Pete Postlethwaite
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the daring rescue of a spider, a young boy named James gains possession of some magic crocodile tongues. When James spills them in the garden, out sprouts an enormous peach! Climbing inside, he meets an astonishing cast of characters and embarks on a magical odyssey full of thrills and adventure.
2) Animal farm
Language
English
Description
This rendering of Orwell's classic is set in the beautiful Irish countryside and populated with a wide variety of barnyard animals. Chaos ensues when the animals take over the farm.
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.
4) 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.
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Artist Meneer Chrome has come to a secluded country estate to create a masterpiece. Hired by wealthy patron Thomas Smithers, he plans to create an extravagent garden carved out of the wilderness. But Chrome's true aim is to bankrupt Smithers and allow the evil Fitzmaurice control over Smither's beautiful wife Juliana. But what Chrome doesn't count on is his passion for their beautiful, mysterious daughter.
6) The town
Language
English
Formats
Description
Doug MacRay is leader of a Boston bank robber gang but not cut from the same cloth as his fellow thieves. When Doug falls into a passionate romance with the bank manager briefly taken hostage in their last heist, he wants out of this life and out of the town. As the Feds close in and the crew questions his loyalty, he has one of two choices: betray his friends or lose the woman he loves. Includes both the theatrical and extended cut versions of the...
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Collector's Edition ; Fullscreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 minutes): sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two teams head for Site B, an island where the dinosaurs have been left alone for four years. One is for research, and the other for exploitation. They are forced to team up to survive, despite their differences.
8) Dark water
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Unrated widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A woman in the midst of a divorce and a bitter custody battle moves into a run-down apartment, where strange happenings cause her imagination to run wild and take her to the brink of despair.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs in 3 separate volumes (DVD) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jurassic Park: Scientists develop a means of bringing dinosaurs to life using DNA taken from dino' blood, which has been preserved inside insects encased in amber. Originally issued in 1993.
The lost world: Four years after the failure of Jurassic Park on Isla Nublar, it is revealed that there was another island ("Site B") on which dinosaurs were bred before being transported to Isla Nublar. Originally issued in 1997.
Jurassic Park III : Eight years...
Language
English
Formats
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 desperate for suspects in a truck highjacking, and ends with the possible identification...
11) ÆonFlux
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Full screen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
400 years in the future, after a virus kills off 99% of the world population, only one city on Earth remains.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full screen and widescreen versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (188 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Long ago, when majestic fire-breathers soared the skies, there lived a knight who would come face-to-face and heart-to-heart with the most remarkable creature that ever existed - the dragon. The legend continues when a stable boy discovers the last living fire-breathing dragon and realizes his dream of becoming a knight in shining armor may come true.
13) 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.
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs in 3 separate volumes (DVD) (approximately 480 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the midst of the desperate missions and battles of the Napoleonic Wars, maverick British officer Richard Sharpe rises through the ranks of Wellington's army by his own daring deeds and ambition.
15) Dragonheart
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Widescreen ed. ; Collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sean Connery is the voice of Draco the dragon in this tale of a knight dedicated to an ancient creed of honor and his vow to destroy all dragons.
16) Dark water
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Theatrical full screen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dahlia has started a new life. She is recently separated from her husband, has a new job and a new apartment, she's determined to put her estranged relationship behind her and devote herself to raising her daughter, Ceci. Then when her 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. Mysterious noises, persistent leaks of dark water, and strange happenings...
Publisher
BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd
Pub. Date
2009, ©1994
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 5 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sharpe's enemy : Sharpe leads a mission to free an English colonel's wife who is hostage to a gang of lawless deserters led by an evil villain from Sharpe's past. Sharpe's honour : When a French spy frames him for dishonouring a Spanish aristocrat's wife, Sharpe faces arrest, duels, court martial and death to clear his good name and avoid damaging Britain's alliance with Spain. Sharpe's gold : Wellington orders Sharpe to trade refles for deserters...
18) ÆonFlux
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen ; Blu-ray ed.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray odisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Formats
Description
400 years in the future, after a virus kills off 99% of the world population, only one city on Earth remains. Ruled by the Goodchild dynasty, it is a perfect society of peace and prosperity - except that its citizens keep mysteriously disappearing. A secret agent/assassin/warrior has been given the mission to bring down the regime. But as she goes deeper into her mission, Aeon uncovers some shocking secrets that put the mission, not to mention her...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forsooth, this is a pretty play! In fair, tropical Verona Beach in the present day, Romeo + Juliet blithely weds 400-year-old dialog to MTV style visuals. Swords have become guns, and the Montagues and Capulets have become Mafia-style family-based gangs, while their sons run their own rich-kid gangs whose rumbles bring out armies of cops. Whilst these two households are constantly fighting, Romeo and Juliet meet up and fall in love. Unfortunately,...