The Princess Bride, A Celebration–a magical journey behind the scenes
Review by C.J. Bunce When you see someone get a project just right sometimes you know it immediately. Norman Lear and Rob Reiner’s 1987 fantasy fairy tale The Princess Bride is a classic movie in...
View ArticlePlanet Comicon gearing up to be a big, BIG show in March 2015
Oliver Queen, Supergirl, Firestorm, Captain Jack Harkness, Amy Pond, and Princess Buttercup’s Westley all set to appear For more than a decade Planet Comicon has been one of the Midwest’s biggest...
View ArticleNew collectible cards–From Agent Coulson’s trading cards to Firefly and...
What better item to take to a convention to get Chris Evans’s autograph than a set of Agent Coulson’s Captain America trading cards–vintage and near mint, as Coulson bragged in the movie The Avengers....
View ArticleThe year’s first great fantasy: The Huntsman–Winter’s War
Review by Elizabeth C. Bunce We’ve said it before: It’s the rare sequel that’s actually better than its preceding installment (Terminator 2, The Empire Strikes Back, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of...
View ArticleReview–Gorgeous new Labyrinth Visual History chronicles magical work of Jim...
Fans of Jim Henson are always waiting for the next pebble of gold about the beloved creator of the Muppets and other fantastical creations on the big and small screen. Whether via a retrospective...
View ArticleLibrary of Congress adds The Princess Bride, 25 genre faves, and film...
The National Film Registry has grown to include 700 films this year with the addition this week of 25 films. In accordance with the National Film Preservation Act, a film is eligible to be preserved...
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 ArticleDirector Rob Reiner’s fantasy classic The Princess Bride, thirty years later
Last week The Princess Bride turned 30 and it returned to theaters this week as part of the Fathom Events and Turner Classic Movies partnership (more classics are on their way to your local theater so...
View ArticleThe Clockwork War, a new steampunk tale for kids
Review by C.J. Bunce Originally self-published via Kickstarter as With Kind Regards from Kindergarten, a new steampunk children’s chapter book arrives at bookstores this month from Insight Kids,...
View ArticleSDCC 2018–Savage encounters at Comic-Con
Consider this your moment of San Diego Comic-Con zen. This weekend I got a chance to visit Weta Workshop’s booth at the San Diego Convention Center. Lucky for me I was there the same time as...
View ArticleCelebrities from TV and film head to Planet Comicon Kansas City in two weeks
Captain Kirk, The Fonz, Chewbacca, The Flash, Starbuck, the Weasleys, two Supermans, Tank Girl, and a slate of characters from The Princess Bride are heading to Kansas City For twenty years Planet...
View ArticleNew book reveals auteur Ray Harryhausen’s lost scenes and projects that...
Review by C.J. Bunce As in any creative industry, as much as Hollywood is rife with successes, far more projects barely make it past the idea stage. Others make it through preliminary steps only to...
View ArticleThe Princess Bride redux–100 actors create a backyard version of the fantasy...
Why do you wear a mask? I think they are just terribly comfortable. I think everyone will be wearing them in the future. Since–like everyone else–actors are unable to do their jobs until the risk of...
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...
View ArticleRaya and the Last Dragon–Disney’s best animated feature yet arrives on...
Review by C.J. Bunce Raya and the Last Dragon is the first animated movie created during the pandemic, with 900 creators working together to make a full-scale feature film from home. The result is...
View ArticleRaya and the Last Dragon–Disney’s best animated feature yet arrives on...
Review by C.J. Bunce Raya and the Last Dragon is the first animated movie created during the pandemic, with 900 creators working together to make a full-scale feature film from home. The result is...
View ArticleThe Princess Bride, A Celebration–a magical journey behind the scenes
Review by C.J. Bunce When you see someone get a project just right sometimes you know it immediately. Norman Lear and Rob Reiner’s 1987 fantasy fairy tale The Princess Bride is a classic movie in every...
View ArticlePlanet Comicon gearing up to be a big, BIG show in March 2015
Oliver Queen, Supergirl, Firestorm, Captain Jack Harkness, Amy Pond, and Princess Buttercup’s Westley all set to appear For more than a decade Planet Comicon has been one of the Midwest’s biggest comic...
View ArticleNew collectible cards–From Agent Coulson’s trading cards to Firefly and...
What better item to take to a convention to get Chris Evans’s autograph than a set of Agent Coulson’s Captain America trading cards–vintage and near mint, as Coulson bragged in the movie The Avengers....
View ArticleThe year’s first great fantasy: The Huntsman–Winter’s War
Review by Elizabeth C. Bunce We’ve said it before: It’s the rare sequel that’s actually better than its preceding installment (Terminator 2, The Empire Strikes Back, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of...
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