Peter Weller
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The quest for self-discovery never ends, especially for Harry Haller-better known as the Steppenwolf. After a life spent in self-imposed isolation, Harry meets the mysterious Hermine and becomes captivated by her intoxicating power. Through their nighttime adventures, the Steppenwolf experiences the decadent underbelly of the bourgeois society he always despised. Harry becomes a man divided-lost in a surreal underground world of pleasure and set...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
This documentary explores Egypt's awe-inspiring engineering accomplishments through the prism of its pharaohs' indomitable personalities. As Egypt's pharaohs alternately conquered and ceded vast expanses of land, they pushed their royal architects to stretch the boundaries of imagination and human potential, in effect inventing the science of structural engineering. Follow the empire's development from the First Dynasty of 3000 BC through the last...
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Long before the Romans built their first mud huts, ancient Egypt's mighty pharaohs began commissioning and building monumental masterpieces whose scale, beauty, and sophistication still boggle the mind. Through cutting-edge digital graphics and interviews with noted Egyptologists, Egypt explores the civilization's awe-inspiring engineering accomplishments, chronicling the pharaohs and feats that helped build the world's first superpower.
5) Robocop
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a good cop gets blown away by some ruthless criminals, innovative scientists and doctors are able to piece him back together as an unstoppable crime-fighting cyborg called "Robocop." Impervious to bullets and bombs, and equipped with high-tech weaponry, Robocop quickly makes a name for himself by cleaning up the crime-ridden streets of violence-ravaged Detroit. But despite his new, hardened exterior, Robocop is tormented by scraps of memory of...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen version presented in a "matted" widescreen format.
Language
English
Description
It is ten years after an aging Batman has retired, and Gotham City has sunk deeper into decadence and lawlessness. Now, when his city needs him most, the Dark Knight returns in. Joined by Carrie Kelly, a teenage female Robin, Batman takes to the streets to end the threat of the mutant gangs that have overrun the city. And after facing off against his tow greatest enemies, the Joker and Two-Face, for the final time, Batman finds himself in mortal combat...
9) Prey
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen format.
Language
English
Description
A family on an African adventure becomes lost in the jungle and are stalked by savage lions who will not quit until they have dinner.
10) Dragon eyes
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In St. Jude, drug dealers and corrupt cops have destroyed an urban neighborhood. But newcomer, Hong, has the fighting skills and moral vision to save this town from itself.
11) The order
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When the head of a secret order of priests is found dead, with a strange mark left on his body, another member is sent to investigate. He soon finds himself plunged into a mystery, only to find himself at the heart of it.
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
With Batman back in the spotlight after reclaiming Gotham City from The Mutants, the media coverage has awoken The Joker. The Joker has a diabolical scheme that may pull Batman down to the darkest levels of insanity. While on the horizon, a global catastrophe races towards Gotham and with it comes a familiar face, The Man of Steel, who has Batman in his sights. Witness as the aging Dark Knight wages a tireless war against crime while proving that...
13) Naked lunch
Series
Criterion collection volume 220
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled to make sense of this alien territory, he writes a book...
15) Robocop
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Twentieth anniversary collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
As a half-man, half-machine policeman cleans up the crime-ridden streets of a violence-ravaged Detroit, he is tormented by resurfacing memories of his former life and murder.
16) The hard easy
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Paul and Roger both owe a lot of money with no way to pay it back, and the clock is ticking. When they each get a chance to join a different gang of thieves for a heist that will square their debts, what choice do they possibly have?
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
The curse of King Tut's tomb: "The search for King Tut's tomb becomes a life-and-death struggle for two archaeologists--one who wants to protect thee tomb's amazing powers and one who wants to use them to control the world"--Container.
Merlin's apprentice: " ... tells the story of Camelot, a once shimmering fortress of power and enchantment that has fallen from glory [since the theft of the Holy Grail], and its heroic return to greatness"--Container.
Blackbeard:...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Robocop: "Set in Detroit sometime in the near-future, the film is about a policeman killed in the line of duty, who the department decides to resurrect as a half-human, half-robot supercop. The robocop is indestructible, and within a matter of weeks he has removed crime from the streets of Detroit. However, his human side is tortured by his past, and he wants revenge on the thugs who killed him."--Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide.
Robocop...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Batman : Gotham Knight: (76 min.) Six spellbinding chapters chronicling Batman's transition from novice crime-fighter to the Dark knight.
Batman : Year One: (64 min.) Experience a bold and dynamic vision of the Dark Knight's first year in action and the start of his enduring friendship with Jim Gordon.
Batman : under the Red Hood: (76 min.) Batman faces his ultimate challenge as the mysterious Red Hood takes Gotham City by firestorm.
Batman : Bad...