Sunny Nights — Will Forte’s latest quirky comedy goes Down Under
Review by C.J. Bunce In the tradition of quirky comedy mash-up series like Population 11, Deadloch, and Bodkin and hapless criminal stories like the Canadian series The Sticky comes Sunny Nights, a new comedy-crime series on Hulu…
Dungeons & Dragons — New workbooks jumpstart worldbuilding creativity
Review by C.J. Bunce Back in 2019 Wizards of the Coast began publishing a series of adventurer books to get young readers involved with storytelling, fantasy worlds, and roleplaying games. The Dungeons & Dragons Young…
Magic the Gathering: The Coloring Book is coming your way
Wizards of the Coast and Ten Speed Press have come together to give Magic: The Gathering trading card game players something they haven't seen before, a detailed coloring book featuring pencil and ink adaptations of actual card art, from…
007 First Light – A new James Bond song and opening credits
Back in 2012 with the premiere of Adele's song for the James Bond movie Skyfall we ran through all the James Bond themes and opening credits here at borg. We revisited the subject again in 2020 here when Billie Eilish was tapped to…
One more big trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu
It's in theaters next month. Almost here is the threatrical premiere of The Mandalorian and Grogu. And the final trailer is out. It's packed full of characters, creatures, costumes, and cross-references from across the Star Wars franchise. The…
The Wolf and the Lamb — Next horror Western is coming
When you think of mash-ups of Westerns and horror, what comes to mind? Maybe Bone Tomahawk? Next up is a strange throwback, set in Old West Montana. Cassandra Scerbo stars as a frontier women whose son goes missing. When he returns he's...…
Now streaming — Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 doesn’t measure up
Review by C.J. Bunce What the heck happened? It's tough when you have high expectations for a movie, especially one with such a big fan following. The Five Nights at Freddy's franchise is certainly beloved for its video games and…
Godzilla Minus Zero — First look at the next kaiju threat
Don't look behind you... If you like the Warner Bros. Godzilla movies, you probably will love the versions that originate in Japan. Godzilla is the longest running continuous film franchise in the world, going back to the original movie…
Mutiny — Another revenge movie for Jason Statham
It's always a good time for another Jason Statham movie, right? Whether it's Statham's bravado under director John Carpenter in Ghosts of Mars, that cocky hero in three Transporter movies, the master thief of The Italian Job and The Bank Job or the…
A new must-have for fans of BBC and A&E’s Pride and Prejudice
In the States it's always been known as A&E's Pride and Prejudice and in the UK BBC's Pride and Prejudice. The production partnering both the BBC and A&E Network is probably the best romance genre television series ever. The series…
Mortal Kombat II — Next trailer arrives for fantasy-game sequel
Anyone else think Big Trouble in Little China every time you see this preview? The 2021 big-budget release Mortal Kombat found the sweet spot that bridged the cool parts of the game and the expectations of modern action movie fans, a…
Dark Winds–series returns and ends with a thud
Review by C.J. Bunce After a promising first season and a lackluster second, the third season of the adaptation of Tony Hillerman's Dark Winds finally gave its heroes their due. And then the new fourth season, now streaming on AMC+, unwound it all…
The Punisher is getting a TV movie this summer
No other character in the Marvel Comics canon seems more justified in his anger than Jon Bernthal's Frank Castle. In two seasons of Netflix's series The Punisher, fans finally got a worthy live-action take on the darker than dark comic book…
“Bride horror” genre soars ahead with new Netflix series
Review by C.J. Bunce It's rare we see a horror series that is in the running for best TV series of the year. That series is a new Netflix limited series called Something Very Bad is Going to Happen, a show that presents new twists on horror…
Pretty Lethal — Hungarian gangsters are no match for prima ballerinas
Review by C.J. Bunce The next women-led action thriller comes from one of the producers of Atomic Blonde and Bullet Train, but it's really more a mash-up of Abigail, Black Swan, and Ready or Not, or Pride and Prejudice and…
Now streaming — Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, a fantastic, all-purpose action movie
Review by C.J. Bunce Equal to the rest of the cast and the fun plot of the Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, now streaming on Hulu via Disney+, is seeing Keith David in yet another great role. This time he plays a mobster…
Family Movie Night Menus — TCM pairs recipes with film classics
Review by C.J. Bunce Turner Classic Movies/TCM enlisted long-time film critic Leonard Maltin and his daughter Jessie Maltin to share how a father got his daughter excited about movies in the hopes of getting a new generation to love…
Supergirl — Gunn shoots the pooch in next trailer
One of the funnier bits from this summer's first swing at DC Comics at the movies, James Gunn's Superman, was the ending, which featured a brief appearance by Milly Alcock as the new Kara Zor-El aka Supergirl. This past week DC released the next…
Young Sherlock — Guy Ritchie’s return to Doyle has style but thin script
Review by C.J. Bunce Joining the shelves of new novels at your local bookstore, TV has been inundated with Sherlock Holmes series since the character entered the public domain. This year the guy responsible for the two…
Deadloch — Season 2 is a mystery and comedy masterpiece
Review by C.J. Bunce The leading contender for best mystery television series of the year hails from Australia. Odds are you probably haven't yet watched Prime Video's Deadloch. But you should, because it's the best show on TV right now. …
Paradise — Season 2’s great sci-fi ends with the promise of more to come
Review by C.J. Bunce Just when you think the second season of Hulu's apocalypse series Paradise has tied up all its loose ends, a new trope sneaks into the picture: time travel. The best series yet to deliver an apocalypse…
A bigger, better trailer for Masters of the Universe
The new trailer for the reboot of Masters of the Universe barely looks like the movie from the first trailer we previewed back in January here at borg. The first looked fun, close to Hero at Large with a twist of Thor: Ragnarok. But this…
Dungeons & Dragons — New book features crochet patterns
If you know a gamer, it's very likely you know someone who games and also knows how to crochet. Wizards of the Coast and Ten Speed Press have teamed up to create their next officially licensed Dungeons & Dragons tie-in. This time it allows…
Planet Comicon Kansas City wraps after big weekend of pop culture fandom fun
Planet Comicon Kansas City wrapped its 2026 pop culture convention yesterday, the 27th year for the event. The celebration of fandom filled the halls of the Kansas City Convention Center at Bartle Hall each day,…
Secret Service — Gemma Arterton stars in new espionage series
It's only been two years since we last saw Gemma Arterton on the small screen. That was in the heist thriller series Culprits, reviewed here at borg. The "Bond girl"-turned-action star featured in The King's Man, Quantum of Solace,…
The End of of Oak Street looks like Jumanji met The Twilight Zone
From producer J.J. Abrams, the first trailer for director David Mitchell's new horror-adventure-survival mash-up movie The End of Oak Street reveals just enough to make you want to know more--as all good trailers do. Starring Anne…
Meet favorite writers and artists at Planet Comicon Kansas City
Planet Comicon Kansas City has been one of the Midwest's biggest comic book and pop culture conventions and that was no less so in 2014 when it became the largest attended event in the history of the Kansas City Convention Center. …
Celebrities to attend Planet Comicon Kansas City this weekend
Planet Comicon Kansas City has been one of the Midwest's biggest comic book and pop culture conventions and that was no less so in 2014 when it became the largest attended event in the history of the Kansas City Convention Center. And…
Drifter — Sung Kang’s next drive movie not a Fast & Furious sequel
Rev up the Corolla. It seems like forever since we last talked about the Fast & Furious franchise, and yet Fast X was only three years ago. One of the best entries of the franchise was Tokyo Drift, a tangent look at the racing…
