While you’re waiting for Star Wars: The Last Jedi–Captain Phasma takes center...
Review by C.J. Bunce In her debut in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Captain Phasma was an enigma, the latest of the uniquely costumed bad guys in the Star Wars universe, following in a line that...
View ArticleColumbia offers next exclusive line of Star Wars winter wear with Hoth replicas
Leading up to the premiere of Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi later this month, this Friday fans of The Empire Strikes Back (and who isn’t?) will have a brief opportunity to fulfill a childhood...
View ArticleOpening weekend review–The Last Jedi, a different but familiar feeling Star...
Review by C.J. Bunce As you will no doubt hear as moviegoers walk out of theaters this holiday season, Star Wars: The Last Jedi is a very “different” Star Wars movie. That said, despite...
View ArticleNetflix series looks to nostalgia of “The Toys That Made Us”
Netflix is now carrying a new documentary television series that delves into the creators behind some of our favorite toys from the recent, and not so recent past. The Toys That Made Us features four...
View ArticleBook review–The Art of Star Wars: The Last Jedi answers many questions
Review by C.J. Bunce A new book takes a look behind the scenes of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Abrams Books’ The Art of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. As with the prior entries in its series: The Art of Star...
View ArticleMeet celebrities from film and TV at this year’s Planet Comicon in Kansas City
Never been to a comic book or pop culture convention? Always wanted to go to San Diego Comic-Con but you don’t have the vacation time available or the funds? Planet Comicon is next weekend in Kansas...
View ArticleA giant Jabba sail barge? Hasbro reveals new HasLab crowdfunding initiative...
Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner previewed the near future for Hasbro licenses and products at New York Toy Fair 2018 this weekend, including the creation of a new initiative called HasLab. According to the...
View ArticleNew animated Star Wars series is coming to Disney Channel and DisneyXD
Although we’ve seen the end of Star Wars Rebels with its finale airing just last month, DisneyXD is revving up its Star Wars animated universe again this Fall with an all-new adventure. Star Wars...
View ArticleRetro fix–A throwback for Star Wars Day: 1977’s The Story of Star Wars LP
Happy Star Wars Day 2018! It’s May the Fourth again, and this year we’re taking a look back to 1977, but not to the movie itself. Back then, before home video, you watched the movie and that was...
View ArticleAdvance look–Free Comic Book Day is back this Saturday
If you love comics and especially if you haven’t read a comic book in years then this Saturday’s Free Comic Book Day is all about you. See what you have been missing at comic book stores across the...
View ArticleSolo! New Star Wars posters, marketing images, videos, and more
Now that you’re all recovering from your Star Wars Day activities and readying for Free Comic Book Day today, let’s look at the latest from Solo: A Star Wars Story. We seem to be transitioning from...
View ArticleOpening weekend review–The space Western returns in Solo: A Star Wars Story
Review by C.J. Bunce Maybe you don’t need the Old West to have a great Western after all. Bringing back the feel of the first third of the original Star Wars: A New Hope with a Butch Cassidy and the...
View ArticleSolo “Official Guide”–Your best source for the new film’s costume and prop...
Review by C.J. Bunce It’s truly a rare summer when a new Star Wars movie is in theaters–the last time was in 2005 with the release of Revenge of the Sith. As with the past three post-Disney...
View ArticleNew volume spotlights the cinema magic behind the aliens and creatures of all...
Review by C.J. Bunce At long last Star Wars fans have a single volume of behind-the-scenes gold that includes more than the original trilogy and the prequels. Writer Mark Salisbury returns with his...
View ArticleScreen-used Han Solo blaster prop from Return of the Jedi sets auction sales...
Last weekend Julien’s Auctions sold an original Star Wars prop at a price that puts it among the highest prices ever for the public sale of a Star Wars movie prop, and it’s not going to be the last...
View ArticleSDCC 2018–Women costume designers and superheroine costumes take center stage...
Last weekend San Diego Comic-Con spotlighted women costume designers and the creations of more than a dozen women designers created for actresses for some of the decade’s biggest genre films. The...
View ArticleSDCC 2018–Auction houses display iconic props and costumes at Comic-Con
When you think of iconic with respect to genre films from Hollywood, what first comes to mind? The Wizard of Oz? Star Wars? Jaws? James Bond? Raiders of the Lost Ark? Forbidden Planet? Planet...
View ArticleSDCC 2018–Anovos continues to create great costume replicas for Star Wars and...
We first previewed the Anovos line of licensed replicas back in 2011 here at borg.com. Since then we’ve built their complete full-sized Star Wars original trilogy Stormtrooper kit and worn the...
View ArticleStar Wars Resistance preview–Disney brings a new chapter to the Star Wars saga
Following up after the bittersweet end to Star Wars Rebels earlier this year, Disney and Lucasfilm Animation has revealed the first trailer for the next chapter in the Star Wars saga, Star Wars...
View ArticleStar Wars Icons–New book goes behind the scenes in the life and times of Han...
Smuggler. Gambler. Rogue. Pilot. Han Solo. The hero of the Rebellion and the Resistance and rescuer of the galaxy more than once, one of fandom’s favorites is featured in his own book in November....
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