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Latest DVDs – March 2020
29th February 2020 by Graham Taylor
21 NEW TITLES WERE ADDED THIS MONTH (New releases +++)
DA478: FANTASTIC 4: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER: The Fantastic Four learn that they aren't the only super-powered beings in the universe when they square off against the powerful Silver Surfer and the planet-eating Galactus.
DA482: ALIEN VS. PREDATOR: During an archaeological expedition on Bouvetøya Island in Antarctica, a team of archaeologists and other scientists find themselves caught up in a battle between the two legends. Soon, the team realize that only one species can win.
DA494: HELLBOY: Hellboy, caught between the worlds of the supernatural and human, battles an ancient sorceress bent on revenge.
DA495: HELLBOY 2: The mythical world starts a rebellion against humanity in order to rule the Earth, so Hellboy and his team must save the world from the rebellious creatures.
DA496: STARDUST: In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm.
DC0081F: DOCTOR WHO. THE TALONS OF WENG-CHIAN: The Doctor and Leela land in Victorian London, and find themselves in the middle of missing girls, mutilated bodies, and vicious Chinese gangs. The Palace theater, presenting hypnotist Li H'sen Chang seems to be at the center of it all.
DC191: ESCAPE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN: Two mysterious orphan children have extraordinary powers and are chased by a scheming millionaire. But where do these kids really call home?
DL457: MILLIONS: Ethics, being human and the soul come to the fore when a 7-year old finds a bag of Pounds just days before the currency is switched to Euros and learns what we are really made of.
DL458: SHOWTIME: A spoof of buddy cop movies where two very different cops are forced to team up on a new reality based television cop show, while tracking down the manufacturer and distributor of an illegally made semi-automatic firearm.
DR275: TRISTAN + ISOLDA: An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne and the princess of the feuding Irish spells doom for the young lovers.
DS477: REVELATIONS: Just before the start of the Apocalypse, a physicist and a nun race against the clock to see if the end of the world can be averted.
+++DS480: CATHERINE THE GREAT: Sophia Augusta's marriage to Peter III, the Emperor of Russia, is anything but the fairy-tale life that she had been promised. In a historical tale of political intrigue, sex and murder, she takes control of her life, her marriage, and her kingdom, becoming one of Russia's most celebrated and beloved monarchs.
DT657: CHILDREN OF DUNE: The twins of Paul "Muad'dib" Atreides become embroiled in the political landscape of Arrakis ("Dune") and the rest of the universe.
DT658: THE INVASION: As a Washington, D.C. psychiatrist unearths the origin of an alien epidemic, she also discovers her son might be the only way it can be stopped.
DV1316: SONG FOR A RAGGIE BOY: The true story of a single teacher's courage to stand up against an untouchable prefect's sadistic disciplinary regime and other abuse in a Catholic Reformatory and Industrial School in 1939 Ireland.
DV1319: TRAINSPOTTING: Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
DV1320: THE DARK IS RISING: A boy's life is turned upside down when he learns that he is the last of a group of immortal warriors who have dedicated their lives to fighting the forces of the dark.
+++DV1321: DOWNTON ABBEY (THE MOVIE): The continuing story of the Crawley family, wealthy owners of a large estate in the English countryside in the early twentieth century.
+++DV1322: JUDY: Legendary performer Judy Garland arrives in London in the winter of 1968 to perform a series of sold-out concerts.
+++DV1323: MRS LOWRY & SON: A portrait of the artist L.S. Lowry and the relationship with his mother, who tries to dissuade him from pursuing his passion.
DV1324: QUARTET/TRIO/ENCORE: Three films by W. Somerset Maugham. A total of 10 short stories. Old but not dated as his work is finely honed and covers a broad spectrum of interest.
Filed Under: New DVDs
Latest DVDs – February 2020
16th November 2018 by Graham Taylor
The Library has a huge collection of DVDs, with something to cater for all tastes. We even have a children's section to help you entertain the grandchildren when they come to stay.
All DVDs are catalogued and separated into sections to help you find one to suit. A list of newly-added titles is also available to help you choose and if there's a particular film, TV series or documentary you wish to see then one of our volunteers can easily check our database to see if what you want is in our collection.
