This book for movie lovers is filled with fascinating facts and behind-the-scenes insights about the making of celebrated movies from the last fifty years, from well-known blockbusters to critical favorites and cult classics.

FILMS, CINEMA. Who doesn't enjoy three of life's most enjoyable social activities-eating, drinking, and movie-watching? [This book] is a food-cocktail-and-film pairing guide inspired by the classics we love perfect for date night or to entertain in style. The book highlights thirty crowd-pleasing films from the 1930s through the '80s paired with signature drinks and dishes that appear in, or are inspired by, each film's setting and stars-all crafted...

Large screen TVs and fullline DVD services have liberated movie lovers from fear of parking and stale popcorn. Across the country, movie lovers are staying in and creating their own version of book clubs - but without the homework. The Movie Lovers' Club - the only guide for movie nights with friends - motivates readers to form their own Lovers' Club clubs to explore the more than 100 excellent film suggestions, summaries, critical reviews, and insider...

Film scholar David Thomson focuses in on a series of moments-- which his readers will also experience in beautifully reproduced imagery-- from 72 films across a 100-year-plus span. Moments takes readers on an unprecedented visual tour, where the specifics of the imagery the reader is seeing are inextricably tied to the text. Thomson's moments range from a set of Eadweard Muybridge's pioneering photographs to sequences in films from the classic-- Citizen...

A guide to the characters and places which appear in the first three Shrek movies.