Keith David
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Tells the story of ordinary people in four quintessentially American towns - Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota - and examines the ways in which the Second World War touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America.
102) Johns
Pub. Date
1999
Description
It's Dec. 24 on Hollywood's Santa Monica Boulevard and male hustler John is looking forward to celebrating his Christmas birthday in a swanky hotel. Unfortunately, his shoes and cash are stolen while he's sleeping in the grass. John's rookie friend Donner naively tries to help the more cynical John with unexpected consequences.
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
Death at a Funeral: When the patriarch of a dysfunctional family dies, his funeral turns into a family circus. Misplaced bodies, blackmail, indecent exposure, and a corpse that wont stay in the box, get the party started, but when old family skeletons start tumbling out of the closet, all hell breaks loose.
First Sunday: Sentenced to 5,000 hours of community service, Durell Jefferson's life quickly goes from bad to worse. He eventually decides...
104) The thing
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
In the midst of a snowfield in Antarctica, the scientists and workers of a small American research base are shocked when a helicopter begins to circle their camp, chasing and shooting at a dog. The helicopter is destroyed and the passenger's aboard are killed. The dog is let into the base. The helicopter is Norweign made and probably linked with the base that is close by. J.R. MacReady travels to the Norweigan base and finds the place destroyed. He...
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
New Orleans. Arrogant, carefree Prince Naveen and hardworking waitress Tiana cross paths. Prince Naveen is transformed into a frog by a conniving voodoo magician. Tiana follows suit when she decides to kiss the amphibian royalty. With the help of a trumpet-playing alligator, a Cajun firefly, and an old blind lady who lives in a boat in a tree, Naveen and Tiana must race to break the spell and fulfill their dreams.
Pub. Date
[2003], c1998
Description
In 1985, teen-nerd Ted challenges a high-schooler who's bullying retarded Warren. His concern prompts Warren's sister, the dazzling and desirable Mary to choose Ted as her senior prom date, but the date never happens. 13 years later Ted hires Pat to locate Mary, and the private investigator finds her in Miami. Pat claims to be a Harvard-educated architect and Mary falls in love with him. Meanwhile, Ted learns the truth but continues to encounter offbeat...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Devil's tomb: Captain Mack (Cuba Gooding Jr.) "battles for mankind's survival in this action-packed, apocalyptic horror thriller. When the scientist (Ron Perlman) leading a top-secret Middle Eastern archeological site goes missing, an elite military unit is sent on a search and rescue mission. Descending deep below civilization, Captain Mack and his team soon find themselves face-to-face with an ancient evil. An evil that may not be of this world"--Distributor's...
108) Superhero movie
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Rick Riker is a high school student who is bitten by a genetically altered dragonfly while on a field trip to the local laboratory. Rick soon realizes that he's developing super powers, including the ability to break-dance vertically on a building wall and the development of lightening fast reflexes. Disguised in a green and black suit and going by the name Dragonfly, Rick uses his abilities to fight crime all over the city. His archenemy is Lou Landers,...
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
The Thing: In the winter of 1982, a 12-man research team, at a remote Antarctic research station, discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Soon unfrozen, the form-changing alien wreaks havoc, creates terror and takes on the appearance of those it kills.
Prince of darkness: A group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister and inadvertently unleash a strange liquid. As the substance begins to turn their co-workers...
112) Cloud atlas
Pub. Date
2013
Description
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future.
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Spike Lee is one of the most acclaimed and controversial directors of all time. Now five of his most provocative, thought-provoking films are available in one collection. From the breakout hit dramedy "Do the right thing" to the gritty, urban "Clockers," Lee peels away life's layers, exposing the ironies, brutalities, rhythms and prejudices of the naked city in this powerful collector's set.
Clockers: a film about the violent world of drug dealing...