Cary Elwes
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From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes a first-person account and behind-the-scenes look at the making of the cult classic film filled with never-before-told stories, exclusive photographs, and interviews with costars Robin Wright, Wallace Shawn, Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, and Mandy Patinkin, as well as author and screenwriter William Goldman, producer Norman Lear, and director Rob Reiner.
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How can people make intelligent decisions about their increasingly technology-driven lives if they don't understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer Prize winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific thinking is critical not only to the pursuit of truth but to the very well-being of democratic institutions. Casting a wide net through history and culture,...
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Robin Hood, the dashing defender of the down-trodden, along with his merry men and Maid Marian, resides in Sherwood Forest. There they have come together to fight against the seriously neurotic Prince John, the not-quite-evil Sheriff of Rottingham, and the mad sorceress Latrine. Bonus features included.
6) Glory
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Two idealistic young Bostonians lead the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, America's first Black regiment in the Civil War.
8) Hot shots!
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A team of crack (or is it cracked?) jet jockeys led by an incompetent commander spend their nights carousing and their days training for secret operation "Sleepy Weasel" -- a lightning strike against a desert kingdom.
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The Flash gets a chance to go back in time and right a violent, decades-past crime against his mother. However, the ripples of his good intentions prove disastrous, as a fractured, alternate reality now exists in place of the familiar one. Superman is nowhere to be found, and Batman is a grittier, more violent Dark Knight. Together, with Cyborg, they race to restore the continuity of Flash's original timeline, while this new one is ravaged by war...
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Super spy Orson Fortune must track down and stop the sale of a deadly new weapons technology wielded by billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds. Reluctantly teamed with some of the world's best operatives, Fortune and his crew recruit Hollywood's biggest movie star Danny Francesco to help them on their globe-trotting undercover mission to save the world.
11) Best sellers
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In a last-ditch effort to save her father's publishing house, an ambitious young editor goes on a book tour with an author who put the publishing house on the map decades before but is now bitter, booze-addled and hasn't written a new book since.
13) Another country
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An elderly, exiled British spy remembers his days at an English boarding school in the 1930s. In school, he fell in love with a male classmate, explored his homosexuality and was exposed to Marxist ideas, both contributing to his activities as a spy.
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Teenage siblings Hansel and Gretel are shaken out of suburbia when an intense new marijuana strain named 'Black Forest' takes Los Angeles by storm. When Gretel's stoner boyfriend mysteriously disappears while on a run to buy more drugs; the siblings follow his breadcrumbs to the house of a little old lady who has a very green thumb. When the seemingly sweet woman turns out to be a drug-dealing, drug growing evil witch who cooks and eats her wasted...
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Emma and Adam are life-long friends who almost ruin everything by having sex one morning. To protect their friendship, they make a pact to keep their relationship strictly 'no strings attached.' That means no jealousy, no expectations, no fighting, no flowers, and no baby voices. They can do whatever they want, whenever they want, wherever they want, as long as they don't fall in love. The question becomes: who's going to fall first? And can their...
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Film adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's novel follows daughter of a well-to-do family in 1948 Manhattan. Fifteen-year-old Camilla Dickinson, leads a sheltered life in New York City until her parents' marriage begins to fall apart. When Camilla meets her best friend's rebellious brother Frank she finds a way to escape her troubles. As her relationship with Frank deepens, Camilla discovers a world outside of her own and begins to understand a little...
19) Being Charlie
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It centers on the eponymous eighteen-year-old as he drifts in and out of rehab clinics for drug addiction, while his actor-turned-politician father runs for governor of California. Charlie begins a relationship with fellow rehab patient Eva and the two attempts to get clean, but they find maintaining sobriety a constant struggle.
20) The Crush
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The romantic obsession of a young teenage girl for an older man has harrowing consequences in this suspense thriller.