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This is an engrossing and candid book, a beguiling exploration of what it means to be a producer, including purchasing rights, developing scripts, casting actors, managing directors, editing film, and winning awards. Filled with tales of legendary and beloved films, as well as some not-so-legendary and forgotten ones, A Life in Movies takes listeners behind the scenes and into the history of Hollywood.

Using the metaphor of the hit film Groundhog Day, Paul Hannam presents his inspiration blueprint for making meaningful changes in your life. Paul Hannam has developed a programme based on the hidden, underlying road map to freedom found in the film Groundhog Day.

Television and TV viewing are not what they once were - and that's a good thing, according to award-winning author and critic Clive James. Since serving as television columnist for the London Observer from 1972 to 1982, James has witnessed a radical change in content, format, and programming, and in the very manner in which television is watched. Here he examines this unique cultural revolution, providing a brilliant, eminently entertaining analysis of many of the medium's most notable 21st-century accomplishments.

Batman is one of the most compelling and enduring characters to come from the Golden Age of Comics, and interest in his story has only increased through countless incarnations since his first appearance in Detective Comics #27 in 1939. Why does this superhero without superpowers fascinate us? What does that fascination say about us? Batman and Psychology explores these and other intriguing questions about the masked vigilante.

This hilarious compendium celebrates a decade of Taskmaster's inspired chaos. Relive the most outrageous tasks, iconic meltdowns, and ingenious victories from your favourite contestants.

Imagine waking up one day to discover that you have forgotten everything about your life. Your only link with the past, your only hope for the future, is your identical twin. Now imagine, years later, discovering that your twin had not told you the whole truth about your childhood, your family, and the forces that had shaped you. Why the secrets? Why the silences? You have no choice but to begin again. This has been Alex's reality: a world where memories are just the stories people tell you, where fact and fiction are impossible to distinguish.

Since 1977, The News Quiz has entertained the nation with its satirical take on contemporary events. In these three series from 2020, hosts Nish Kumar, Angela Barnes and Andy Zaltzman invite a panel of comedians and journalists to find the funny behind the headlines (a tricky task in this difficult year). Regular players including Mark Steel, Lucy Porter, Hugo Rifkind and Kerry Godliman rub shoulders with newer contestants such as Geoff Norcott, Sophie Duker, Sindhu Vee, Jess Fostekew, Daliso Chaponda and Athena Kugblenu.

In Clever Girl, Hannah McGregor argues that the female-only dinosaurs of Jurassic Park are stand-ins for monstrous women, engineered by men to be intelligent, violent, and adaptive, and whose chaos resists the systems designed to control them. As they run wild through their prison, a profit-driven theme park, they destroy the men and structures who mistakenly believed in their own colonialist and capitalist power, showing the audience what it means to be angry, monstrous, and free.

Qué bonito es el idioma español. Qué bonito es el cine. Ahora imagínate lo precioso que es ver cine en español. No te lo imagines más. Aquí te recomendamos las mejores 10 películas iberoamericanas.

Desde que éramos seres de las cavernas hemos tenido la habilidad de imaginar. Sin embargo, estas películas nos ayudaron a ver nuestros sueños más extraños hechos realidad. No te puedes perder nuestro conteo de las 10 películas que revolucionaron la ciencia ficción en la pantalla grande.

Películas basadas en libros hay muchas, pero estamos seguros que no lo sospechabas de las diez películas que elegimos para este episodio de Cine de 10.

La taquilla no les hizo justicia. La crítica las apaleó en su momento. Pero con el paso del tiempo han desarrollado seguidores en todos los rincones del mundo. Aquí nuestras 10 recomendaciones de películas de culto.

Una segunda parte no siempre es una buena idea cuando de películas se trata, pero estas secuelas nos dejaron boquiabiertos, porque superaron a sus predecesoras.

Ya sea que sea una primera cita, el quinto aniversario o simplemente un jueves por la noche. Ver una película en pareja es toda una tradición, y aquí en Cine de 10 te decimos cuáles son las ideales para ti y tu ser amado.

Chavela Vargas decía que un mexicano nace en donde le da la gana. Pero estas películas son la excepción, porque todas vieron por primera vez la luz en tierra mexicana.

Desde accidentes hasta muertes. Estas películas están llenas de misterio, drama y mucha, mucha mala suerte. ¿Serán víctimas de una maldición o un hechizo? Dale play para descubrir nuestro top 10 de películas malditas.

How have films like Ben-Hur, Spartacus, Gladiator, or even a satire like Monty Python’s Life of Brian created our popular perceptions of ancient Roman history? In what ways have they led us astray? And why, despite the occasional box-office flop, do movies set in ancient Rome still have the power to captivate us, and to turn each of us into theater-going history buffs? In these 12 lectures, an award-winning historian gives you a front-row look at the great movies that have shaped ancient Rome’s role in popular culture and memory.

Life is full of choices. Right now, yours is whether or not to buy the autobiography of a mid-grade, kind of hammy actor.

Peopled with a wonderful collection of warm, wicked, and weird characters, Vic Reeves' memoir is an enchanting, surreal, and utterly hilarious comic gem.

Learn the up-close and personal story of Call the Midwife as told by the cast and crew. Call the Midwife: A Labour of Love is a moving journey through the iconic series and features personal reflections, photos of fan-favourite moments and anecdotes and insights from co-stars, producers, technical crew and guests.