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On video–The Dark Knight Returns Part 2 amps up the action
More than 25 years after Frank Miller and Klaus Janson’s four-part prestige format comic book series/graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns changed the landscape for comic books thereafter, DC...
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BOOM! Studios plans adaptation of Frank Miller RoboCop screenplay
BOOM! Studio announced this week that Steven Grant will be writing an adaptation of Frank Miller’s unproduced original RoboCop 3 screenplay, in an 8-issue mini-series titled RoboCop: Last Stand. The...
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Review–JJ Abrams’s Star Trek Into Darkness does the unthinkable
Review by C.J. Bunce After more trailers than we can count, more minutes of screen-time revealed in advance, and more advertising and hype than any Star Trek film in recent memory, Star Trek Into...
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Original RoboCop comes to Blu-ray in remastered director’s cut
Thank you for your cooperation. It is likely the best format you will have seen Paul Verhoeven’s classic vision of social commentary meets science fiction since it appeared in theaters in 1987. If...
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In theaters—RoboCop, a great update to the sci-fi classic
Review by C.J. Bunce If you’re a fan of the 1987 Paul Verhoeven science fiction classic RoboCop starring Peter Weller, you might have decided to avoid the reboot showing in theaters this month. But if...
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RoboCop–The original sci-fi defender turns 30
Thank you for your cooperation. It is likely the best format you will have seen of director Paul Verhoeven’s classic vision of social commentary meeting science fiction since it appeared in theaters...
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Buttercup, 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...
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Longmire–Your best bet for shelter-at-home streaming
Review by C.J. Bunce If I updated my favorite characters list, I’m not sure yet whether two of the stars of the television series Longmire would make my top five, but I am sure they’d give my top 10 a...
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Buckaroo Banzai–Earl Mac Rauch creates a sequel to the cult sci-fi film 37...
Thirty-seven years after the premiere of the cult film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, the screenplay writer has penned a sequel. For fans of the quirky sci-fi movie, this...
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In Search of Tomorrow–Ambitious five-hour documentary chronicles 50+ sci-fi...
Review by C.J. Bunce I Love the ’80s was a ten-hour VH-1 series that waxed nostalgic for all things pop culture in the decade, and a new five-hour documentary strives to do the same thing with the...
View ArticleSherlock’s Cumberbatch to play villain in both The Hobbit and Star Trek sequel
Actor Benedict Cumberbatch confirmed this week that he has signed on to play the villain in the next Star Trek film, hopefully dispelling rumors once and for all that the prequel’s sequel won’t be...
View ArticleNo April Fools joke–The 1980s classic cyborg RoboCop to return in 2013
Speaking of yesterday’s discussion of Cybermen and The Borg, another well known borg sci-fi character was the subject of a New York Times article this week: RoboCop is being resurrected for the big...
View ArticlePeter Weller to lead cast in The Dark Knight Returns animated adaptation
By C.J. Bunce Eclipsing the highly anticipated live action summer release The Dark Knight Rises, The Dark Knight Returns is up next. An animated adaptation of Frank Miller’s 1986 seminal dystopian...
View ArticleFirst look: Peter Weller as Batman in the The Dark Knight Returns
This next animated Warner Brothers/DC Comics movie will be pretty hard to pass up and prompted me to check out Frank Miller’s Batman: Year One animated movie, which I plan to review here soon. But...
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