Book Review: Pinocchio: The Making of the Disney Epic by J.B. Kaufman
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 Cinema Sentries |
Written by Chad Derdowski Having spent the better part of the year revisiting a familiar galaxy far, far away and ...
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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 Cinema Sentries |
Written by Chad Derdowski The Twilight Zone… a dimension of sound. A dimension of sight. A dimension of mind. A ...
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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 Cinema Sentries |
Written by Chad Derdowski If you've never heard of Beyond Mars, don't feel too bad; the strip was only featured ...
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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 Cinema Sentries |
Written by Chad Derdowski At the risk of sounding like that old guy down the street wearing black socks with ...
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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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Book Review: Bravo For Adventure by Alex Toth
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Chad Derdowski Legendary artist and noted curmudgeon Alex Toth never made a secret of his continued frustrations with ...
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Book Review: The Ultimate Woody Allen Film Companion by Jason Bailey
By Gordon S. Miller |
The first thing I thought when I got a hold of this book was that if there was any filmmaker ...
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Book Review: The Amazing Spider-Man: The Ultimate Newspaper Comics Collection Vol. 1, 1979-1981 by Stan Lee and John Romita
By Steve Geise |
Let's face it: daily newspaper comic strips have never been a great way to follow serialized stories. When a story ...
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Book Review: Secret Agent X-9 by Dashiell Hammett & Alex Raymond
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Chad Derdowski Everyone loves a dream team. Who can forget Hulk Hogan and “Macho Man” Randy Savage joining ...
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Book Review: Star Trek: New Visions Volume 2 by John Byrne
By Gordon S. Miller |
In Star Trek: New Visions, John Byrne tells of the lost missions of the starship Enterprise under the command of ...
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Book Review: The Complete Dick Tracy, Volume 18: 1957-1959 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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Book Review: Tarzan: The Complete Russ Manning Newspaper Strips, Volume Four: 1974-1979
By Gordon S. Miller |
With the Library of America Comics releasing the fourth and final volume in the Eisner Award-winning series, they have published ...
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Book Review: Madeline Kahn: Being the Music, A Life by William V. Madison
By Adam Blair |
There are a handful of uniquely talented performers for whom, once or twice or maybe three times in a career, ...
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Book Review: Bravest Warriors: Things to Doodle and Do!
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Chad Derdowski I wasn't really familiar with Emmy Award-winning creator Pendleton Ward's Bravest Warriors when I requested a ...
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Book Review: Usagi Yojimbo: Senso by Stan Sakai
By Gordon S. Miller |
After a two-year break from his long-running Usagi Yojimbo, time spent working on the Eisner-nominated limited series Ronin 47, Stan ...
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Book Review: We’ll Be Here For the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin’ Showbiz Saga by Paul Shaffer with David Ritz
By Gordon S. Miller |
Paul Shaffer is best known for being the bandleader on David Letterman's late-night talk show, both at NBC and CBS, ...
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Book Review: Punk USA: The Rise and Fall of Lookout Records by Kevin Prested
By Jade Blackmore |
You hear a lot of praise about punk rock in the 1970s, but the ‘90s had a burgeoning punk scene, ...
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Book Review: Crate Digger: An Obsession with Punk Records by Bob Suren
By Greg Barbrick |
In Crate Digger: An Obsession with Punk Rock Records, Bob Suren attaches the story of his life to 50 of ...
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Book Review: Compound Cinematics: Akira Kurosawa and I by Shinobu Hashimoto
By Mat Brewster |
Shinobu Hashimoto wrote the screenplays to Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, Ikiru and The Seven Samurai. If you are keeping score, that's ...
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Book Review: In the Company of Legends by Joan Kramer and David Heeley
By Gordon S. Miller |
For 25 years, the award-winning filmmaking team of Joan Kramer and David Heeley lived a classic-film fan's dream many times ...
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Book Review: Quentin Tarantino FAQ: Everything Left to Know About the Original Reservoir Dog by Dale Sherman
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Mary K. Williams Author Dale Sherman's newest FAQ book, he previously wrote Armageddon Films FAQ and KISS FAQ, ...
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Book Review: Chappie: The Art of the Movie by Peter E. Aperlo
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Chad Derdowski A few weeks ago, Chappie, writer/director Neill Blomkamp's latest film, arrived in theaters to mixed reviews. ...
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Book Review: The Complete Steve Canyon, Volume 5: 1955-1956 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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Book Review: The Art of the Films: Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes by Sharon Gosling and Adam Newell
By Gordon S. Miller |
This book takes readers behind the scenes of the first two films of the revived Apes franchise, Rise of the ...
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