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An Elvis-inspired romantic comedy with a Bollywood beat Vikram “Vik” Sharma is more than Mumbai’s most enthusiastic Elvis impersonator, he’s a dreamer with a record shop, a rhinestone jumpsuit, and a heart that refuses to play by tradition. Priya Kapoor is a fiercely creative artist, torn between her family’s expectations and her own longing for freedom. When she stumbles into Vik’s shop, sparks fly to the sound of “Love Me Tender.” But there’s one problem, she’s already engaged, her family depending on the dowry her marriage will bring. From monsoon-soaked Mumbai ...

When Ruth Ellison opens The Last Bookshop in the fading Cotswolds village of Willowby, she’s looking for more than just a fresh start. At 48, reeling from a divorce and a lifetime of what-ifs, she’s poured everything she has, emotionally and financially, into restoring a dusty old shop filled with creaky floors, forgotten first editions, and a cat named Brontë with an attitude. She wasn’t expecting Graham Hargrove, a reclusive former literary star with a tweed cap, a bruised past, and a knack for quoting poetry when it’s least convenient. Nor was she expecting a leather-bound ...

In the rain-soaked shadows of early-’90s Seattle, where flannel is armor and guitars bleed truth, Nina Carter and Jake “Jagger” Malone are on opposite ends of a dying genre war. She’s a sharp-tongued zine queen and grunge band manager whose words have bite and purpose. He’s a Sunset Strip refugee, all eyeliner swagger and glam-rock riffs, trying to keep his fading band alive in a world that’s swapped hairspray for heroin and solos for screams. When a West Coast Battle of the Bands throws their paths together, grunge versus glam, dirt versus polish, their rivalry is instant, ...

What if the rumors that Paul McCartney really died in 1966 were true… and the cover-up was orchestrated by pigeons, psychedelic cults, and a sentient record player named the Vinyl Oracle? Welcome to The Fab Façade: The Rise of Faul, a kaleidoscopic fever dream of Beatlemania, brainwaves, and backmasked breadcrumbs. When a Scottish oddball named Billy Shears stumbles into a Paul McCartney look-alike contest by accident, he unwittingly becomes the linchpin of the most ludicrously elaborate conspiracy in pop culture history. Selected by a shadowy cabal known as the Order of the Saffron Veil...

In the whiskey-sweet air of 1950s Tennessee, where the ghosts of war still haunt the jukebox and the promise of country music clings to every neon-lit dive, Clara Faye Dalton is chasing a dream louder than her past. With a battered guitar, a pocketful of pain, and a voice like smoke and silver, she storms into Sun Records ready to burn through every lie she’s been told, about music, men, and the cost of wanting more. Wes Malone, a worn-down World War II vet with a liver full of regret and a heart tuned to swing rhythms, isn’t looking to be anyone’s hero. But when he hears Clara sing, ...

GUILTY AS CHARGED: A CROSS-COUNTRY CODEX OF CRAZINESS : PART TWO The laws get weirder. The laughs get louder. The road gets real. After burnout, breakdowns, and one disastrous goldfish arrest, the Lawbenders are back on the road, recharged, reunited, and ready to finish what they started. Milo Carter, former law student turned accidental outlaw, leads his ragtag crew, Tina Morales, the stand-up comic rediscovering her fire; Raj Patel, the tech wizard with new resolve; Clara Nguyen, the historian-turned-activist; and Dave Thompson, the world’s most optimistic himbo, back into the chaos of ...

Breaking the law, one laugh at a time. When disillusioned law-school dropout Milo Carter stumbles across an absurd statute about pickle quality, he doesn’t just roll his eyes, he sparks a revolution. Along with his chaotic comedian best friend Tina Morales, anxious tech genius Raj Patel, fiery historian Clara Nguyen, and golden-retriever-hearted himbo Dave Thompson, Milo hits the road in a beat-up RV nicknamed The Lawnmower on a mission to “yeet” America’s strangest laws. From Connecticut’s bouncing pickles to Alabama’s Sunday domino ban, every state brings new stunts, new fines...

In the glitter-drenched madness of 1970s New York, where Studio 54 pulses with mirrorball mania and the streets of Harlem throb with raw funk, Tony Moretti and Simone Carter are two souls on a collision course, fueled by groove, grit, and one very dangerous demo tape. He’s a hot-headed Italian-American dancer-turned-guitarist, slinging licks hotter than the disco inferno. She’s a velvet-voiced soul survivor with sequins in her blood, sass in her scat, and a vow never to be silenced again. From sweaty dive bars to Chic’s diamond-studded studios, from soul sessions with James Brown’s ...

The playbook for creatives in the algorithm age! SCRIPT SHOOT SCROLL: The Art Of Storytelling In The Social Age is for the next generation of storytellers - the filmmakers, editors, screenwriters, copywriters, social creatives, and brand builders learning to make something real in a world that rarely is. If you’ve ever written a script that died in feedback hell, stayed up cutting a thirty-second ad until it felt honest, or wondered whether the industry still values emotion over metrics - this book is for you. Writer-director Nick Pollack distills two decades of experience in commercials,...

They followed KISS through love, loss, and thunder, and found eternity in the noise. When Ace Frehley, the legendary Spaceman of KISS, died in 2025, two lifelong disciples set out to keep the flame alive. For twenty-five years, Jax, a grizzled rock photographer with a Les Paul tattoo and too many miles behind him, and Riley, a cosmic muralist whose art turns noise into color, have chased the heartbeat of the KISS myth across America’s highways, dive bars, and deserts. From their wild 1998 meet-cute at a comic con to the desert flash mobs of 2026, their love story mirrors the band they ...

