Kim Newman is know for incredible movie review columns in Empire magazine, so these are his reviews collected in giant book 560 pages of movies, b-movies, some trash, lots of gore, blood, weirdness but mostly cult and legendary movies. Being an avid movie fan and watching lots of horror and b movies, I must admit that I have never heard for some of these movies and am glad that I got this book which serves me as guide what to watch in the near or less near future. The book is divided into chapters of found footage, crime, adventure movies, sci fi and fantasy, torture porn and cryptids/animal attack. There are over five hundred reviews for you to read and choose from to put on your watching list, also they are easy and nice to read, so go get this one if you are a movie fan, you will not regret it. I got mine in Rockmark bookstore in Zagreb.
Fibra nastavlja sa izdavanjem samo kvalitetnih stripova kako oni kažu. Pustinjska zvijezda je knjiga 214 u njihovoj ediciji Kolorka, dakle riječ je o western stripu. Matthew Montgomery je na visokom položaju u Ministarstvu obrane, bahat i tvrd, dok jednog dana ne dođe s posla i nađe ženu i kćer masakrirane i jedini trag je zvijezda urezana na tijelo kćeri i ima Cauldroy iz Topeke. Odlazi na Divlji zapad iz Washingtona kako bi pronašao krivce i osvetio se. Ova pomalo noir western priča sa twistom na kraju je osvetnička storija o nasilju, gubitku, prostituciji, iskorištavanju Indijanaca, gradnji željeznice i napretku, kao i o tome da je svaka osveta kopanje dva groba, jednog za neprijatelja, a drugog za sebe. Isto tako, ovo je priča o iskupljenju i pronalaženju novog smisla u životu. Odlično. Pročitati definitvno. Moja preporuka.
It is a mid 1991 and Yugoslavia is about to end when Croatia and Slovenia decided to exit the failed state and start their own independent lives. That brought bloody civil war in my country with Serbs attacking Croatia, dirty war in Bosnia, but it all started with couple of weeks war in Slovenia when Yugoslav National Army tried to keep Slovenia from exiting Yugoslavia and in the war between soldiers and Slovenian Territorial Defence lives where lost and this senseless shit started to unfold. Well, Goran Duplančić, Croatian author released a graphic novel which tells his autobiography story when he served in YNA as a corporal in Ljubljana, capitol of Slovenia in those days, and tells all confusion, tragedy, violence and nationalism that started right there through the eyes of a young man who only tries to survive and come back home alive. This is a powerful story, that grabs you and keeps you reading until you finish it and makes you think a lot about that afterwards, because I can relate to this one, because I lived through all those tragic and confused days, months and years. I love how Goran´s inner visions and background story interplays with the main story and makes it even deeper and personal. This is one of the best comic books I have read in a long time. Heartily rec ommendation.
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