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BOOK REVIEW #34: BEST. MOVIE. YEAR. EVER. HOW 1999 BLEW UP THE BIG SCREEN

Posted on 11 Aug 2020

You will reach the legal age of 21 this year if you are born in 1999. I’m was only in my early twenties back then and I can still recall how excited I was leaving the screening of The Matrix, appalled at how bad Star Wars Episode 1 was and annoyed by the uncle snoring loudly at the screening of The Sixth Sense. Brian Raftery’s Best. Movie. Year. Ever. How 1999 Blew Up The Big Sc ...

BOOK REVIEW #35: STEPHEN KING AT THE MOVIES

Posted on 21 Sep 2020

If you read through Stephen King at the Movies, you will realised a young Drew Barrymore starred in two of Stephen King movie adaptations, Firestarter and Cat’s Eye back to back. A small fun trivia fact to start this review. King remains one of the most prolific horror-thriller writers over the years and his works are of course highly sought after by Hollywood. Stephen King at the ...

BOOK REVIEW #36: THE NOLAN VARIATIONS: THE MOVIES, MYSTERIES AND MARVELS OF CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

Posted on 07 Feb 2021

Trust us, Christopher Nolan is going to join the long list of celebrated cinematic auteurs liked Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Stephen Spielberg in years to come. But first, there’s The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries and Marvels of Christopher Nolan, a compelling, in-depth study and interviews on Nolan and how he creates his riveting movies. Written by Tom Shone ...

BOOK REVIEW #37: MICHAEL J. FOX: NO TIME LIKE THE FUTURE

Posted on 23 Mar 2021

While Millennials and those who born after are going to go “Who?”, many of us, old-timers instantly know who Michael J. Fox is. Marty McFly from the Back to the Future series first comes to mind followed by Alex Keaton from Family Ties. At the peak of his career or to be precise at the age of 29, Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease. Though it didn’t end his career ...

BOOK REVIEW #38: DISNEY'S LAND

Posted on 12 Apr 2021

In an era where there’s only run-down, ugly and dirty amusement parks, Walter Elias Disney opened a theme park (the term wasn’t even coined prior) on Sunday, July 17, 1955 called Disneyland in Anaheim, California. The rest as they say is history. Richard Snow’s Disney’s Land recounts the events that led to the creation and the construction progress of the amusement p ...

BOOK REVIEW #39: GREENLIGHTS

Posted on 19 Apr 2021

Alright, alright, alright. The actor who famously coined the phrase is none other than Matthew McConaughey. The Texan has written his first book and according to him, this is not a traditional memoir, it’s more of an approach book. Also called a playbook based on adventures in his life. And he wants you if possible to subjectively adopt it. McConaughey for a start is not the conve ...

BOOK REVIEW #40: THE RIDE OF A LIFETIME

Posted on 21 Jul 2021

Robert Iger is going down in history as the sixth CEO of The Walt Disney company and like it or not, the most visionary of all (with the exception of the late Walt Disney of course). As Iger declared in the first chapter, The Ride of a Lifetime is not a memoir. It’s more of a book in which he shares his ideas, values and the stories behind in bringing Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and 21st Cen ...

BOOK REVIEW #41: THE BEAUTY OF LIVING TWICE

Posted on 23 Jul 2021

In 2001, Sharon Stone suffered a massive stroke that nearly cost her life and her career. Two decades later amid a severe pandemic, Stone launched her first memoir, The Beauty of Living Twice detailing her experience, her return to normal and intimate conversations about her life and childhood. Most people’s impression of Stone is obviously her sultry, no holds barred performance in t ...

BOOK REVIEW #42: TRUE BELIEVER THE RISE AND FALL OF STAN LEE

Posted on 22 Dec 2021

By all accounts, Stan Lee was a great comic book creator if not the greatest and most famous of all. But was he or was he not? As author Abraham Riesman’s first book tells us, the truth is actually far from reality. Born Stanley Martin Lieber to Romanian-born Jewish immigrants, Lee didn’t have much of a relationship with his family especially after the passing of his mother. He ...

BOOK REVIEW #43: WILL BY WILL SMITH

Posted on 27 Dec 2021

With the help of New York Times bestselling author, Mark Manson, the fresh prince of Bel-Air, Will Smith’s first memoir, Will is born. Willard Carroll Smith II., the firstborn of Willard Carroll Smith aka Daddio and Carolyn Elaine Bright aka Mom-Mom has always thought of himself as a coward. Despite being a A-list movie star, Smith is not afraid to embrace his cowardice in the first p ...

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