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The Pop-Up Book of Celebrity Meltdowns

Updated Mar 15, 2007

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Your favorite celebrity gone wild... or having a meltdown.... In this book, you will find Janet Jackson who bares all at the Super Bowl, the King of pop's baby dangle , Tom Cruise's leap up on Oprah's couch and from the aerial view of a news copter, watch as a phalanx of squad cars pursues O. J. Simpson's Bronco in slow motion...

A hilarious book well worth the money.

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The California Pop-Up Book

Updated Mar 14, 2007

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I know why I love California.... This book tells the story of California through vivid and beautiful pop-ups.

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The Pop-Up Book of Nightmares

Updated Mar 14, 2007

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Have ever had one of these nightmares? Being unprepared for a final exam --Going for a midnight snack and finding a refrigerator teeming with rats --Giving birth to a baby that's anything but normal --Being chased by a menace that seems to be everywhere at once --Free falling with no hope of a safe landing... If so, the Pop-Up Book of Nightmares is the perfect gift to bring these nightmares back to llife... should you want to...

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The Polar Express Gift Set (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition with Snow Globe and Toy)

Updated Mar 1, 2007

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This is one of the best animated movie I've seen. It is a great story and a movie that I never get tired of seeing. (via lindy567)

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A Clockwork Orange

Updated Feb 28, 2007

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This is one the most fascinating and disturbing movie I've ever seen... and one of my favorites.. It is a classic!!

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The Notorious Bettie Page

Updated Feb 28, 2007

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This is a must see movie in which the fantastic performance of Gretchen Mol (The Shape of Things) as Bettie Page, who grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New York, should have gotten an Oscar.

An array of talented actors such as David Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck) and Lili Taylor (High Fidelity) brings credence to the fascinating film. (via ellenm)

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Dirty War (2004)

Updated Feb 25, 2007

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Fanatical terrorists are planning to launch a nuclear attack with a "dirty bomb," a homemade radioactive device, in the heart of London. From Scotland Yard's central command to a Muslim undercover detective, local authorities are operating on high alert while government agents scour the city desperately searching for the source of the threat. Every minute counts in this action-suspense thriller that addresses the question: How prepared are we for the unthinkable?

A riveting, absorbing, suspensul and brilliantly executed film!!

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Lord of the Flies - Criterion Collection

Updated Feb 19, 2007

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This is a very brilliant and disturbing movie in which living peacefully is not as easy as it seems. I highly recommend... Thanks Three!! (via Three)

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Infamous (2006)

Updated Feb 12, 2007

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This movie is as good as 'Capote' and it's too bad that these two movies came out so closely together, as we enjoyed them both equally. Toby Jones who portrays 'Truman Capote' is impeccable and Sandra Bullock's Harper Lee is first rate. The story follows the same path as 'Capote' in which Truman Capote plunges into the murder case that inspired his great "nonfiction novel" In Cold Blood, which will lead him into a fevered relationship with one of the two doomed killers, admirably played by Daniel Craig.

A great movie not to be missed.

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Alfred Hitchcock: The Master of Suspense: A Pop-up Book

Updated Feb 12, 2007

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I am a huge fan of Alfred Hitchcock... and this pop-up book is fantastic. Each opening is dominated by a huge montage of stills and iconic images that rises up, enhanced by acetate windows and glimpses of moving heads or other body parts. Each spread also contains a brief, spoiler-ridden plot summary, sometimes with commentary on how a cinematic effect was achieved, and a side flap that highlights Hitchcock's trademark cameo appearance.

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Graceland: An Interactive Pop-Up Tour

Updated Feb 8, 2007

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I am not the biggest fan of Elvis Presley but I have always wanted to visit Graceland. Since it does not look like we will have time this year, the Graceland interactive pop-up tour book will do the trick. In it, the Elvis Presley Estate features the mansion's most memorable destination such as the Kitchen: Home of the famous peanut butter and banana sandwich, the TV Room: With three TVs running simultaneously, the Trophy Room: A monument to the King's legacy and the Meditation Garden: Where Elvis and his family are buried.

It is also the the perfect gift for Elvis fans of all ages!

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Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1988)

Updated Feb 8, 2007

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This is a gem of a movie!.. Judith Hearn is a middle aged spinster earning a living by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950's. She falls in love with a shady hotel owner who, in turn, decides to exploit her as far as he can.

