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Summary: Every woman knows...
Review: ...a good movie is more than entertainment--it's therapy. If administered properly, in conjunction with something obscenely high in fat grams, a great movie can cure anything from a bad hair day to a full-fledged identity crisis. CINEMATHERAPY: The Girl's Guide to Movies for Every Mood, by Nancy Peske and Beverly West, recommends a movie to suit and soothe a woman's every possible mood.Do you need a good cry? Watch Marvin's Room, Love Story, or another Copious Weeper, and cry yourself a river. Is Mom driving you nuts? Check out a Mother Issue flick like Postcards from the Edge or Terms of Endearment and remind yourself that you love her anyway. Is your Prince Charming turning into a big old frog? Try a Happily-Ever-After movie like An Officer and a Gentleman or It Happened One Night, and reassure yourself that fairy tales can come true. With chapters like "Yeah, Okay, So He's a Jerk, but He's Soooooo Cute: Dysfunctional Romances" (see Legends of the Fall or Leaving Las Vegas) to "When Women Were Women and Men Were Nervous: Men Behaving Well Movies" (check out Pride and Prejudice or Adam's Rib) and funny sidebars such as "Faking It: Phony Gal-Films That Really Piss Us Off" or "Hoopskirt Dreams: Best Costume Movies," CINEMATHERAPY is something no modern woman, or film lover, should live without. Packed with dosage instructions, warning labels, and expert advice on the therapeutic benefits of each film, CINEMATHERAPY helps you make the perfect movie choice for any time you need to curl up in an old bathrobe and take charge of your own remote control. About the Authors Beverly West and Nancy Peske are film fanatics, best friends, identical cousins, and the co-authors of Meditations for Men Who do Next to Nothing (and Would Like to Do Even Less); How to Satisfy a Woman Every Time on Five Dollars a Day; and Frankly Scarlett, I Do Give a Damn! Classic Romances Retold. They live in New York City where they spend much of their time debating such sophisticated cinematic polemics as the merits of Gary Oldman's ripe Camembert excess as opposed to Alan Rickman's quarter-pounder stoicism, and the far-reaching cultural implications of Brad Pitt's haircut.
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Summary: One long article that should have been in Jane magazine
Review: Aren't we cute? Aren't we clever? Perhaps you could have hired someone who really knows somehing about cinema to help you out. Skip this one.
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Summary: As seen on Weekend Today and in Entertainment Weekly
Review: From Entertainment Weekly: You gotta love a movie tome that lists films under subheads that really matter. "The Handy Hunk Chart" (featuring Ralph Fiennes' and Matt Dillon's "Top Drool Pics"), "Faking It: Phony Gal Films That Really Piss Us Off (Pretty Woman, Fatal Attraction)," and "Hoopskirt Dreams: Dresses-to-Die-for Movies" (The Age of Innocence) are just a few of the helpful categorizations that make this snarky little review compilation such a hoot. Peske and West's hilarious observations range from the trenchant ("Sandra Bullock...can take off a knit cap and not have hat head much less flyaway") to the feverish ("Vincent Perez is so beautiful, he'll make your joints ache"). A must for your next girls' night in. Grade: A Minus.
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Summary: for moody women who love movies
Review: Hey girls, if you are a movie fanatic, like me, you should buy this book for yourself and for your girlfriends!! Great information, fun, and *almost* as entertaining as the movies they are describing!! Now you have a reason to actually enjoy your PMS days!!!
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Summary: Cinematherapy, A Girls Guide to Movies for Every Mood
Review: How clever these two are with their humor and insight! "Cinematherapy" has blossomed quickly into a household word! How fitting to capture with their wit, the psychology of movies for our moods! I see this as a first volume, with many more to be added. What an exciting new subject that can spin off in many directions. I turned on the radio one day the week of Valentines Day, and the subject for call in that day was...guess what? "Cinematherapy"! People were calling in with choices to fit the day and theme! March on girls! You have begun a new era! Not only a great book, but a much needed one!
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Summary: Awesome!
Review: I absolutely adore this book. I work at Bath and Body Works and we carried this for a few months. Every time I worked, I found myself skimming through this. I finally broke down and bought it. I'm so glad I did! It's absolutely fab. No matter what mood you're in, this book has a chapter devoted to it. I've used it on many a night before going to the video store. I've found some of my favorite movies that way! Every girl should have this swell book :)
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Summary: What a Cool Find!
