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Happy New Year! Another year, another roundup of classic film books. This is my twelfth year doing these lists and I’m grateful that publishers continue to recognize the market for books about film history. 2026 marks Marilyn Monroe’s centennial so you’ll see plenty of titles about her here (with more

You can do anything in comic books. Unlike other media, which require gigantic budgets, scheduling, and egos, in comic books, you can just draw something and there it is on the page. Nowhere is that more clear than in crossovers that happen in comics, when one set of characters meet

The first scene of 28 Years Later plays exactly as expected. The sequel to 2002’s 28 Days Later opens during the first days of the rage virus spreading across Great Britain as a boy named Jimmy goes from watching Teletubbies to running for his life from zombies. Jimmy returns in

There are plenty of reasons to complain about the Game of Thrones finale, a controversial ending to a massively popular series that had everything from pacing problems to outright character assassination. Long-promised stories fizzled, characters died, seemingly impossible enemies were conquered with almost ridiculous ease, and some of the biggest

It’s finally official. Kathleen Kennedy is stepping down as head of Lucasfilm, to be replaced by Dave Filoni on the creative side and Lynwen Brennan on the financial side. Is this change the beginning of a dark new age, or does it signal a new hope? The answer to that