Matt Dillon
Author
Language
English
Description
Tour the most formative period for religion and philosophy in world history. Join award-winning classics professor Matthew Dillon and explore the myriad developments of the Axial Age.
Axial Age refers to the era (800—200 BCE) when five Eurasian civilizations experienced an unprecedented period of development in philosophy, religion, and art. In this compelling audio course, Professor Matthew Dillon argues that the schools of thought that emerged...
Author
Language
English
Description
An orphan boy of mixed race finds family with the newly arrived white village doctor in Hawaii. The boy can run like the wind, and begins bringing Doc's medicine to coffee pickers throughout the mountainous region. On an errand, the medicine runner meets the daughter of the plantation owner and a forbidden, young love blossoms like the white "Kona Snow" of the surrounding coffee trees.
5) Kansas
Publisher
Media Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
A young man, en route to a friend's wedding, becomes involved in a bank robbery with a deadly-tempered drifter. On the run, the young man hides the money and attempts to start a new life on a farm, but the drifter reappears and demands the money.
6) In & out
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
High school teacher Howard Brackett is outed by former student during the Oscars and does his frantic best to assert his manliness.
7) Crash
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Language
English
Description
A car accident brings together a group of strangers in Los Angeles. Crash takes a provocative, unflinching look at the complexities of racial tolerance in contemporary America.
8) To die for
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A black comedy in which an ammoral and ambitious news personality seduces a teenager to convince him to murder her husband.
10) Going in Style
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lifelong buddies Willie, Joe, and Al decide to buck retirement and step off the straight and narrow for the first time in their lives when their pension fund becomes a corporate casualty. To pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, the three risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.
"No one was actually asking for a remake of the 1979 comedy about a trio of senior citizens who...
11) Nimic
Publisher
Salaud Morisset
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A professional cellist has an encounter with a stranger on the subway which has unexpected and far-reaching ramifications on his life. Yorgos Lanthimos' new film was selected at TIFF, Locarno Film Festival and BFI London in 2019.
12) Factotum
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Henry Chinaski (Dillon) considers himself a writer, and on occasion writes. Mostly he quests for the booze and women that sidetrack and seduce (like that played by Oscar winner Marisa Tomei), rather than inspire. When he falls for Jan (Lili Taylor), the soulful connection fails to save either from their self-destructive ways, and the relationship totters between earnest connection and reflective loathing.
13) Native Son
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.
14) Proxima
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Sarah is an astronaut and lives alone with her daughter. When she is chosen to be part of a space mission, it creates chaos in their relationship.
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Cult author and David Lynch collaborator Barry Gifford’s gritty autobiographical stories of growing up in the 1950s (narrated by Willem Dafoe, Lili Taylor and Matt Dillon) provide the backdrop for a jazzy, impressionistic portrait of a vanished Chicago.
16) Albino Alligator
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
After a botched robbery, three criminals (Matt Dillon, Gary Sinese and William Fichtner) make a desperate run for a dive bar and take five hostages. The place is quickly surrounded by Feds, and tensions are high. Someone is going to get hurt. Or maybe die. But then it’s revealed that one of the hostages is a fugitive wanted by the Feds. Now, how far will any of them go to ensure their own freedom?
18) Capone
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A ruthless businessman and bootlegger who ruled Chicago with an iron fist, Al "Fonzo" Capone (Tom Hardy) was the most infamous and feared gangster of American lore. At the age of 47, following nearly a decade of imprisonment, dementia rots Capone's mind and his past becomes present as harrowing memories of his violent and brutal origins melt into his waking life.
19) Old dogs
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The lives to two confirmed bachelors are turned upside down when, on the verge of the biggest business deal of their lives, they are saddled with the care of seven-year-old twins.
Two friends and business partners find their lives turned upside down when strange circumstances lead to them being placed in the care of 7-year-old twins.