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Movies provide us with many things, including a nearly inexhaustible source of anecdotes and trivia. Because movies are a prominent aspect of our shared culture, we naturally have a curiosity about how they were made, what went right and what went wrong in the process, and what might have been. And because making a movie is such a complex process, with so many people involved and so many moving parts that have to ultimately work together, there's always lots to tell and even more to discover.
Simon Brew is well known to fans of movies (and of popular culture more generally) as the founder of the Den of Geek website, creator of the podcast Film Stories, and author of the books TV Geek: The Den of Geek Guide for the Netflix Generation and Movie Geek: A Geek's Guide to the Movieverse. His latest book, The Secret Life of Movies: Hidden Hints, Motifs, References and Background Detail in the Greatest Movies, provides pretty much what it promises in its lengthy title: stuff you didn't know about movies you do know.
That's more than enough of a recommendation right there, but frequently Brew goes the extra mile by explaining how each bit of information is meaningful in terms of the movie and the imaginary world it creates. He's not just providing a random selection of movie-related trivia, in other words, but...