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New trailers for Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 From video games to manga and children’s books to the big-screen, Five Nights at Freddy’s is coming back to theaters this year for a sequel.  Blumhouse (who brought us wins with M3GAN, …
22.11.2025 07:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Frankenstein — A faithful, gory yet understated adaptation from del Toro Review by C.J. Bunce No question about it–I was surprised watching director/auteur Guillermo del Toro’s long-awaited adaption of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a Netflix production …
21.11.2025 06:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Adventures in Faerûn — A Dungeons & Dragons expansion for Dungeon Masters Review by C.J. Bunce Yesterday here at borg we discussed Wizards of the Coast’s new expansion book Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn (just released and available now h…
21.11.2025 06:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Heroes of Faerûn — Dungeons & Dragons’ new Forgotten Realms player expansion is here Review by C.J. Bunce For anyone who loves R.A. Salvatore’s Legend of Drizzt novels, the recent Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves movie, Baldur’s Gate, heroes Minsc & Boo i…
21.11.2025 06:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Superman: The Art and Making of the Film peeks at the beginning of the new DC Universe Review by C.J. Bunce One of the best written looks inside the DC Comics universe of films arrives this week with Abrams Books’ Superman: The Art and Making of the Film, available for pre-orde…
21.11.2025 06:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Death by Lightning — An entertaining look at a brief presidency Review by C.J. Bunce Not since Henry Fonda played a young Honest Abe in Young Mr. Lincoln and Raymond Massey played him in Abe Lincoln in Illinois, not since Cliff Robertson played a young JFK in P…
21.11.2025 06:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Toxic Avenger — Look behind the scenes at an unusual hero-monster mash-up Review by C.J. Bunce Macon Blair has had a pretty good year.  The co-star of the hit series The Lowdown is also the man behind the return of 1980s cult horror hero Toxie aka The Toxic Avenger.  Des…
21.11.2025 06:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Savage Sword of Conan — Third collection of stories features lost Roy Thomas tale Review by C.J. Bunce A few years ago I called this black and white series the best drawn Conan comic in years.  Now fantasy fans have the third volume of Titan Comics and Heroic Signatures’ m…
21.11.2025 06:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Lowdown — Ethan Hawke noir tale is one of the year’s best series Has Ethan Hawke really grown into playing roles once played by Lee Marvin and James Coburn?  He certainly borrows their mettle and gravitas as a nitty gritty Tulsa “truthstorian” journa…
21.11.2025 06:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dungeons & Dragons coloring book, journals arrive for the holidays Wizards of the Coast, Ten Speed Press, and Clarkson Potter have teamed up to create new officially licensed Dungeons & Dragons tie-ins for your favorite gamer: a coloring book and two new hardc…
21.11.2025 06:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Play Dirty — Shane Black’s big-action Parker movie is the real deal Review by C.J. Bunce Donald E. Westlake aka Richard Stark’s Parker adapted by director Shane Black?  It looks good on paper.  It turns out it looks even better as a big action movie starring …
21.11.2025 06:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Birds, Strangers, and Psychos — A new Hitchcock-inspired short story anthology Review by C.J. Bunce You can tell filmmakers Debra Hill and John Carpenter were inspired by Alfred Hitchcock–it comes through the in their films–and just look at the Easter eggs in movi…
21.11.2025 06:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Birds, Strangers, and Psychos — A new Hitchcock-inspired short story anthology Review by C.J. Bunce You can tell filmmakers Debra Hill and John Carpenter were inspired by Alfred Hitchcock–it comes through the in their films–and just look at the Easter eggs in movi…
21.11.2025 06:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Working Man — Taken meets The Equalizer in latest Jason Statham role Review by C.J. Bunce For anyone looking for your annual fix of Jason Statham, the actor and action star delivered this year with his latest tough guy role.  In A Working Man he plays Levon Cade, a …
21.11.2025 06:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Now streaming — The Fantastic Four: First Steps arrives on Disney+ Review by C.J. Bunce Phase VI of the Marvel Cinematic Universe began this summer with the fourth theatrical outing and third cast for the sci-fi superhero characters Mr. Fantastic, the Invisible Wo…
