Summary: "I'm just a bloody normal bloke. A normal bloke who likes a bit of torture," says Mark "Chopper" Read. Read is one of Australia's best-selling authors, in part because before he became an author, he was one of Australia's most brutal stand-over men. "Chopper" tells his story with a kind of fascinated horror, a study of the mystique of criminal notoriety, and portrait of a cunning, ruthless...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CHOSummary: Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. He is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, some of them of his own making.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA INSSummary: Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA TODSummary: Die hard (1988): NYPD police officer John McClane tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DIESummary: "Perhaps no director tapped into the sense of dread and mistrust that pervaded the 1970s more effectively than Alan J. Pakula, who, in the second installment of his celebrated Paranoia Trilogy, offers a chilling vision of America in the wake of the assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, Jr., with the shock of Watergate near at hand. Three years after the murder of a leading...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA PARSummary: A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders. Includes the English/Italian hybrid cut of the film, the International version, and the U.S. release version.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY PHESummary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VALSummary: Outlaw Ben Wade (Glenn Ford) is captured after robbing a stagecoach. The owner of the stage coach line decides to offer $200 to the man who escorts Ben Wade to the 3:10 train to Yuma which will take him to trial. The train will be traveling out of the station at a small town aptly named Contention. It is necessary to offer the reward because everyone knows that Ben Wade's gang will attempt to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Sight and Sound Rotating Display, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN THRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 310Summary: "It is 1932 when loyal, devoted Nurse Eunice Evers is invited to work with Dr. Brodus and Dr. Douglas on a federally funded program to treat syphilis patients in Alabama. Free treatment is offered to those who test positive for the disease, including Caleb Humphries and Willie Johnson. But when the government withdraws its support, money is offered for what will become known as 'The Tuskegee...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2001
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MISSummary: Seamlessly interweaving archival war footage and a fictional narrative, this immersive account by Stuart Cooper of one twenty-year-old's journey from basic training to the front lines of D-day brings to life all the terrors and isolation of war with jolting authenticity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA OVESummary: The story of a handful of U.S. soldiers isolated in the snowy Sierra Nevadas in the mid-1800's. A psychopath, who's tasted human flesh before, tempts them to soothe their hunger pains by feasting on each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An American writer in Italy becomes an amateur sleuth when he witnesses a failed attempt by a serial killer to take the life of the wife of a wealthy gallery owner.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY BIRSummary: When she's fired from her job at an upscale law firm for voicing her stance against the testing of cosmetics on animals, Elle heads to Capitol Hill to fight for her cause before Congress. Once there, she runs into plenty of adversity and red-tape and can't seem to find anyone who will listen to her proposals. She meets and befriends an elderly bellman who's been around long enough to know the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Directors Albert and Allen Hughes and screenwriter Tyger Williams were barely into their twenties when they sent shock waves through American cinema and hip-hop culture with this fatalistic, unflinching vision of life and death on the streets of Watts, Los Angeles, in the 1990s. There, in the shadow of the riots of 1965 and 1992, young Caine is growing up under the influence of his ruthless,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY MENSummary: A dancer in a Brooklyn night club catches the eye of a magazine publisher, who sees in her potential as a future cover girl.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS COVSummary: A rich widow is trapped in her private elevator, nine feet from the floor, for ten terrifying hours. Unable to escape, her situation becomes desperate when the emergency alarm attracts a drunken derelict and his boozy prostitute friend, both bent on robbery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Teenager Bill Whitney has always felt like the odd one out in his wealthy, upper-class Beverly Hills family. For some reason, he just doesn't seem to fit in. But his sense of alienation takes a sinister turn when he overhears a surreptitious audio recording of his sister's coming out party, which seems to implicate his family and others in a bizarre, ritualistic orgy. And then there are the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When Flynn, the world's greatest video game creator, sends out a secret signal from an amazing digital realm, his son discovers the clue and embarks on a personal journey to save his long-lost father. With the help of the fearless female warrior Quorra, father and son venture through an incredible cyber universe and wage the ultimate battle of good versus evil.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: Blu3D DVD Movie TronSummary: New York cop John McClane is the personal target of the mysterious Simon, a terrorist determined to blow up the entire city if he doesn't get what he wants. Accompanied by an unwilling civilian partner, McClane careens wildly from one end of New York to the other as he struggles to keep up with Simon's deadly game. It's a battle of wits between a psychopathic genius and a heroic cop who once...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE DIESummary: Includes 7 Steven Kings classics, over 19 hours of thrills & chills.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD STECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV StephenSummary: Bend of the river: When a town boss confiscates homesteader's supplies after gold is discovered nearby, a tough cowboy risks his life to try and get it to them.--www.imdb.com (Aug. 28, 2012).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN JAMSummary: Fearing the actions of Superman are left unchecked, Batman takes on Superman, while the world wrestles with what kind of a hero it really needs. With Batman and Superman fighting each other, a new threat, Doomsday, is created by Lex Luthor. It's up to Superman and Batman to set aside their differences along with Wonder Woman to stop Lex Luthor and Doomsday from destroying Metropolis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE BATSummary: A sinister thriller from the fractured 1960s that concerns a middle-aged businessman dissatisfied with his suburban existence, who is urged (and blackmailed) to undergo a strange and elaborate procedure that will grant him a new life as a reborn.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY SCI-FI SECSummary: John McClane, the heroic New York cop with a knack for being in the wrong place at the right time, is back, and his latest predicament takes him all the way to Russia to track down his estranged son, Jack, who has been imprisoned in Moscow. But the mission takes a deadly turn as father and son must join forces to thwart a nuclear weapons heist that could trigger World War III.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013