via computer using compilations of...
View ArticleReview–Lapham and Huddleston create a compelling adaptation of del Toro’s...
Review by C.J. Bunce Here’s the prologue of Volume 1 of the graphic novel adaptation of Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s novel The Strain: They have always been here. VAMPIRES. In secret and in...
View ArticleArcheologists of Shadows blends complex dark fantasy, steampunk, sci-fi, and...
Review by C.J. Bunce The magical, multimedia, computer-generated art of Archeologists of Shadows is at once both like something you’ve never seen before yet strangely familiar with bits and pieces of...
View ArticleCheer for the next Godzilla in del Toro’s mecha vs. monster flick, Pacific Rim
It’s December, and that means holiday movie releases, which means we’re getting bombarded with movie trailers. That includes a film focusing on the heir-apparent to the classic Japanese mega-monster,...
View ArticleIs this the final Pacific Rim trailer?
This week Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures released what they call the final trailer for Pacific Rim. We thought we caught a glimpse of it on the MTV Independence Day Marathon of videos today,...
View ArticleRetro watch–El Rey teams Rodriguez with Carpenter, Del Toro, and Tarantino
If you haven’t yet caught sight of the El Rey network on your cable line-up, make sure you stop and check it out. From the mind of pulp film director Robert Rodriguez, known best for his Desperado,...
View ArticleNew books highlight the animated worlds of The Simpsons and Adventure Time
Two new deluxe edition books for fans of two of the biggest animated franchises around are now available. Abrams Books has just released Adventure Time: The Art of Ooo, by Chris McDonnell, and The...
View ArticleFirst look–Crimson Peak, Guillermo del Toro’s next masterpiece?
Victorian gothic romance directed by Guillermo del Toro with ghosts? Yes, please. But unlike previous Gothic haunts like Rebecca, Jane Eyre, Watcher in the Woods, The Others, or Wolfman, genre...
View ArticleCrimson Peak–A Halloween release from the mind of Guillermo del Toro
Ghosts are real. That much I know. Back in February we previewed the first look at Guillermo del Toro’s next reported masterpiece, a Victorian gothic romance with ghosts called Crimson Peak. It will...
View ArticleDel Toro surprises with elegant, creepy “Crimson Peak”
Review by Elizabeth C. Bunce Think you know what to expect from veteran horror and genre director Guillermo del Toro? Gangly, pallid, slimy creatures such as we saw in Pan’s Labyrinth and Hellboy II:...
View ArticleCan’t get enough “Crimson Peak?” Us, too.
by Elizabeth C. Bunce Last month we offered our review of Guillermo del Toro’s new gothic film, Crimson Peak, raving over its atmosphere and performances. Since it won’t be released in a home-viewing...
View ArticleAnimated Justice League Dark is coming soon
The last vestiges of The New 52 seem to be fleeting in light of DC Comics’ Rebirth superhero universe reset. Back in 2011 we at borg.com were reading and reviewing every monthly from the New 52 we...
View ArticlePreview–Delve into the mind of Guillermo del Toro in new book of monsters
An unusual art exhibition premiered this month in Los Angeles at the L.A. County Museum of Art, and it is being expanded into a book available later this month. Director Guillermo del Toro is known...
View ArticleReview–New del Toro book delves into lifelong obsession with monsters and...
One of the most fascinating tidbits about fantasy/horror director Guillermo del Toro in the new hardcover book Guillermo del Toro: At Home With Monsters is that del Toro grew up in a collecting home....
View ArticleTrailer Park–The Comic-Con Ramp-up Edition: The Shape of Water, Planetarium,...
We’re running down several trailers released to start off San Diego Comic-Con this week. One trailer defines what Comic-Con is all about, as Stan Lee looks at the Netflix series based on his...
View ArticleFirst look–John Boyega and Tian Jing fight more monsters in Pacific Rim:...
