Here is a new DVD list highlighting various titles recently added to the library’s collection.

“Weapons” – Website / Reviews 
When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance in this horror/thriller.

“F1” – Website / Reviews 
In this action/drama film, racing legend Sonny Hayes is coaxed out of retirement to lead a struggling Formula 1 team — and mentor a young hotshot driver — while chasing one more chance at glory.

“The Gold” – Season 1 – Website / Reviews 
A crime drama series inspired by real events from 1983 where armed men stumbled on millions in gold in London, making a standard robbery into one of the largest robberies in British history.

“Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight” – Website / Reviews 
Based on the memoir of the same name, this film captures the complex childhood of 8-year-old Bobo on her family’s African farm at the end of the Zimbabwean War for Independence in 1980.

“The Fantastic 4: First Steps” – Website / Reviews 
Set in a 1960s-inspired retro-futuristic world, this sci-fi action film introduces a superhero foursome who must defend Earth from a space god and his enigmatic herald. Continue reading “New DVD List: November 2025”

Here is a new DVD list highlighting various titles recently added to the library’s collection.

“Sinners” – Website / Reviews 
In this horror film, twin brothers try to leave their troubled lives behind by returning to their hometown to start again. What they discover is that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

“Eephus” – Website / Reviews 
As a construction project looms over their beloved small-town baseball field, a pair of New England Sunday league teams face off for the last time in this drama/comedy film.

“A Complete Unknown” – Website / Reviews 
A dramatization following a young Bob Dylan arriving in 1960’s New York. Forging relationships with music icons, his meteoric rise culminates in a performance that reverberates worldwide.

“Fallout” – Season 1 – Website / Reviews
Based on the video game series, this sci-fi show is set in a post-apocalyptic world where the denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the complex universe waiting for them above.

“Thunderbolts*” – Website / Reviews
After finding themselves ensnared in a death trap, an unconventional team of antiheroes go on a mission forcing them to confront the darkest corners of their pasts in this action/adventure film.

Continue reading “New DVD List: August 2025”

Here is a new DVD list highlighting various titles recently added to the library’s collection.

“Drop” – Website / Reviews  
In this mystery thriller, a widowed mother’s charming dinner date is upended by a series of phone messages presenting a sinister choice: kill her date or lose her child and sister.

“The Friend” – Website / Reviews 
Based on the bestselling novel, this dramatic comedy finds Iris’s comfortable New York life upended when her friend and mentor Walter bequeaths her his Great Dane, Apollo.

“The Wedding Banquet” – Website / Reviews 
A romantic comedy where a gay man and his lesbian friend enter a green-card marriage for IVF treatments, but their plans are upended when his grandmother surprises them with a Korean wedding banquet.

“The Assessment” – Website / Reviews 
In this sci-fi thriller set in the near future where parenthood is strictly controlled, a couple’s seven-day assessment for the right to have a child unravels into a psychological nightmare.

“Bridget Jones, Mad About the Boy” – Website / Reviews 
After jumping back into the dating pool, single mother Bridget Jones finds herself caught between a younger man and her son’s science teacher in this romantic comedy. Continue reading “New DVD List: July 2025”

Here is a new DVD list highlighting various titles recently added to the library’s collection.

“Companion” – Website / Reviews
In this science fiction thriller, a weekend getaway at a remote cabin turns to chaos when it’s revealed that one of the guests — a subservient android built for human companionship — has gone haywire.

“My Dead Friend Zoe” – Website / Reviews
A dark comedy drama that follows the journey of Merit, a U.S. Army Afghanistan veteran who is at odds with her family thanks to the presence of Zoe, her dead best friend from the Army.

“Black Bag” – Website / Reviews
Steven Soderbergh’s spy drama about married intelligence agents. When the wife is suspected of betraying the nation, the husband faces the ultimate test — loyalty to his marriage or his country.

“Mickey 17” – Website / Reviews
Adapted from a novel by Edward Ashton, this science fiction black comedy features a man who joins a space colony as an “Expendable,” a disposable worker who is cloned every time he dies.

“Better Man” – Website / Reviews
With a mix of live-action and computer animation, this dramatic musical biopic explores the meteoric rise, dramatic fall, and remarkable resurgence of British pop superstar Robbie Williams. Continue reading “New DVD List: June 2025”

Here is a new DVD list highlighting various titles recently added to the library’s collection.

“Anora” – Website / Reviews  
In this Oscar winning romantic comedy-drama, a young woman gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened.

“One of Them Days” – Website / Reviews
A comedy where best friends and roommates Dreux (Keke Palmer) and Alyssa (SZA) find themselves in a chaotic situation when they realize Alyssa’s boyfriend has spent their rent money.

