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Both “Melancholia” and Melancholia
By Jason McClain (@JTorreyMcClain) Dealing with depression from both sides presents an interesting quandary. As a friend to people that may be suffering from it, you want to be there, you want to...
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Spring TV season wrap-up–What we are (and aren’t) watching
By the borg.com Writing Staff As the spring TV season winds down, we thought we’d take a moment to reflect back on this season’s viewing, looking at what ultimately made our “must watch” list, and...
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Missing Comic-Con this year? Get your panel fix at Nerd HQ
Nerd HQ is back for its second year in the San Diego Gaslight District, right across from the Convention Center during Comic-Con. The star of the now-cancelled series Chuck, Zachary Levi, is back...
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The Best of 2012–The Hobbit, Argo, and Arrow lead off our list
Merry Christmas! It’s the end of December and another year is winding down. Everywhere you turn someone is talking about the Best of 2012, so here we offer our take, resulting from absorbing more...
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Mega-marathon: 99 hours of Psych lead up to Wednesday’s Episode 100
We’re beginning Hour 31 of the “99 Psychs on the Wall” Marathon on the cable channel Cloo here at midnight Monday morning. Have you seen all 99 Psych episodes? We have. Many times each for some,...
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It’s 2014!!! Now what?
Happy New Year!!! So what do we do now? How about a look at the start dates for our favorite TV shows? Many are already in progress, like Almost Human, Arrow, Dracula, Grimm, Major Crimes, The...
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NBC’s new Peacock channel previews Psych 2: Lassie Come Home
Welcome news for fans of Psych is a new trailer (below) for the second movie sequel in what is expected to be a series of movies we first discussed here at borg a whole strange month ago. The movie...
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Psych 3: This is Gus–Peacock airs trailer for the sequel to the sequel
Welcome news for fans of Psych is a new trailer (below) for the second sequel to a sequel, Psych 3: This is Gus. It looks even more like the series than last year’s fun drama we first discussed here...
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Psych 3: This is Gus–Steve Franks and cast of Psych deliver their best movie yet
Review by C.J. Bunce It’s a rare thing. For more than 50 years TV series have fought back after cancellation to snatch a TV movie or several (see The Incredible Hulk and Veronica Mars) or holiday...
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borg’s Best of 2021–Kick-Ass Genre Heroines
Once a year at borg we ask: What makes a great screen heroine? It’s time for borg′s annual look at the Best Kick-Ass Genre Heroines in film and television. We’re highlighting the very best from a...
View ArticleSan Diego Comic-Con countdown–just 10 days away!
The 2011 San Diego Comic-Con is just ten days away. Sold out months in advance as with past years, again more than 100,000 comics, sci-fi, fantasy, movie, TV and gaming fans will descend on the...
View ArticleComic-Con Day Two–Costume day for borg.com
Day Two of the San Diego Comic-Con proved to be non-stop fun. You can’t get the full comic convention experience without at least one day in costume so at borg.com that day was today. Elizabeth C....
View ArticleA conversation with Scott Bakula
Zachary Levi (Chuck on the TV series Chuck) took over Jolt’n Joe’s Restaurant in San Diego’s Gaslight District and during Comic-Con weekend he sold tickets to the public to benefit Operation Smile, a...
View ArticleReview–Good dialogue moves us forward in Smith/Hester’s Bionic Man story
Review by C.J. Bunce (with spoilers) Kevin Smith and Phil Hester’s second issue of the new Bionic Man comic offers some great exchanges between characters, particularly between Oscar Goldman and a lead...
View ArticlePsych Yourself Up for More Fun: Season 6 of Psych premieres on USA Network
Review by Elizabeth C. Bunce USA Network’s hour-long comedy about a fake psychic detective solving real crimes began its fifth season this week, with the first notable guest spots the network promises...
View ArticleThrilling Alice in Borderland manga gets English translation
Review by C.J. Bunce When we reviewed the first season of Netflix’s adaptation of Haro Aso’s popular manga series Alice in Borderland here at borg back in 2020, there was no English edition of the...
View ArticleMonk returns–Quirky ace detective is returning for one more case
Honeymoon in Vegas, Addams Family Values, I.Q., The X-Files, Gattaca, A Civil Action–So many roles, but you probably first really noticed Tony Shalhoub in Men in Black, Wings, and Galaxy Quest. He...
View ArticleNow streaming–Brats, or Who was in the Brat Pack anyway?
Review by C.J. Bunce The new documentary Brats is one man’s look at a reference in New York Magazine that changed his life. Remember the Brat Pack? You hadn’t heard that term prior to 1985, because...
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