Cowboy Bebop–Sci-fi, future noir, space western is the best streaming series yet
Review by C.J. Bunce The new Netflix series Cowboy Bebop, an adaptation of the 1999-2001 anime series, is so good, so well-written, so jazz-filled, stylish, cool, and sexy that you won’t deny it’s the...
View ArticleBlade Runner: Black Lotus–Animated series gets look and feel of Syd Mead’s...
Review by C.J. Bunce I’d wager even story creator Philip K. Dick would be impressed with the futurism and dark beauty of Adult Swim and Crunchyroll’s new Japanese and American half-hour animated...
View ArticleRudow Can’t Fail–Arnett and Schamberger deliver a new sci-fi noir...
Review by C.J. Bunce Fans of sci-fi noir have another world to dive into. It’s Jason Arnett and Rob Schamberger’s The Wave, a future world of colonization in the realm of Altered Carbon, Blade...
View ArticleIn Search of Tomorrow–Ambitious five-hour documentary chronicles 50+ sci-fi...
Review by C.J. Bunce I Love the ’80s was a ten-hour VH-1 series that waxed nostalgic for all things pop culture in the decade, and a new five-hour documentary strives to do the same thing with the...
View ArticleBlack Lotus–Blade Runner anime continues in monthly comic series
Even creator Philip K. Dick would be impressed with the futurism and dark beauty of Adult Swim and Crunchyroll’s 2021 Japanese and American half-hour anime series Blade Runner: Black Lotus. Is the...
View ArticleBlade Runner RPG–Kickstarter for latest roleplaying game approaches $1.5...
The officially licensed roleplaying game for Blade Runner is almost here, and you have less than three days left to get in on its Kickstarter and some unlocked stretch goal extras. Fully funded in...
View ArticleBlack Lotus–Blade Runner anime continues in monthly comic series this week
Review by C.J. Bunce Last year Netflix delivered what Blade Runner creator Philip K. Dick would have flipped over–the futurism and dark beauty of Adult Swim and Crunchyroll’s Japanese and American...
View ArticleAlien: Colony War–Franchise enters a new era with latest novel
Review by C.J. Bunce The Alien universe makes a major shift in storytelling in its latest novel, Alien: Colony War, realizing the long-standing promise of Weyland-Yutani, the most hated corporation in...
View ArticleAlien: Inferno’s Fall–Davis lives on and Hendricks and the Jackals forge...
Review by C.J. Bunce Last month I reviewed Alien: Colony War, a novel in the Alien universe that finds hated corporation Weyland-Yutani weaponizing Xenomorphs for an all-out interplanetary war....
View ArticlePreview–Blade Runner Origins wraps in third volume, arriving Wednesday
In 2020 Titan Comics took fans of the Blade Runner movie franchise back to the future with the comic book series Blade Runner 2019 (reviewed here at borg). Both the sequel to Ridley Scott’s Blade...
View ArticleDeckard is back in trailer for Blade Runner 2049
What exactly is Atari doing in 2049? Ridley Scott’s neo-noir, sci-fi masterpiece Blade Runner is one of science fiction’s classic films. Released in 1982, Blade Runner, a loose adaptation of Philip K....
View ArticleRetropolis–Explore yesterday’s vision of tomorrow in Slaves of the...
Review by C.J. Bunce A great imagination is a rare thing. Science fiction has always been, at its core, an avenue for writers to express the endless breadth of their imaginations. In Bradley W....
View ArticleWarner Bros. celebrates Blade Runner 35th anniversary with newly restored...
Yes, the celebration of the movies of 1982 just keeps getting better. As Blade Runner turns 35, Warner Bros. has partnered with Alamo Drafthouse theaters to present a new 4K restoration of Blade...
View ArticleButtercup, Batman, Barbossa, Buddy, Bond and more–Prop Store lines up giant...
For more than six years we at borg.com have been covering entertainment memorabilia auctions–sales of not merely replicas or mass-produced collectibles, but the real objects seen on film–rare or even...
View ArticleBook review–Four decades of Syd Mead’s influence, inspiration, and future...
Review by C.J. Bunce Syd Mead, the famed “artist who illustrates the future,” is an icon of visionary design and illustration. No other creator has shown the world a utopian vision of a possible...
