Olivia Colman
1) Tyrannosaur
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
TYRANNOSAUR follows the story of two lonely, damaged people brought together by circumstance. Joseph (Peter Mullan) is an unemployed widower, drinker, and a man crippled by his own volatile temperament and furious anger. Hannah (Olivia Colman) is a Christian worker at a charity shop, a respectable woman who appears wholesome and happy. When the pair is brought together, Hannah appears as Joseph’s potential savior, someone who can temper his fury...
2) The Lobster
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (119 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A darkly comic fable from Yorgos Lanthimos (*Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Favourite*), this acclaimed film centers on recently-divorced David (Colin Farrell) as he searches for a new love within 45 days—at which point, if he’s still single, he will be turned into a lobster. Nominated for an **Oscar** for Best Original Screenplay. Nominated for a **Golden Globe** for Best Actor. Winner of three prizes at the **Cannes Film Festival**. "*The Lobster...
3) The father
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An eighty-year-old man with dementia who defiantly refuses assistance from his daughter tries to make sense of his circumstances.
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jonathan Pine is working as the night manager of a Cairo hotel. He gets involved with a local woman who is the girlfriend of a local gangster. Through her relationship with the gangster she has acquired information linking illegal international arms sales with an English billionaire.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the period between 1964 and 1977: the royal family mourns the passing of Winston Churchill; the United Kingdom ushers in a new prime minister, the Labour Party's Harold Wilson whom Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth hear might be a Soviet spy; survives the Aberfan disaster; observes the Apollo 11 moon landing; and plans for the Investiture of Prince Charles. While Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon visit the USA, the queen, at the bidding of...
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world.
7) The father
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray ( 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Against the backdrop of France at a time of civil unrest, this is the story of Jean Valjean, a former convict unable to escape his past life. His future is threatened by his nemesis, the chilling police officer and former prison guard Javert, who is determined to bring him to justice. As revolution ignites on the streets of Paris, Jean Valjean begins an epic journey towards self-acceptance, redemption, and love.
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Katie Mitchell, a creative outsider, is accepted into the film school of her dreams, her plans are upended when her nature-loving dad Rick determines the whole family should drive Katie to school together. The Mitchells' plans are interrupted by a tech uprising: all around the world, the electronic devices people love decide it's time to take over. With the help of two friendly malfunctioning robots, the Mitchells will have to work together to...
11) Ron's gone wrong
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Twentieth Century Studios and Locksmith Animation's film is the story of Barney, a socially awkward middle-schooler, and Ron, his new walking, talking, digitally connected device, which is supposed to be his 'Best Friend out of the Box.' Ron's hilarious malfunctions set against the backdrop of the social media age launch them into an action-packed journey in which boy and robot come to terms with the wonderful messiness of true friendship.
12) Exile
Series
Publisher
Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia
Pub. Date
c2012, ©2012
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After his successful London career implodes, journalist Tom Ronstadt returns to his hometown in Lancashire for the first time in 18 years and finds his father Sam in the grip of Alzheimer's. Tom is trying to unravel the mystery that drove him away from home. He persists, unaware that a devastating crime that will reveal unimaginable secrets.
13) Ron's gone wrong
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ron's Gone Wrong is a computer-animated film set in a world where it's the norm to have B-Bots, digitally connected robot companions. Barney is a shy middle-schooler who is the last one in his city to finally get Ron, his B-Bot. Unfortunately, his "Best Friend Out of the Box" becomes a major pain, malfunctioning on a regular basis. Not knowing what else to do, Barney sets out to teach Ron about social cues and what it means to be a human.
14) Rev: Season 1
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2016].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 180 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tom Hollander stars as the Rev. Adam Smallbone. He is a Church of England vicar, newly promoted from a sleepy rural parish to the inner-city world of St. Saviour's in east London. He has little experience of this world, and it shows. Adam grapples with an evangelical priest hell-bent on taking over his church, pushy parents fighting for school places and even pole dancers. He succumbs to envy when he hears an old rival and then suffers a crisis of...
15) Joyride
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A headstrong solicitor's plan to offload her new born baby to her sister, is derailed when a vulnerable but opinionated teenager steals their taxi.