About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 124. Chapters: Kick-Ass, Brokeback Mountain, Milk, Atonement, Hot Fuzz, Lost in Translation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Burn After Reading, Eastern Promises, Lust, Caution, The Motorcycle Diaries, Shaun of the Dead, Coraline, Somewhere, The Strangers, A Serious Man, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boat That Rocked, Pride & Prejudice, The Pianist, Fearless, Brick, In Bruges, My Summer of Love, The Kids Are All Right, Taking Woodstock, Vanity Fair, Hollywoodland, Dream Home, Scoop, It's Kind of a Funny Story, Broken Flowers, Jane Eyre, 21 Grams, The American, The Man Who Cried, Inside I'm Dancing, Far from Heaven, Evening, Dan in Real Life, Ned Kelly, Unleashed, Assault on Precinct 13, Hamlet 2, The Limits of Control, Something New, Swimming Pool, Balls of Fury, Long Time Dead, The Unborn, The Constant Gardener, 9, Greenberg, My Little Eye, The Door in the Floor, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Murderer, The Ice Harvest, Cry Wolf, Catch a Fire, Imagine Me & You, How to Deal, Waist Deep, Hanna, Dave Chappelle's Block Party, The Shape of Things, Fighting, Reservation Road, Talk to Me, Gainsbourg, Possession, Sylvia, Babies. Excerpt: Kick-Ass is a 2010 superhero/action-comedy film based on the comic book of the same name by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr. The film was directed by Matthew Vaughn, who co-produced the film with actor Brad Pitt, and co-wrote the screenplay with Jane Goldman. The film's general release was on 25 March 2010 in the United Kingdom and on 16 April 2010 in the United States. The film tells the story of an ordinary teenager, Dave, who sets out to become a real-life superhero, calling himself "Kick-Ass." Dave gets caught up in a bigger fight when he meets Big Daddy, a former cop who, in his quest to bring down the drug lord Frank D'Amico, has trained his eleven-year-old da...