Toby Jones
2) Detectorists
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The charming comedy-drama from BBC Four tells the story of Andy and Lance, members of the Danebury Metal Detectors Club. As Andy pursues a degree in archaeology and Lance considers being a musician, they spend their days searching through fields with their metal detectors, dreaming of finding a fortune.
"This gentle tale of treasuring-hunting folk struck TV gold."--The Guardian (UK)
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Salma Hayek and John C. Reilly are Queen and King in this gory, gorgeous grown-up fairytale full of princes and princesses, sorcerers and fairies,and fearsome monsters and ogres. Three story strands interweave with one another in this film from director Matteo Garrone. In one tale, Hayek plays a jealous queen who forfeits her husband's life. In another, Cassel plays a king whose passion is stoked by two mysterious sisters.
6) First cow
Publisher
Lionsgate
Formats
Description
A loner and cook has traveled west and joined a group of fur trappers in Oregon Territory, though he only finds a connection with Chinese immigrants. The men collaborate on business, although its longevity Is reliant upon the participation of a wealthy landowner's prized milking cow.
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
The young boy, who loved taking adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood with a gang of spirited and loveable stuffed animals, has grown up and lost his way. Now it is up to his childhood friends to venture into that world and help Christopher Robin remember the loving and playful boy who is still inside.
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 440 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Secret Service agent Ethan Burke wakes up in a hospital in a strangely idyllic mountain town in Idaho. But the more Ethan tries to find out what happened to him, and to two missing fellow agents, the more he discovers that nothing is as it seems in Wayward Pines. Desperate to learn the truth and return to his family, Ethan eventually unveils a terrifying secret that affects all of mankind.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nell Trent lives with her doting grandfather in his London shop. It is a magical place, filled from wall to wall with treasures. Grandfather keeps his nocturnal gambling activities a secret from Nell. He borrows heavily from the evil, profiteering loan shark Daniel Quilp. When Grandfather gambles away what little money they possess, Quilp seizes the opportunity to take possession of their beloved shop. It seems Nell and Grandfather are left only with...
10) Nightwatching
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the year 1642, Rembrandt reluctantly agrees to paint the Amsterdam Musketeer Militia in a group portrait that will later come to be known as the Nightwatch and stumbles upon a treacherous murder plot involving his subjects. Determined to expose the conspiracy, Rembrandt builds his accusation in the form of the commissioned painting, a decision which costs him everything.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Formats
Description
In 1920s London, brutal and bloodthirsty murder has stained the plush carpets of a handsome London townhouse. The victim is the glamorous and rich Emily French. All the evidence points to Leonard Vole, a young chancer to whom the heiress left her vast fortune and who ruthlessly took her life. At least, this is the story that Emily's dedicated housekeeper Janet Mcintyre stands by in court. Leonard however, is adamant that his partner, the enigmatic...
12) Frost/Nixon
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Richard Nixon is the disgraced president with a legacy to save. David Frost is a jet-setting television personality with a name to make. This is the legendary battle between the two men and the historic encounter that changed both their lives. For three years after resigning from office, Nixon remained silent. But in the summer of 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions...
13) The secret agent
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 178 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Russians are furious with the English establishment's indifference to the anarchist threat gripping the rest of Europe. So Verloc, a Russian spy, is assigned a mission: blow up the Greenwich Observatory and make it look like a terrorist attack to provoke a crackdown. Should he fail, Verloc's real identity as a spy could be exposed to his vicious comrades.
14) Serena
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 110 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1929, just as the Depression has hit, George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newlyweds, move from Boston to North Carolina to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattlesnakes, even saving a man's life in the wilderness. With power and influence now in their hands, the Pembertons refuse to let anyone stand in the way of their inflated love and ambitions. However, once Serena discovers...
15) Zoo
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 96 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on a true story, twelve-year-old Tom and his misfit friends fight to save Buster the baby elephant during the air raids on Belfast in 1941.
16) The painted veil
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After being deemed unfit for military service, Steve Rogers volunteers to participate in an experimental program that turns him into Captain America, a Super Soldier. Now, as Captain America, Rogers joins forces with Bucky Barnes and Peggy Carter to wage war on the evil HYDRA organization, led by the villainous Red Skull.
18) City of Ember
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For centuries, the residents of the underground City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights and quiet contentment. But when the City's massive power generator begins to fail, the streetlamps fade - along with the hopes of the townspeople. Now it will be up to two courageous teenagers to follow a trail of clues left by the ancient builders to find the way out of Ember before their world is plunged into complete darkness.
19) Tale of tales
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Description
The film serves as Garrone's English-language debut and interweaves three separate story strands bookended by brief bits in which Italians Alba Rohrwacher and Massimo Ceccherini play a street circus family. In one tale Salma Hayek plays a jealous queen who forfeits her husband's life. In another, Vincent Cassel plays a king whose passion is stoked by two mysterious sisters.
20) The mist
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Dave Drayton notices a strange mist on the lake, he does not think much of it. Later, when his son, Billy, his neighbor Brent Norton, and he travel to the grocery store, strange things begin to happen. On their way to the market, they see the army, the local firefighters, and the police heading toward the mist. When he sees this, Brent mentions something about "Project Arrowhead," a secret military plan that no one knows about. When an elderly...