Review by C.J. Bunce In The Oliver Stone Experience, writer Matt Zoller Seitz provided fans of Oliver Stone with an incredibly immersive deep-dive into the thought process of the acclaimed and sometimes controversial director. Spending five years with Stone debating and analyzing the auteur’s films and influences was the stuff for the ultimate fan of […]
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No doubt the movies of writer-director Wes Anderson are an acquired taste. Fortunately he exhibits some variety, as we’ve explored before here at borg. Whether it’s Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel, or Isle of Dogs, at […]
Review by C.J. Bunce In that niche area of dystopian dog movies (that’s the adaptation of Harlan Ellison’s A Boy and his Dog and… ?), Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs not only soars to the top of the list, it’s a great film in all sorts of categories: it’s new, yet a classic children’s story, […]
Review by C.J. Bunce M. Night Shyamalan is an auteur in a small league of directors that includes Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Wes Anderson, the Coen Brothers, and Stanley Kubrick. First, you either love or hate each creator’s oeuvre, their signature, their style. But their works are unmistakably their own. Shyamalan’s impact […]
When we created last year’s preview of 2018 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. All year we tried to keep up with what Hollywood had to offer and honed in on the genre content we […]
Initially announcing that it would air at the end of 2017, Fox released the first trailer for the next season of The X-Files, fifteen years after we all thought The X-Files were officially closed. On the heels of last year’s short season return, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson return again as our favorite paranormal agents […]
Review by C.J. Bunce The term “mind-blowing” is one of the most over-used phrases on the Web. In truth, I am not sure I have ever seen anything I would call mind-blowing. Yet if something were to come close, it may be the pilot to USA Network’s new intense, psychological thrill ride, Mr. Robot. Although I […]
It’s been a long time since a Bill Murray movie really clicked, an undisputed, resounding hit. Something that highlights why we first loved this actor who got his big break on Saturday Night Live, then was propelled to movie star with Caddyshack, Stripes, and Ghostbusters. Meanwhile he started a dramatic career, with hints of a serious guy even in […]
Even more so than the annual Academy Awards for achievements in film, the Primetime Emmy Awards seem to either award the same thing every year or never get around to awarding series, actors, and creative voices that really push the bounds of the ordinary. Is that a generalization ripe for argument? Of course. But when […]
