Book Reviews

Book Review: THE ART OF THE JUNGLE BOOK Is Filled With Great Imagery

Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book takes the popular 1967 Disney cartoon (and Rudyard Kipling’s novel) and turns it into a visually impressive live action feature which is stacked with an A-list voice cast that includes Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, [...]

May 1, 2016

Book Review: THE JAMES BOND ARCHIVES Will Leave You Shaken And Stirred

The James Bond Archives is the ultimate book for 007 fans. This exquisite hardback volume gives a detailed look at the history of the James Bond franchise, charting the franchise from Dr No to SPECTRE. Edited by Paul Duncan, The James Bond Archives [...]

January 24, 2016

Comic Review: The Offbeat SHRINKAGE Takes A Fantastic Voyage

Emmy winning writer Rob Kutner has teamed with artist John Lucas to bring comic book readers Shrinkage, a new digital comic book series that merges comedy and science fiction. Shrinkage is an immensely readable comic book that is filled with a lot [...]

January 10, 2016

Book Review: Great Scott! BACK TO THE FUTURE THE ULTIMATE VISUAL HISTORY

Back To The Future fans will want to rush out at 88mph to buy their copy of Back to the Future The Ultimate Visual History. This book by Michael Klastorin and Randal Atamaniuk looks at the making of Robert Zemeckis’ classic time-travelling trilogy [...]

November 18, 2015

Book Review: Kevin Costner’s Adventure THE EXPLORERS GUILD: VOLUME ONE: A PASSAGE TO SHAMBHALA

Kevin Costner is already a man of many talents. He’s had a hugely successful career as an actor, an Oscar-winning director/producer and an accomplished recording artist. Now he can add novelist to the long list, as his first novel The Explorers [...]

November 15, 2015

Book Review: Comic Fans Will Love THE BRONZE AGE OF DC COMICS

Taschen’s The Bronze Age of DC Comics is a tremendous look at the company that brought Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman to the world. Written by former DC Comics president Paul Levitz, this 416 page book tackles the company’s heavy-hitting [...]

October 31, 2015

Book Review: THE MAKING OF STANLEY KUBRICK’S 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY Is Out Of This World

The Making of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is a stunning piece of literature. This hefty behind-the-scenes look at Stanley Kubrick’s seminal sci-fi drama is highly recommended to cineastes. The images held between the quirky [...]

August 28, 2015

Book Review: TASCHEN’s FAVOURITE TV SHOWS – THE TOP SHOWS OF THE LAST 25 YEARS

Television has become as important as cinema. Long form storytelling is now a powerful way to tell sprawling narratives and recent times have seen a rise in high quality shows, many of which surpass the writing of what’s playing on the big [...]

July 12, 2015

Book Review: Get A Hollywood Entourage With Ari Gold’s THE GOLD STANDARD: RULES TO RULE BY

The Hollywood dream is to arrive in the city of angels with nothing, only to go on to achieve tremendous wealth and success within the film industry. That’s exactly what agent turned studio head Ari Gold did. His autobiography The Gold Standard: [...]

June 1, 2015

Book Review: HARRY POTTER: MAGICAL PLACES FROM THE FILMS

Harry Potter: Magical Places From The Films is a must for all fans of the Harry Potter films. It’s a hugely detailed book that gives a wonderful look at the fascinating physical sets used in the production of Warner Bros. epic blockbusting [...]

May 31, 2015

Book Review: Go Behind The Scenes Of George Miller’s Blockbuster With THE ART OF MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

The rich and textured world building done by George Miller for Mad Max: Fury Road is phenomenal. Miller used minimal CGI, opting to do things on a practical level that gave the Tom Hardy starrer an authenticity that few blockbusters have in the 21st [...]

May 25, 2015

Book Review: INSIDE HBO’S GAME OF THRONES II: SEASONS 3 & 4

Game Of Thrones has become a fill-blown cultural phenomenon. The show, based on George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series has transcended it’s fantasy origins and crossed over into the mainstream. There are now 2 types of people – [...]

April 29, 2015

Book Review: THE ART AND MAKING OF PENNY DREADFUL

Not only have Frankenstein and Dracula been hugely influential pieces of literature but they’ve become iconic in the realm of film and television. Penny Dreadful (named after a type of 19th Century pulp fiction) sees them rub shoulders with Oscar [...]

March 30, 2015

Book Review: INTERSTELLAR – BEYOND TIME AND SPACE: INSIDE CHRISTOPHER NOLAN’S SCI-FI EPIC

Interstellar: Beyond Time And Space: Inside Christopher Nolan’s Sci-Fi Epic is the perfect companion piece to Christopher Nolan’s science fiction epic. Much like the film itself, Mark Cotta Vaz’s book is a detailed and stylish affair which [...]

November 15, 2014

Book Review: ON SET WITH JOHN CARPENTER Is Like Leafing Through A Personal Photograph Album

Kim Gottlieb-Walker’s On Set With John Carpenter is a must for fans of the Master Of Horror. Gottlieb-Walker was the set photographer for director John Carpenter’s run of early films and the book is brimming with images from Halloween, The Fog, [...]

October 31, 2014

Book Review: Roger Moore’s LAST MAN STANDING: TALES FROM TINSELTOWN

Celebrity raconteurs are few and far between today. The skill of telling a story and captivating listeners is a lost art. There was a time when actors and musicians did the chat show circuit, regaling the audience with wonderful tales and [...]

September 16, 2014

Book Review: THE ART OF JOHN ALVIN Is A Classy Affair

The great movie poster is a dying art-form (literally). There was once a time when a movie poster could be admired for being a classy piece of pop art, something that not only advertised a movie, but also stood proudly as its own thing. These [...]

September 4, 2014

Book Review: SHOWRUNNERS: THE ART OF RUNNING A TV SHOW

Over the last 20 years US television has undergone a huge transformation. Quality writing has migrated to the small screen and series like The Sopranos, Mad Men and Game of Thrones (to name just a few) are catapulting episodic shows into a whole new [...]

September 4, 2014

Book Review: Stephen King Revs-Up The Tension With MR MERCEDES

Stephen King is having fun with Mr Mercedes – you can tell that. The renowned author tackles the detective-thriller with his latest novel, ticking-off genre tropes as he goes along. The book follows retired detective Hodges, a man who has lost [...]

June 15, 2014

Book Review: DOCTOR SLEEP Is Stephen King’s Follow-up To THE SHINING

It was a brave move for Stephen King to write a follow-up to his seminal 1977 novel The Shining. The book (and Stanley Kubrick’s film) have dug deep into horror lore and there’s a weight of expectation resting on Doctor Sleep. It would have been [...]

June 5, 2014

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