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"Author Garry Berman gives readers a history lesson in comparing and overlapping the mediums of radio artists and film comedies during the decade of the 1930s. In doing so, he has not only created a new format, he has brought in fresh perspectives of the people that made the magic." – Bill Cassara, author of Nobody's Stooge and Edgar Kennedy: Master of the Slow Burn. "It is a thorough and fascinating study, filled with interesting details."– James...
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Who doesn't love a Top 10 List? They're short, they're fun, and we always want to see if our choices match. In this book, one hundred celebrities reveal their Top 10 favorite monster movies and themes. The author, Charles F. Rosenay! aka "Cryptmaster Chucky, is the originator and organizer of the annual Dracula Tours to Transylvania, and this is his first book. He comments, "You won't believe the actors, singers, musicians, horror figures, authors,...
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How many times have you said, the book was better? And how many times was that actually true? The cinema of the fantastic has benefitted from literary adaptations on a level unlike any other genre. With such brilliant authors as Mary Shelley, Robert Bloch, Pierre Boulle, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert Louis Stevenson to choose from, it's no surprise that fantastic film shares its pedigree with literary fiction.But do films never live up to their...
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A behind-the-scenes account of life at Ealing Studios-one of the great cinematic success stories of post-war Britain, and a byword for a particular strain of comic film-making that continues to inspire imitators over half a century on.
This is the only full narrative history of Ealing, focusing on its output in the 1940s and '50s, when the movies made there were in astonishing (and revealing) synchronicity with the national mood. Told through the...
47) Angry neighbors
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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When his ultra-wealthy neighbor in the Hamptons builds an obnoxious mega-mansion next door, grumpy retired novelist Harry March concocts an elaborate scheme for revenge that is destined to go hilariously awry.
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Despite the heroic efforts of John Connor and Kate Webster, and the ultimate sacrifice of a T-850 terminator, Skynet became operational and mobilized its machine forces in all-out war against its prime enemy: mankind. More than twenty years later the war continues, fought by human resistance forces led by John and Kate, and by people in secret enclaves around the world. Raiding machine facilities, using small guerrilla forces to sabotage and destroy...
50) Murder
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Actress Diana Baring (Norah Baring) is convicted of the murder of another actress in the same touring company. But the distinguished actor Sir John Menier (Herbert Marshall) who served on the jury at her trial, becomes convinced of her innocence and decides to solve the case.
51) The book thief
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her in Germany during World War II. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
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Paramount DVD
Pub. Date
c2004
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English
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Joanna reluctantly moves with her husband and children from New York City to the suburban community of Stepford, Connecticut. But when life in Stepford begins to seem too perfect, Joanna and her new friend Bobby investigate a mysterious conspiracy among the town's husbands.
53) Vengeance valley
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Owen Daybright is the adopted son of rancher Arch Strobie and the foster brother of Lee Strobie. The virtuous Owen has spent his life covering up the devious actions of his brother, but Lee wants Owen out of the way so he can become sole heir to the ranch.
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"Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn't check out Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB. You asked whether Siskel & Ebert had given it 'two thumbs up'"--
When Gene Siskel, a film critic for the Chicago Tribune, and Roger Ebert, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his work at the Chicago Sun-Times, reluctantly agreed to collaborate on a new movie review show with PBS, there was at least as much sparring off-camera as on. Their...
55) The Red House
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English
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An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods on their sprawling property.
56) The pledge
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
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English
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A veteran police detective, on the day of his retirement, handles the case of a seven-year-old girl who has been brutally murdered. When a mentally retarded man confesses to the murder and then kills himself, the detectives consider the case closed, but was he actually the murderer? Before long evidence is uncovered that suggests the girl was just one in a series of brutal killings involving young girls and a mysterious man.
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Yellow Bird
Pub. Date
c2010
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Swedish
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Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found and her beloved uncle is convinced she was murdered, and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced investigative journalist Mickael Blomkvist and the tattooed and troubled yet resourceful computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate--with...
58) The Firm
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Paramount
Pub. Date
1999
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English
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A brilliant and ambitious Harvard Law grad joins a small, prosperous law firm in Memphis, and is soon confronted by FBI agents with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm.
59) Divergent
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Summit Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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In a world where people are divided into distinct factions based on human virtues, Tris Prior is warned she is Divergent and will never fit into any one group. When she discovers a conspiracy by a faction leader to destroy all Divergents, Tris must learn to trust in the mysterious Four and together they must find out what makes being Divergent so dangerous before it's too late.
60) Julie & Julia
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
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English
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Julie Powell is a frustrated insurance worker who wants to be a writer. Trying to find a challenge in her life, she decides to cook her way through Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' in one year, and to blog about it. As Julie begins to find her groove as a cook, and her voice as a writer, the project takes on a life of its own. The project provides the struggling young woman with her life's purpose, to her very pleasant surprise....
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