Captain Marvel (Rated PG-13): Set in the 1990s, this is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It follows the journey of Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe's most powerful heroes. While a galactic war between two alien races reaches Earth, Danvers finds herself and a small cadre of allies at the center of the maelstrom.
Captive State (Rated PG-13): Chicago of the future looks vastly different than the iconic American city it is today. It has been occupied by aliens, and now the city is Ground Zero in a battle for control. Some residents are more than willing to work with the extra-terrestrial forces, but others are determined to resist. People on both sides believe that they are doing what is best for the city. Is Chicago better off with these alien occupiers, or should it return to its previous state?
Dumbo (Rated PG): A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus. But when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover secrets beneath its shiny veneer.
Five Feet Apart (Rated PG-13): Stella is a vibrant, fun-loving seventeen-year old, who, unlike most teenagers, has to spend much of her time living at a hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. When Stella meets Will, a charming and rebellious fellow patient, she feels a powerful connection, but the risk of life-threatening infection dictate that she and Will maintain a safe distance between them. As their feelings grow, Stella and Will face a life-changing question: How does love feel when even a single touch is off-limits?
Gloria Bell (Rated R): Gloria is a free-spirited divorcee who spends her days at a straight-laced office job and her nights on the dance floor, joyfully letting loose at clubs around Los Angeles. After meeting Arnold on a night out, she finds herself thrust into an unexpected new romance, filled with both the joys of budding love and the complications of dating, identity, and family.
Hotel Mumbai (Rated R): Portrays the events of the 2008 siege on the Taj Hotel by terrorists in Mumbai, India, forcing the staff and guests to make difficult decisions.
Ip Man: Origins (Mandarin) (Not Rated): Gaining enlightenment throughout his youth, Kun Fu legend Ip Man undergoes a transformation and becomes a Wing Chun grandmaster. When he is framed for murder and flees to Hong Kong, Ip Man keeps a low profile but ultimately faces a life-and-death struggle that brings out the fearless martial artist hidden inside him.
The Legend is Born: Ip Man (Cantonese) (Not Rated): Follows Ip Man as he grows from a promising young pupil into an unstoppable force. When political corruption threatens his temple, his friends, and his honor, Ip Man single-handedly challenges a swarm of shinobi in an ultimate showdown.
Royal Romance Triple Feature (Not Rated): A triple feature of Hallmark Royal Romance films -- Royal Hearts; Royal Matchmaker; and Once Upon a Prince
Ten Movie Holiday Romance Pack (Not Rated): Ten romantic movies centered around the winter holidays.
Us (Rated R): Haunted by trauma from her past and compounded by a string of eerie coincidences, Adelaide grows increasingly certain that something bad is going to befall her family. After spending a tense beach day with her friends, Adelaide and her family return to their vacation home. When darkness falls, the Wilsons discover the silhouette of four figures holding hands as they stand in the driveway: doppelgangers of themselves.
Woman at War (Icelandic Language) (Not Rated): Fifty year-old Halla, a passionate environmental activist, secretly wages war on the local aluminum industry to prevent it from disfiguring her country. She risks all she has to protect the highlands of Iceland--but discovers her application to adopt has finally been approved and there is a child in the Ukraine waiting for her.
Wonder Park (Rated PG): One magical day, June is running through the woods to find her way home where she discovers an old rollercoaster car and climbs inside. She suddenly finds herself in Wonderland, an amusement park she had created in her mind and put aside. All of her rides and characters are brought to life but are falling into disarray without her. Now, with the help of her fun and lovable park characters, June will have to put the wonder back in Wonderland before its lost forever.
TELEVISION SHOWS
Orange is the New Black Season 6 (Not Rated): Picking up one week after the emergency response team stormed Litchfield Penitentiary, the ladies of Litch have been torn apart, literally and figuratively, as they enter a new facility. Now newbies starting at the bottom, they must navigate new rules and power dynamics while getting hazed by inmates and tortured by guards.
Browse the list of DVDs recently added to the Castle Shannon Library's collection. To place a DVD on hold, please call the library at 412.563.4552 or visit our Catalog.
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Friday, May 10, 2019
NEW DVD TITLES FOR MAY
1987: When the Day Comes (Korean) (Not Rated): In January 1987, a 22-year old college student dies during a police investigation. Under the orders of Director Park, the police request the body to be cremated in order to destroy evidence. Public Prosecutor Choi, who was on duty on the day of the incident, denies the request and calls for an autopsy.