21.11.2025 06:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dark Winds — McClarnon, Matten, Gordon, and Martinez shine in third season of Hillerman mystery Review by C.J. Bunce After a promising first season and a lackluster second, the third season of the adaptation of Tony Hillerman’s Dark Winds finally gives its heroes their due.  Series star…
21.11.2025 06:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Supernatural returns with new Winchester brothers stories Review by C.J. Bunce In a turn not seen since the Winchester brothers teamed up with the Scooby Gang on an animated episode back in 2018, Supernatural is back as a comic book series.  That’s …
21.11.2025 06:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The First Quarry — Max Allan Collins doubles back to a nostalgic first hit Review by C.J. Bunce Goodness.  That’s what you’ll find with the crime novels of Max Allan Collins, and that goes double for his account of his famous Vietnam vet hitman’s very fi…
21.11.2025 06:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Turkey Ramen and Pumpkin Pie Noodles — It’s what’s for Thanksgiving So what’s for Thanksgiving this year? For anyone who’s ever been on a budget, you’ve probably found your way to microwavable ramen noodles one time or another.   A cup o’ no…
05.11.2025 01:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dungeons & Dragons–A new Young Adventurer’s Guide is here Review by C.J. Bunce Back in 2019 Ten Speed Press partnered with Wizards of the Coast to publish a series of adventurer books to get young readers involved with storytelling, fantasy worlds, and ro…
05.11.2025 01:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fackham Hall — Next Brit comedy is Downton Abbey with an Airplane! twist When was the last time they made a Monty Python movie?  England pulls out all the stops and pulls in all the tropes in its next comedy, Fackham Hall, a big send-up of Downton Abbey and stodgy Briti…
05.11.2025 01:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Final trailer arrives for the final chapter of Stranger Things Joe Keery’s Steve Harrington as the hero.  Natalia Dyer’s Nancy Wheeler getting to be cool.  Gaten Matarazzo’s Dustin Henderson getting to be the friend to everyone.  What do you …
05.11.2025 01:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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NecroMunchicon — Terrifying treats for your Halloween party Happy Halloween! Looking for something unique for a Halloween party?  Check out the digital or print edition of The NecroMunchicon: A Necronomnomnom Cookbook — Unspeakable Snacks and Terrifyi…
05.11.2025 01:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Toxic Avenger — A novelization surpassing its source material Review by C.J. Bunce The 1989 Batman movie, the original RoboCop, any version of Frankenstein, and every other Marvel Comics superhero origin story.  What do they have in common?  Their tropes all …
05.11.2025 01:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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THB — Eisner-nominated 1990s indie sci-fi story returns Review by C.J. Bunce “The hardest thing in the world to do is have the sense to live differently and the sense to let others live differently, too.”  Four-time Eisner Award-winning writ…
29.10.2025 21:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Loose End — Hard Case Crime comic takes a Rodriguez/Tarantino trip Review by C.J. Bunce Hard Case Crime’s latest graphic novel is writer Dave Dwonch and artist Travis Hymel’s The Loose End, now available at comic shops and here at Amazon.  Collecting t…
29.10.2025 21:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sex in the ’30s? TCM digs into cutting-edge “Pre-Code” cinema Review by C.J. Bunce This week Turner Classic Movies/TCM takes a new look back at the ahead-of-their-time movies of the early 1930s.  In its latest addition to the TCM Film Library, Pre-Code Essent…
29.10.2025 21:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Shetland — 10th season of Scotland Noir is almost here A year after the ninth season kicked in gear for what has become the most engaging British police procedural of the past decade, Shetland is returning soon to BBC One and BritBox.  Proving that the…
29.10.2025 21:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Kraken — Monsters and amazing high adventure collide in new graphic novel Review by C.J. Bunce I’m a fan of celebrating stories that pile on the tropes–when it’s done right.  As soon as you start reading the new graphic novel Kraken (just out from Titan…
29.10.2025 21:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nothing Special — Webcomic wraps the fantasy fun in final volume Review by C.J. Bunce Webcomic writer-artist Katie Cook introduced readers to fantasy characters Callie, Declan, Lasser, and Radish in her series Nothing Special, a comic that could have been just a…
29.10.2025 21:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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