Catalog Search Results
Formats
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!
Author
Description
Whether you judge by box office receipts, industry awards, or critical accolades, science fiction films are the most popular movies now being produced and distributed around the world. Nor is this phenomenon new. Sci-fi filmmakers and audiences have been exploring fantastic planets, forbidden zones, and lost continents ever since George Méliès' 1902 film A Trip to the Moon. In this highly entertaining and knowledgeable book, film historian and pop...
Author
Formats
Description
"Marvel Entertainment was a moribund toymaker not even twenty years ago. Today, Marvel Studios is the dominant player both in Hollywood and in global pop culture. How did an upstart studio conquer the world? In MCU, beloved culture writers Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales, and Gavin Edwards draw on more than a hundred interviews with actors, producers, directors, and writers to present the definitive chronicle of Marvel Studios and its sole, ongoing...
4) Interstellar
Pub. Date
[2015]
Formats
Description
From director Christopher Nolan comes the story of a team of pioneers undertaking the most important mission in human history. Academy Award-winner Matthew McConaughey stars as ex-pilot-turned-farmer Cooper, who must leave his family and a floundering Earth behind to lead an expedition traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A sci-fi rom-com about a man and woman whose orbits repeatedly collide over the course of 12 years, 4 planets, 3 dimensions and 1 space-cult. MOLLI AND MAX IN THE FUTURE takes the character-driven romance of When Harry Met Sally and combines it with an eclectic sci-fi universe like Futurama. Classic practical effects combined with cutting edge technology create Molli and Max’s unique universe.
Pub. Date
1981.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
1997 - and Manhattan has become a walled prison for three million criminals where they are left to run loose. The plane carrying the American President crashes there, and he is taken prisoner by "the Duke." Sent in to rescue him from this land of hell is Snake Plissken, former war hero turned criminal. To ensure he does not abandon his mission, two devices are implanted in his arteries, primed to blow him to pieces if he fails to return on time.
7) Red
Description
Frank is a former black-ops CIA agent living a quiet life alone, until the day a hit squad shows up to kill him. With his identity compromised, Frank reassembles his old team; Joe, Marvin, and Victoria, and sets out to prove that they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Stand back and watch the bullets fly in this explosive action-comedy.
Author
Series
Once upon a con volume 1
Description
Geek girl Ellie hopes to go to ExcelsiCon Cosplay to meet the actor (closet nerd Darien) scheduled to play Federation Prince Carmindor in a reboot of the movie Starfield.
Author
Description
Apocalypse-cinema is not only the end of time that has so often been staged as spectacle in films like 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, and The Terminator. By looking at blockbusters that play with general annihilation while also paying close attention to films like Melancholia, Cloverfield, Blade Runner, and Twelve Monkeys, this book suggests that in the apocalyptic genre, film gnaws at its own limit. Apocalypse-cinema is, at the same time and with...
10) Lucky them
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Toni Collette is a has-been rock journalist sent to hunt down a long-vanished local rock star (and old flame) in this edgy, moving comedy. Also stars Thomas Haden Church.
11) Bad Taste
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In this cult sci-fi horror-comedy directed by Peter Jackson, a small New Zealand town becomes the target of an alien invasion—with a grisly twist. The aliens are here to harvest humans as ingredients for their intergalactic fast-food chain, and it’s up to a team of bumbling government agents to stop them. Armed with makeshift weapons and plenty of dark humor, the team battles the grotesque aliens in a gory, over-the-top showdown that put Jackson’s...
12) Moonfall
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mankind is threatened when a mysterious force throws the moon out of orbit, and sends it hurtling on a collision course with Earth.
13) A star is bored
Author
Description
"She needs an assistant. He needs a hero. Charlie Besson is tense and sweating as he prepares for a wild job interview. His car is idling, like his life, outside the Hollywood mansion of Kathi Kannon, star of stage and screen and People magazine's Worst Dressed list. She's an actress in need of assistance, and he's adrift and in need of a lifeline. Kathi is an icon, bestselling author, and award-winning movie star, most known for her role as Priestess...
15) Arrival
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Formats
Description
When mysterious spacecraft touch down around the world, a team ,including linguist Louise Banks, is brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers, and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.
16) Minari
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows a Korean American family that moves to a farm in the Arkansas Ozarks in the 1980s.
17) The hating game
Formats
Description
Resolving to achieve professional success without compromising her ethics, Lucy embarks on a ruthless game of one-upmanship against cold and efficient nemesis Joshua, a rivalry that is complicated by her growing attraction to him.
18) After Yang
Author
Formats
Description
A father becomes determined to repair the android boy living with his family, who is beloved by his young adopted daughter, when he becomes unresponsive.
19) Aloha
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs, the US Space program in Honolulu, Hawaii, and reconnects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him.
20) Four good days
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Description
Emerging from a detox clinic, a young addict must stay clean while living with her mother for the next four days.