View ArticleOpening weekend review–Blade Runner 2049 an earnest, ambitious follow-up to...
Review by C.J. Bunce Credit for the success of Blade Runner 2049 as a worthy sequel to 1982’s Blade Runner is a shared prize for director Denis Villeneuve (Arrival, Sicario), the writers, including...
View ArticleBlade Runner expanded universe stories are on the way
Titan Publishing and Alcon Media Group, the producer behind more than 30 films over the past 20 years, announced a partnership that will mean the beginning of an expanded universe of stories for Rick...
View ArticleNow streaming–A powerful, exquisite science fiction film awaits in Netflix’s...
Review by C.J. Bunce The right mix of writing, acting, art direction, and music come together in Orbiter 9, a direct-to-Netflix Spanish film that really has it all. Like the critically-acclaimed...
View ArticleStan Smith, a man and his shoe are focus of new retrospective book
Review by C.J. Bunce It’s not every day you come across the ultimate book for your barber shop, but this is in the running. Along with a wall listing current local pro and college team scores and a...
View ArticleNot just a meme–Blade Runner 2019 title is locked in, with first look at...
As we first previewed here at borg last July, Titan Publishing and Alcon Media Group, the producer behind more than 30 films over the past 20 years, announced a partnership that will mean the beginning...
View ArticleSpaceside–Michael Mammay sequel to military sci-fi thriller Planetside amps...
Review by C.J. Bunce It’s not often a sequel surpasses the first novel in the series, but that’s the place where Spaceside lands. And that’s saying something, because Michael Mammay′s Planetside was...
View ArticleTypeset in the Future reveals how classic sci-fi cinema conveyed the future...
Review by C.J. Bunce In art director and designer Roger Christian’s book Cinema Alchemist (reviewed here at borg) readers learn how the Oscar-winning set designer changed the way audiences see the...
View ArticleRetro read–Abraham Lincoln returns as an android in Philip K. Dick’s novel,...
Review by C.J. Bunce Philip K. Dick′s 1972 novel We Can Build You, his 22nd novel, has its strengths, the first half of the novel full of several thought-provoking ideas that each would have been...
View ArticleRetro fix–Outland, Sean Connery’s stint as a cop in a space Western
Review by C.J. Bunce For every new movie you watch, you need to go back and see a classic, right? If The Hunt for Red October is Star Trek in the ocean, then Outland is The Sand Pebbles in outer...
View ArticleAltered Carbon: Resleeved–New anime film is the next great animation feat
Review by C.J. Bunce Audiences have seen some great animated films in recent years, with movies upping the ante on technology and visual magic, whether in Ferdinand or Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse...
View ArticleVisions of the future take center stage in Blade Runner 2049 Interlinked –...
Review by C.J. Bunce It’s been three years since the arrival of Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, the sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1982 sci-fi cult classic, Blade Runner, itself based on Philip K....
View ArticleBlade Runner 2029–Sequel comics tie-in looks 10 years into the franchise’s...
Just this past Fall, Titan Comics took fans of the Blade Runner movie franchise into their past and future with the comic book series Blade Runner 2019 (review here at borg). Both the sequel to Ridley...
View ArticleBlade Runner Artist’s Edition–A great noir take on the spin-off sci-fi series
This year the Blade Runner movie franchise took fans into their past and future with the comic book series Blade Runner 2019 (review here at borg). Both the sequel to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and...
View ArticleThe 2020 Borg Hall of Fame
It’s been another long year of great entertainment. It’s time for the eighth annual round of new honorees for the borg Hall of Fame. We have several honorees from 2020 films and television, plus...
View ArticlePreview–Blade Runner lives on in third chapter of award-winning sequel
Some of the best dystopian futurism in years comes to a conclusion in the third volume of Blade Runner 2019, the official sequel to the cult classic 1982 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott....
View ArticleRetro read–Philip K. Dick’s look at life in 1950s San Francisco, The Broken...
Review by C.J. Bunce It’s always exciting to work your way through a Philip K. Dick novel for the first time. The singular futurist who created the worlds of Blade Runner, The Man in the High Castle,...
View ArticleBlade Runner Origins–Take a first look back before the 1982 movie today as...
Review by C.J. Bunce Last year Titan Comics took fans of the Blade Runner movie franchise back to the future with the comic book series Blade Runner 2019 (reviewed here at borg). Both the sequel to...
