Movie Help

The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award–winning film. Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who's always taken orders quietly, but lately she's unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow...

Classroom management is never a problem for the teachers they make movies about! Want a class like theirs, no matter what grade or subject you teach or how many students you have? Learn the 10 ideas you can use today to create the classroom any great movie teacher would love.

Jim Morris is no stranger to big dreams. Since he was five years old, he passionately yearned to play baseball in the major leagues. However, despite all his hard work and determination, a series of unfortunate events and injuries scuttled his career before he was 25. Doctors told him he would never play again. Then at age 35 - after a string of highly implausible events and at an age when most players are retiring - Morris found himself on the mound as a relief pitcher for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.

Press play… if you dare. Cori Edwards only wanted a nostalgic scare when she popped in an old VHS. Instead, the screen pulled her straight into a blood-soaked 90s slasher. Now she’s stuck in a world of cheerleaders, jocks, and killer clichés—where the body count climbs faster than Blockbuster late fees. To make it out alive, Cori has to outwit the tropes, rewrite the ending, and survive a psycho with a taste for meta mayhem. Fans of Scream, Totally Killer, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer won’t want to miss this wickedly funny horror ride.

Apocalypse Television features a dramatic insider's account of the making of and backlash against The Day After. No other book has told this story in similar fashion, venturing behind-the-scenes of the programming and news divisions at ABC, the backlash from the conservative movement and Religious Right, the challenges encountered by the film's production team, and the experiences of the citizens of Lawrence, Kansas, where the film was set and shot.

Step back from your problems, make sense of your experience, and rewrite your story. This book helps you achieve positive change and better outcomes by being the storyteller and the star of the story you want to tell. Part narrative therapy and Hollywood how-to, Blockbuster Living braids our love of filmed entertainment and its formula of success onto our daily routine of family, love, work, faith, and the big question always lingering: What do we really want? This is an invitation to think like a storyteller; clarify the past and build an intentional future that is harmonious with a truer ...

This book is about one of my childhood friends; it is a tribute to him.

Whether you've just felt the spark of inspiration for a new story idea, or you’re putting your finished screenplay in front of producers, managers, and agents… You need a logline. A logline is one simple sentence, but an incredibly powerful tool that can help you throughout the screenwriting process. In the development and writing phases, a good logline will help you unlock your story, understand the movie you’re writing, and keep you aiming for the right target so you don’t get lost along the way. And when your screenplay is finished, a good logline will intrigue listeners, stand ...

For most people, movies are the highest form of storytelling. Movies offer the lowest barrier to shared story next to television, radio and word of mouth. And with the internet, movies are often more accessible than television. So, since movies tell such great stories in ways that most people can understand and appreciate, why not use movies to help us learn about relationships and how to improve them? Why not use something we love doing together, to help us learn how to be together better? As a marriage and family therapist, Lisa Locke has discovered the power of movies to help individuals...

Regardless of whether you’re in recovery, work to help others in their recovery, or just love great movies, Addicted in Film manages to take the sometimes difficult conversation about addiction and recovery and render it accessible, informative, engaging, and at times laugh-out-loud funny.

From widespread unemployment and mounting international hostilities, every day we are swept into more political chaos—so one brave man looks to the Star Wars universe for answers to our most urgent problems. “You can’t stop the change — anymore than you can stop the sun from setting.”...

Be the best you even during the impending Zombie Deer Apocalypse! ABOUT THE PUBLISHER Renegade Press, LLC was started by internationally acclaimed actor, screenwriter and author Dan Davies. The mission, behind this boutique publisher, is to specialize in publishing 3-5 books a year that have a diverse, unique and compelling message. For more info please go to renegadepresspublisher.com.

Under the starry night sky, there exists a magical connection between the world we know and a celestial realm beyond. In this heavenly theater, angels and crossed-over loved ones gather, watching the unfolding story of a girl named Emma. Her life, with its joys, struggles, and triumphs, plays out like a movie on a screen, each moment inspiring those who cheer her on from above. From her childhood adventures to the challenges of adulthood, Emma's journey is a tale of resilience, love, and self-discovery—a story that speaks to the power of unseen support and the beauty of living boldly, ...

Comedy, Tragedy, Therapy. Simon Amstell did his first stand-up gig at the age of 13. His parents had just divorced, and puberty was confusing. Trying to be funny solved everything. Read by Simon Amstell, and interspersed with footage from his stand-up tours, HELP is the hilarious and heartbreaking account of Simon's ongoing compulsion to reveal his entire self onstage. To tell the truth so it can't hurt him anymore. Loneliness, anxiety, depression - this book has it all. And more.

Two classmates scheme to break their parents up before they get married and ruin the girls’ lives forever in this hijinks-filled middle grade novel. Melisa Flores and Roxy Romero are not fans of each other. Roxy is sporty while Meli is artsy. Meli keeps her friend circle small while Roxy is...