Pierce Brosnan’s second outing as Ian Fleming’s James Bond, 007, is the final recommendation from the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book following a screening of Goldfinger, and I quite happily make the argument that this may be Brosnan’s best outing in his four Bond films. From the opening White Knight sequence, to…
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The LEGO Batman Movie: The Making of the Movie (2017) – Tracey Miller-Zarneke
As evidenced by my review this past Saturday, I loved The LEGO Batman Movie, it was so much fun to watch, and revel in. It was funny, family friendly, and told a brand new Batman story. So I was delighted when DK Canada sent me their latest, The Making of the Movie. Much like the…
The Lego Batman Movie: The Essential Guide (2017) -Julia March
The Lego Movie when it came out, took the world by surprise with just how fun it was, and it’s breakout character, which should not be a surprise, was Batman. It should come then as no surprise that Lego decided the Caped Crusader should have his own film, which opens next month. DK Canada gave…
Star Wars: Rogue One – The Ultimate Visual Guide (2016) – Pablo Hidalgo
Can you believe that we get a Star Wars movie every year now for the next foreseeable future? That time between Star Wars and Empire, and then Jedi, seemed interminable growing up. The wait between Jedi and Menace was even longer, and soured many a viewer, and while Awakens was a fun ride, not everyone…
Doctor Who: The Visual Dictionary – Updated and Expanded (2014) – Jason Loborik, Neil Corry, Jacqueline Rayner, Andrew Darling, Kerri Doughtery, David John and Simon Beecroft
This week’s DK book is going to get a lot of use from me in the upcoming months, as I dive into the rebirth of Doctor Who (I’m almost done with my run through the original series as I write this). DK Books and the BBC have come together to create this very beautiful visual…
Game of Thrones: Season 6
It’s all new territory for GoT fans with the release of Season 6 to Blu-Ray and DVD this week via HBO. The series ventures into new territory, as they leave the last of the published books behind and now, fans of the novels and the show have to wait to see how things in Westeros will…
Spartacus (1960) – Stanley Kubrick
Kubrick takes us back to 1st Century B.C.E. for the next stop in the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film. The classic story of a slave that leads a revolt against the Roman Empire, that has become decadent, and indulgent. Leading the cast, and serving as executive producer is Kirk Douglas, who is joined…
The Dining and Social Club for Time Travellers: Book One – Divine Intervention (2016) – Elyse Kishimoto
Word On The Street, here in Toronto is a wonderful book festival that highlights authors, publishing companies, and smaller book stores, and when it took over the Harbour Front for its event last weekend, I was eager to see what they had in store for me this year. Amongst the young adult readers I found a…
The Star Trek Book (2016) – Paul Ruditis, Sandford Galden-Stone and Simon Hugo
DK Canada has another winner on its hands. This book is going to get a lot of use by me as I start, with my very next post, a journey through all of Star Trek’s incarnations. When I was a kid I was introduced to space opera first, and it changed my life. That was…
The Tournament (2013) – Matthew Reilly
Matthew Reilly brings his thrill-a-minute style of writing back to the 16th century as he populates his novel with historical figures caught up in intrigue, lust and a legendary chess tournament in the heart of the Ottoman Empire, Constantinople. A young English princess, Elizabeth Tudor, Bess, all of thirteen years old, accompanies her teacher Roger…
The Mind Reels 