Andhadhun (Hindi) (Not Rated): Residing in Pune, Aakash a blind pianist is privy to an aftermath of a murder. His conscience urges him to report the crime he has technically not 'witnessed', but is there more to him than meets the eye?
Bad Genius (Thai) (Not Rated): Welcome to an exam-cheating business run by Lynn, a straight-A student who gets her idea for her business after helping Grace and Pat. Grace is a prominent school activist who can't get the grades she needs. Pat is a filthy-rich boy who believes money can buy anything. Lynn's business skyrockets and the money starts to flood in as scores of students offer her cold hard cash in exchange for exam answers. One day, Lynn is offered the opportunity to make millions of Baht. It is Pat and Grace who devise a plan for her to take the STIC test, an international standardized test for students wanting to enroll in the world's leading universities. What will Lynn do to convince Bank to overcome his moral dilemma and help them? How BAD will this GENIUS become?
Bahubali: The Beginning (Hindi) (Not Rated): Raised in a remote tribal village, Shlvudu grows up a carefree young man who relentlessly pursues his heart's desire. This leads him on an adventure to a completely unfamiliar territory. On this journey, he falls in love with Avantlka, a Nishada soldier.
Bahubali: The Conclusion (Hindi) (Not Rated): Having uncovered the truth of his legacy, Mahendra Baahubali, avenges the murder of his father, vowing revenge against the tyrannical ruler of the Mahishmati Kingdom, his uncle, Bhallaaladeva.
Boss: The Black Experience in Business (Rated TV-PG): The documentary seeks to illuminate, educate, and inform, by examining more than 150 years of African-American men and women, from those bound by bondage to moguls at the top of multimillion-dollar empires.
Capharnaüm (Arabic) (Rated R): After fleeing his negligent and abusive parents, a hardened, streetwise twelve-year-old boy sues them to protest the life they've given him.
Cold Pursuit (Rated R): An action thriller infused with irreverent humor that stars Liam Neeson as Nels Coxman, a family man whose quiet life with his wife is upended following the mysterious death of their son. Nels's search for justice turns into a vengeful hunt for Viking, a drug lord he believes is connected to the death. As one by one Viking's associates “disappear,” Nels goes from upstanding citizen to ice-cold vigilante, letting nothing, and no one, get in his way.
Dark Figure of Crime (Korean) (Not Rated): A crime thriller about the fierce psychological confrontation between a detective and a killer who confessed to multiple murders.
Dukun (Malay) (Not Rated): Loosely based on the real murder case of Mona Fendy in 1993 Malaysia, a tale about the lure of riches, power, eternal youth, beauty, and the blood one must spill to achieve this. It centers on a conflicted lawyer, Karim, who is searching for his lost child, Nadia. His desperation leads him to be entangled with an alleged murderer, Diana Dahlan, who links the disappearance of Nadia to darker secrets that could cause Karim to lose everything. Includes forced English subtitles.
Fighting with My Family (Rated PG-13): Reformed gangster and former wrestler Ricky, his wife Julia, and their daughter Saraya and son Zak make a living performing in tiny venues across the country. Ricky and Julia want a better life for their children, and when brother and sister get the chance to audition for WWE, it seems the family dream is coming true, and all their troubles will be solved. However, Saraya and Zak are about to learn that becoming a WWE Superstar demands more than they ever imagined possible as athletes.
Greta (Rated R): A sweet, naive young woman trying to make it on her own in New York City, Frances doesn't think twice about returning the handbag she finds on the subway to its rightful owner. That owner is an eccentric French piano teacher with a love for classical music and an aching loneliness. The two become fast friends, but the older woman's maternal charms begin to dissolve and grow increasingly disturbing as Frances discovers that nothing is what it seems in this suspense thriller.
The Heiress (Not Rated): A graceful drawing-room drama and piercing character study driven by emotional uncertainty and lacerating cruelty, William Wyler's film, starring Montgomery Clift and Olivia de Havilland (in an Oscar-winning turn), is classic Hollywood filmmaking at its most psychologically nuanced.
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (Rated PG): Now chief and ruler of Berk alongside Astrid, Hiccup has created a gloriously chaotic dragon utopia. When the sudden appearance of female Light Fury coincides with the darkest threat their village has ever faced, Hiccup and Toothless must leave the only home they've known, and journey to a hidden world thought only to exist in myth. As their true destines are revealed, dragon and rider will fight together to protect everything they've grown to treasure.
