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Introducing the ultimate production tracker for film and TV professionals! This journal is designed specifically to help you stay organized and on track during production. Whether you're a producer, director, cinematographer, or runner, this journal has...

Chick flicks. Brokeback Mountain. Bollywood. Superhero movies. Sophie's Choice. Sandra Bullock. Avant-garde musicals... If this sort of stuff is your cup of tea, then this isn't the book for you. Blokey film enthusiast Dave Franklin instead concentrates...

From Peckinpah and Schwarzenegger to Ulzana's Raid and Switchblade Sisters, Dave Franklin takes a politically incorrect look at the glories of twentieth century cinema.In this second volume of his Baby Ice Dog Movie Guide, he offers eight Fucked-Up...

Just can't get enough of Dirty Dancing?Want to pay homage to the movie and to Patrick Swayze? Want to feel the power of love and relive the magic of Dirty Dancing?Get behind-the-scenes information that you won't find anywhere else. Rub elbows with Dirty...

Independent film at 7,500 feet! January in Utah - for 10 days, the normally sleepy mountain resort of Park City becomes the focus of the movie world as 50,000 people descent on the town to sample the year's finest independent films, do a little...

The Hocus Pocus "BoooOOOoooK" Fans Have Been Waiting For... In the first and only book ever written about the beloved 1993 Halloween movie, Aaron Wallace takes readers deep into the world of Hocus Pocus to learn everything they never knew. He provides a...

In the midst of a superhero takeover with groundbreaking films bringing comic books to the big screen on an unprecedented scale, one cinematic saga would forever alter the landscape of superhero movies and Hollywood ...Batman. Superman. Wonder Woman. As...

There are movie-goers, movie fans, and movie lovers. REEL CHANGE III is for all three. For the passively curious to the die-hard deep divers, REEL CHANGE offers looks into and behind the magic of what's on the big and little screen. There...

"Trunick's Guide . . . will sit comfortably on reference shelves next to Michael J. Weldon's Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film and Danny Peary's Cult Movies books." - Spectrum Culture "The Cannon Film Guide is a treasure trove of info for Golan/Globus...

"Trunick's Guide . . . will sit comfortably on reference shelves next to Michael J. Weldon's Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film and Danny Peary's Cult Movies books." - Spectrum Culture "The Cannon Film Guide is a treasure trove of info for Golan/Globus...

Screen Savers II is John DiLeo's three-part grab bag of classic movies, beginning with his extensive essays about ten remarkable and underappreciated movies, as in the first Screen Savers, and representing a variety of genres and stars such as Barbara...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Covering everything from art-house surrealism to next-generation cult movies to B-movie atrocities and unclassifiable oddities, 366 Weird Movies has been publishing online since 2009. Here are our canonical choices of the 366 weirdest movies worthy of...

Liebe Videofreunde,In den weiten und tiefen der damaligen Videotheken regale befanden sich etliche Filme die teilweise bis heute gänzlichunentdeckt und unbekannt sind. Zur damaligen zeit entschied man sich entweder per Cover-Motiv für einen Film oder man...

With this volume, Blur truly shifts into the 21st Century, collecting into book form the best of this award-winning cartoonist's tsunami of online essays and articles from 2005-2007. Whether rhapsodizing over a masterpiece like Guillermo del Toro's Pan's...

It's time the New horror elite had their say...Freddy? Jason? Michael Myers? Please! Since the waning days of the 20th century, a renegade band of directors have renounced the cartoon trappings of recent horror flicks and reclaimed the genre for a new...

Spinnenfilme für Kinder (Schweinchen Wilbur und seine Spinnenfreundin Charlotte u. a.). Spinnenepisoden in TV-Serien (Brokenwood, Dr. Who). Kurzfilme mit Spinnen für Kinder und Erwachsene. Kinofilme thematisch geordnet, alles Filme, die im Buch...

This defining movie guide and blog companion contains a plethora of equally passionate and subjective movie reviews published by the title-giving nerd on his blog rafenew.world between 2015 and 2020.The second chapter gathers even more (German) pieces...

VHS Nasty: The Video Nasties is the definitive, full-colour guide to the halcyon days of the 1980s, when the British government and its nanny state, headed by the self-proclaimed and totally unelected "Protector of Public Morals," Mary Whitehouse,...

The third in a series collecting the complete weekly "Video Views" columns (1999-2001) by renowned cartoonist, author and film scholar Stephen R. Bissette covers the video and DVD releases of November 2000 to May 2001.As the Millennium turned, Bissette...

Die neue Ausgabe der VIDEO FREAKS ist da....lange hat es gedauert, doch nun ist es soweit. Wir entführen Euch wieder in die Zeit der Videotheken und zeigen Euch Filme die entweder als Kult oder als Geheimtipp angepriesen werden. Natürlich sind wie...

Die wunderbare Welt von Cannon FilmsWer die 80s miterlebt hat, der kennt auch das bekannteste Film-Studio der Ära CANNON GROUPDas Action und Unterhaltungskino das uns zahlreiche Klassiker, Kultfilme und (fast) völlig unbekannte Filme am laufenden Band...