What if the soundtrack of your life was written by Neil Diamond? Brooklyn, 1973: Eli Rosenberg, a clumsy, wisecracking record-store clerk with big dreams and even bigger shoelaces to trip over, meets Maria Sullivan, a fiery Catholic artist with paint on her hands and rebellion in her heart. They shouldn’t work, his Jewish family wants him to stay in line, her Irish clan wants him to stay away, but Neil Diamond’s songs pull them together, chorus after chorus. From the neon buzz of Coney Island to the cracked vinyl bins of Eli’s shop, from shouting matches with parents to late-night ...

In the shadowed glow of 1997 Sydney, where cassette tapes hiss and memory hums like feedback, music journalist Evie Callahan presses play on the interview that changed her life, and begins to unravel the decades that led her there. Fresh from a rare conversation with David Bowie, intimate, unrehearsed, quietly electrifying, Evie returns home to write the story she’s carried for seventeen years. But as Bowie’s voice crackles through her old tape recorder, each answer pulls her back through time: to Berlin’s post-punk squats, to smoky dive bars and gallery openings, and to Lukas Weber, ...

Brighton, September 2025. Mara Ellison runs Echoes, a tiny record shop haunted by memory and rain. For her, The Cure’s “Pictures of You” is more than a song, it’s a lifeline back to her late mother, and the scars she hides behind shelves of vinyl. Leo Alvarez is a DJ chasing shadows, still grieving the brother he lost and the call he ignored. For him, only the deep cuts matter: The Cure's introversion, Joy Division’s despair, Siouxsie’s gothic edge - songs that echo what he can’t say out loud. Thrown together for the Venice Biennale’s pop-up art festival, their clash of ...

Berlin, 1989. The Wall is cracking. History blares from boomboxes and whispers through cassette hiss. And in the chaotic hours after the border opens, two strangers collide under a flickering streetlight, one waving a sign that reads “HOFF = HOPE”, the other clutching a Walkman and a forbidden song. Lena Müller, an East Berlin dreamer with DJ ambitions and a scarf stitched from rebellion, has spent years recording banned music in secret. Jonas Becker, a West Berlin mechanic-poet with a mullet and a KITT replica in his garage, believes in freedom, Hoff, and the radical power of ...

In the smoky pulse of 1980s South Bronx, where block parties blaze and subway trains roar with graffiti wildstyle, Maya “Tee” Robinson and Rosano “DJ Spin” Carter are born of beats, rhyme, and fire. She’s a fearless Boricua MC with paint-splattered hands and verses sharp enough to cut glass, dreaming of a future for her daughter and her voice. He’s a rising DJ with scuffed Jordans and soul-deep scratches, torn between fame’s lure and the neighborhood that raised him. Their rivalry is the stuff of local legend, two talents clashing in cyphers and alleyways, dueling through ...

In the eyeliner-smudged chaos of 1982 London, where synth-pop rules the airwaves, New Romantics clash with rude boys, and every mixtape feels like a manifesto, two rivals are about to find harmony in the last place they expect. JJ Ryder is a Smash Hits journalist with a mullet teased to the gods and a devotion to Duran Duran so intense, he dreams of fronting his own band. Marisa Schmidt is a graphic designer with Boy George in her bloodstream, Culture Club stickers on her smock, and a permanent eye-roll reserved just for JJ’s frilly blouses and “yacht-pop fantasy.” When their editor ...

In the mid-90s, before streaming, before healing apps, before anyone dared call their chaos trauma, there were mixtapes. And some of them saved lives. Seattle, 1990something. A city drenched in rain, distortion pedals, and the ache of what might have been. Sam is a soft-spoken romantic trying to stay sober in a world that celebrates collapse. Nina’s heart is all elbows and noise, constantly breaking and never bothering to heal. Ellie only trusts in scissors and staples, cutting zines, cutting people, cutting herself off. Mia hides her longing behind piercings and punk shows. Jasper’s ...

In the grit-streaked heart of 1970s New York, where CBGB reeks of spilled beer and revolution, one record shop war is about to turn into the greatest duet the city’s never heard. Jamie Finnegan is a Lennon-loving music critic in the making, armed with a notebook, a Beatles back catalog, and a hopeless belief that melody can still change the world. Stevie “Riff” Malone is a scuffed-up punk guitarist shredding through the Lower East Side, fueled by Jagger’s swagger, busted amps, and a refusal to play by anyone’s rules, least of all Jamie’s. Their feud starts over a scratched White...

SOMETIMES THE LAST THING YOU WANT IS THE THING YOU NEED MOST Across the crowded terminal at Sydney Airport, disillusioned travel blogger Grant watches touring English musician Nina steal a bottle of vodka, and impulsively he steps in to help her avoid arrest. When this chivalrous act makes Grant miss his flight, he’s forced to take a last minute job chaperoning his new least favorite person around the city he’s grown to hate, to cover the cost of a new flight, twenty four hours later. As the straight-laced Grant chases the free-spirited Nina across town, he becomes increasingly ...

SCRIPT SHOOT SCROLL: The Beginner’s Blueprint is for the new wave of creatives stepping into an industry that rarely stops long enough to explain itself. It’s for the filmmakers, editors, writers, shooters, social creators, strategists, and curious beginners trying to make something human in a world built on speed, noise, and impossible expectations. If you’ve wondered how to get your first job without knowing anyone, questioned whether you’re too late to start, panicked about working for free, or quietly Googled the “embarrassing beginner questions” everyone else seems too ...