Isn't It Romantic (Rated PG-13): New York City architect Natalie works hard to get noticed at her job but is more likely to be asked to deliver coffee and bagels than to design the city's next skyscraper. And if things weren't bad enough, Natalie, a lifelong cynic when it comes to love, has an encounter with a mugger that renders her unconscious, waking to discover that her life has suddenly become her worst nightmare, a romantic comedy, and she is the leading lady.
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (Rated PG): It's been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens are facing a huge new threat: Lego Duplo invaders from outer space, wrecking everything faster than they can rebuild.
Let Me Eat Your Pancreas (Japanese) (Not Rated): A high school boy finds the diary of his classmate - only to discover that she's dying. Yamauchi Sakura has been silently suffering from a pancreatic disease, and now exactly one person outside her family knows. He swears to her that he won't tell anyone what he learned, and the shared secret brings them closer together in this deeply moving, first-person story that traces their developing relationship in Sakura's final months of life.
Odiyan (Malayalam) (Not Rated): With the arrival of electricity in Kerala in the early 20th century under British rule, the Odiyan clan, gangsters capable of shape-shifting in the darkness - find it difficult to survive. The last Odiyan (played by Mohanlal) spreads terror across the empire with his stealth attacks when his own kind are captured and ruthlessly killed.
Sanju (Hindi) (Not Rated): Follows the life of Sanjay Dutt, a film star who must contend with the adulation of his fans, various addictions, and prison.
Shoplifters (Manbiki kazoku) (Japanese) (Rated R): On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by fierce loyalty, a penchant for petty theft, and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence.
The Upside (Rated PG-13): A recently paroled ex-convict, Dell, strikes up an unusual and unlikely friendship with a quadriplegic billionaire, Philip Lacasse, in this 'funny and warm-hearted buddy comedy.' From worlds apart, Dell and Philip form an unlikely bond, bridging their differences and gaining invaluable wisdom in the process, giving each man a renewed sense of passion for all of life's possibilities.
What Men Want (Rated R): Ali Davis is left on the outside by her fellow sports agents because she is a woman in a male-dominated profession, but she acquires an unexpected edge when she develops the ability to hear men's thoughts.
Youth (Mandarin) (Not Rated): When Xiaoping joins the military, delicate dreams are dashed by the events of a China undergoing revolution. The devastating Sino-Vietnamese War crashes into 1970s China, changing the lives of the army's young new recruits forever.
TELEVISION SHOWS
Better Call Saul Season 4 (Not Rated): A family tragedy catalyzes Jimmy McGill's transformation into Saul Goodman and, as Jimmy enters the criminal world, he puts his future as a lawyer and his relationship with Kim Wexler in jeopardy.
Call the Midwife Season 8 (Rated TV-14): It is now 1964 and it's evident how the times are changing: from the beacon of the contraceptive pill and the shadow of the 1967 Abortion Act, to the introduction of a new cancer-screening program. The nuns and nurses continue to face a variety of challenging issues including interracial adoption, cleft palate, sickle cell and cot death. And for one of the team, romance could be on the horizon.
Outlander Season 4 (Rated TV-MA): Season Four continues the story of Claire and Jamie Fraser as they try to make a home for themselves in colonial America. The Frasers in North Carolina are at another turning point in history, the edge of the American Revolution. Along the way, the Frasers cross paths with notorious pirate Stephen Bonnet in a fateful meeting that will haunt the family. Meanwhile, Brianna and Roger grow closer in the twentieth century but make a shocking discovery that has them following in Claire₂s footsteps.
Andhadhun (Hindi) (Not Rated): Residing in Pune, Aakash a blind pianist is privy to an aftermath of a murder. His conscience urges him to report the crime he has technically not 'witnessed', but is there more to him than meets the eye?
Bad Genius (Thai) (Not Rated): Welcome to an exam-cheating business run by Lynn, a straight-A student who gets her idea for her business after helping Grace and Pat. Grace is a prominent school activist who can't get the grades she needs. Pat is a filthy-rich boy who believes money can buy anything. Lynn's business skyrockets and the money starts to flood in as scores of students offer her cold hard cash in exchange for exam answers. One day, Lynn is offered the opportunity to make millions of Baht. It is Pat and Grace who devise a plan for her to take the STIC test, an international standardized test for students wanting to enroll in the world's leading universities. What will Lynn do to convince Bank to overcome his moral dilemma and help them? How BAD will this GENIUS become?