The cast is Bob Hoskins as James Madden,Maggie Smith as Judith Hearne, Wendy Hiller as Aunt D'Arcy, Marie Kean as Mrs. Rice, Alan Devlin as Father Quigley, Rudi Davies as Mary, Prunella Scales as Moira O'Neill, Aine Ni Mhuiri as Edie Marinan, Sheila Reid as Miss Friel, Niall Buggy as Mr. Lenehan and Kate Binchy as Sister Ignatius.

Maggie Smith and Bob Hoskins are superb in this fabulously romantic movie based on misunderstanding. Do not miss.

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Obsession: The FBI's Legendary Profiler, John Douglas

Updated Feb 7, 2007

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A fascinating book in which John Douglas, the founder and head of the FBI's Investigative Support Unit and the inspiration for the character of Jack Crawford in Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon, describes violent crimes and their consequences.

What stands out in this eye-opening book is how Douglas's compassion for the survivors of violent crimes seems to equal his understanding of the criminals themselves. Serial criminals often exhibit the same symptoms all over the world, which transcend cultures, ethnicity, and geographical make-up. An absolute must-read...

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The Wild Child (1970)

Updated Jan 31, 2007

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François Truffaut's fascinating 1969 film, based on a real-life, 18th-century behavioral scientist's efforts to turn a feral boy into a civilized specimen, is an fantastically gripping movie.

Truffaut himself plays Dr. Itard, a specialist in the teaching of the deaf. Itard takes in a young lad (Jean-Pierre Cargol) found to have been living like an animal in the woods all his life and names him 'Victor'. Initially branded an "idiot" and uneducable by local townspeople, Victor is helped immensely by Dr. Itard through his humane treatment.

The beautifully shot black and white movie is superb and an absolute must-see.

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All God's Children: Inside the Dark and Violent World of Street Families

Updated Jan 31, 2007

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A chilling look into the culture of feral teens that emerged nationwide in the 1990s. The author, Rene Denfeld, focuses on a Portland street "family" leader James Daniel Nelson, who did time for murder, was released, and killed again.

A fascinating book.

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The Incredible World of Spy-Fi: Wild and Crazy Spy Gadgets, Props, and Artifacts from TV and the Movies

Updated Jan 25, 2007

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I have always been amazed at the ingenuity of some of the gadgets used in the spy movies and apparently, I am not the only one. Danny Biederman (one of the writers) has been immersed in the spy world, at least as Hollywood depicts it, from the time of his youth in the 1960s, when he was introduced to a world of "spies, gadgets, adventure, and beautiful women-everything that a ten-year-old boy could possibly want." Since then he has collected over 4,000 props from various sets, amassing such an impressive trove that in 2000 the CIA asked him to exhibit it at its headquarters. This book tells the story of each TV series and movie through Biederman’s props, which range from the coat hook used in U.N.C.L.E. to open a secret passageway, to the gold sofa that adorned James West’s private railroad car in The Wild Wild West.

Amazingly interesting book.

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The Killing (1956)

Updated Jan 25, 2007

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In collaboration with Jim Thompson, Stanley Kubrick delivers the perfect film noir. In 'Killing', Jim Thompson concoct a story about a desperate gang of lowlifes led by a grim and determined Sterling Hayden. Together they devise and execute a complex racetrack robbery, but inner tensions and the iron fist of fate work against them. The cast is uniformly superb, with Hayden, Jay C. Flippen, Timothy Carey, Marie Windsor, and Elisha Cook Jr. fleshing out characters torn between grandiose ambition and petty desire.

This film is the perfect introduction to film noir - the strange narrative structure and Kubrick's bouncing back and forth in time makes this movie an absolute must-see.

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Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski: A Film Legacy

Updated Jan 24, 2007

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I have seen all the movies from this collection and each is absolutely fascinating. 'Fitzcarraldo' and 'Nosferatu, the Vampyre' are brilliant. I would love to see 'Mein Liebster Feind' which is set in the 1950s, when Werner Herzog was 13, he was sharing an apartment with Klaus Kinski, an ego-maniacal live-wire. In an unabated, 48 hour fit of rage, Kinski destroyed every piece of furniture in sight. From this chaos, a beautiful albeit volatile partnership was born. In 1972, Herzog cast Kinski in Aguirre, The Wrath of God. Four more films would follow. In this personal documentary, Herzog traces the often violent up and downs of their relationship, revisiting Munich apartment where they first met - and thrashed, and the various locations of their films.

