Bob Balaban
2) Sink or Swim
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
There's a thief in town, and all signs point to twelve-year-old Charlie Drinkwater. Once you spontaneously morph into a giant mutant dinosaur in the middle of the school day, people will suspect you of just about anything. Charlie's teachers decide that all he needs is a little discipline, so they make him join the swim team. The only problem is, Charlie is terrified of the water. (He's terrified of a lot of things.) Charlie and his friends vow to...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In 2001, Dave Bowman was taken by the Jupiter monolith and transformed into a powerful being. Now, in 2010, Dr. Heywood Floyd, the man held responsible for Discovery's failure, is going back to Jupiter. He and his crewmates must reactivate the psychotic HAL-9000 computer so they can learn what happened and find out the meaning of Bowman's last transmission. This will be a joint American-Soviet expedition set against the backdrop of growing global...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
An unlikely World War II platoon has been tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. With the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could they possibly succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time, they would risk their lives to protect...
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Research scientist Eddie Jessup (William Hurt) believes other states of consciousness are as real as everyday reality. Using sensory deprivation, then adding powerful hallucinogenic drugs, he explores these altered states ... and endures experiences that make madness seem a blessing.
7) Ghost world
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Two friends graduate from high school and find life in the real world difficult. Becky sets her sights on Josh, on whom both girls have a crush, and their friendship is changed forever.
9) Isle of dogs
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to a vast Trash Island, 12-year-old Atari Kobayashi embarks on an epic journey in search of his bodyguard-dog, Spots.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Some action violence involving gun play and mild rude humor.
Paris 1910. Emile, a shy movie projectionist, and Raoul, a colorful inventor, find themselves embarked on the hunt for a monster terrorizing citizens. They join forces with Lucille, the big-hearted star of the Rare Bird cabaret, and an eccentric scientist and his irascible monkey to save the monster (who turns out to be oversized but harmless as a flea) from the city's ruthlessly ambitious...
Publisher
Image Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Absence of malice: A businessman becomes the subject of a criminal investigation when a story about him is purposely "leaked" to an investigative reporter.
... and justice for all : A young lawyer battles not only one-on-one injustice in the courts, but the whole system as well.
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
1917: At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers, Blake's own brother among them.
Age of innocence: This film tells the story of Newland Archer, whoses engagement to an innocent socialite binds him to the codes and rituals of his upbringing....
14) Thunderstruck
Author
Language
English
Description
"Tells the interwoven stories of two men--Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication--whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time. Set in Edwardian London, an era of séances, science, and fog, and on the stormy coasts of Cornwall, Cape Cod, and Nova Scotia, Thunderstruck evokes the dynamism of those years when great shipping...
15) Moonrise kingdom
Series
Criterion collection volume 776
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
On an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, two twelve-year-olds fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore, and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
16) Gosford Park
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Drama set at the country estate of Sir William McCordle in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a hunting party weekend when one of the group is murdered.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seinfeld, Friends, Frasier, ER, Cheers, Law & Order, Will & Grace…Here is the funny, splashy, irresistible insiders’ account of the greatest era in television history — told by the actors, writers, directors, producers, and the network executives who made it happen…and watched it all fall apart.
Warren Littlefield was the NBC President of Entertainment who oversaw...
Warren Littlefield was the NBC President of Entertainment who oversaw...
18) Eva Hesse
Author
Language
English
Description
Eva Hesse (1936-1970) is one of America's foremost postwar artists.
Her pioneering sculptures, using latex, fiberglass, and plastics, helped establish the post-minimalist movement. Dying of a brain tumor at age 34, she had a mere decade-long career that, despite its brevity, is dense with complex, intriguing works that defy easy categorization. EVA HESSE, the first feature-length appreciation of her life and work, makes superb use of the artist's...
19) Marie and Bruce
Author
Language
English
Description
Bruce and Marie have been married a long time, but their marriage is crumbling. Sick of the sight of one another, they both fire off comical jibes as they battle to undermine each other amidst a relationship turned sour.
20) End Of The Line
Author
Language
English
Description
Two laid-off railroad workers, Will Haney (Wilford Brimley) and his friend Leo Pickett (Levon Helm), commandeer a train and drive it towards the corporate headquarters of their company in a cross-country protest that quickly picks up steam.