Credit: Limelight Editions/Hal Leonard Performing Arts Publishing Group Purple Rain: Music On Film now available in the Moniqueblog Amazon Store! Synopsis (Limelight Editons/Hal Leonard Performing Arts Publishing Group): In the summer of 1984, a small, low-budget film came out of nowhere and unexpectedly debuted at the number one slot at the box office, unseating reigning...
Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss. Credit: Lionsgate The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond and The Hunger Games trilogy now available in The Moniqueblog Amazon Store! Synopsis (The Hunger Games’ official Facebook page): Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the evil Capitol of the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve...
A must-have for any movie fan is Leonard Maltin’s 2012 Movie Guide. I recently interviewed Maltin for ShockYa (which you can read about here.) The book is a great resource for movie fans, having information on 17,000 entries, 300+ of which are brand new to the book. The book, which is now in paperback,...
Credit: Dreamworks Pictures I’ve written about The Help a lot on the site (click here to read my review of the film), so to sum it up, I love this movie. I think anyone that has The Color Purple and The Secret Life of Bees as their favorite films, this should make a good...
Credit: Limelight/Hal Leonard Books I’m a huge fan of vampires. I’m a little bit of a vampire snob, I guess. So I was thrilled to find that I could have the opportunity to review The Vampire Film: From Nosferatu to True Blood, and jut in time for Halloween, too! Synopsis: This newest edition will track...
Credit: Adams Media I should apologize to Adams Media for taking so long on this review. I wrote about this book before on my site, but it took me much longer to read it because it seemed that right after I got the book, everything in real life started piling on. Anyway, that’s no...
(L-R) Draco and Hilly. Credit: WB/Dreamworks Many times, racist characters can make you feel angry. However, the really well-rounded racist characters can make you feel simultaneously angry and saddened, just like a real person would. When I say “saddened,” I don’t mean you’re sad because of what they said (which can happen); I mean...
Credit: Adams Media Hire Me, Hollywood! is a book that I’ve received today in order to review. The book is made up of interviews from 30 people all across the spectrum in Hollywood and focuses on how those people got to be so successful. Upon my first scan through the book, I’ve found something very...
credit: Applause Theater & Cinema Books Synopsis (from Applause Theater & Cinema Books): I Love Lucy revolutionized the way television shows were made. It became the first show to be watched by 10 million people, then 40 million people a year later. But James Sheridan and Barry Monush take readers beyond the “Lucy” character and...
Credit: whateverhappenedtopuddingpops.com Synopsis/About the Authors: Generation X has been called an alienated and lonely generation, but if there’s one thing that brings them together, it’s a shared love of the pop culture memories of their childhood. In that nostalgic spirit, WHATEVER HAPPENED TO PUDDING POPS? takes a look back at the iconic events and...
I Know Where I’m Going: Katharine Hepburn, A Personal Biography Official synopsis/author bio (from Applause Theater and Books, an imprint of Hal Leonard): Drawing on a series of recordings made over many years, acclaimed biographer Charlotte Chandler’s I Know Where I’m Going, the most intimate and personal biography ever published of Hollywood legend Katharine...
For anyone wondering “Just what happened to the ‘Sherlock Holmes: Case by Case’ podcasts ?” do not fret. I haven’t abandoned it. Like I said in some other post explaining a lack of stuff, I’m currently trying to get a few more freelance writing jobs, and job scouting, as you probably know, takes a...
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