Elliot Page
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The Oscar-nominated star who captivated the world with his performance in Juno finally shares his truth. "Can I kiss you?" It was two months before the world premiere of Juno, and Elliot Page was in his first ever queer bar. The hot summer air hung heavy around him as he looked at her. And then it happened. In front of everyone. A previously unfathomable experience. Here he was on the precipice of discovering himself as a queer person, as a trans...
2) Juno
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Juno MacGuff is sixteen years-old who after a one-time sexual encounter with her best friend Paulie, learns that she's pregnant. Juno and Paulie like each other, but not enough to start a family, complete with a child. Paulie leaves all the decisions about the baby to Juno. Initially she decides to have an abortion, but can't go through with it. So she decides to have the baby and give it up for adoption. The next step is to find prospective parents...
3) Inception
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dom Cobb is the best there is at extraction; stealing valuable secrets inside the subconscious during the mind's vulnerable dream state. His skill has made him a coveted player in industrial espionage, but also has made him a fugitive and cost him dearly. Now he may get a second chance if he can do the impossible; inception, planting an idea rather than stealing one. If they succeed, Cobb and his team could pull off the perfect crime.
5) Whip it
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bliss Calendar is a small-town teenager with a big dream: to find her own path in the world. Tired of following in her family's footsteps of compliance and conformity, Bliss discovers a way to put her life on the fast track, literally. She lands a spot on a rough-and-tumble roller derby team and becomes 'Babe Ruthless', the hottest thing on eight wheels.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Featuring the celebrated cast from the original X-Men films and the brand new cast from the 2011 blockbuster hit X-Men First Class, X-men Days of Future Past brings together all of the fan favorites into one giant film event on the big screen. The film is based on the best-selling X-Men comic and takes place in an apocalyptic future, where mutants travel back in time in order to change the past and thereby fix the future. With a never-before-seen,...
7) The East
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sarah Moss is an ambitious new recruit at an elite private intelligence firm. Her first undercover assignment is to infiltrate 'The East,' an elusive activist collective that terrorizes corporate leaders who commit crimes against humanity. The more involved she gets, the more Sarah's life is in danger.
8) Flatliners
Language
English
Formats
Description
An ambitious, charismatic medical student persuades two classmates to take part in an experiment to determine if there is life after death. Their horror begins when they realize that although they've come back alive, they haven't come back alone.
10) Peacock
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
John Skillpa, a quiet bank clerk living in tiny Peacock, Nebraska, prefers to live an invisible life. Then, in a moment, everything changes. A train caboose runs off its tracks and crashes into John's backyard and destroys more than the weathered planks of his wood fence. When neighbors descend on the scene, they discover John's other personality, Emma, for the first time and mistakenly believe her to be John's wife. John is launched into the spotlight...
11) Touchy Feely
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (88 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A massage therapist navigates her way through an identity crisis when she suddenly develops an aversion to bodily contact. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**.
12) The Cured
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
What happens when the undead return to life? In a world ravaged for years by a virus that turns the infected into zombie-like cannibals, a cure is at last found and the wrenching process of reintegrating the survivors back into society begins.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
[3 disc version]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (543 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The live-action series follows the estranged members of a family of superheroes known as the Umbrella Academy. Years after disbanding, the siblings reunite after the death of their adoptive father, who trained them to save the world years ago. Each possessing unique powers and personalities, the dysfunctional members of the Umbrella Academy include Luther, Diego, Allison, Klaus, Number Five, and Vanya.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (460 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Five warned his family (so, so many times) that using his powers to escape from Vanya's 2019 apocalypse was risky. Well, he was right--the time jump scatters the siblings in time in and around Dallas, Texas. Over a three-year period. Starting in 1960. Some, having been stuck in the past for years, have built lives and moved on, certain they're the only ones who survived. Five is the last to land, smack dab in the middle of a nuclear doomsday, which--spoiler...
15) Peacock (2009)
Author
Language
English
Description
A bank clerk leading a seemingly uneventful life in a quiet little town finds his life suddenly changed after a local train accident threatens to reveal his biggest secret.
16) Hard Candy
Author
Language
English
Description
Hayley, a 14-year-old girl, meets Geoff, a 32-year-old fashion photographer, on the Internet. They make arrangements to meet in person in a coffee shop and she winds up going back to his house. There is a game of cat and mouse, with surprising results.