Review by Elizabeth C. Bunce Everyone here at borg.com is a loyal fan of Warehouse 13, and we eagerly waited for Season 3 with excitement and just a *leetle* bit of anxiety (Will She or Won’t She? regarding a return for Joanne Kelly, after Myka quits in a…well, to tell you the truth, we can’t […]
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Warehouse 13 season 3 ends with a little hijinx and unknown fate for Jinksy
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Dresden or Malfoy as Bond? Why not?
Finishing up our speculation of a future James Bond that began here yesterday, we’ve got two actors who would be good picks, and who are probably not obvious choices for the super-spy shortlist. These picks are for an older vs a younger Bond, figuring an actor who can look 40-45 is probably in the ideal range. Then […]
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Book review–Warehouse 13: A Touch of Fever
Review by C.J. Bunce TV tie-ins need to achieve a few basic concepts to be successful. First, they need to capture the feel and voice of each main character and do it quickly. Second, they need to skip over the setting and world building, or at most, give the reader the minimum necessary information to understand […]
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Syfy Channel special celebrates 20 years on TV
Last night the Syfy Channel premiered a new show documenting its 20 years of bringing science fiction and related programming to cable TV. The Syfy Channel 20th Anniversary Special chronicles the key landmarks of the channel going back to its inception in 1992 as a network of mostly reruns of classic sci-fi series like The […]
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The Winchesters–Supernatural horror meets high adventure in new series
Review by C.J. Bunce The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, Grimm, Warehouse 13, The Librarians. Now spinning off of 15 years and 327 episodes of Supernatural, CW’s new series The Winchesters is staking its claim as the next amazing high adventure series with a horror twist. The pilot doesn’t waste any time introducing the […]
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Now streaming–Nimona, a strong contender for the year’s best fantasy and animated movie
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 probably haven’t met an animated character this fun since the red-headed girl in Brave. Nimona is alone, which makes it easy for […]
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The Strange Case of Oscar Zahn–Lovecraft meets The Dresden Files in spooky graphic novel
Review by C.J. Bunce The Strange Tales of Oscar Zahn is the latest Web Toon comic adapted into a hardcover storybook edition. In this first volume of what looks like an ongoing series, we meet the title character, a strange appearing ghost–we just see his skull floating above his body–who is a paranormal investigator and […]
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Dead Places, and other single-season TV greats
Review by C.J. Bunce It seems hard to believe it’s been 14 years since we first talked about one-season wonders here at borg. We’re talking about series cut short–that had the potential to have long-running stories, and maybe even five to seven seasons of genre-of the week thrills, laughs, or mysteries because of great storytelling, […]
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