Back in February 2015 we reviewed here at borg.com director, composer, and writer John Carpenter’s first solo album, John Carpenter’s Lost Themes. His new music evoked the feel of his earlier compositions for more than a dozen of his films–a programmatic treat for the ears that had us imagining what characters and scenes were appearing […]
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There’s something about Mary, a new horror film coming this fall, that screams out John Carpenter. It has that seaside feel of Carpenter’s The Fog, complete with a haunted seafaring vessel and moody cinematography. It also has that trapped-in-an-evil-car vibe of Carpenter’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Christine. It’s about an old boat with a past, […]
Last February writer/director/musician John Carpenter released his first solo album of thematic music in the style of the many soundtracks he scored over his 50 years of filmmaking. Chase themes, pulsating rampages, ethereal motifs, dark places, sustained tension, and electronic vibrations of space–we loved the evocative, unsettling, out-of-this-world sounds on the album, titled Lost Themes, reviewed here at borg.com. Carpenter, known for his […]
Review by C.J. Bunce With costumes designed by Anna B. Sheppard, the designer for Schindler’s List, Band of Brothers, Inglourious Basterds, and Captain America: The First Avenger, you know your World War II movie is in good hands. The first ninety minutes of Overlord is the stuff of the classic World War II movie. Think […]
Review by C.J. Bunce It’s what Blade Runner fans have been waiting for, and if your appetite was whetted by the movie Blade Runner 2049, then you’re going to want to check our the next era of Blade Runner stories as Titan Comics goes back to a parallel Earth future in Blade Runner 2019. The […]
The year is 2020 and it’s hell on Earth. Ching Dai has declared himself ruler of all. Jack Burton is alone in a tiny corner of Florida with only his broken radio to talk to, until one day it picks up a message. Someone is out there. After thirty years a sequel to Big Trouble […]
Review by C.J. Bunce No guns, no killing the other patients, and no cops. The titular Hotel Artemis in Drew Pearce‘s directorial debut film is a secret hospital for criminals, criminals who must be members to utilize its elite services, which consist of high-tech, life-saving medicine. Services are provided under the direction of a craggy, […]
Review by C.J. Bunce So many books that go behind the scenes of films take a similar approach, skimming the surface with interviews of only top production heads, providing diehard fans of the property who have read all the fanzines little that is new. So when you get an immersive treatise like The Making of […]
Review by C.J. Bunce If you were an artist and asked to create a modern, retro poster based on John Carpenter’s 1982 cult favorite sci-fi/horror movie The Thing, what would be your centerpiece? Kurt Russell’s arctic helicopter pilot MacReady? The mimicking monster in one of its many phases? Maybe just the secluded facility among the […]