Review: I found out about this book through a commercial on the "We (Women's Entertainment)" Channel. They have a series of movies called "Cinematherapy," based on this very book. There's information on the series and a list of the movies on their website. Some of the other reviews make the complaint that the writing is too fluffy and/or lightweight. Seriously - if you wanted to read anything "academic," why would you even bother to look at this book? Sometimes a person really only wants to read something friendly and entertaining, and this serves that purpose. It's like "comfort food" - not really nourishing to the mind, but satisfying. I would have to agree with the reviewers who make the point that there are not enough contemporary movies included. I'm in my 20's, and most of those older movies just don't appeal to me right now. What's more, they can be hard to find at the video store. But there are still plenty of good films for anybody in there, probably even a lot of guys. One example would be "A River Runs Through It." By the way, if you want to know exactly what movies are included, click where it says "Look Inside." You can read the full index.
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Summary: What a Cool Find!
Review: I found out about this book through a commercial on the "We (Women's Entertainment)" Channel. They have a series of movies called "Cinematherapy," based on this very book. There's information on the series and a list of the movies on their website. Some of the other reviews make the complaint that the writing is too fluffy and/or lightweight. Seriously - if you wanted to read anything "academic," why would you even bother to look at this book? Sometimes a person really only wants to read something friendly and entertaining, and this serves that purpose. It's like "comfort food" - not really nourishing to the mind, but satisfying. I would have to agree with the reviewers who make the point that there are not enough contemporary movies included. I'm in my 20's, and most of those older movies just don't appeal to me right now. What's more, they can be hard to find at the video store. But there are still plenty of good films for anybody in there, probably even a lot of guys. One example would be "A River Runs Through It." By the way, if you want to know exactly what movies are included, click where it says "Look Inside." You can read the full index.
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Summary: friendly guide to picking videos
Review: I like this book. It offers to be a friendly and casual guide, and that is exactly what it is. There are 15 chapters, distinguished by topic: PMS movies, dysfunctional romances, seeking greener pastures, mother-issues, earth mother films, working girl blues, bad hair days, dumped and looking for revenge movies, happily ever after movies, hearing your inner voice, martyr syndrome, girl's night out, men behaving well, women behaving badly, father-issues and cult films. The approach is breezy and mildly informative. Each chapter begins with a one or two page humorous essay followed by viewing suggestions, each with a paragraph or two of description and comments, and a miscellany of quotes, facts and opinions. The second chapter, for example, "Yeah, Okay, So He's a Jerk, But He's Sooooo Cute!: Dysfunctional Romances" features No Man of Her Own (1932), Suspicion (1941), Spellbound (1945), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Charade (1963), Funny Girl (1968), American Gigolo (1980), The Shining (1980), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981), Sid and Nancy (1986), Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1992), Ethan Frome (1993), Gaslight (1944), Immortal Beloved (1994), Legends of the Fall (1994), Leaving Las Vegas (1995), Never Talk to Strangers (1995) and Love Serenade (1996). The films that are recommended are interesting and appropriate choices I thought. I enjoyed reading about films I'd already seen and appreciated the description of those I hadn't. There is a fair amount of humorous filler, which works because the authors are good writers and funny. Complemented by a good index, this is not a book to read straight through, but rather to be perused as the mood hits.
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Summary: friendly guide to picking videos
Review: I like this book. It offers to be a friendly and casual guide, and that is exactly what it is. There are 15 chapters, distinguished by topic: PMS movies, dysfunctional romances, seeking greener pastures, mother-issues, earth mother films, working girl blues, bad hair days, dumped and looking for revenge movies, happily ever after movies, hearing your inner voice, martyr syndrome, girl's night out, men behaving well, women behaving badly, father-issues and cult films. The approach is breezy and mildly informative. Each chapter begins with a one or two page humorous essay followed by viewing suggestions, each with a paragraph or two of description and comments, and a miscellany of quotes, facts and opinions. The second chapter, for example, "Yeah, Okay, So He's a Jerk, But He's Sooooo Cute!: Dysfunctional Romances" features No Man of Her Own (1932), Suspicion (1941), Spellbound (1945), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Charade (1963), Funny Girl (1968), American Gigolo (1980), The Shining (1980), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981), Sid and Nancy (1986), Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1992), Ethan Frome (1993), Gaslight (1944), Immortal Beloved (1994), Legends of the Fall (1994), Leaving Las Vegas (1995), Never Talk to Strangers (1995) and Love Serenade (1996). The films that are recommended are interesting and appropriate choices I thought. I enjoyed reading about films I'd already seen and appreciated the description of those I hadn't. There is a fair amount of humorous filler, which works because the authors are good writers and funny. Complemented by a good index, this is not a book to read straight through, but rather to be perused as the mood hits.
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