27 NEW TITLES WERE ADDED THIS MONTH (New releases red star)
DA477: X-MEN ORIGINS WOLVERINE: The early years of James Logan, featuring his rivalry with his brother Victor Creed, his service in the Special Forces team Weapon X, and his experimentation into the metal-lined mutant Wolverine.
DA479: WATCHMEN: In 1985 where former superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach into his own sprawling investigation, uncovering something that could completely change the course of history as we know it
DA480: KNOWING: M.I.T. professor John Koestler links a mysterious list of numbers from a time capsule to past and future disasters and sets out to prevent the ultimate catastrophe.
DA481: BLADE TRINITY: Blade, now a wanted man by the FBI, must join forces with the Nightstalkers to face his most challenging enemy yet: Dracula.
DA483: THE LAST LEGION: As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters.
DA486: THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK: The wanted criminal Richard Bruno Riddick (Vin Diesel) arrives on a planet called Helion Prime and finds himself up against an invading empire called the Necromongers, an army that plans to convert or kill all humans in the universe.
DA487: FLYBOYS: The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.
DA488: V FOR VENDETTA: In a future British tyranny, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow it with the help of a young woman.
DA489: SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW: After New York City receives a series of attacks from giant flying robots, a reporter teams up with a pilot in search of their origin, as well as the reason for the disappearances of famous scientists around the world.
DA491: VAN HELSING: The notorious monster hunter is sent to Transylvania to stop Count Dracula who is using Dr. Frankenstein's research and a werewolf for some sinister purpose.
DA498: THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES: Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.
DC190: ARTHUR AND THE INVISIBLES: Ten-year-old Arthur, in a bid to save his grandfather's house from being demolished, goes looking for some much-fabled hidden treasure in the land of the Minimoys, tiny people living in harmony with nature.
DL454: BILOXI BLUES: A group of young recruits go through boot camp during the Second World War in Biloxi, Mississippi. From the play by Neil Simon.
DL455: ALMOST FAMOUS: A high-school boy is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone Magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour
DL456: THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS: The Little Shop of Horrors is a farce about an inadequate florist's assistant who cultivates a plant that feeds on human blood. The film employs an original style of humour, combining black comedy with farce and incorporating Jewish humour and elements of spoof.
DM159: YESTERDAY: A struggling musician realizes he's the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles after waking up in an alternate timeline where they never existed.
DM166: BEST OF BOWIE: 2 DVDs of David bowie's best songs.
DS478A: CADFAELSERIES 1: This detective series is set in the 12th century in England,
DS478B: CADFAEL SERIES 2: mainly at the Benedictine Abbey in Shrewsbury where
DS478C: CADFAEL SERIES 3: Brother Cadfael lives. The titles are from books by
DS478D: CADFAEL SERIES 4: Ellis Peters, who wrote The Cadfael Chronicles.
DS479B: RED DWARF SERIES 2: The adventures of the last human alive and his friends,
DS479G: RED DWARF SERIES 7: stranded three million years into deep space on the
DS479H: RED DWARF SERIES 8: mining ship Red Dwarf.
DV1317: EMPIRE OF THE SUN: A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.
DV1318: MICHAEL COLLINS: Neil Jordan's historical biopic of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins, the man who led a guerrilla war against the UK, helped negotiate the creation of the Irish Free State, and led the National Army during the Irish Civil War.
Filed Under: Latest news, New DVDs
Strike it lucky with a new crop of DVDs
26th October 2018 by Graham Taylor
THERE'S NOTHING LIKE A DAME: Maggie Smith, Joan Plowright, Eileen Atkins and Judi Dench.
HEADING FOR THE LIBRARY SHELVES for November, our latest DVD additions feature an eclectic mix of genres and big-names. Variously they feature the pen of J K Rowling, star names such as Helen Mirren, Diane Keaton, Donald Sutherland and Michael Douglas, not forgetting four of the biggest UK actress dames stage and screen has yet produced, namely Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith.
All our DVDs are catalogued and separated into sections to help you find one to suit you. A list of newly-added titles is available to help you choose and if there's a particular film, TV series or documentary you wish to see then one of our volunteers can easily check our database to see if what you want is in our collection.
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