Jake Gyllenhaal
1) Nightcrawler
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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...
Publisher
Columbia
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Peter Parker returns for the next chapter of the Spider-Man: Homecoming series! Our friendly neighborhood Super Hero decides to join his best friends Ned, MJ, and the rest of the gang on a European vacation. However, Peter's plan to leave super heroics behind for a few weeks are quickly scrapped when he begrudgingly agrees to help Nick Fury uncover the mystery of several elemental creature attacks, creating havoc across the continent!
3) Southpaw
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015
Formats
Description
Billy 'The Great' Hope, reigning Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World, seemingly has it all: an impressive career, a beautiful and loving wife, an adorable daughter, and a lavish lifestyle. When tragedy strikes and his lifelong manager and friend leaves him behind, Hope hits rock bottom and turns to an unlikely savior at a run-down local gym: Tick Willis, a retired fighter and trainer to the city's toughest amateur boxers.
"Southpaw sticks...
5) Wildlife
Series
Criterion collection volume 1031
Publisher
Criterion Distribution
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After his father loses his job and leaves to fight wildfires, a teenage boy is left to cope with his mother's reaction to their situation.
6) End of watch
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel, during a routine traffic stop.
9) Rendition
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The policy of "extraordinary rendition" began under the Clinton administration and accelerated after September 11, 2001. The policy allows for the handing over of suspected terrorists to countries that use torture as an interrogation tool. Anwar El-Ibrahimi is an Egyptian-born man who disappears on a flight from Africa to Washington, DC. He is sent to a North African country where torture is practiced and the CIA gives approval. Anwar's pregnant...
10) Source code
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of an experimental government program called the 'Source Code' that enables him to cross over into another man's identity in the last eight minutes of his life. Armed with the task of identifying the bomber of a Chicago commuter train, Colter must relive the incident over and over again, gathering clues until he can solve the mystery and prevent an even...
11) Everest
Formats
Description
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding an attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, the film documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle...
12) Jarhead
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 123 min.) : anamorphic, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows "Swoff," a third-generation Marine enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through the Middle East deserts. There is no cover from intolerable heat or from the Iraqi soldiers, who are always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they...
13) The covenant
Publisher
Warner Bros Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant follows US Army Sergeant John Kinley and Afghan interpreter Ahmed. After an ambush, Ahmed goes to Herculean lengths to save Kinley's life. When Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given safe passage to America as promised, he must repay his debt by returning to the war zone to retrieve them before the Taliban hunts them down first.
14) Brothers
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Captain Sam Cahill is embarking on his fourth tour of duty, leaving behind his beloved wife and two daughters. When Sam's Blackhawk helicopter is shot down in the mountains of Afghanistan, the worst is presumed, leaving an enormous void in the family. Despite a dark history, Sam's charismatic younger brother steps in to fill the family void.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Global warming triggers a new Ice Age. Tornadoes flatten the city of Los Angeles and a tidal wave engulfs New York City. Almost immediately the entire Northern Hemisphere begins to freeze solid. Now, climatologist Jack Hall must rescue his son, Sam, who is stranded in New York City with a very small band of survivors who must ride out the growing superstorm and stay alive.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (1 hr., 56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Susan is living through an unfulfilling marriage when she receives a package containing a novel manuscript from her ex-husband, Edward. The novel is dedicated to her but its content is violent and devastating. Susan cannot help but reminisce over her past love story with the author. Increasingly she interprets the book as a tale of revenge, a tale that forces her to re-evaluate the choices that she has made, and reawakens a love that she feared was...
17) Donnie Darko
Publisher
Twentienth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (133 min., 103 min.): sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A high school student must face his dark destiny as delusions bring him face to face with a demonic rabbit who has eerie visions of the past and deadly predictions for the future in this intricate web that will leave you questioning what is real and what is mere hallucination. The director's cut runs about 20 minutes longer than the originally-released version.
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approx. 116 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Susan is living through an unfulfilling marriage when she receives a package containing a novel manuscript from her ex-husband, Edward. The novel is dedicated to her but its content is violent and devastating. Susan cannot help but reminisce over her past love story with the author. Increasingly she interprets the book as a tale of revenge, a tale that forces her to re-evaluate the choices that she has made, and reawakens a love that she feared was...
19) Okja
Series
Criterion collection volume 1133
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2022
Formats
Description
Mija is a South Korean girl growing up on an Edenic mountainside with her grandfather and best friend: Okja, a giant, empathetic "super pig" created as part of a secret GMO experiment. When Okja is abruptly torn away from her, Mija embarks on a perilous rescue mission that places her at the center of a sinister corporate conspiracy. While Bong's trademark virtuosic set-pieces dazzle, Okja's beating heart is the connection between a girl and her super...