Author: Lowe, Alice, 1977- film director, actor, writer. Whelan, Gemma, 1981- actor. Skinner, Dan, 1973- actor. Dickie, Kate, actor. Davis, Tom actor. Published: 2020 2017 Call Number: PREVENGE Format: Video disc Summary: Ruth's misanthropic unborn baby speaks to her from the womb, coaching her to lure and ultimately kill her unsuspecting victims. Struggling with her conscience, loneliness, and a strange strain of prepartum madness, Ruth must ultimately choose between redemption and destruction at the moment of motherhood.
Author: Verbruggen, Jakob, television director, television producer. Carr, Caleb, 1955- screenwriter. Brühl, Daniel, 1978- actor. Evans, Luke, 1979- actor. Geraghty, Brian, actor. Published: 2019 2018 Call Number: ALIENIST Format: Video disc Summary: Dr. Laszlo Kreizler treats mental pathologies -- a controversial new field in 1896 -- and it may unlock the secret to another new phenomenon: a ritualistic serial killer who is targeting young boys in New York City.
Author: Volpe, Petra Biondina, film director. Leuenberger, Marie, 1980- actor. Simonischek, Maximilian, actor. Braunschweig, Rachel, actor. Zeitgeist Films, film distributor. Published: 2018 Call Number: DRAMA DIVINE Format: Video disc Summary: It is set in Switzerland in 1971 where, despite the worldwide social upheavals of the previous decade, women, were still denied the right to vote. When unassuming and dutiful housewife Nora is forbidden by her husband to take a part-time job, her frustration leads to her becoming the poster child of her town's suffragette movement. Her newfound celebrity brings humiliation, threats, and the potential end to her marriage.
Author: Director X., 1975- film director. Tse, Alex, screenwriter. Silver, Joel, film producer. Future, 1983- film producer. Jackson, Trevor, 1996- actor. Published: 2018 Call Number: SUPERFLY Format: Video disc Summary: Superfly is a remix of the iconic film that defined a genre through its characters, look, sound and feel. Told through the artistic lens of visionary, Director X, this newest take is set to a soundtrack curated by Future and modernized in the city of Atlanta. An action-packed film that follows Youngblood Priest, a cocaine kingpin who wants to get out of the drug game. Hoping for one last score, Priest and this partner travel to Mexico to arrange a deal with finds himself trying to outmaneuver the cartel, two corrupt police offices and all the double-crossers that threaten his path to freedom.
Author: Porter, Dawn (Dawn Michele), film director, film producer. Alexander, Erika, film producer. Arnon, Ben, film producer. Michalchyshyn, Laura, film producer. Lewis, John, 1940-2020, on-screen participant. Published: 2020 Call Number: B LEWIS Format: Video disc Summary: Using interviews and rare archival footage, this chronicles Lewis's 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health care reform, and immigration. Using present-day interviews with Lewis, now 80 years old, it explores his childhood experiences, his inspiring family, and his meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957. It also includes interviews with political leaders, colleagues, and other people who figure prominently in his life.
Author: Coulam, Daisy, screenwriter. Jackson, John (Screenwriter), screenwriter. Andrews, Carey, screenwriter. Riddell, Jake, screenwriter. St. Johnston, Joshua, screenwriter. Published: 2020 Call Number: GRANTCHE SEASON 5 Format: Video disc Summary: It's 1957, and it's as if the world of Grantchester has returned to an idyllic state, a metaphorical Garden of Eden. Will believes that everyone can get close to their own Eden through good works and a proactive attitude. But as Geordie knows, every Eden has its snakes. Will's faith will be tested as he and Geordie are reminded that there's darkness lurking in their corner of Cambridgeshire.
Author: Mitchell, Jason, 1987- actor. Latimore, Jacob, 1996- actor. Mwine, Ntare Guma Mbaho, actor. Twentieth Century-Fox Television, Inc., production company. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, publisher. Published: 2019 Call Number: CHI SEASON 2 DISC 1-2 Format: Video disc Summary: The Chi returns for a second riveting season of stories from Chicago's South Side. As Brandon works to make things right with Jerrika, Emmett tries to get custody of his son, with help from Jada. Meanwhile, Ronnie hopes to come to terms with his actions, and Kevin grapples with past traumas.
Author: Goldby, Roger, television director. Nye, Simon, 1958- screenwriter. Hall, Christopher, 1957- television producer. Hawes, Keeley, 1977- actor. O'Connor, Josh, actor. Published: 2018 Call Number: DURRELLS SEASON 3 Format: Video disc Summary: Based on Gerald Durrell's trilogy of Corfu novels, this latest series sees sparky English widow Louisa Durrell and her brood continue to put down roots in their dilapidated rented house, alongside an ever-increasing menagerie of animals brought home by youngest son Gerry.
Author: Rose, Bernard, 1961- screenwriter, film director. Madsen, Virginia, 1961- actor. Todd, Tony, 1952- actor. Berkeley, Xander, 1955- actor. Motion picture adaptation of (work) : Barker, Clive, 1952- Forbidden. Published: 2020 Call Number: CANDYMAN Format: Video disc Summary: A graduate student researching modern folklore discovers the spirit of a bitter slave. The housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini Green neighborhood were terrorized by a ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, summoned by those repeating his name five times into a mirror. In present day, visual artist Anthony moves into a luxury loft condo in Cabrini now gentrified beyond recognition. Anthony begins to explore these macabre details in his studio paintings, unleashing a terrifying wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny.