Bahubali: The Beginning (Hindi) (Not Rated): Raised in a remote tribal village, Shlvudu grows up a carefree young man who relentlessly pursues his heart's desire. This leads him on an adventure to a completely unfamiliar territory. On this journey, he falls in love with Avantlka, a Nishada soldier.
Bahubali: The Conclusion (Hindi) (Not Rated): Having uncovered the truth of his legacy, Mahendra Baahubali, avenges the murder of his father, vowing revenge against the tyrannical ruler of the Mahishmati Kingdom, his uncle, Bhallaaladeva.
Boss: The Black Experience in Business (Rated TV-PG): The documentary seeks to illuminate, educate, and inform, by examining more than 150 years of African-American men and women, from those bound by bondage to moguls at the top of multimillion-dollar empires.
Capharnaüm (Arabic) (Rated R): After fleeing his negligent and abusive parents, a hardened, streetwise twelve-year-old boy sues them to protest the life they've given him.
Cold Pursuit (Rated R): An action thriller infused with irreverent humor that stars Liam Neeson as Nels Coxman, a family man whose quiet life with his wife is upended following the mysterious death of their son. Nels's search for justice turns into a vengeful hunt for Viking, a drug lord he believes is connected to the death. As one by one Viking's associates “disappear,” Nels goes from upstanding citizen to ice-cold vigilante, letting nothing, and no one, get in his way.
Dark Figure of Crime (Korean) (Not Rated): A crime thriller about the fierce psychological confrontation between a detective and a killer who confessed to multiple murders.
Dukun (Malay) (Not Rated): Loosely based on the real murder case of Mona Fendy in 1993 Malaysia, a tale about the lure of riches, power, eternal youth, beauty, and the blood one must spill to achieve this. It centers on a conflicted lawyer, Karim, who is searching for his lost child, Nadia. His desperation leads him to be entangled with an alleged murderer, Diana Dahlan, who links the disappearance of Nadia to darker secrets that could cause Karim to lose everything. Includes forced English subtitles.
Fighting with My Family (Rated PG-13): Reformed gangster and former wrestler Ricky, his wife Julia, and their daughter Saraya and son Zak make a living performing in tiny venues across the country. Ricky and Julia want a better life for their children, and when brother and sister get the chance to audition for WWE, it seems the family dream is coming true, and all their troubles will be solved. However, Saraya and Zak are about to learn that becoming a WWE Superstar demands more than they ever imagined possible as athletes.
Greta (Rated R): A sweet, naive young woman trying to make it on her own in New York City, Frances doesn't think twice about returning the handbag she finds on the subway to its rightful owner. That owner is an eccentric French piano teacher with a love for classical music and an aching loneliness. The two become fast friends, but the older woman's maternal charms begin to dissolve and grow increasingly disturbing as Frances discovers that nothing is what it seems in this suspense thriller.
The Heiress (Not Rated): A graceful drawing-room drama and piercing character study driven by emotional uncertainty and lacerating cruelty, William Wyler's film, starring Montgomery Clift and Olivia de Havilland (in an Oscar-winning turn), is classic Hollywood filmmaking at its most psychologically nuanced.
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (Rated PG): Now chief and ruler of Berk alongside Astrid, Hiccup has created a gloriously chaotic dragon utopia. When the sudden appearance of female Light Fury coincides with the darkest threat their village has ever faced, Hiccup and Toothless must leave the only home they've known, and journey to a hidden world thought only to exist in myth. As their true destines are revealed, dragon and rider will fight together to protect everything they've grown to treasure.
Isn't It Romantic (Rated PG-13): New York City architect Natalie works hard to get noticed at her job but is more likely to be asked to deliver coffee and bagels than to design the city's next skyscraper. And if things weren't bad enough, Natalie, a lifelong cynic when it comes to love, has an encounter with a mugger that renders her unconscious, waking to discover that her life has suddenly become her worst nightmare, a romantic comedy, and she is the leading lady.
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (Rated PG): It's been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens are facing a huge new threat: Lego Duplo invaders from outer space, wrecking everything faster than they can rebuild.
Let Me Eat Your Pancreas (Japanese) (Not Rated): A high school boy finds the diary of his classmate - only to discover that she's dying. Yamauchi Sakura has been silently suffering from a pancreatic disease, and now exactly one person outside her family knows. He swears to her that he won't tell anyone what he learned, and the shared secret brings them closer together in this deeply moving, first-person story that traces their developing relationship in Sakura's final months of life.
Odiyan (Malayalam) (Not Rated): With the arrival of electricity in Kerala in the early 20th century under British rule, the Odiyan clan, gangsters capable of shape-shifting in the darkness - find it difficult to survive. The last Odiyan (played by Mohanlal) spreads terror across the empire with his stealth attacks when his own kind are captured and ruthlessly killed.
Sanju (Hindi) (Not Rated): Follows the life of Sanjay Dutt, a film star who must contend with the adulation of his fans, various addictions, and prison.
Shoplifters (Manbiki kazoku) (Japanese) (Rated R): On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by fierce loyalty, a penchant for petty theft, and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence.
The Upside (Rated PG-13): A recently paroled ex-convict, Dell, strikes up an unusual and unlikely friendship with a quadriplegic billionaire, Philip Lacasse, in this 'funny and warm-hearted buddy comedy.' From worlds apart, Dell and Philip form an unlikely bond, bridging their differences and gaining invaluable wisdom in the process, giving each man a renewed sense of passion for all of life's possibilities.
What Men Want (Rated R): Ali Davis is left on the outside by her fellow sports agents because she is a woman in a male-dominated profession, but she acquires an unexpected edge when she develops the ability to hear men's thoughts.
Youth (Mandarin) (Not Rated): When Xiaoping joins the military, delicate dreams are dashed by the events of a China undergoing revolution. The devastating Sino-Vietnamese War crashes into 1970s China, changing the lives of the army's young new recruits forever.
TELEVISION SHOWS
Better Call Saul Season 4 (Not Rated): A family tragedy catalyzes Jimmy McGill's transformation into Saul Goodman and, as Jimmy enters the criminal world, he puts his future as a lawyer and his relationship with Kim Wexler in jeopardy.
Call the Midwife Season 8 (Rated TV-14): It is now 1964 and it's evident how the times are changing: from the beacon of the contraceptive pill and the shadow of the 1967 Abortion Act, to the introduction of a new cancer-screening program. The nuns and nurses continue to face a variety of challenging issues including interracial adoption, cleft palate, sickle cell and cot death. And for one of the team, romance could be on the horizon.
Outlander Season 4 (Rated TV-MA): Season Four continues the story of Claire and Jamie Fraser as they try to make a home for themselves in colonial America. The Frasers in North Carolina are at another turning point in history, the edge of the American Revolution. Along the way, the Frasers cross paths with notorious pirate Stephen Bonnet in a fateful meeting that will haunt the family. Meanwhile, Brianna and Roger grow closer in the twentieth century but make a shocking discovery that has them following in Claire₂s footsteps.
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
NEW DVD TITLES FOR APRIL
A Dog Way's Home (Rated PG): As a puppy, Bella finds her way into the arms of Lucas, a young man who gives her a good home. When Bella becomes separated from Lucas, she soon finds herself on an epic, 400-mile journey to reunite with her beloved owner. Along the way, the lost but spirited dog touches the lives of an orphaned mountain lion, a down-on-his-luck veteran and some friendly strangers who happen to cross her path.
Beginner Tai-Chi for Health (Not Rated): Mirror-View exercises that are presented in two easy, low-impact, whole-body routines, each fifteen minutes in length, ideal for those with limited time. Includes a demonstration of the 16-movement tai chi form.
Bumblebee (Rated PG-13): A teenager trying to find her place in the world discovers and repairs a battle-scarred robot disguised as a Volkswagen Beetle.
Glass (Rated PG-13): Security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities.
The Invisibles (Not Rated): While Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels infamously declared Berlin "free of Jews" in 1943, 1,700 Jewish Berliners managed to survive in the Nazi capital. Claus Rafle's gripping docudrama traces the stories of four real-life survivors who learned to hide in plain sight.
Kid Who Would Be King (Rated PG): Alex believes he is just another nobody until he stumbles upon Excalibur, the mythical sword in the stone. He unites the wizard Merlin, his enemies, and his friends to take on Morgana, the enchantress.
The Mule (Rated R): A broke Korean War veteran, played by Clint Eastwood, in his 80s unknowingly becomes a drug mule for a Mexican cartel.
