num_pages: 256
description: Shea Serrano is back and his new book Movies (And Other Things) combines the fury of a John Wick shootout the sly brilliance of Regina George holding court at a cafeteria table and the sheer power of a Denzel monologue all into one.Movies (And Other Things) is a book about quite frankly movies (and other things). One of the chapters for example answers which race Kevin Costner was able to white savior the best because did you know that he white saviors Mexicans in McFarland USA and white saviors Native Americans in Dances with Wolves and white saviors Black people in Black or White and white saviors the Cleveland Browns in Draft Day? Another of the chapters for a second example answers what other high school movie characters would be in Regina George's circle of friends if we opened up the Mean Girls universe to include other movies (Johnny Lawrence is temporarily in Claire from The Breakfast Club is in Ferris Bueller is out Isis from Bring It On is out...). Another of the chapters for a third example creates a special version of the Academy Awards specifically for rom-coms the most underrated movie genre of all. And another of the chapters for a final example is actually a triple chapter that serves as an NBA-style draft of the very best and most memorable moments in gangster movies. Many many things happen in Movies (And Other Things) some of which funny others of which are sad a few of which are insightful and all of which are handled with the type of care and dedication to the smallest details and pockets of pop culture that only a book by Shea Serrano can provide.
language: English
title: Movies
publisher: Twelve