motion pictures

Examines the history of film in the United States, discussing well known movies, actors, directors, and more.

On a visit to Coney Island, Rebecca gets the chance to use her acting skills to lighten the mood in an embarrassing situation, but a factory tour makes Rebecca believe her skills are needed there, too.

Presents the authors' selections for the top 101 motion pictures of all time, each with comments on why the film was selected, background on the movie, a plot summary, profiles of the main actors, a cast list, credits, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, award nominations and wins, photographs, director comments, and quotes from critics.

When kid inventors Nick and Tesla find themselves on the set of a big-budget superhero movie, the scientific siblings must use their skills to discover who's trying to sabotage the debut of their favorite comic book hero.

When an old friend arrives in River Heights to film a movie, Nancy, Bess and George are invited to tour the set and meet a handsome movie actor before the production is threatened by a saboteur's escalating pranks.

The Sanford's Folly movie set has been abandoned since burning to the ground in the 1980s. Rumor has it the place is cursed after a film shoot gone terribly wrong. But that's not enough to scare Alex and his buddies away. After all, they live on an Air Force base. There's plenty of real-life stuff that's scarier than some fake western town, right?.

A literary tour de force about the making of a film and representation from a master of the memoir form. For Nick Flynn, that game we all play?the who-would-play-you-in-the-movie-of-your-life game?has been resolved. The Reenactments chronicles the surreal experience of being on set during the making of the film Being Flynn, from his best-selling memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, and watching the central events of his life reenacted: his father's long run of homelessness and his mother's suicide. Flynn tells the story of Robert De Niro's first meeting with his real father in Boston and of watching Julianne Moore attempt to throw herself into the sea. The result is a mesmerizingly sharp-edged and kaleidoscopic literary tour de force as well as a compelling argument about consciousness, representation, and grief.

Frank and Joe Hardy don't need to be asked twice to be zombie extras in a movie that's filming in Bayport. One day while on set, the terror gets a little too real, as equipment fails and the set tumbles over, almost killing a famous actress. Frank and Joe are suspects, but they know they didn't do it. The Hardy boys will have to be detectives again.

A critical look at the films of Spike Lee.

A superhero movie is being filmed in River Heights, and when actress Shasta Sienna's superhero boots go missing, Nancy Drew and her friends investigate.