Magnet
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young affluent couple expecting their first child hits it off with the new couple that moves in downstairs, until a boozy dinner party between them ends in a shocking accident. The new friends suddenly find themselves at odds and are forced to question how well they know their neighbors, in this psychological thriller.
8) Who Hunts the Whale: A satirical novel set in the exploitative world of big-budget game development
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
Supremacy Software is the world's largest video-game developer and publisher. If you've played games, you've played one of theirs at some point. They're the shining light, a dream job for many aspiring game developers.
Who Hunts the Whale tells the story of a newly hired PA taking a seat in the executive boardroom. An out-of-towner who risked it all to come to the big city and live her dream of working for a company she's idolised for years.
...9) The convert
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A lay preacher arrives at a British settlement in 1830s New Zealand. His violent past is soon drawn into question and his faith put to the test, as he finds himself caught in the middle of a bloody war between Māori tribes.
10) God says no
Author
Pub. Date
℗©2001.
Physical Description
1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
11) The signal
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
New Year's Eve in the city of Terminus. Chaos is this year's resolution. Imagine every cell phone, radio, and television suddenly broadcasting the same mysterious signal over and over. Now imagine these transmissions evoking violent, uncontrollable, psychotic chaos from everyone who comes in contact with them. The signal begins to invade the minds of everyday citizens. Suddenly struck by the power of the insidious transmissions, they are compelled...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Apocalyptic thriller: When an unexplained blackout leaves Detroit in darkness, most of the population vanishes. As the sun rises, a handful of survivors realizes the few light sources are all that protects them from impending terror.
13) Sleep
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Korean
Description
"How well do you really know the person sleeping next to you? For one young couple, this question becomes a twisted psychological nightmare when a husband's increasingly bizarre nighttime behavior takes a menacing turn"--
14) Powertrip
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Description
1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
16) Lord of misrule
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A desperate search ensues when the young daughter of a rural village's vicar goes missing. Discovered in the grip of evil, the vicar must decide how much she is willing to risk in order to save her daughter.
17) Adaptation
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Blends fictional characters and situations with the lives of real people: obsessive orchid hunter John Laroche, "New Yorker" journalist Susan Orlean, Hollywood screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and his twin brother Donald. As Charlie struggles to adapt a best-selling book, he writes himself into the movie plot.
19) Monsters
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within the solar system. Soon after, new life forms began to appear and half of Mexico was quarantined. A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain 'the creatures.' Now a U.S. journalist has agreed to escort a shaken American tourist through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety...
20) The perfect host
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A criminal on the run cons his way into the wrong dinner party where the host is anything but ordinary. The two discover just how deceiving appearances can be in this game of cat and mouse.