This collection is an absolute must for any Klaus Kinski and Werner Hertzog. (via nolaicycle)

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Happy Feet (2006)

Updated Jan 23, 2007

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BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM OF THE YEAR

In the cold land of Antarctica, the Emperor Penguins each express their true love with a special heartsong of their own that expresses their very being. However, the misfit Mumble cannot sing, but instead has an extraordinary talent to tap dance with almost magical energy and expression. Nevertheless, the deeply conformist leadership of the colony fearfully blames the young penguin's unorthodox ways for the lean fishing that threatens them all. Defiant in the face of unjust rejection, Mumble and his true friends set out to find the true cause of the famine. Through the motley crew's trials and perils, Mumble learns many things about his frozen world, not the least of which being that his toe tapping talent may be what he needs to save his people.

Entertainment at its best but warning!!... May cause toe-tapping.

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The Illusionist (2006)

Updated Jan 23, 2007

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ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY

A fabulous movie not to be missed! Director Neil Burger's screen adaptation of Steven Millhauser's short story 'Eisenheim the Illusionist'. Eisenheim (Edward Norton) is a magician in early 1900's Vienna, who falls in love with a woman well above his social standing. When she becomes engaged to a Crown Prince, Eisenheim uses his powers to free her and undermine the stability of the royal house of Vienna.

A spellbinding film with perfect acting and beautifully shot.

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The Night Porter (1974)

Updated Jan 19, 2007

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Charlotte Rampling is one of my favorite actress and in 'The Night Porter', she plays a concentration camp survivor who, thirteen years after WWII, meets her tormentor (Dirk Bogarde) in a Vienna hotel and falls back into their sado-masochistic relationship.

This was a very shocking movie when it first came out as it is a love story dipped in decadence directed by Liliana Cavani, the well-known director.

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An Angel at My Table (1990)

Updated Jan 18, 2007

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This is one of my absolute top favorite movies. This extraordinary film, directed by Jane Campion (The Piano) is based on the life of Janet Frame, an introverted, sensitive girl who was later misdiagnosed as schizophrenic and spent eight years in a psychiatric hospital.

She would later become one of New Zealand's most celebrated poets and novelists, publishing her first books while she was still confined to a mental ward. She had endured over 200 electroshock treatments and had almost been lobotomized by careless physicians who took no time to understand that she was merely awkward and shy and suffered from little more than routine depression.

Fascinating film, visually gorgeous and inbelievable performances. An absolute must-see!!

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Heavenly Creatures (1994)

Updated Jan 15, 2007

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A starkly original film-going experience based on a true life story, this film from New Zealand director Peter Jackson is a stirring drama that offers up the unexpected.

The story concerns two girls, outcasts who become best friends, whose bizarre fantasy life becomes more intense as their bond becomes increasingly more obsessive. When the mother of one of the girls tries to intervene and split the girls apart, they kill her and stand trial for murder in what is to this day still a celebrated and controversial case. Kate Winslet (Titanic) and Melanie Lynskey create two sympathetic and yet uncomfortably eerie characters in riveting portrayals.

A thrilling and provocative movie, 'Heavenly Creatures' is a gripping entertainment and a must-see.

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Primal Fear (1996)

Updated Jan 15, 2007

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Clever twists and a bona fide surprise ending make this an above-average courtroom thriller, tapping into the post-O.J. scrutiny of our legal system in the case of a hotshot Chicago defense attorney (Richard Gere) whose latest client is an altar boy (Edward Norton) accused of murdering a Catholic archbishop.

The film uses its own manipulation to tell a story about manipulation, and when we finally discover who's been pulling the strings, the payoff is both convincing and pertinent to the ongoing debate over what constitutes truth in the American system of justice.

Making an impressive screen debut that has since led to a stellar career, Norton gives a performance that rides on a razor's edge of schizophrenic pathology--his role is an actor's showcase, and without crossing over the line of credibility, Norton milks it for all it's worth.

This movie is an absolute must-see for Edwad Norton's performance....

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The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)

Updated Jan 4, 2007

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Cecilia (Mia Farrow), a depression-era waitress married to a brutish husband (Danny Aiello), finds her only escape at the movies, her current favorite being a light comedy about an explorer among socialites, called The Purple Rose of Cairo. She sees it so many times that the main character, Tom Baxter (Jeff Daniels), falls in love with her and steps off the screen to woo her. When news of this gets back to the movie studio, the producers send the actor who played Baxter (also Daniels) to convince Baxter to get back on the screen. The script is one of Allen's funniest and sadest and is one of my all time favorite.

Not to be missed!!

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