Andor–Sweeping, epic trailer arrives for Rogue One prequel series
If it’s not your third favorite Star Wars movie, it’s probably your fourth. It’s director Gareth Edwards’ Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the movie that re-ignited the possibilities for Star Wars after...
View ArticleLow on action, Andor series gets underway on Disney+
Review by C.J. Bunce The first three episodes of the Rogue One prequel series Andor have arrived on Disney+. Unfortunately writer/creator Tony Gilroy squandered the first hour and a half. With only...
View ArticleNow streaming–Ford v Ferrari made it to the Oscars for a reason
Review by C.J. Bunce It it’s not a Ford, it’s crap. That maxim gets put to the test in the next must-see movie while you’re sheltering at home. A four-time Oscar nominee only a few weeks ago, Ford v...
View ArticleThe Black Hole returns–Disney reaches back to deliver the sci-fi film’s...
Forty years ago a research vessel found a missing spaceship commanded by a mysterious scientist on the edge of a black hole. Unfortunately it all happened two years after Star Wars. Unlike Disney’s...
View ArticleNow streaming–Get ready for Branagh’s Death on the Nile with the BBC’s The...
Review by Elizabeth C. Bunce One of the news items from this weekend’s San Diego Comic-Con was a push of completed Disney and Fox movies out several months to insure full movie theater returns for the...
View ArticleMarvel: The First 80 Years–Follow the impact of a comic book empire
Founded in 1939 by Martin Goodman as Timely Comics, then re-branding as Atlas Comics, becoming a household name in 1961 thanks to the inspiration of creators Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Steve Ditko,...
View ArticleFirst trailer lands for Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon
Notable in part for being the first animated movie out of Disney without the work of creator John Lasseter in 15 years, the next major animated movie from Disney features the voices of two well-known...
View ArticleMulan–Epic, sweeping retelling of Chinese folk tale is one of the year’s best...
Review by C,J, Bunce With a brief pandemic year appearance in theaters that only netted box office receipts that were a third of the film’s costs, followed by a high-cost home release via Disney, at...
View ArticleAll 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...
View ArticleMarvel Studios reveals new trailers for Loki, Falcon and the Winter Soldier,...
Phase IV of the Marvel Cinematic Universe took center stage with some big reveals at a Disney investor event this week. The biggest news is a preview of Loki, which takes fan-favorite actor Tom...
View ArticleThe future is Disney, and the language is Star Wars, as Lucasfilm preps 11...
The last time genre fans had a news release as big as this week’s Marvel and Star Wars news was from Disney about the ten Phase IV Marvel projects announced at San Diego Comic-Con 2019. In addition to...
View Articleborg’s Best of 2020–Kick-Ass Genre Heroines
Once a year at borg we ask: What makes a great screen heroine? It’s time for borg′s annual look at the Best Kick-Ass Genre Heroines in film and television. Despite delays in releases due to the covid...
View Articleborg’s Best of 2020–The Best Movies
When we created last year’s preview of 2020 movies we were pretty sure we were going to have some great movies this year, but we were surprised by what ended up being the best, mainly because what were...
View ArticlePreview–Disney Parks cookbook–100 recipes to re-create flavors from theme parks
Even if you haven’t visited Disney World or Disneyland, odds are you heard someone rave about Dole Whip, a frozen dessert that seems to have made converts of millions across the country. Now you can...
View ArticleSmuggler’s Run–Star Wars Adventures offers a great jump-on point for the series
Review by C.J. Bunce It’s the nature of the new Star Wars brand to bounce back and forth in the galaxy stories–a lot. Where the idea of looking back in 2021 to Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens...
View ArticleSoul–Disney/Pixar ponder meaning of life in latest animated movie
Review by C.J. Bunce It’s the latest in what has become a packed 12 months of studios releasing animated movies. And it carries a common theme for a venue families once could prop their kids up in...
View ArticleWandaVision–What’s going on here?
Review by C.J. Bunce A year ago here at borg we previewed the first look at Marvel Studios’ new series WandaVision, and based on the unusual trailer we asked the question: What audience is WandaVision...
View ArticleRaya and the Last Dragon–New Disney trailer reveals exciting animated journey...
Raya and the Last Dragon is the next animated Disney movie, coming later this winter. Every new look at the film is more exciting than the last, and this is shaping up to be the next Mulan or Moana....
View ArticleTrailer Park–The “Marvel’s Future Past Deja Vu Reprise Here We Go Again” Edition
It was only a year ago here at borg we were discussing some of the projects expected to arrive in 2020. That didn’t happen, but a pandemic later and some juggling by the execs at Disney and we seem to...
View ArticlePreview–First behind-the-scenes chronicle of the entire third trilogy arrives...
You may have thought Age of Resistance was only the subtitle of The Dark Crystal television series, but no. It’s a new identifier for the third Star Wars trilogy, and those films are part of a new...
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