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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry"--
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits...
Pub. Date
2013
Description
For decades, Ralph has played the bad guy in his popular video game. In a bold move, he embarks on an action-packed adventure and sets out to prove to everyone that he is a true hero with a big heart. As he explores exciting new worlds, he teams up with some unlikely new friends including feisty misfit Vanellope von Schweetz. Then, when an evil army threatens their world, Ralph realizes he holds the fate of the entire arcade in his massive hands.
4) Double Down
Author
Series
Diary of a Wimpy Kid volume 11
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
The pressure's really piling up on Greg Heffley. His mom thinks video games are turning his brain to mush, so she wants her son to put down the controller and explore his creative side. As if that s not scary enough, Halloween's just around the corner and the frights are coming at Greg from every angle. When Greg discovers a bag of gummy worms, it sparks an idea. Can he get his mom off his back by making a movie . . . and will he become rich and famous...
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
For years, there has been widespread speculation, but very little consensus, about the relationship between violent video games and violence in the real world. Joystick Warriors provides the clearest account yet of the latest research on this issue. Drawing on the insights of media scholars, military analysts, combat veterans, and gamers themselves, the film trains its sights on the wildly popular genre of first-person shooter games, exploring how...
6) Cowboy up
Pub. Date
[2002], c2000
Description
A celebration of the risk-taking, daredevil personalities of the modern rodeo. In the world of professional bull riding, newcomer Ely is the craziest guy around. His brother, Hank, is a rodeo clown, and they use eachother to play up their acts. When Ely falls for the rodeo's sweetheart, Hank is filled with jealousy and hatred. The brothers try to come to grips with their differences, but the competition gets as fierce as the bulls in the ring.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Ever wonder what it would be like to be a Minecraft Zombie? In the first book of this hilarious Minecraft adventure series, you get to read the diary of an actual 12 year old Minecraft Zombie. Take a peek at what is really between the hollow eyes, and dead expression that we normally see when we face the dreaded Zombies of Minecraft. Are zombies really different from us? You'll be surprised at what you discover."--Page [4] cover.
11) Insomnia
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Widescreen version (2.35:1).
Description
Crime never sleeps and neither does the veteran LAPD homicide detective invited to Nightmute, Alaska to head a murder investigation there. He finds the investigation disrupted by an ever-shining midnight sun that wreaks sleep-depriving havoc on his body clock. As his consciousness becomes more unstable, he is nagged by a sense of personal guilt over a second crime that might just be real
12) Last orders
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Edition
Widescreen version.
Description
Follows the lives of four men, covering nearly a half-century of these South London buddies lives, from thier adopted pub to Margate Pier. Through a series of flashbacks, they take you on a journey of a lifetime. Along with them are the ashes of Jack, their larger-than-life friend, whose deathbed request sends them on their way.
13) GTFO
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Sparked by a public display of sexual harassment in 2012, GTFO pries open the video game world to explore a 20 billion dollar industry that is riddled with discrimination and misogyny. Although half of all gamers are women, females are disproportionately subject to harassment and abuse from other gamers, and are massively under-represented in the video game design world. Through interviews with video game developers, journalists, and academics, GTFO...
15) Dead heat
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Edition
Widescreen version.
Description
A tough Boston cop, who's forced to retire, is unwillingly transformed into a criminal by his brother, a small-time crook with connections to the mob. He becomes convinced to join a money-making scheme by purchasing a racehorse with a lucrative payoff potential. They both end up with more than they bargained for.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
For computer based editing systems. One of the most widely used training film for editing students. Nationally syndicated film critic Roger Ebert takes students from rushes to the fine cut of a dramatic band robbery scene. