Michael Caine
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"One of our best-loved actors Michael Caine has starred in a huge range of films from the classic movies Alfie, Zulu, and The Italian Job (the inspiration for the book title) to the Hollywood blockbusting Dark Knight trilogy, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Hannah and Her Sisters, and Cider House Rules. Caine has excelled in every kind of role--with a skill that's made it look easy. With brilliant new insight into his life and work and showcasing his wonderful...
3) Deadly game
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm
Description
DCI Harry Taylor has no respect for red tape or political reputations--but he's great at catching criminals. And all his unorthodox skills will be needed as an extraordinary situation unfolds on his doorstep: a metal box of radioactive material is found at a dump in Stepney, East London, but before the police can arrive it is stolen in a violent raid. With security agencies across the world on red alert, it's Harry and his unconventional team from...
4) Sleuth
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Wealthy mystery novelist Andrew Wyke invites lower-class hairdresser Milo Tindle to his elegant English mansion to discuss Milo's affair with Wyke's wife. But when Andrew proposes that Milo participate in a robbery scheme to benefit them all, the two rivals find themselves locked in an increasingly devious duel of wits and deceptions.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rita, a young working-class woman in Liverpool, desperately wants an education. She enrolls in literature tutorials at a British university to escape from her dreary life as a hairdresser, as well as a confining existence at home with a husband who wants her to choose motherhood over education. Her professor is Frank Bryant, a disillusioned, alcoholic English professor who encourages his students to forsake dead poetry and enjoy life. As Rita is transformed...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dave Spritz is a local weatherman in his home town of Chicago. His career is going well, but his personal life is spiraling downward. His relationship with his perfectionist writer father, his neurotic ex-wife, and his now-separated children have him feeling that his life is out of control. Despite being both loathed and loved by the local masses, Dave is a guy who just doesn't seem to have it all together. An attractive job offer from New York City...
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.
8) Interstellar
Pub. Date
2015
Formats
Description
With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
9) Youth
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two longtime friends are vacationing in the Swiss Alps. Fred, an acclaimed composer and conductor, who brings along his daughter and best friend Mick, a renowned filmmaker. The two men reflect on their past, each finding that some of the most important experiences can come later in life.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge learns the true meaning of Christmas and reforms his heartless and money-grubbing ways after being visited on Christmas Eve by four ghosts. Anniversary edition.
11) Best sellers
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a last-ditch effort to save her father's publishing house, an ambitious young editor goes on a book tour with an author who put the publishing house on the map decades before but is now bitter, booze-addled and hasn't written a new book since.
12) The island
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A New York journalist convinces his editor to travel to Florida to investigate the disappearance of several ships in the vicinity of the Bermuda Triangle.
13) Noises Off!
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A travelling theater group has so much going on behind the curtain, they almost ruin their performance in front of the curtain.
14) Bewitched
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A feature film adaptation based on the long-running ABC television series. It tells the story of Samantha, a pretty modern day witch who tries to abandon her supernatural powers for the sake of her mortal love Darren, but temptation gets in the way.
15) The prestige
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century London. Two magicians share an intense rivalry with each other and leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy. The rivalry is so intense that is will be full of obsession, deceit and jealousy, with both dangerous and deadly consequences. From the time that Robert angier and Alfred Bordon first met, the two were competitors. However, their once friendly competition evolves into battle for each others...
16) The prestige
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century London. Two magicians share an intense rivalry with each other and leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy. The rivalry is so intense that is will be full of obsession, deceit and jealousy, with both dangerous and deadly consequences. From the time that Robert Angier and Alfred Bordon first met, the two were competitors. However, their once friendly competition evolves into battle for each other's...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
p2001, c1988.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Comedy filmed on the Riviera, it's the story of two con men who compete to see who can extract $50,000 from a woman first. The victim is a naive American heiress, and the competition between the two men, one a suave and sophisticated Englishman and the other a bumbling but appealing American, heats up!
18) Batman begins
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005.
Formats
Description
As a boy a young Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of his eyes. This trauma led him to become obsessed with revenge. After disappearing to the East where he seeks counsel with a ninja cult leader, he returns to his now decaying Gotham City. The City is now overrun by organized crime and dangerous individuals manipulating the system. The discovery of a cave under his mansion, and a prototype armoured suit...
20) Harry Brown
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Harry Brown lives in a world that has been taken over by drug dealers and gangsters. A world where killing is a way of life, and the police have lost all control. But when his only companion and best friend is senselessly murdered just feet from his own apartment, Harry takes matters into his own hands. Utilizing the skills he learned while fighting the IRA, Harry takes on these hooligans as he doles out his own form of justice.