Book Review: Star Trek: 50 Artists 50 Years
By Todd Karella |
It's been 50 years since the original Star Trek television show debuted on television. While the original series lasted only ...
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Book Review: The Art and Making of The Flash by Abbie Bernstein
By Todd Karella |
Over the last couple of years, the CW has built up a number of television series based on the DC ...
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Book Review: To Pixar and Beyond by Lawrence Levy: Surprisingly Accessible Financial Memoir
By Kent Conrad |
If Toy Story had flopped, it would have been the end of Steve Jobs. Remembered in his later life for ...
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Comic Book Review: Motor Crush #1 by Brenden Fletcher, Cameron Stewart, and Babs Tarr
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Katelyn Powers Last year, a team of creatives re-designed a popular DC Comics heroine known as Batgirl. (Note: ...
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Kristen’s Book Club for December 2016
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez Winter is upon us. Snow is falling, cocoa is plentiful and there's no better time to ...
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Kristen’s Book Club for November 2016
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez The temperatures dropping and Thanksgiving is right around the corner. But that's no reason to stop ...
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Book Review: TV Finales FAQ by Stephen Tropiano and Holly Van Buren
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Applause FAQ series of books typically make for good reads and resources for fans of a particular pop-culture franchise, ...
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Kristen’s Book Club for October 2016
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez Feel that chill in the air? It's time to grab a mug of tea and curl ...
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Book Review: Batman: Facts and Stats from the Classic TV Show by Y.Y. Flurch & Rian Hughes
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Chris Morgan This year marks the 50th anniversary of Batman, the TV show based on the popular comic ...
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Book Review: The Amazing Spider-Man: The Ultimate Newspaper Comics Collection Vol. 3, 1981-1982 by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, and Fred Kida
By Steve Geise |
After taking over the art duties from comic strip originating artist John Romita Sr., Stan Lee's brother Larry Lieber continued ...
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Paperback Review: Madeline Kahn – Being The Music, A Life by William V. Madison
By Davy |
As we all know, Madeline Kahn was a genius, a trailblazer, and a comedy icon. We fell in love with ...
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Book Review: Star Trek: The Classic UK Comics, Volume 1 (1969-1970)
By Gordon S. Miller |
In the episode “The Alternative Factor” from the first season of the Original Series, the Enterprise crew have their first ...
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Kristen’s Book Club for September 2016
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez School's starting up and if you have kids that means you'll actually have time to read ...
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Kristen’s Book Club for August 2016
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez The summer is winding down and school is only a few weeks away. Here's what's worth ...
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Kristen’s Book Club for July 2016
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez The sun is out and the temperature's rising. What better way to spend your time than ...
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Book Review: The Nice Guys: The Official Movie Novelization by Charles Ardai
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by The Vern I know it may be difficult for some of you to understand, but there was a ...
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Book Review: The Complete Steve Canyon, Volume 6: 1957-1958 by Milton Caniff
By Gordon S. Miller |
Since January 2012, the Library of American Comics, by way of IDW Publishing, has been releasing collections of Milton Caniff's ...
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Kristen’s Book Club for June 2016
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez From a romantic adaptation to the world of classic Hollywood, here's a trio of titles worth ...
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Book Review: Hollywood Cafe: Coffee with the Stars by Steven Rea
By Darcy Staniforth |
Author Steven Rea has collected photos of over 200 Hollywood stars enjoying coffee in his book Hollywood Café: Coffee with ...
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By Gordon S. Miller |
In his introduction, author J.B. Kaufman reveals that he considers Walt Disney's Pinocchio (1940) a member of “the fraternity of ...
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Book Review: Firefly: The Gorramn Shiniest Dictionary and Phrasebook in the ‘Verse
By Mark Buckingham |
I missed the Firefly bandwagon back when it initially aired, probably because I didn't have cable at the time or ...
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Kristen’s Book Club for May 2016
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez Our Gang: A Racial History of the Little Rascals by Julia Lee The cherubic innocence of ...
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Book Review: The Rocky Horror Picture Show FAQ by Dave Thompson
By Jade Blackmore |
Richard O' Brien's gender-bending musical The Rocky Horror Show premiered in London in 1973, at the height of the U.K.'s ...
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Book Review: Batman V Superman — Dawn of Justice: The Art of the Film by Peter Aperlo
By generaljabbo |
Batman V Superman — Dawn Of Justice is a landmark event in the DC Extended Universe. It marks the first ...
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Book Review: Batman V Superman — Dawn of Justice: Tech Manual by Adam Newell and Sharon Gosling
By generaljabbo |
Through the years, the Batman character has been known for his gadgets and technology. These have ranged from the ridiculous ...
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Book Review: The Amazing Spider-Man: The Ultimate Newspaper Comics Collection Vol. 2, 1979-1981 by Stan Lee and John Romita
By Steve Geise |
st The trouble with a daily serialized story is how long it takes for anything to happen. Thanks to IDW's ...
