The Bond films have entertained annoyed, excited, bored, aroused and invigorated cinemagoers (and ITV4 viewers) for more than fifty years. Who hasn’t wanted to kick a big bloke with metal teeth in the groin? Fly a small plane out of a pretend horse’s bottom? Or push a middle-aged man into space? No one, that’s who.Thunderbook: The World of Bond According to Smersh Pod affectionately examines Bond with tongue firmly in cheek and elbow dug in ribs. Join John Rain as he goes film-by-film through the Bond saga as he points out all the good, the bad, and the double-taking pigeons contained within Bond’s half-century of world domination. With one chapter for each of the twenty-four films to date, Thunderbook examines all the moments that are funny, silly, rubbish, nonsensical, bizarre and interesting, with the ultimate intention of celebrating Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and becoming the go-to companion book for the Bond fan at large.

Thunderbook: The World of Bond According to Smersh Pod (The World of Film According to Smersh Pod)

Rain, John

Sports & Outdoors

Polaris

The Bond films have entertained annoyed, excited, bored, aroused and invigorated cinemagoers (and ITV4 viewers) for more than fifty years. Who hasn't wanted to kick a big bloke with metal teeth in the groin? Fly a small plane out of a pretend horse's bottom? Or push a middle-aged man into space? No one, that's who.Thunderbook: The World of Bond According to Smersh Pod affectionately examines Bond with tongue firmly in cheek and elbow dug in ribs. Join John Rain as he goes film-by-film through the Bond saga as he points out all the good, the bad, and the double-taking pigeons contained within Bond's half-century of world domination.With one chapter for each of the twenty-five films, Thunderbook examines all the moments that are funny, silly, rubbish, nonsensical, bizarre and interesting, with the ultimate intention of celebrating Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and becoming the go-to companion book for the Bond fan at large.This fully updated edition includes the 25th Bond film, No Time To Die, and also features a chapter covering Never Say Never Again, which starred Sean Connery as Bond but was not an official Eon film.

Review\nWeapons. Wounds. Warlords. Watford! Explodobook is a hilarious, gripping and muscular flex through every bulge and bruise of 80s action cinema, and a truly heartfelt paean to the lost joys of VHS culture. I LOVE this book' 
Séamas O'Reilly\nFunny, hilarious, comic and very well-informed, Explodobook is the ultimate guide to every apocalypse movie ever made' 
David Quantick\nJohn Rain’s hilarious new book is a laugh-out-loud, impeccably detailed nostalgia trip through the golden era of action movies. It’s like watching these films again with an old friend. I loved it' 
Jim Howick\nIn shades and a bloodied vest, bogies everywhere, John Rain kicks down the doors and gloriously celebrates the great action movies of the 1980s. Pulse-pumping, hilarious and deeply affectionate, I fell in love with those films all over again. Yippee-ki-yay, motherf*****' 
Alistair Petrie\nThe 1980s. A time of fear: fear of the unknown, fear of your neighbours, fear of drugs, fear of sex, fear of strangers, fear of videos, and the very real fear that the world would end at any moment in an awful, and very sudden, nuclear attack.\nHowever, in those times of turmoil and worry, there was a comfort that soothed the mind, and acted as a quiet balm: action movies.\nVideo shops were bursting at the seams with rampant gunfire, sex, drugs, rock, roll, cars on fire, people on fire, guns, bombs, and people dressed in army fatigues (and that was just the staff). Heroes were born shrouded in fire and violent revenge, they were not only armed with guns, but also red-hot quips, that served as a muscly arm around the shoulder, and a wink that everything was going to be okay.\nSo thank you Arnold, Sylvester, Sigourney, Bruce, Eddie, Charles, Patrick, Mel, Chuck and everyone else that made it happen. You saved the world, in your own inimitable way.\nJoin John Rain, the author of the critically-acclaimed Thunderbook: The World of Bond According to Smersh Pod, as he examines a choice selection of the greatest action movies from the decade when the explosion was king.

Explodobook: The World of 80s Action Movies According to Smersh Pod (The World of Film According to Smersh Pod)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

THIS IS THE GUIDE TO CLASSIC SUPERHERO MOVIES YOU NEVER KNEW YOU NEEDED.If you mention the word 'superhero' these days, the mind is immediately bombarded by visions from the MCU, DCU and all the numerous phases, extended TV series and animated side-specials that combine to make our eyes bleed with a barrage of different characters fighting each other.But before 1997 people would generally only think of a few things: Christopher Reeve smiling as his Superman kept a watchful eye over Earth's atmosphere, Michael Keaton's Batman running around Gotham dressed in moulded rubber, Nicholas Hammond's Spider-Man being hauled up a wall on a rope, Bill Bixby trying not to unleash his inner Hulk and Flash Gordon camply swashbuckling his way around another galaxy.It's time to don your cowl, cape, shredded jeans and Vultan leatherwear and join John Rain as he wades his way through twenty classic superhero films that stunned, amazed and baffled the world from 1978 to 1997.IS IT A BIRD? IS IT A PLANE? NO, IT'S&nbsp;SUPERBOOK!'The perfect way to enjoy the best and worst films of your childhood' - Ed Byrne

Superbook: The World of Superhero Movies According to Smersh Pod (The World of Film According to Smersh Pod)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Thunderbook: The World of Bond According to Smersh Pod (The World of Film According to Smersh Pod)

Thunderbook: The World of Bond According to Smersh Pod (The World of Film According to Smersh Pod)

Explodobook: The World of 80s Action Movies According to Smersh Pod (The World of Film According to Smersh Pod)

Superbook: The World of Superhero Movies According to Smersh Pod (The World of Film According to Smersh Pod)