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1) Spray Em' Up
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After leading a successful mission to take out Iraqi warlord Samhal Hussein, Sgt John Williams is hailed as a Hero by the U.S Army. However, when he returns to the South Bronx he finds his neighborhood being oppressed by a neighborhood drug kingpin.With the NYPD scared, and residents feeling powerless, John realizes that he has to declare his own war on terror to save his neighborhood and protect his community.
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Sixteen-year-old Nikki Desmond is the product of too many, too much, and too little. Too many boarding schools, too much money, and too little discipline. After being expelled from a fourth prestigious New York boarding school, her mother sends her to Los Angeles to live with her father.In the screenplays for the fabulous first season of this teen sitcom, Nikki adjusts to life on the west coast while her father works towards correcting her surly,...
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Sixteen-year-old Nikki Desmond is the product of Too many, Too Much and Too little. Too many boarding schools, too much money, and too little discipline. After being expelled from the fourth prestigious New York boarding school, her mother sends her to Los Angeles to live with her father. In the screenplays for the first three episodes of the Fabulous First Season of this teen sitcom, Nikki adjusts to life on the west coast as her father works towards...
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"Carrots chronicles Dan Harary's simple but lifelong challenge: How to navigate his desire and pursuit of alluring women while attempting to overcome crippling shyness and self-doubt. Weave into that mix: a series of childhood traumas; a long battle with depression; a troubled marriage; a wacky theory he was cursed in a past life; a powerful sex addiction; and an endless series of 'really bad dates. 'As a Clinical Sexologist who's known him since...
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The Ghanaian trickster-spider, Ananse, is a deceptive figure full of comic delight who blurs the lines of class, politics, and morality. David Afriyie Donkor identifies social performance as a way to understand trickster behavior within the shifting process of political legitimization in Ghana, revealing stories that exploit the social ideologies of economic neoliberalism and political democratization. At the level of policy, neither ideology was...
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The high school or college English class offers a long list of technical terms: Symbolism, Irony, Metafiction, Allegory, Metaphor… With such a barrage, it can be tough to sort them all out. Yet here's the list, from Absurdity to Zeugma, all defined through the clever wordplay of Hamilton. In fact, musicals use all the rhythm and rhyme patterns of history's top poets, and the literary skill of crafting characters and straddling genre. Further, the...
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He is the Lizard King – well, the King of the Monsters – he can do anything. Since he first romped onto the silver screen in 1954, no other character in all of international cinema has been as beloved by American audiences as Godzilla. Despite the modern film industry's affinity for franchises and cinematic universes, he remains one of its most enduring and popular characters, with a total of twenty-eight motion pictures (not even including two...
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Greg Olson, author of David Lynch: Beautiful Dark, the essential book on Lynch' s life and art, has resided in the Twin Peaks region of the Northwest for decades, and David Lynch spent youthful years in the Northwest; both of their fathers were woodsmen. Lynch believes that the world hums with spirituality, and over a thirty-year span Lynch and Mark Frost created forty-eight hours of Twin Peaks TV and film, hypnotic cinematic music immersed...
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Cinematic Flashes challenges popular notions of a uniform Hollywood style by disclosing uncanny networks of incongruities, coincidences, and contingencies at the margins of the cinematic frame. In an agile demonstration of "cinephiliac" historiography, Rashna Wadia Richards extracts intriguing film fragments from their seemingly ordinary narratives in order to explore what these unexpected moments reveal about the studio era. Inspired by Walter Benjamin's...
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In the charged atmosphere of post-revolution, artistic and political forces often join in the effort to reimagine a new national space for a liberated people. Joshua Malitsky examines nonfiction film and nation building to better understand documentary film as a tool used by the state to create powerful historical and political narratives. Drawing on newsreels and documentaries produced in the aftermath of the Russian revolution of 1917 and the Cuban...
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Guy Ritchie is one of the world's most famous and unique filmmakers.The audience can thank the British director for such great works as the Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), Snatch (2000), the Sherlock Holmes films (2009, 2011), The Man from U.N.C.L.E (2015) or The Gentlemen (2019).He is famous for his exciting stories written by himself and his inimitable directorial style. He displays the British sense of life and elegance in his many...
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In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century, swaggering, carefree carnival barker Billy Bigelow captivates and marries naive millworker Julie Jordan. Billy loses his job just as he learns that Julie is pregnant, and – desperately intent upon providing a decent life for his family – he is coerced into being an accomplice to a robbery. Caught in the act and facing the certainty of prison, he takes his own life and is sent "up there."...
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Bill Johnson reviews popular movies like Groundhog Day, Lethal Weapon, and Die Hard to set out principles of storytelling.Many writers new to screenwriting are doing what they think should be done. These reviews take new writers into the foundation of these films, exploring in a step by step fashion how each film told its story in a way that found and satisfied a large audience.Bill Johnson is author of A Story is a Promise & The Spirit of Storytelling,...
15) Can't Just Chuckle: The Richard Osman Book: Unofficial Guide to the Monumental Moments of the En
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A posse of four unlikely retired friends set themselves to the mystery-solving in an opulent, sparsely populated countryside. A property developer is dead. Was he murdered? If yes, then who is the murderer? As the gang ruminates on the possibilities, their attention is inadvertently led to a brutal killing. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim, and Ron might be well ahead in their twilight years, but they are determined to solve the mysteries with élan. Richard...
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From personalities and entertainers Kian Lawley and Jc Caylen comes a completely wild and entirely true account of their rise to internet fame: Kian and Jc: Don't Try This at Home! More than 7 million YouTube subscribers, 5 million Twitter followers, and 5 million Instagram followers cannot wait for this sometimes hilarious, sometimes awkward, and always crazy collection of stories, interviews, and exclusive photos.
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When the truth is uncovered, the bullies come out to play. I've kept my forbidden boyfriend a secret.But he hates hiding.So I agree to step into the light as a couple. Bad idea. Our secret romance turns into a disaster rivaling scenes from Romeo and Juliet. Bullies emerge from all sides, and we're in serious trouble.I've worked my tail off to be bolder, but standing up for myself comes with a price. Our whirlwind romance spirals out of control.And...
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Just when everything seems to be perfect, it all falls apart. I never thought things would actually work out with Isaac. After everything we'd been through, it seemed impossible. But then his parents started coming around and mine did too. They were actually getting along, and I started letting myself hope like I'd never allowed myself to hope before. Maybe this could all work out. For real this time. But then Isaac dropped a bombshell on me, and...
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She broke his heart. Will he ever forgive her? My school came out with a scary new policy, and now I might have to leave the academy.It's the only school my family's ever known, and we're not sure what to do.It feels like my life is falling apart. On top of that, I've messed everything up with Preston, and now I'm sure he'll never forgive me. I'm worried I've lost his friendship forever. But after what I've done, I probably deserve it. The worst part...
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Two guys. One girl. A big confusing mess. I never thought I'd have two guys fighting over me. I mean, I'm totally not that girl. At least, I didn't think I was…Turns out, it's a lot more confusing than I would have thought. I ended up deciding I couldn't be with either one of them.At least for now. I need space to clear my head. Because my heart doesn't know who it wants. I'm confused, and I don't want to hurt either of these guys I care so much...
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