Pete Postlethwaite
Author
Language
English
Description
What if WiFi was a killer? Wireless networks are the connectivity tissue of modern life but some claim electromagnetic radiation has devastated their health. Such people seek relief by taking refuge in the wilderness where there is no wireless littering the airwaves. And with the internet of things taking over every home and plans for total connectivity, their means of escape are diminishing. Revelatory and thought provoking.
2) Brassed Off
Author
Language
English
Description
A delightfully entertaining comedy treat about two old friends - and ex-lovers - whose surprise reunion turns their lives, and the lives of everyone else in their small town, hilariously upside down.
3) Dark water
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
When Dahlia's strained separation turns into a bitter custody battle, her situation takes a turn for the worse: her new apartment seems to have a life of its own.
5) Animal farm
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A political satire in which the animals take over running the farm but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999, c1995
Language
English
Description
Police investigating an exploded boat on a San Pedro pier discover 27 bodies and $91 million worth of drug money. The only survivors are a severely burned Hungarian terrorist and Roger Kint, a crippled con-man. Reluctantly, Kint is pressured into explaining what happened on the boat. His story begins six weeks earlier with five criminals being dragged in by New York police desparate for suspects in a truck highjacking, and ends with the possible identification...
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the local newspaper finds an audience, and his experiences in the town begin to change his life.
Author
Language
English
Description
A gruesome scene adorns a pier in San Pedro, south of Los Angeles. Twenty-seven dead bodies. A burned-out ship smoldering in the harbor. An FBI agent assesses the carnage and learns of two survivors: one in the hospital, the other a cripple from New York being held in the DA's office. He heads to the hospital in search of answers.
11) Animal Farm
Author
Language
English
Description
George Orwell's classic fable of animal instinct and human folly brought to life by the vocal talents of an all-star cast and an array of magical special effects by Jim Henson's Creature Shop.
12) Amistad
Author
Language
English
Description
AMISTAD is about an 1839 mutiny onboard a slave ship that is traveling towards the Northeast Coast of America. Much of the story involves a court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
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