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- Nightcrawler [videorecording] / by Gilroy, Dan,1959-; Gyllenhaal, Jake,1980-; Huang, James.; Paxton, Bill,actor.; Russo, Rene,actor.; Elevation Pictures.;
- Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Bill Paxton, James Huang.A pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling, where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are converted into dollars and cents.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen ; Dolby digital.
- Subjects: Crime films.; Criminal behavior; Emergencies; Feature films.; Journalists; Traffic accidents;
- © 2015., Distributed by Elevation Pictures,
- The interview [videorecording] / by Caplan, Lizzy,1982-; Franco, James,1978-; Goldberg, Evan,film director,screenwriter.; Park, Randall,actor.; Rogen, Seth,1982-; Sterling, Dan,screenwriter.; Columbia Pictures.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm);
- Director of photography, Brandon Trost.Seth Rogen, James Franco, Lizzy Caplan, Randall Park, Timothy Simons.The CIA recruits a talk-show host (James Franco) and his producer (Seth Rogen) to kill North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in this comedy from writer/director duo Rogen and Evan Goldberg (This Is the End). Franco plays Dave Skylark, a vapid talk-show host known for chasing celebrity gossip, while Rogen is his producer Aaron Rapaport, who's desperate to do more serious journalism. When Dave discovers that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (played here by Randall Park) is a big fan of his show, the pair decide to arrange an interview with him in order to boost their credibility. And the CIA, in turn, decide to use these two and the access they'll have to assassinate Kim. Aaron is all for it, but Dave is an easily swayed idiot who quickly falls under Kim's spell, and begins to see the dictator as a wounded man-child rather than someone worth killing.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital.
- Subjects: Kim, Chŏng-ŭn, 1984-; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Assassination; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Television interviews; Television producers and directors; Television talk show hosts; Television talk shows;
- © 2015., Columbia Pictures,
- A Thursday Murder Club Mystery #01 A Novel [electronic resource] : by Osman, Richard.aut; Manville, Lesley.nrt; CloudLibrary;
- Soon to be a Major Motion Picture The first installment in the beloved and New York Times bestselling series from Richard Osman, also author of We Solve Murders Four septuagenarians with a few tricks up their sleeves A female cop with her first big case A brutal murder Welcome to... THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves the Thursday Murder Club. When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph left next to the body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case. As the bodies begin to pile up, can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it's too late? “Witty, endearing and greatly entertaining.” —Wall Street Journal
- Subjects: Audiobooks.; Amateur Sleuth; Cozy;
- © 2020., Penguin Random House,
- Mr. Jones [videorecording] / by Cranham, Kenneth,1944-actor.; Holland, Agnieszka,1948-film director.; Kirby, Vanessa,actor.; Mawle, Joseph,1974-actor.; Norton, James,1985-actor.; Sarsgaard, Peter,actor.; Samuel Goldwyn Films (Firm),film distributor.;
- Director of photography, Tomasz Naumiuk; original music by Antoni Komasa-Łazarkiewicz; edited by Michał Czarnecki.James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, Joseph Mawle, Kenneth Cranham.Set on the eve of world WWII, Hitler is rising to power and Stalin's Soviet propaganda machine is pushing their "utopia" to the West. Meanwhile an ambitious young journalist, Gareth Jones travels to Moscow to uncover the truth behind the propaganda, but then gets a tip that could expose an international conspiracy, one that could cost him and his informant their lives. Jones goes on a life-or-death journey to uncover the truth that inspired George Orwell's seminal book Animal Farm.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Thrillers (Motion pictures); Feature films.; Biographical films.; Historical films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Jones, Gareth, 1905-1935; Journalism; Survival; Conspiracies;
- For private home use only.