Idris Elba’s Stacker Pentecost is gone, but in the sequel to the 2013 surprise hit sci-fi-monster flick Pacific Rim, titled Pacific Rim: Uprising, the latest Star Wars trilogy star John Boyega takes on...
View ArticleFun for all and all for fun at Kansas City Comic Con 2017
Kansas City Comic Con 2017 has been an event full of fun for both visitors and the creative guests the attendees came to meet. One of the show highlights was a Green Arrow Quiver/Sounds of Violence...
View ArticleAn X-Men tale gets nominated for an Academy Award: Is Oscar slowly catching up?
The biggest news of yesterday’s Oscar nominations was in the adapted screenplay category. Writers Scott Frank, Michael Green, and director James Mangold were nominated for their script for Logan, the...
View ArticlePowerful, passionate, and poignant, del Toro’s The Shape of Water hits all...
Review by C.J. Bunce With the unique signature of the only director that could pull off a film like The Shape of Water, have no doubt it is worthy of a parade of Oscar recognition. As for direction...
View ArticleThe Shape of Water–Guillermo del Toro reveals his creative process for the...
Review by C.J. Bunce Guillermo del Toro’s At Home With Monsters was an eye-opening look at the depths to which the renowned fantasy film director has gone to immerse himself in the creative process,...
View ArticleNow streaming–The next creepy Gothic mystery has arrived in new Netflix...
Review by C.J. Bunce An exciting new Gothic suspense thriller has arrived in the new Netflix series Requiem. Like any great mystery–and it seems even more so in this sub-genre–you never can tell what...
View ArticleJaegers and Kaiju get bigger and better in The Art and Making of Pacific Rim:...
Review by C.J. Bunce Director Guillermo del Toro’s ode to Godzilla and the mecha genre in 2013’s Pacific Rim continues with del Toro producing the sequel Pacific Rim: Uprising, directed by Steven S....
View ArticleNew tie-in book examines James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction
Review by C.J. Bunce James Cameron has plenty to say about science fiction and he pulls in some sci-fi directors and dozens of sci-fi actors and creators to lay it all out in his new AMC series James...
View ArticleTrailer Park–The “Super Bowl 2019 Movies” Edition
Every year the Super Bowl means new movie trailers. Surprisingly this year netted no surprises–the most exciting of all the movie trailers that aired during Sunday’s 53rd Super Bowl game may be the...
View ArticleDelve deeper into the world of Alita: Battle Angel in Dr. Ido’s Journal
Review by C.J. Bunce We have a review of the first of three tie-in books to the new Robert Rodriguez film Alita: Battle Angel coming your way. Alita: Battle Angel should appeal to any fan of...
View ArticleGuillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities–Netflix anthology series begins...
Fantasy-horror director Guillermo del Toro, known for writing the screenplays for movie series including the The Hobbit, Hellboy, and Mimic and writing and directing major hit films The Shape of Water,...
View ArticleThe Last Us–Another bleak repeat of the dystopian horror genre
Review by C.J. Bunce The Last of Us, two episodes in, is the latest re-hash of the fantasy horror gore that already made its rounds via the likes of The Strain and The Walking Dead and its spin-offs....
View ArticleMetamorphosis–The fortuitous pairing of Alien artist H.R. Giger and Blondie’s...
Review by C.J. Bunce It may seem odd or unlikely, but it actually made a lot of sense. At the Academy Awards in 1980, H.R. Giger took home the Oscar for his groundbreaking sci-fi horror designs on...
View ArticleSDCC 2023–Stranger Things meets Clive Barker in Junji Ito’s “Ito-Verse”...
His artwork evokes the dense fantastical illustrations of Alex Niño. His storytelling will appeal to fans of Tim Seeley’s Revival, Terry Moore’s Rachel Rising, Clive Barker, and the darker elements of...
View ArticleThe Portable Door–One of the best fantasy films in years is now streaming
Review by C.J. Bunce We’ve already seen two fantastic fantasy movies this year: the eagerly awaited Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, and the animated adventure Nimona. Like Nimona, The...
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