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BOOK REVIEW #44: JURASSIC PARK: THE ULTIMATE VISUAL HISTORY

Posted on 29 Apr 2022

Insight Editions is known for their lavish hardcover ultimate visual history on popular movie series from Ghostbusters, Back to the Future to Die Hard. But nothing is as huge and iconic as the Jurassic Park franchise. And as the poster says “An Adventure 65 million years in the making”. Before the arrival of Jurassic World: Dominion in June, Jurassic Park – The Ultimate Vi ...

BOOK REVIEW #45 ON AIR: UNTOLD STORIES FROM CALDECOTT HILL Book Review

Posted on 10 May 2022

As the preface tells us, Caldecott was the home of Singapore’s national broadcaster for 82 years before they shift to Mediapolis at One North. While the Andrew road site has been sold for $280 million for a proposed redevelopment into premium bungalows, stories and history will always remain in the hearts of many who helped built up the broadcasting centre from scratch. On Air: Untold ...

BOOK REVIEW #46 WE WERE DREAMERS: AN IMMIGRANT SUPERHERO ORIGIN STORY Book Review

Posted on 02 Oct 2022

Is it kind of early for an actor who has only starred in a single Marvel movie and a recurring role in a Canadian sitcom worthy to have an autobiography of his own? You might however change your mind after sitting through Simu Liu’s We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story. If Simu Liu is not an actor, he probably makes a pretty good writer given his memoir is a hilarious ...

BOOK REVIEW #47 UNSCRIPTED: THE EPIC BATTLE FOR A MEDIA EMPIRE AND THE REDSTONE FAMILY LEGACY Book Review

Posted on 09 May 2023

Sumner Redstone was one of Hollywood’s biggest media tycoon having owned Viacom and CBS, the parent companies of Paramount, television networks and book publisher. But Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy isn’t simply a book about a family struggle with an ailing father figure. Instead it’s a messy affair about powerful white men obsess ...

BOOK REVIEW #48 OSCAR WARS: A HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD IN GOLD, SWEAT AND TEARS Book Review

Posted on 24 May 2023

Unless you are a movie buff, you probably won’t remember or bother about watching an award-winning title let alone the annual Academy Awards results. To many, it’s just a star-studded affair featuring actors and actresses dressed in fancy tuxedoes and designer gowns and lots of boring predictable thank you speeches. Michael Schulman from the New Yorker however treats readers to ...

BOOK REVIEW #49: RED CARPET: HOLLYWOOD, CHINA AND THE GLOBAL BATTLE FOR CULTURAL SUPREMACY Book Review

Posted on 21 Feb 2024

Eric Schwartzel’s mouthful Red Carpet: Hollywood, China and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy effortlessly combines entertainment with politics. Focusing on both China presence in Hollywood movies and the latter appetite for Chinese money, the book is a delicious read and analysis of events happening from the 90s to the present. As such, it’s not just a book for academics but ...

BOOK REVIEW #50: FRIENDS, LOVERS AND THE BIG TERRIBLE THING Book Review

Posted on 08 Jul 2024

Just a year after this somewhat controversial biography was published, 54 year old Matthew Perry was found dead as a result of acute effects of the anaesthetic ketamine in the jacuzzi at his Pacific Palisades home. Kind of foreshadowing when he mentioned he should be dead in the prologue. In “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing”, the sitcom star who wrote the book withou ...

BOOK REVIEW #51: REBEL RISING A MEMOIR

Posted on 08 Aug 2024

Melanie Elizabeth Bownds or better known as Rebel Wilson or “Fat Amy” earned a combined twenty million US dollars for Pitch Perfect 3, Isn’t It Romantic? and The Hustle. Not bad for the Australian actress who hailed from a Sydney suburb of Balmain. Wilson is a smart lady who noticed the market lacks a plus-sized woman to shake things up. In comes her first appearance in a ...

BOOK REVIEW #8: "TOTAL RECALL: MY UNBELIEVABLY TRUE LIFE STORY"

Posted on 22 Sep 2013

He might look all brawn, no brains. The actor turned governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s first official memoir, “Total Recall: My Unbeliveable True Life Story” detailed his humble beginnings in Austria to his post-governor days in this 646 pages memoir co-written by Peter Petre. Since this is his own autobiography, Schwarzenegger is entitled to be a braggart. He proclaime ...

BOOK REVIEW #9: "MARVEL COMICS: THE UNTOLD STORY"

Posted on 11 Dec 2013

The antics of the artists and the corporate boardroom of Marvel if it’s true according to Sean Howe’s Marvel Comics: The Untold Story is as exciting as the battles between superheroes and villains. Before Avid Arad and and Kevin Feige emerged into the scene, it’s Martin Goodman, a self-made publisher of pulp magazines that started the comics business. With the help of his ...

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