Here is a new DVD list highlighting various titles recently added to the library’s collection.

“The Holdovers” – Website / Reviews 
This Oscar nominated comedy follows a curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go.

“Sirens” – Website / Reviews 
A 2022 True False documentary that intimately chronicles the lives and music of a band made up of five young metal heads whose burgeoning fame is set against the backdrop of the Lebanese revolution.

“Joan Baez: I Am A Noise” – Website / Reviews  
Following the legendary folk singer on her final tour, this documentary delves into her extraordinary archive, including newly discovered home movies, diaries, artwork, therapy tapes, and audio recordings.

“The Persian Version” – Website / Reviews 
An Iranian American woman strives to find balance and embrace her opposing cultures in this comedic drama. It’s a a heartfelt story about family, belonging, and the undeniable influence of pop music.

“Special Ops: Lioness” – Season 1 – Website / Reviews 
Inspired by an actual US Military program, this Taylor Sheridan spy thriller series follows Joe (Zoe Saldaña) who leads an undercover operation to take down a terrorist group from within. Continue reading “New DVD List: February 2024”

Here is a new DVD list highlighting various titles recently added to the library’s collection.

“Talk to Me” – Website / Reviews 
In this horror film a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand — they become hooked on the thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.

“Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” – Website / Reviews 
This comedic satire explores every facet of the musician’s life, from his meteoric rise to fame with early hits like “Eat It” and “Like a Surgeon” to his torrid celebrity love affairs and famously depraved lifestyle.

“20 Days in Mariupol” – Website / Reviews 
A documentary following a team of Ukrainian journalists from The Associated Press (AP) trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol as they struggle to document atrocities of the Russian invasion.

“Fremont” – Website / Reviews 
In this black and white drama, an Afghan refugee who works in a fortune cookie factory struggles to put her life back in order.  In a moment of sudden revelation, she decides to send out a special message in a cookie.

“The Sandman” – Season 1 – Website / Reviews 
A fantasy show based on Neil Gaiman’s comic series. After years of imprisonment, Morpheus — the King of Dreams — embarks on a journey across worlds to find what was stolen from him and restore his power. Continue reading “New DVD List: January 2024”

Here is a new DVD list highlighting various titles recently added to the library’s collection.

“Oppenheimer” – Website / Reviews 
Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, this dramatic film thrusts audiences into the mind of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, whose landmark work on the Manhattan Project created the first atomic bomb.

“Justified: City Primeval” – Miniseries – Website / Reviews
The TV series continues based on Elmore Leonard’s book “City Primeval.” Fifteen years after Raylan Givens left the hollers of Kentucky, chance encounter on a desolate Florida highway sends him to Detroit.

“The American Buffalo” – Website / Reviews
A Ken Burns documentary telling the story of an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of the country’s most mythic and heartbreaking tales.

“Shortcomings” – Website / Reviews
Based on the graphic novel of the same name, this comedy-drama focuses on a California filmmaker who contemplates his romantic future when his girlfriend moves to New York for an internship.

“A Haunting in Venice” – Website / Reviews
This dramatic mystery film based on the Agatha Christie book “Hallowe’en Party” is set in eerie, post-World War II Venice on All Hallows’ Eve featuring the return of the celebrated sleuth, Hercule Poirot.

Continue reading “New DVD List: December 2023”

Here is a new DVD list highlighting various titles recently added to the library’s collection.

“Barbie” – Website / Reviews
Directed by Greta Gerwig, this comedy follows Barbie and Ken as they step out of the seemingly perfect Barbie Land and into the real world where they discover the joys and perils of living among humans.

“The Way Home” – Season 1 – Website / Reviews
In this dramatic time travel series, three generations of strong women living together in a small farm town embark on an enlightening journey as they learn how to find their way back to each other.

“Prey” – Website / Reviews
The Predator franchise continues in this action-thriller set in the Comanche Nation 300 years ago. When a fierce and highly skilled young warrior sets out to protect her people, it leads to a vicious showdown.

“Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Part One” – Website / Reviews 
In this action-adventure film, Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands.

“Sisters With Transistors” – Website / Reviews 
This documentary is the remarkable untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, composers who embraced machines to utterly revolutionize how we produce and listen to music today. Continue reading “New DVD List: November 2023”

Here is a new DVD list highlighting various titles recently added to the library’s collection.

“Past Lives” – Website / Reviews
Two childhood sweethearts, after decades apart, are reunited for one fateful week in New York as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life in this dramatic modern romance.

“Poker Face” – Season 1 – Website / Reviews 
A 10-episode mystery-of-the-week series following Natasha Lyonne’s “Charlie”, who has an ability to determine when someone is lying. She hits the road and encounters strange crimes she can’t help but solve.

“Spider-Man, Across the Spider-Verse” – Website / Reviews
In this animated film, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence.

“Air” – Website / Reviews 
A dramatic film revealing the partnership between a then-rookie Michael Jordan and Nike’s fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and culture with the Air Jordan brand.

“Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind” – Website / Reviews
In this documentary literary icon Joyce Carol Oates, author of more than 100 novels, provides rare insight into her life and creative process. Featuring readings by Oscar winner Laura Dern. Continue reading “New DVD List: October 2023”

Here is a new DVD list highlighting various titles recently added to the library’s collection.

Continue reading “New DVD List: September 2023”

Here is a new DVD list highlighting various titles recently added to the library’s collection.

“The Last of Us”
Season 1
Website / Reviews 
After a global pandemic destroys civilization, a hardened survivor takes charge of a 14-year-old girl who may be humanity’s last hope. This television series brings the acclaimed video game to life, painting a grim vision of the future of humanity — and the lives of those who would risk everything to save it. Continue reading “New DVD List: The Last of Us & More”

Here is a new DVD list highlighting various titles recently added to the library’s collection.

“The Quiet Girl”
Website / Reviews
This dramatic film is set in 1981 rural Ireland. Nine-year-old Cait is sent away from her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. Quietly struggling at school and at home, she has learned to hide in plain sight from those around her. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one painful truth. Continue reading “New DVD List: The Quiet Girl & More”

Here is a new DVD list highlighting various titles recently added to the library’s collection.

“All Quiet on the Western Front”
Website / Reviews 
This 2022 dramatic film tells the gripping story of a young German soldier on the Western Front of World War I. Teenager Paul Bäumer and his friends voluntarily enlist in the German army, riding a wave of patriotic fervor that quickly dissipates once they face the brutal realities of life on the front. This academy award winning film from director Edward Berger is based on the 1929 novel of the same name.  Continue reading “New DVD List: All Quiet on the Western Front & More”

Here is a new DVD list highlighting various titles recently added to the library’s collection.

“Station Eleven”
Miniseries
Website / Reviews
This dramatic limited series is based on a book by Emily St. John Mandel that was a community One Read in 2015. It is a post-apocalyptic saga spanning multiple timelines telling the stories of survivors of a devastating flu as they attempt to rebuild and reimagine the world anew while holding on to the best of what’s been lost. Continue reading “New DVD List: Station Eleven, Living, & More”