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  • Setups, Payoffs & Reversals

    From Lethal Weapon to Play Dirty

    by Jake Jabbour ...
    Setups, Payoffs & Reversals is an adoring, obsessive and personal look at the films of Shane Black. From Lethal Weapon to Play Dirty, each chapter celebrates Black's signature style of "cheap tricks and cheesy one-liners" (Iron Man 3), male friendship (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), Christmas chaos (most of em), big personality henchmen (The Nice Guys) and the blood-soaked trail to redemption (all of em). ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Training to be Myself: An Indulgent Odyssey of Obsessions, Confessions, and Curiosities

    by Jake Jabbour ...
    At thirty-three, comedian and educator Jake Jabbour found himself living alone after a breakup with his girlfriend and burying his grandpa. His most impactful relationships ended, stripping from him his identities as a roommate, boyfriend, and grandson. Hoping to discover who he was when he wasn’t himself, Jake boarded an Amtrak train with his comedy partner to perform live improv across the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

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    From the author of the highly acclaimed heavy metal memoir, Fargo Rock City, comes another hilarious and discerning take on massively popular culture—set in Chuck Klosterman’s den and your own—covering everything from the effect of John Cusack flicks to the crucial role of breakfast cereal to the awesome power of the Dixie Chicks.Countless writers and artists have spoken for a generation, but no ... Read more

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  • Save the Cat! Goes to the Movies

    The Screenwriter's Guide to Every Story Ever Told

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    In the long-awaited sequel to his surprise bestseller, "Save the Cat!," author and screenwriter Snyder returns to form in a fast-paced follow-up that proves why his is the most talked-about approach to screenwriting in years. ... Read more

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  • Chuck Klosterman IV

    A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas

    Coming off the breakthrough success of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Killing Yourself to Live, bestselling essayist and pop culture critic Chuck Klosterman assembles his best music journalism and media commentary previously unavailable in book form—including the groundbreaking 1996 piece about his chicken McNuggets experiment, his uncensored profile of Britney Spears, and a previously ... Read more

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  • I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie

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    The Pulitzer Prize–winning film critics offers up more reviews of horrible films.Roger Ebert awards at least two out of four stars to most of the more than 150 movies he reviews each year. But when the noted film critic does pan a movie, the result is a humorous, scathing critique far more entertaining than the movie itself.I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie is a collection of more than 200 of Ebert ... Read more

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  • TV (The Book)

    Two Experts Pick the Greatest American Shows of All Time

    Is The Wire better than Breaking Bad? Is Cheers better than Seinfeld? What's the best high school show ever made? Why did Moonlighting really fall apart? Was the Arrested Development Netflix season brilliant or terrible?For twenty years-since they shared a TV column at Tony Soprano's hometown newspaper-critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz have been debating these questions and many more, ... Read more

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    Gordy LaSure's passionate about film. He eats film, he drinks film, and sometimes he'll even watch a film. But most of all he loves talking to people about film: whether a comely student with low confidence and a father complex, a Studio 'development' exec who doesn't trust his own judgement, or the countless people Gordy LaSure's encountered in his capacity as the web moderator on an Excessive ... Read more

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    A phenomenal account, newly updated, of how twelve innovative television dramas transformed the medium and the culture at large, featuring Sepinwall’s take on the finales of Mad Men and Breaking Bad.In The Revolution Was Televised, celebrated TV critic Alan Sepinwall chronicles the remarkable transformation of the small screen over the past fifteen years. Focusing on twelve innovative television ... Read more

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