Every franchise has their lexicon of tantalising lost projects, stories which failed to see the light of day, and James Bond is no exception. Many of these tales are public knowledge and have been documented over the decades since 007 came to the...
All things being equal, the second season of Star Trek: Picard would likely have been airing at the start of 2021, allowing the second tie-in novel The Dark Veil to align with its parent show. Luckily, James Swallow’s tale does not rely too heavily...
You know what you are likely to get from Make Spielberg Great Again given the title: sheer, fearless provocation. Armond White doesn’t care. He knows full well your mind will immediately venture to the outgoing President of the United States, as an...
Eric Gilliland with a review of Glenn Kenny’s expansive exploration of Goodfellas, Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas… Now thirty years old, Martin Scorsese’s 1990 mob epic Goodfellas continues to be one of the most quoted and discussed...
Eric Gilliland with a review of Nicholas Parisi’s deep dive into one of television’s greatest storytellers… Few figures have influenced the popular memory more than Rod Serling (1924-1975). His work continues to captivate the...
Eric Gilliland with a review of When the Movies Mattered: The New Hollywood Revisited… When the Movies Mattered is a collection of ten essays edited by Jonathan Kirshner and Jon Lewis that reassess the New Hollywood years that spanned from the...
Over the years, we have enjoyed a litany of tie-in material for The X-Files, principally across the 1990s but again recently thanks to the return of Chris Carter’s iconic series. Fans will remember Brian Lowry’s essential episode guide books back...
Film criticism is a thrilling, if mercurial, business, and one which can either chew a writer up and spit them out on the other side of corporate vacuity, or lead them to stand firm against the cultural tide. In many ways, The Press Gang exemplifies...
What is there left to say about James Bond 007? The world’s most legendary spy has been written about for almost sixty years since Ian Fleming’s 1950’s/60’s novels exploded onto the cinema screen in 1962’s Dr. No, analysing every facet of the...
Just under a year ago on my honeymoon, perched by a pool in Phuket, Thailand, baking under stunning sunshine, I found myself about to start Nick Setchfield’s debut novel The War in the Dark, one of several books grabbed as holiday reading. What...