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Book Review: Hollywood Celebrates the Holidays: 1920-1970 by Karie Bible & Mary Mallory
By Gordon S. Miller |
Joseph Campbell is quoted telling others to follow their bliss and fans of Classic Hollywood should be glad co-authors Karie ...
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Book Review: The Blacklist: Elizabeth Keen’s Dossier by Tara Bennett and Paul Terry
By generaljabbo |
Now in its third season, The Blacklist, which stars James Spader as Raymond Reddington, a former Navy Officer turned super ...
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Kristen’s Book Club: April 2016
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez Spring has sprung, so let's see what's worth putting on your bookshelves this month. Spinster: Making ...
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Book Review: Star Trek: New Visions Volume 3 by John Byrne
By Gordon S. Miller |
Growing up in the ‘70s and early ‘80s, before VCRs became commonplace in households, we were limited to the whims ...
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Book Review: The Complete Dick Tracy, Volume 19: 1959-1961 by Chester Gould
By Gordon S. Miller |
As the Library of American Comics and IDW Publishing continue to collect The Complete Dick Tracy by Chester Gould, Volume ...
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Kristen’s Book Club: March 2016
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez I'm an avid book reader and it's because of this avidity that I can read freely ...
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The Art of Mad Max: Fury Road by Abbie Bernstein: Pretty Pictures! Good Words!
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Elias Levey-Swain Mad Max: Fury Road is a phenomenon. It is the summer blockbuster beloved by millions, revered ...
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Book Review: The Art and Making of Hannibal: The Television Series: A Gleefully Grisly Souvenir
By Kent Conrad |
When I first heard about the Hannibal TV show, it seemed like a joke - the apotheosis of the modern ...
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Book Review: The Art of Regular Show by Shannon O’Leary
By Gordon S. Miller |
Created by JG Quintel, Regular Show regales viewers with the zany exploits of Mordecai the blue jay and Rigby the ...
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Book Review The Art of Mad Max: Fury Road by Abbie Bernstein
By Chad Derdowski |
Having spent the better part of the year revisiting a familiar galaxy far, far away and allowing it to consume ...
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Book Review: The Art and Making of Hannibal: The Television Series by Jesse McLean
By Lorna Miller |
If you are going through withdrawal from the cancellation of the ingeniously gorgeous television show Hannibal created by Bryan Fuller, ...
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Book Review: The Twilight Zone FAQ by Dave Thompson
By Chad Derdowski |
The Twilight Zone… a dimension of sound. A dimension of sight. A dimension of mind. A land of shadow and ...
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Book Review: Star Wars FAQ by Mark Clark
By Gordon S. Miller |
Ever since Disney announced plans to continue the Star Wars film franchise, the pop-culture landscape has been flooded with products ...
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Book Review: Alien Next Door by Joey Spiotto
By Mark Buckingham |
In a most unexpected crossover, Joey Spiotto combines murderous monsters with children's books in Alien Next Door: In Space, No ...
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Book Review: The X-Files FAQ by John Kenneth Muir
By Shawn Bourdo |
I have been a confessed horror and science fiction TV show fan my whole life. It's a tradition that came ...
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Book Review: Beyond Mars by Jack Williamson and Lee Elias
By Chad Derdowski |
If you've never heard of Beyond Mars, don't feel too bad; the strip was only featured in one newspaper, the ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: The Complete Daily Newspaper Comics Volume 1 (1938-1940) by Al Taliaferro
By Gordon S. Miller |
Starting out as a supporting character in the 1934 Walt Disney short “The Wise Little Hen,” Donald Duck went on ...
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Book Review: TCM Presents Leonard Maltin’s Classic Movie Guide (Third Edition)
By Davy |
Although some books on cinema should be taken with a few grains of salt, not just because of some ways ...
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Book Review: Sherlock Holmes: The Thinking Engine by James Lovegrove
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Anastasia Klimchynskaya Early in the third season of Elementary, one of its episodes offered an intriguing premise: a ...
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Book Review: Underground: The Subterranean Culture of DIY Punk Shows by Daniel Makagon
By Jade Blackmore |
Pure punk rock, regardless of a band's popularity or the decade in which they've performed, has pretty much been an ...
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Book Review: LOAC Essentials Vol. 7: Tarzan of the Apes
By Gordon S. Miller |
Volume 7 in the Library of American Comics Essentials series focuses on the comic strip starring Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan. ...
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Book Review: The Shining: Studies in the Horror Film, Edited by Danel Olson
By Adam Blair |
For a director whose output totaled only about a baker's dozen of feature films, Stanley Kubrick embraced a remarkably wide ...
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Book Review: Superman: The Atomic Age Sundays, Volume 1 (1949-1953)
By Chad Derdowski |
At the risk of sounding like that old guy down the street wearing black socks with sandals and shaking a ...
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Book Review: The Art of Mad Max: Fury Road by Abbie Bernstein
By Gordon S. Miller |
One of the most anticipated films of 2015 was Mad Max: Fury Road. After 30 years since the uneven Beyond ...
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