This is a choice collection of 150 movie reviews of classic and contemporary timeless movies by international syndicated film critic Susan Granger. It includes films from the earliest days to today, from the Russian film, Battleship Potemkin (1925) and...

Real trials and courtroom movies are made for each other. Lawyers are storytellers, courtrooms are theaters, and the trial process provides drama, surprise, suspense or comedy. This book will serve as a video guide to help you identify the courtroom...

Listen to the accolades Laura has received:"I wouldn't buy a book by Laura Wagner if it was the last book on earth or if it was given to me free. This woman is a looney psycho who needs to get a grip on life or come down out of the clouds and start...

"Erudite, passionate, and thorough"- Guillermo del Toro "Tim is the most eloquent and well-researched critic out there... Truly an essential - the pinnacle of his profession"- Gary Tooze, DVD Beaver As editor and chief critic of Video Watchdog...

Tulsa King Unveiled: A Thrilling Guide to Stallone's Mafia Masterpiece takes readers deep into the world of Tulsa King, exploring the rich storytelling, intense action, and powerful performances that make this series a standout. This guide provides a...

Think you know zombies? Supervillain-cum-film critic Mr. Satanism plumbs the depths of this over-saturated genre, with over 100 brutally honest reviews of undead obscurities you never knew existed, including, er, gems like Dorm of the Dead (2006);...

Dragons? Wizards? Hobbits? Supervillain-cum-movie critic Mr. Satanism has had enough of all this magic and wonder, so he's back to take the piss out of fantasy films once and for all. Be they Arabian adventures, Arthurian fantasies, or...

"Bioscope" (Read as 'Baascop' in Balochi language) by Author Zulfiqar Ali Zulfi is a unique book on the subject of cinema in Urdu, through which a discussion on films and their themes has been initiated. An attempt has been made to discuss various themes...

Urdu monthly 'Shama' from New Delhi, which started its publication in 1939, gained national fame for film magazines.The founder of this magazine was Yousuf Dehlavi, who maintained the high literary standards of film journalism along with Urdu literature...

Filmi Dunya: Qalmi jaiza, i.e. Film world: Pen review, is an Urdu book on movies around the world. Views, reviews and articles on films, their crew and stars. Written by a fiction writer and author Mukarram Niyaz. The reviews are devoid of the...

Liebe Videofreunde,In den weiten und tiefen der damaligen Videotheken regale befanden sich etliche Filme die teilweise bis heute gänzlich unentdeckt und unbekannt sind.Wir haben uns zur Aufgabe gemacht, einige dieser Filme in dieser Heftreihe an die...

Willkommen in der wunderbar wahnsinnigen Video-Welt der Grindhouse Lounge, unserer exzentrisch edukativen Entertainment-Leichenhalle, in der wir sowohl die glanzvollen cineastischen Kunstwerke, als auch den klebrigen Bodensatz aus den untersten Regalen...

The James Bond films are famous for their exotic locations, matching and even surpassing the settings of Ian Fleming's original novels. But all is not what it seems! (It rarely is in the cinema.)• The gold-obsessed villain's factory in Goldfinger -...

Britain's Secret Service wasn't always based in the imposing building at Vauxhall Cross. The department known to Bond devotees as Universal Exports has had many homes - and with J. P. Sperati as your guide you can visit them all!Which villain lived in...

The lights go down. 90 minutes from now, your feeble mind will never be the same. Thoughts of flowers, puppy dogs, and serene shopping malls will be replaced with ghosts in your TV, zombies tearing your flesh, and chainsaws ripping through your chest!...

Have you ever watched Unmasked Part 25? Xtro II? How about Screamtime or Bloodstream? Have you ever sat through The House That Vanished or Persecution? What about Sleepwalker or The Shout? In this book we will shine a light on some of the lesser viewed...

Like true love, Bigfoot doesn't really exist, but that hasn't stopped hordes of people from looking for him, trying to capture him on film, and, worst of all, making terrible movies about him. Now Mr. Satanism, the greatest genre movie critic in the...

Have you ever wondered where the filming locations are for the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts film series? Here for the first time, arranged by county, is the definitive guide from 'A' for Alnwick Castle to 'Z' for Zoological Society of London to over...

Alexander Bakshy (1885-1949) was the first movie critic for the Nation (1927-33) as well as one of America's first full-time professional film critics. He was known during his lifetime for his prescience as he stood up for the future of sound cinema in...

In seinem neuen Filmbuch Trauma-TV reist Filmkritiker und Podcaster Patrick Lohmeier zurück in seine Kindheit. Dort begegnet er all den Filmen wieder, die ihn als kleinen Hosenscheißer um den Schlaf brachten - aber auch prägten. Von Klassikern des...

"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...

A sequel of sorts to Bradley Birzer's Beyond Tenebrae (Angelico Press, 2019), Mythic Realms seeks to pursue excellences in the last hundred years of literature and film. Still rooted in Christian Humanism and Burke's moral imagination,...

Imagine the world's greatest movies in the palm of your hands! The Cinephile Catalogue is the totally interactive movie book for movie lovers. This customizable film guide is your anytime movie buddy that will help you see films like you never have...

This indispensable collection offers 51 chapters, each focused on a distinct American independent film.