Author: Idris, Damson, actor. Hudson, Carter, actor. Peris-Mencheta, Sergio, 1975- actor. Rios, Emily, 1989- actor. FX Productions, production company. Published: 2019 Call Number: TV SERIES SNOW SEASON 2 Format: Video disc Summary: Snowfall continues its riveting story about the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it. Season two follows our ensemble of characters as they intersect and overlap within the mosaic of Los Angeles as we enter 1984, with all of them working toward their ultimate goals of money, power and influence. Young street entrepreneur Franklin Saint (Damson Idris) is beginning to experience the perils of success. CIA operative Teddy McDonald (Carter Hudson) finds that his off-book drug-funded operation may be vulnerable from unexpected sources, both personal and professional. And drug-running couple Gustavo "El Oso"Zapata (Sergio Peris-Mencheta) and Lucia (Emily Rios) discover the potency of crack and try to exploit it, despite the new danger involved. - container
Author: Katzberg, Todd, creator. Robinson, Ken, 1957- creator. Smilovic, Jason, creator. Irons, Max, 1985- actor. Hurt, William, actor. Published: 2019 2018 Call Number: CONDOR SEASON 1 Format: Video disc Summary: Joe Turner has always been conflicted about his work for the CIA. But when something he's discovered gets his entire office killed, leaving Joe as the only survivor and forcing him to go on the run, the theoretical reservations he's always harbored turn into all-too-real moral dilemmas.
Author: Waithe, Lena, 1984- creator. Mitchell, Jason, 1987- actor. Mwine, Ntare Guma Mbaho, actor. Latimore, Jacob, 1996- actor. Hibbert, Alex, 1986- actor. Published: 2018 Call Number: TV SERIES CHI SEASON 1. Format: Video disc Summary: The Chi (short for Chicago) follows the lives of Emmett, Brandon, Ronnie and Kevin in the South Side neighborhood of Chicago after a fateful turn of events sends shock waves through the community but also connects them in unexpected ways.
Author: Bassett, M.J., film director, screenwriter, film producer. Bassett, Isabel, screenwriter. Hassell, Molly, film producer. Bakker, Delon, film producer. Fox, Megan, 1986- actor. Published: 2020 Call Number: ROGUE Format: Video disc Summary: Team leader O'Hara leads a lively squad of soldiers on a daring mission: rescue hostages from their captors in remote Africa. But as the mission goes awry and the team is stranded, O'Hara's squad must face a bloody, brutal encounter with a gang of rebels, and the horde of ravenous, enraged lions they encounter.
Author: Shammasian, Ludwig, film director. Shammasian, Paul, film director. Thompson, Geoff, screenwriter. Talwar, Sheetal Vinod, film producer. Bloom, Orlando, 1977- actor. Published: 2020 Call Number: RETALIAT Format: Video disc Summary: A victim of childhood sexual abuse confronts the horrors of his past.
Author: Murnion, Cary, 1975- film director. Milott, Jonathan, 1973- film director. Morris, Nick, screenwriter. Skye, Ruckus, screenwriter. Skye, Lane, screenwriter. Published: 2020 Call Number: BECKY Format: Video disc Summary: Spunky and rebellious, Becky is brought to a weekend getaway at a lake house by her father Jeff in an effort to try to reconnect. The trip immediately takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts on the run, led by the merciless Dominick, suddenly invade the lake house.
Author: Wiper, Scott, film director, screenwriter, film producer. O'Reilly, Karri, 1969- film producer. Pack, Tarquin, film producer. Tarantino, Paul, author. Jones, Vinnie, 1965- actor, film producer. Published: 2020 Call Number: BIG Format: Video disc Summary: A British crime syndicate enforcer must choose between loyalty to his boss and his family and friends when his girlfriend goes missing after his boss strikes a lucrative oil deal with an American businessman in the wilds of West Virginia.
Author: Riedell, Chris, film director. Marcellus, Andrea, screenwriter. Panebianco, Jina, film producer. Hale, Lucy, 1989- actor. Gulaptis, Leonidas, actor. Published: 2020 Call Number: NICE Format: Video disc Summary: Lucy creates a wild sex-to-do list that sends her on a hilarious and surprising journey of self-discovery, friendship, and new love.
Author: Waller-Bridge, Phoebe, 1985- creator, screenwriter. Thomas, Damon, television director. McDonough, Terry, television director. Jennings, Luke, screenwriter. Oh, Sandra, 1971- actor. Published: 2020 Call Number: KILLING SEASON 3 Format: Video disc Summary: The story of two women with brutal pasts addicted to each other but now trying desperately to live their lives without their drug of choice. For Villanelle, the assassin without a job, Eve is dead. For Eve, the ex-MI6 operative hiding in plain sight, Villanelle will never find her. All seems fine until a shocking and personal death sets them on a collision course yet again. The journey back to each other will cost both of them friends, family, and allegiances.
Author: Fitzgerald, Michael (Producer), film producer. Segura, Olga, 1986- film producer. Iervolino, Andrea, film producer. Bacardi, Monika, 1968- film producer. Coetzee, J. M., 1940- screenwriter. Published: 2020 Call Number: WAITING Format: Video disc Summary: The Magistrate of an isolated frontier settlement on the border of an unnamed empire looks forward to an easy retirement until the arrival of Colonel Joll, whose task it is to report on the activities of the "barbarians" and the security situation on the border. Joll conducts a series of ruthless interrogations, which leads the Magistrate to question his loyalty to the empire.
