Summary: Ako Tamaki looks to her fellow high school friends for help in separating real life from her life in the fantasy online gaming world of Legendary Age, or LA.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME ANDSummary: A bank teller, who discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, decides to become the hero of his own story, one he rewrites himself. Now in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who saves his world his way, before it is too late.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FRESummary: Home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta must turn around and embark on a "Victor's Tour" of the districts, where they sense that a rebellion is simmering, and probably sparked by Katniss. The Capitol proves they are very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games: an anniversary competition that will draw contestants from previous...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FI HUNSummary: "Return to the world of two realities: everyday life... and what lies behind it. To truly know himself, Neo must follow the white rabbit once again into the Matrix. Of course, Neo already what he has to do. What he doesn't know is that the Matrix is more dangerous than ever. Déja vu" -- Container
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MATSummary: When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD REASummary: When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called Videodrome. As he struggles to unearth the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR VIDSummary: Maple doesn't want to experience pain in the VRMMO game she started playing, so she puts all her skill points into defense until she can't even move. Somehow it works better than anyone expected. Now she's got followers?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME BOFSummary: It centers on a family of beekeepers living in stark isolation in the Tuscan countryside. The dynamic of their overcrowded household is disrupted by the simultaneous arrival of a silently troubled teenage boy taken in as a farmhand and a reality TV show intent on showcasing the family. Both intrusions are of particular interest to the eldest daughter, who is struggling to find her footing in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WONSummary: As the strict Game Master of a fantasy role-playing game, Scott leads his friends in a weekly quest through mysterious lands from the safety of his grandmother's kitchen. But his mastery of his own domain starts to slip, along with everything else.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ZERSummary: On the night of an astronomical anomaly, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. Part cerebral sci-fi and part relationship drama, a tightly focused, intimately shot film that quickly ratchets up with tension and mystery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: DVD TCFF COHSummary: Based on the life stories Edith "Big Edie" Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale who are the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis. They were raised as Park Avenue débutantes, but withdrew from New York society. They took shelter at their Long Island summer home called 'Grey Gardens.' As their wealth and contact with the outside world dwindled, so did...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: The noir-spiked tale of a reluctant action hero, a cybernetics engineer who uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy substituting simulations for reality.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN WORSummary: Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the Capitol of the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen volunteers in her younger sister's place and must rely upon her sharp instincts when she's pitted against highly trained Tributes who have prepared their entire lives. And,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY SCI-FI HUNCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD HUNCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HUN RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HuCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Hunger 2012Summary: Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and those dear to him are alive. Over the years, a city grown in his imagination. One day, literary heroes and cartoon childhood idols, who in the consciousness of the successive generations are forever young and wearing short pants, come to live there, uninvited. When our...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KILSummary: Lain Iwakura appears to be an ordinary teenage girl, with almost no experience with computers. Yet the sudden suicide of a schoolmate, and a number of strange occurrences, conspire to pull Lain into the world of the "wired," where she gradually learns that nothing is what it seems.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Geneon Entertainment 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ghosted by her hunky twenty-something lover, Claire, a middle-aged professor and single mom, creates a fake Facebook profile to do a little undetected online snooping. But when her 24-year-old avatar "Clara" is friended by her ex's equally attractive roommate, superficial correspondence quickly escalates towards intense intimacy and uncontrollable obsession.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WHOSummary: A parody of reality dating shows in the vein of "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette". He's ready to settle down.. with a stranger! Follow firefighter Mark Orlando through champagne toasts, candles, heartbreak, bubble baths, chocolate, hair extensions, roller skating, betrayal, and spray tans as he looks for the perfect someone to give his hose to.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BURSummary: The series depicts a future in which Earth is dominated by a race of self-aware machines that was spawned from the creation of artificial intelligence. Conflict arose between mankind and machines, and in the war that followed, the machines emerged victorious. They devised a way to extract the energy they need to function from human bodies by enclosing people in pods. To keep humans compliant,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Daniel Kremer's Overwhelm the Sky is an epic odyssey of a spiritually shell-shocked man searching for answers in a world of loners, mourners, kooks, seducers, deceivers, and sleepwalkers. The San Francisco Chronicle aptly describes it as 'part noir, part epic journey from inner mind to outer expanses.' Loosely adapted from the 1799 gothic novel Edgar Huntly, or Memoirs of a Sleepwalker by...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OVESummary: Moriko Morioka is logging out of real life and into the online world of gaming! After a less than ideal experience working in the real world, Moriko is ready to give up. Tired of the day-to-day grind, she's giving in to the NEET lifestyle by devoting her time to the online game, Fruits de Mer. With this exciting fantasy world, her handsome character Hayashi, and a guild of devoted friends, her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME RECSummary: Lain Iwakura appears to be an ordinary teenage girl, with almost no experience with computers. Yet the sudden suicide of a schoolmate, and a number of strange occurrences, conspire to pull Lain into the world of the "wired," where she gradually learns that nothing is what it seems.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Geneon Entertainment 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Yoko travels with a small crew to Uzbekistan to shoot an episode of her reality TV travel show. In front of the camera her persona is carefree and happy-go-lucky, but behind the scenes she is cautious and introverted. Despite her best efforts, all the shootings end unsuccessfully. Frustrated by the failed filming, she takes to the streets of this mysterious country on her own. Lost in the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021