John Ortiz
Author
Language
English
Description
"Just about everyone likes to listen to music to put them "in the mood," and these techniques get you "out" of a mood! The "Tao" part is about accepting what you're feeling, and dealing with it, by using Dr. Ortiz's methods. Includes musical menus that you can use to create your own program for dealing with issues, koans for meditation, and various other fun exercises to make music a part of your holistic health program. Appendix, bibliography, index."--...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Academy-Award®-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman directs, produces, and stars alongside Academy-Award®-nominee Amy Ryan, John Ortiz, and Daphne Rubin-Vega in this unconventional romantic comedy about the prevailing grace of the human spirit.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (98 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Maggie Siff delivers a tour-de-force performance as Anna Baskin, an exhausted workaholic actress at a crossroads in her life. She abruptly extricates herself from a successful but mind-numbing TV role, returning to a life she left behind with ex-creative partners Kate and Isaac. A WOMAN, A PART examines the media’s portrayal of women, the nature of friendship and the difficulties of reckoning with change. Nominated for Best First Feature at the...
4) Nostalgia
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mosaic of stories about love and loss, NOSTALGIA explores our relationships to the objects, artifacts, and memories that shape our lives. Official Selection at the **Palm Springs International Film Festival**. *"A multi-character study of grief and loss as represented through the things people leave behind, it's a heartfelt work from Pellington." - Norman Wilner, **NOW Toronto***
Publisher
Mgm
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hour, 57 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Monk is a frustrated novelist who's fed up with the establishment that profits from Black entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, he uses a pen name to write an outlandish Black book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
7) Peppermint
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (1 hr., 42 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After her husband and daughter are killed, a woman goes into hiding and emerges to seek revenge against the criminals who destroyed her family.
8) Steve Jobs
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follow the life of the late Steve Jobs. His drive to change technology ultimatly had a negative effect on everyone around him.
"Thanks to Fassbender's revelatory performance, Jobs comes across as a captivating monster, a dictator in a black turtleneck who is impossible to ignore."--Globe and Mail.
9) Replicas
Publisher
Lioms Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this suspenseful sci-fi thriller, Keanu Reeves stars as William Foster, a neuroscientist on the verge of transferring human consciousness into a computer when his beloved wife and children are killed in a car crash. Desperate to resurrect his family, William recruits a fellow scientist to help secretly clone their bodies. When William learns that he can only replicate three of the four family members, he makes a decision with fateful consequences....
10) American fiction
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Monk is a frustrated novelist who's fed up with the establishment that profits from Black entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, he uses a pen name to write an outlandish Black book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
11) Fast & furious
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dom Toretto is a former street racer who, along with his crew, hijacks an oil truck out on the highway. Dom is living the life of a fugitive in the Dominican Republic, but after suffering a devastating personal loss, he is driven by revenge to return to Los Angeles to bring down an elusive drug smuggler. He is reunited with undercover FBI agent Brian O'Connor who let him go eight years earlier. Brian is also on the case of the drug smuggler and he...
12) Replicas
Publisher
Entertainment Studios
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this suspenseful sci-fi thriller, Keanu Reeves stars as William Foster, a neuroscientist on the verge of transferring human consciousness into a computer when his beloved wife and children are killed in a car crash. Desperate to resurrect his family, William recruits a fellow scientist to help secretly clone their bodies. When William learns that he can only replicate three of the four family members, he makes a decision with fateful consequences....
13) Peppermint
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A revenge story focusing on a young mother who finds herself with nothing to lose, and is now going to take from her enemies the very life they took from her.
14) AVP: Requiem
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unrated edition
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : soud, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A small Colorado town becomes the battleground between two of the deadliest extra-terrestrial lifeforms - the Alien and the Predator. When a Predator scout ship crash-lands in the hills outside the town, Alien facehuggers are released in the crash. Also released is a hybrid Alien/Predator. A man and his son hunting in the forest near the crash site soon become the first victims of the facehuggers. A Predator receives data about the crash on his home...
15) The finest hours
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 117 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In February of 1952, one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod and literally ripping it in half. On a small lifeboat faced with frigid temperatures and 70-foot high waves, four members of the Coast Guard set out to rescue the more than 30 stranded sailors trapped aboard the rapidly-sinking vessel.
Publisher
Distributed by Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008], c2007
Edition
Unrated extended ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (177 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, American Gangster is the story of two men: Frank Lucas, former driver, bouncer, and collector for Bumpy Johnson, the so-called Robin Hood of Harlem; and Richie Roberts, night-school lawyer, detective, and honest cop. Frank is importing heroin direct from Bangkok--by-passing the Italian and Sicilian mafia--undercutting their prices, delivering superior product, and making a fortune. Richie, loathed by cops on the take for turning...
17) Public enemies
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
No one could stop Dillinger and his gang. No jail could hold him. His charm and audacious jailbreaks endeared him to almost everyone, from his girlfriend Billie Frechette to an American public who had no sympathy for the banks that had plunged the country into the Depression. But while the adventures of Dillinger's gang thrilled many, Hoover made Dillinger America's first Public Enemy Number One.
18) Ms. White Light
Author
Language
English
Description
Lex Cordova has a unique ability to connect with the dying...it's everyone else she has a problem with.
19) Narc
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Suspended from the force following a drug bust gone wrong, undercover narcotics officer Nick Tellis is reluctantly goaded back into active duty when a fellow officer is slain. Promised reinstatement in exchange for his efforts, Tellis is paired with the victim's volatile ex-partner Henry and soon begins to actively seek the killer in an increasingly complex case. Tellis struggles with his conscience as he navigates a twisting road of half-realized...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A reiimagining of the origin of the mythic Kong in a compelling, original adventure. A diverse team of explorers are brought together to venture deep into an uncharted island in the Pacific, as beautiful as it is treacherous, unaware that they're crossing into the domain of the mythic Kong.