Film and Book Reviews for 2007
Films released in 2007
In the third film in the Pirates of the Caribbean series can the crew rescue Jack Sparrow and keep Lord Beckett from eliminating piracy forever?
Robots living amongst us, cunningly disguised as common machines and vehicles, go to war.
Northern Lights is adapted for film in this lavish CGI feast featuring armoured bears and daemon companions.
Life is hard for a star: there's no privacy, you get hounded wherever you go, your heart cut out and eaten...
The grumpy green ogre faces his biggest challenge yet: fatherhood.
An adaptation of the classic Anglo-Saxon poem about Beowulf's defeat of Grendel, done entirely in 3D.
In an alternate late industrial-age world vampires and humans live together peacefully, but one of them has become a bloodthirsty killer.
Two friends create an imaginary kingdom in this adaptation of a novel by Katherine Paterson.
An arms manufacturer has a change of heart and builds a suit to help him fight injustice in the world.
The Invasion of the Body Snatchers is remade and updated for 2007.
The third episode of the Spider-Man films finds Peter Parker fighting his own dark side.
A loose adaptation of a novel by Richard Matheson sees Will Smith as the last man on Earth, struggling against monsters and loneliness.
A couple of scientists investigate strange phenomena in a small town in Louisiana.
Fairytale characters meet the real world in this lighthearted romantic fantasy.
A young woman has to choose between family loyalty and love in this werewolf story set in Bucharest.
A boy shrinks to the size of an insect and goes on an adventure in order to rescue his home.
Harry faces his fifth year at Hogwarts and the terror of exams, Death Eaters, and a sadistic teacher obsessed with kittens.
The town of Barrow in Arctic circle is the perfect location for dark-loving, publicity-shy vampires.
An occult author checks in to room 1408 of the Dolphin Hotel, expecting another paranormal hoax.
In this sequel to the 2005 Fantastic Four movie, the four face an alien entity capable of destroying the Earth.
When a brother and sister find a weird box of toys they start to develop unusual talents. But the white rabbit, Mimzy, is trying to tell them something.
A New Zealand sheep farm is the setting for this comedy horror about ferocious genetically altered ovines.
In this Grindhouse feature, people in a Texan town face an outbreak that turns infected victims to rampaging zombies.
In this near-future story an amnesiac politician and a soldier with a twin find themselves faced with the Apocalypse.
The sun is dying, so a group of astronauts set out on a mission to re-ignite it and save humanity.
In this adaptation of a novel by Susan Cooper, Will Stanton discovers he is destined to play a part in the epic struggle against the dark.
The sequel to 28 Days Later.
Mr Magorium runs a fantastic toy store, but it is time for him to hand it over to a successor.
An angel is sent to Earth in human form to fight to return the light and save the souls of the people who live there.
When a Predator spaceship crash-lands in America a small town has to deal with Alien infestation.
A military team go back in time to rescue people trapped in the time of the dinosaurs.
Books published in 2007
Nate Wildenstern hunts for his brother's murderer in a historic version of Ireland populated by living machines.
In the second episode of The First Law series some characters discover that the glory of war is not all they believed it would be.
Plants are often overlooked when it comes to the story of evolution. David Beerling sets this right in this account of how they have affected the history of our planet.
This collection of short stories mixes technology and cyberpunk themes with acute political observations and zombie mayhem.
Moist von Lipwig takes on the Royal Mint in this Discworld novel.
A young man fights to escape a vast prison that is decaying around him. On the outside, a young woman struggles to get into the prison to escape the prospect of an arranged marriage and a life of political scheming.
A young dhampir has to protect her friend, who is a mortal vampire, from immortal ones who want to drink her dry.
Claire Danvers dislikes vampires, but finds vampire hunters an even scarier breed. The second in the Morganville Vampires series.
Thursday Next wears many hats: wife, mother, carpet fitter and undercover literary agent. But can she cope with babysitting her fictional selves?
Bella Swan is about to graduate, but with vampires out for her blood and werewolves after her heart, she has more than finals and college on her mind.
A collection of essays on the cosmos that spans the birth and death of the universe and much of the excitement in between.
The first volume of Vampire Babylon, chronicling the adventures of stuntwoman and vampire hunter Dawn Madison.
The second book in the Epic series sees Scott Remington battling both aliens and inner demons.
The first book in the Epic series sees a young soldier fighting an alien invasion of Earth.
The second novel in the Ephemera series focuses on the rogue landscaper Belladonna.
A an epic and tragic fantasy set in the Elder days of Middle Earth.
A vampiric rock star wonders what has happened to his brother and his city in the first novel about the Renegade City.
How will Ancient African deities respond to the modern world of advertising and beauty?
Two half-siblings face an evil wizard and fight to save the world in this YA fantasy.