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (Rated PG): After the death of his wife, Carson Drew decides to leave Chicago behind and make a fresh start with his daughter in River Heights. But for sixteen-year-old Nancy Drew, life in a small town is mighty dull. She longs for excitement, adventure, and the chance to make a difference. Nancy gets that opportunity when she is asked to help solve the ghostly activity at the Twin Elms mansion. Can she help explain the creaking footsteps, exploding lightbulbs, and the ominous creature?
On the Basis of Sex (Rated PG-13): The story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's early years as a lawyer and the ground-breaking gender discrimination case she takes on.
Refugees of Shangri-La: The Story of Bhutan's Forgotten People (Not Rated): After twenty years surviving refugee camps in Nepal, the Kingdom of Bhutan's forgotten exiles abandon hopes of returning to their lost land and seek a new life in a place called America.
Replicas (Rated PG-13): In this suspenseful sci-fi thriller, Keanu Reeves stars as William Foster, a neuroscientist on the verge of transferring human consciousness into a computer when his beloved wife and children are killed in a car crash. Desperate to resurrect his family, William recruits a fellow scientist to help secretly clone their bodies. When William learns that he can only replicate three of the four family members, he makes a decision with fateful consequences.
Serenity (Rated R): The story of a fishing boat captain who is approached by his ex-wife to murder her abusive new husband.
Vice (Rated R): Christian Bale stars as Dick Cheney in this epic tale of how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly becomes the most powerful man in the world. Co-starring Amy Adams, Steve Carell, and Sam Rockwell, it is a darkly comic look behind the scenes of American politics.
TELEVISION SHOWS
Victoria Season 3 (Rated TV-PG): The early life of Queen Victoria, from her ascension to the throne at the tender age of 18 to her courtship and marriage to Prince Albert.
Beginner Tai-Chi for Health (Not Rated): Mirror-View exercises that are presented in two easy, low-impact, whole-body routines, each fifteen minutes in length, ideal for those with limited time. Includes a demonstration of the 16-movement tai chi form.
Bumblebee (Rated PG-13): A teenager trying to find her place in the world discovers and repairs a battle-scarred robot disguised as a Volkswagen Beetle.
Glass (Rated PG-13): Security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities.
The Invisibles (Not Rated): While Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels infamously declared Berlin "free of Jews" in 1943, 1,700 Jewish Berliners managed to survive in the Nazi capital. Claus Rafle's gripping docudrama traces the stories of four real-life survivors who learned to hide in plain sight.
Kid Who Would Be King (Rated PG): Alex believes he is just another nobody until he stumbles upon Excalibur, the mythical sword in the stone. He unites the wizard Merlin, his enemies, and his friends to take on Morgana, the enchantress.
The Mule (Rated R): A broke Korean War veteran, played by Clint Eastwood, in his 80s unknowingly becomes a drug mule for a Mexican cartel.
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (Rated PG): After the death of his wife, Carson Drew decides to leave Chicago behind and make a fresh start with his daughter in River Heights. But for sixteen-year-old Nancy Drew, life in a small town is mighty dull. She longs for excitement, adventure, and the chance to make a difference. Nancy gets that opportunity when she is asked to help solve the ghostly activity at the Twin Elms mansion. Can she help explain the creaking footsteps, exploding lightbulbs, and the ominous creature?
On the Basis of Sex (Rated PG-13): The story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's early years as a lawyer and the ground-breaking gender discrimination case she takes on.
Refugees of Shangri-La: The Story of Bhutan's Forgotten People (Not Rated): After twenty years surviving refugee camps in Nepal, the Kingdom of Bhutan's forgotten exiles abandon hopes of returning to their lost land and seek a new life in a place called America.
Replicas (Rated PG-13): In this suspenseful sci-fi thriller, Keanu Reeves stars as William Foster, a neuroscientist on the verge of transferring human consciousness into a computer when his beloved wife and children are killed in a car crash. Desperate to resurrect his family, William recruits a fellow scientist to help secretly clone their bodies. When William learns that he can only replicate three of the four family members, he makes a decision with fateful consequences.
Serenity (Rated R): The story of a fishing boat captain who is approached by his ex-wife to murder her abusive new husband.
Vice (Rated R): Christian Bale stars as Dick Cheney in this epic tale of how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly becomes the most powerful man in the world. Co-starring Amy Adams, Steve Carell, and Sam Rockwell, it is a darkly comic look behind the scenes of American politics.
TELEVISION SHOWS
Victoria Season 3 (Rated TV-PG): The early life of Queen Victoria, from her ascension to the throne at the tender age of 18 to her courtship and marriage to Prince Albert.
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