- Note to self [videorecording] / by LeToya.; Brown, Nd.; Evans, Brely.; Haley, Trey,1975-; Jackson, J. T.; Jones, Richard T.,1972-; Keyes, Christian.; McKnight, Brian,1969-; Neal, Keith.; Nichols, Veronica.; Tomosunas, Eric.; Weaver, Jason,1979-; Image Entertainment (Firm); One Village Entertainment (Firm); Swirl Films (Firm); Tri Destined Studios (Firm);
- Edited by, Trey Haley.Christian Keyes, Richard T. Jones, Letoya Luckett, Brian McKnight, Eve Marcille, Jason Weaver, Brely Evans, J.T. Jackson, Clifton Powell and Valarie Pettiford.Curtis King, a handsome and popular student athlete may know his way around the court, but his heart still needs a game plan. When he decides to keep a journal to give his life a new direction, the path leads him to the love he needed most. A fresh and romantic look at growing up and finding your destiny -- Container.PG.DVD, NTSC, widescreen presentation 1.78:1 aspect ratio, enhanced for 16x9 TVs; Dolby Digital.
- Subjects: African American basketball players; Couples; Feature films.; High school students; Interpersonal relations; Man-woman relationships;
- © c2012., Swirl Films ; Distributed by Image Entertainment,
- Project Hail Mary A Novel [electronic resource] : by Weir, Andy.aut; CloudLibrary;
- #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING RYAN GOSLING AND DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER LORD AND PHIL MILLER From the author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating science. HUGO AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST BOOKS: Bill Gates, GatesNotes, New York Public Library, Parade, Newsweek, Polygon, Shelf Awareness, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal • New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century “An epic story of redemption, discovery and cool speculative sci-fi.”—USA Today “If you loved The Martian, you’ll go crazy for Weir’s latest.”—The Washington Post Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone. Or does he? An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian—while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.
- Subjects: Electronic books.; Action & Adventure; Hard Science Fiction; Suspense;
- © 2021., Random House Publishing Group,
- The Housemaid [electronic resource] : by McFadden, Freida.aut; Allman, Lauryn.nrt; CloudLibrary;
- “Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I’ll soon learn that the Winchesters’ secrets are far more dangerous than my own…   Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor.   I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew’s handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it’s hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina’s life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband.   I only try on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out… and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it’s far too late.   But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don’t know who I really am.   They don’t know what I’m capable of…   Soon to be a major motion picture starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried A No.1 New York Times bestseller A Sunday Times bestseller A USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller 5 million copies sold * 20-million-copy bestselling author   This unbelievably twisty read will have you glued to the pages late into the night. Anyone who loves The Girl on the Train won’t be able to put down The Housemaid!   Read what everyone’s saying about The Housemaid:   “I got severe whiplash from the twistiest turns… Every time I thought I had it figured out… WRONG!!!… I am still reeling… outstanding… If you love a top notch psychological thriller that will have you questioning your own sanity, then this 5 star read is for you.” NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐   “What a wild ride!!! Freida definitely delivered the best twisty ending… Gripping from start to finish… honestly, I just could not put it down… An absolutely mind-blowing shocker that kept me guessing and on the edge of my seat literally until the very end.” Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐   “One wild ride!… So many twists and turns… I was hooked right away – I even read my Kindle while waiting in my kid’s school pick-up line so I wouldn’t have to put this book down!… addictive… pure perfection!” Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Subjects: Audiobooks.; Psychological; Suspense;
- © 2025., Dreamscape Media,
- Writing with fire [videorecording] / by Devi, Meera,on-screen participant.; Devi, Shyamkali,on-screen participant.; Ghosh, Sushmit,film director,screenwriter.; Prajapati, Suneeta,on-screen participant.; Thomas, Rintu,film director,screenwriter.; Music Box Films,publisher.;
- Meera Devi, Shyamkali Devi, Suneeta Prajapati.A fearless group of journalists maintain India's only women-led news outlet. All from the Dalit caste, the women of Khabar Lahariya prepare to transition the newspaper from print to digital while fighting for marginalized voices in the world's largest democracy. The film chronicles the astonishing determination of these reporters as they redefine what it means to be powerful.E.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Documentary films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures, Indic.; Nonfiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Khabara lahariyā.; Rural journalism; Rural women; Women in journalism; Women in rural development;
- For private home use only.
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