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Who is Shang-Chi and what are the Ten Rings? A deeper look, and missed...
“Why are they advertising that Suicide Squad movie now? Didn’t it come out 5 years ago?” A major gap in the now enormous industry of producing nine-figure, blockbuster superhero movies is that the...
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All the Previews–What If…? arrives on Disney+ this week
What If…? is a range of comic book series featuring more than 200 stories that allowed creators to jump outside the usual and let their imagination take over. What if Jane Foster (or Loki? or Rogue?)...
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The Movies That Made Us–Netflix adds four more films for second season of its...
Review by C.J. Bunce Following up on The Toys That Made Us (previously reviewed here at borg), Netflix’s surprise hit documentary series leaning on viewers’ nostalgia with a look behind toys of the...
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Eternals–Final trailer arrives for fall Marvel release
Two movie trailers in and it still is difficult to understand what Eternals will be about. It still looks like a cross between X-Men: Apocalypse, Jupiter’s Legacy and Inhumans. The final trailer...
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New trailer reveals more action in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
We got our first peek at Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings here at borg this past April. The new, full-length trailer reveals a plot that has the feel of Wu Assassins, and only a few days...
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Trailer Park–The “Young at Heart” Edition
Today we have two new trailers for the younger set. One is based on a beloved story book from the 1960s, the other a spin-off of a modern animated classic from 20 years ago. Clifford the Big Red Dog...
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Trailer Park–The “1980s Animated Favorites Return” Edition
Two from Netflix, two from Disney+. Fans of 1980s cartoons will get their fix this summer with four animated shows from some of the biggest genre franchises. Phase IV of the Marvel Cinematic...
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Who is Shang-Chi and what are the Ten Rings? A deeper look, and missed...
“Why are they advertising that Suicide Squad movie now? Didn’t it come out 5 years ago?” A major gap in the now enormous industry of producing nine-figure, blockbuster superhero movies is that the...
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All the Previews–What If…? arrives on Disney+ this week
What If…? is a range of comic book series featuring more than 200 stories that allowed creators to jump outside the usual and let their imagination take over. What if Jane Foster (or Loki? or Rogue?)...
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The Movies That Made Us–Netflix adds four more films for second season of its...
Review by C.J. Bunce Following up on The Toys That Made Us (previously reviewed here at borg), Netflix’s surprise hit documentary series leaning on viewers’ nostalgia with a look behind toys of the...
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Eternals–Final trailer arrives for fall Marvel release
Two movie trailers in and it still is difficult to understand what Eternals will be about. It still looks like a cross between X-Men: Apocalypse, Jupiter’s Legacy and Inhumans. The final trailer...
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Powerful, fun, epic fantasy Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings arrives...
Review by C.J. Bunce As much as any movie has been able to keep its secrets in the past few years, it’s hard to beat the surprises in the epic fantasy film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,...
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Now streaming–Jungle Cruise is a sweeping, fun adventure with all the tropes
Review by C.J. Bunce Some movies are exactly as advertised. Count Jungle Cruise in that category. And yet–it’s bigger and bolder and braver than you might have guessed from its trailers....
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borg’s Best of 2021–The Best Movies
After the first of our two pandemic years, when we created last year’s preview of 2021 movies we admit we thought the year was looking iffy from a movie standpoint–so many films delayed or held back,...
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Obi-Wan Kenobi returns in first look at next Disney+ Star Wars series
After much speculation about this summer’s big Star Wars event–the return of Ewan McGregor in a painfully short six-episode mini-series for Disney+ titled simply Obi-Wan Kenobi–the first...
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Lucasfilm reveals new trailer, poster for Obi-Wan Kenobi Disney+ Star Wars...
Another May the Fourth came and went this week and with the annual Disney-marketing Star Wars Day a new trailer and poster arrived featuring the return of Ewan McGregor in the forthcoming six-episode...
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Obi-Wan Kenobi–A Disney Jedi mind trick?
Review by C.J. Bunce Aligned with the year’s Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, California, Disney+ began its latest Star Wars series this week, Obi-Wan Kenobi. Or did it? Maybe they uploaded a Young...
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Ms. Marvel–Disney blends all the right features for its newest superheroine...
Review by C.J. Bunce If you have any doubt young actress Iman Vellani was destined to be the next Marvel Comics superheroine, just watch her in the first episode of new series Ms. Marvel, and watch...
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Obi-Wan Kenobi–A missed opportunity
Review by C.J. Bunce Two episodes in and it seemed like some kind of con, a Jedi mind trick perpetrated by Disney. Six episodes in and you’re left asking “what was the point?” That’s the Disney+...
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TRON–Landmark sci-fi, visual effects achievement celebrates 40th anniversary
The vast majority of us didn’t even have a home computer yet, not even one with a floppy drive, and we were just starting to understand what BASIC meant in all caps. Forty years ago this weekend many...
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