“Heart Eyes” – Website / Reviews 
A masked psychopath who only kills couples on Valentine’s Day mistakes a cynical ad exec and her hopelessly romantic colleague as a killable couple in this comedic horror film.

“Last Breath” – Website / Reviews 
Based on a true story, this dramatic thriller follows the story of seasoned deep-sea divers who battle the raging elements to rescue a crewmate who’s trapped hundreds of feet below the ocean’s surface.

“The Count of Monte Cristo” – Website / Reviews 
This French language historical adventure based on the novel follows Edmond Dantes, a sailor falsely accused of treason, who plans revenge against those who wrongly accused him.

Continue reading “New DVD List: May 2025”

Here is a new DVD list highlighting various titles recently added to the library’s collection.

“Every Little Thing” – Website / Reviews 
This documentary follows Los Angeles author and educator Terry Masear who cares for injured hummingbirds, experiencing personal growth as she witnesses their fragility and resilience.

“The Penguin” – Season 1 – Website / Reviews 
In this crime drama series following the events of the 2022 film “The Batman,” Oz Cobb, a.k.a. the Penguin, (Colin Farrell) makes a play to seize the reins of the crime world in Gotham.

“In the Summers” – Website / Reviews 
Siblings Violeta and Eva live with their mother, but spend every summer in New Mexico with their loving but unpredictable father in this moving drama that follows them from adolescence to adulthood.

“The Room Next Door” – Website / Reviews 
Based on a book by Sigrid Nunez, filmmaker Pedro Almodovar’s first English-language feature offers a philosophical view of euthanasia with its gentle story two old friends navigating the realities of death.

“Ernest Cole: Lost & Found” – Website / Reviews 
Documentary filmmaker Raoul Peck chronicles the life of Ernest Cole, a Black freelance photographer in apartheid South Africa whose early pictures revealed to the world Black life under apartheid.

Continue reading “New DVD List: April 2025”

Here is a new DVD list highlighting various titles recently added to the library’s collection.

“Wicked” – Website / Reviews 
This film adaptation of the musical (based on a book) tells the untold story of the witches of Oz. It is part one of a two part film series starring Grammy winning musicians Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.

“Juror #2” – Website / Reviews 
From filmmaker Clint Eastwood comes a drama about a juror for a high-profile murder trial who finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma that could influence the court verdict.

“Nosferatu” – Website / Reviews 
Robert Eggers’ horror film is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.

“The Order” – Website / Reviews 
In this crime thriller, a string of violent robberies in the Pacific Northwest leads veteran FBI agent Terry Husk into a white supremacist plot to overthrow the federal government.

“September 5” – Website / Reviews
A historical thriller that takes place during the 1972 Munich Olympics where an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering a hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes. Continue reading “New DVD List: March 2025”

Here is a new DVD list highlighting various titles recently added to the library’s collection.

“The Outrun” – Website / Reviews 
Based on the best-selling memoir this dramatic film is about addiction and recovery, strength and survival, mental health and the ability of the sea, the land and of people to restore life and renew hope.

“Robot Dreams” – Website / Reviews 
This Oscar-nominated animated film, based on the graphic novel, follows the adventures and misfortunes of a dog and a robot in New York City during the 1980s.

“Sleep” – Website / Reviews 
In this South Korean dark horror comedy, a young, expectant wife must figure out how to stop her husband’s nightmarish sleepwalking habits before he harms himself or his family.

“The Substance” – Website / Reviews 
This Oscar nominated horror film stars actress Demi Moore as a fading celebrity who decides to use a black market drug to temporarily create a younger, better version of herself.

“Seeking Mavis Beacon” – Website / Reviews 
Shown at the True/False Film Fest, this doc follows two DIY detectives seeking the cover model behind a popular educational typing software, while posing questions about identity & technology. Continue reading “New DVD List: February 2025”

Here is a new DVD list highlighting various titles recently added to the library’s collection.

“Severance” – Season 1 – Website / Reviews 
This psychological thriller series follows Mark Scout as he leads a team of employees who have undergone a surgical procedure to separate their work and personal memories.

“Conclave” – Website / Reviews 
Based on the 2016 novel, this mystery/thriller follows Cardinal Lawrence who is tasked with one of the world’s most secretive and ancient events, participating in the selection of a new pope.

“Strange Darling” – Website / Reviews
In this horror/thriller written and directed by JT Mollner, nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.

“Anselm” – Website / Reviews
Wim Wenders’ documentary of painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer traces the artist’s path from his native Germany to his current home in France, in a career that spans more than five decades.

“Pinocchio” – Website / Reviews 
Director Guillermo del Toro & stop-motion legend Mark Gustafson reimagine the classic story of a wooden puppet brought to life in this Academy Award-winning stop-motion musical tale.
Continue reading “New DVD List: January 2025”