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Retro review–TCM’s screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s suspense thriller The Birds
By C.J. Bunce (Insert a spoiler alert here as a courtesy to anyone who really thinks a 50 year old film needs one!) Sometimes you are at the right place at the right time. Having recently heard about...
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Retro review–Mike Grell’s James Bond graphic novel, “Permission to Die”
Prior to 1989 the only James Bond that ever made it to comic books were standard adaptations, like an early comic book version of Dr. No. With the film Licence to Kill starring Timothy Dalton as...
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Retro-recommendation–Sneakers and River Phoenix, 20 years later
Born in a log cabin in Oregon 43 years ago this month, River Phoenix was raised much like the character he played in the acclaimed film The Mosquito Coast. He was born into a flower child family and...
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Retro review–“Scratch One,” one of eight “lost” Michael Crichton novels...
Review by C.J. Bunce If you’re like this reader, you probably thought you read the last of the catalog of Michael Crichton novels when you finished his last novel, Micro, reviewed here at borg.com...
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Retro review–One of Michael Crichton’s “lost” crime thrillers, Zero Cool
Review by C.J. Bunce Just two years before he would become a well-known breakout author with 1971’s Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton wrote his fifth novel under the pseudonym John Lange, Zero Cool....
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Retro review–Ian Fleming’s first novel adapted to film, Doctor No
Review by C.J. Bunce Doctor No can be best summed up by a cover blurb from an early paperback edition: “A beautiful nature girl and secret agent James Bond battle a power-mad maniac on a secluded...
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Retro review—Grave Descend, one of Michael Crichton’s “lost” adventure novels
Reviewed by C.J. Bunce Grave Descend was penned in 1970, the penultimate novel Michael Crichton wrote under the pseudonym John Lange back in his med school days, re-released thanks to Titan Books’...
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Retro review–The Spy Who Loved Me: Fleming at his worst
Review by C.J. Bunce As much as it is adventurous to travel the world by yourself, living place to place and job to job, it is also dangerous. Horror movies like Saw, Vacancy, and Psycho illustrate...
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Retro review–A fifth of Bond, Fleming’s From Russia with Love
Review by C.J. Bunce The fifth James Bond novel, From Russia with Love, was a popular mainstream read back in 1957. One of President Kennedy’s favorite books, the film adaptation would be the last...
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Retro review–Steven Spielberg’s classic “Jaws” on the big screen, 39 years later
ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE–On the Fourth of July weekend, you have to include a summer blockbuster in your planning, and there’s not much better you could ask for than a Fourth of July screening of Jaws, which...
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Retro review–Original The Creature from the Black Lagoon in 3D, now on Blu-ray
Who is my favorite Universal Studios classic movie monster? I have always answered The Creature from the Black Lagoon. I first watched the web-footed and web-handed fellow with gills in 3D on local...
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Retro review — Our favorite version of a Christmas classic
By Elizabeth C. Bunce Audiences have loved Charles Dickens’s yuletide ghost story, A Christmas Carol, for 171 years, and it’s been committed to film at least 50 times. It’s hard to dispute the status...
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Retro review–PKD’s “Now Wait for Last Year”
Review by C.J. Bunce Now Wait for Last Year suffers from those chronic problems that plagued many of Philip K. Dick’s science fiction novels: Dick’s obsession with drug-induced fantasies and his...
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Retro review–A look at Michael Keaton in Ron Howard’s Night Shift
In light of Michael Keaton’s Academy Award nomination for best actor in the new film Birdman, we’re launching Michael Keaton Week here at borg.com. Last year Keaton played a dramatic role as a...
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Retro review–John Hughes’ Mr. Mom, a Michael Keaton comedy classic
Classic comedy from the 1980s includes some of the most re-watchable films. There are the perennial favorites from the creative talents of the original Saturday Night Live cast, like Caddyshack, The...
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Retro review–A look at Michael Keaton in Quentin Tarentino’s Jackie Brown
With the popularity of Quentin Tarentino’s other writing and directing achievements, Jackie Brown tends to get short shrift. Based on Elmore Leonard’s novel Rum Punch, it’s the exception in...
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Retro review–Close Encounters of the Third Kind on the big screen again and...
Review by C.J. Bunce For me, Close Encounters of the Third Kind was the film that got away. I was lucky to have been taken to every great sci-fi classic and Spielberg film from Jaws forward, but...
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Retro Review–The 25th anniversary of Elmore Leonard’s Rum Punch, the novel...
Review by C.J. Bunce Elmore Leonard’s 30th novel would become one of his most widely known stories. Leonard, the “Dickens of Detroit” and one of America’s greatest crime authors, wrote 45 novels...
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Retro review–Fleming’s fourth Bond novel, Diamonds Are Forever
Review by C.J. Bunce First published in March 1956, Diamonds Are Forever is Ian Fleming’s fourth James Bond novel. This time Bond is tasked by M to follow the route of diamond smugglers transporting...
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Retro review–W.P. Kinsella′s baseball classic, Shoeless Joe, a deeper dive...
Review by C.J. Bunce It’s February, and for sports fans that can mean only one thing: Baseball is just around the corner. Spring training is only a few weeks away, so why not get into the mindset...
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