View ArticleFree Comic Book Day 2021 heading to local comic shops in August with 50 titles
A long time from now in a galaxy far, far away–actually at your local comic book shop–Free Comic Book Day is returning for 2021. Often overlapping with the annual Star Wars Day–May the Fourth–this...
View ArticleGet a crash course in cinematography and storyboarding in Blade Runner 2049:...
Review by C.J. Bunce It’s been four years since the arrival of Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, the sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1982 sci-fi cult classic, Blade Runner, itself based on Philip K....
View ArticleRetro review–Raymond Chandler’s early hardboiled crime novel, The Big Sleep
Review by C.J. Bunce The first thing to know about Raymond Chandler’s 1939 novel The Big Sleep is that it was published three years after James M. Cain published the serialized Double Indemnity. If...
View ArticleSDCC @Home 2021–Futurism and tech noir enter a new era in first trailer for...
Some of the best dystopian futurism in years came to a conclusion this year in the pages of Titan Comics’ Blade Runner 2019, the official comic book sequel to the cult classic 1982 science fiction film...
View ArticleFree Comic Book Day returns today
Today at Elite Comics and your local comic book shop–Free Comic Book Day is returning for 2021. Often overlapping with the annual Star Wars Day–May the Fourth–this year it was pushed out a few...
View ArticleSmart Girl–Meet the next badass android in Fernando Dagnino’s action-packed...
Review by C.J. Bunce Spanish artist Fernando Dagnino (Superman, Resurrection Man, Suicide Squad) has designed the future of Blade Runner in the continuation series of Ridley Scott and Syd Mead’s future...
View ArticleThe future is now in The Art of Blade Runner: Black Lotus
Review by C.J. Bunce Blade Runner: Black Lotus is yet another anime success story–at least in the eyes of fans. The first season revisited the futurism of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and it featured...
View ArticleNew roleplaying game arrives as the most immersive Blade Runner experience yet
Review by C.J. Bunce The officially licensed roleplaying game for Blade Runner–the most eagerly awaited new RPG of the year, has arrived. RPG publisher Free League broke $1.5 million in pledges on...
View ArticleNow streaming–Anya Taylor-Joy is a malfunctioning cyborg synthetic in the...
Review by C.J. Bunce Jurassic Park. Blade Runner. Ex Machina. Frankenstein. Hollow Man. Morgan isn’t as good as any of these, but it uses elements from all of them in an interesting, exciting way....
View ArticleThe Crow roleplaying game embraces the dark film and all things Goth
Review by C.J. Bunce When the movie The Crow came out on VHS, even the workers at the video store were fighting to be first to rent it. The darkest of superhero films, it starred Brandon Lee, son of...
View ArticleParasite–The bizarre winner of the 2020 Oscars is now streaming on Max
Review by C.J. Bunce Parasite is an enigma. It’s difficult to explain or understand how a movie of converging genres got enough attention to be nominated for an Oscar, let alone win for Best Picture....
View ArticleNow streaming–Nimona, a strong contender for the year’s best fantasy and...
Review by C.J. Bunce Nimona is a shape-shifter who can transform into animals large, small, and very much over-sized. She can also transform to look like a girl. Viewers of Netflix this weekend...
View ArticleBlade Runner 2033: Labyrinth–Another movie trailer that… isn’t
Set between the 1982 film and the sequel film, the new video game Blade Runner 2033: Labyrinth takes place after the events of the Blackout (an event from a 2017 short tie-in anime film) and asks: What...
View ArticleLuv and Ash–First collected edition of Blade Runner 2039 arrives today
In 2020 Titan Comics took fans of the Blade Runner movie franchise back to the future with the comic book series Blade Runner 2019 (reviewed here at borg). Both the sequel to Ridley Scott’s Blade...
View ArticleExpanded edition of The Art and Soul of Blade Runner 2049 arrives
Review by C.J. Bunce It’s been six years since the premiere of Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, the sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1982 sci-fi cult classic, Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick’s...
View ArticleRetro fix–Government leadership unravels in Philip K. Dick’s dark tale, The...
Review by C.J. Bunce By 1963 Philip K. Dick had written 25 novels and 85 short stories, so when he penned The Simulacra, he had already perfected his singular style. That’s a few too many characters...
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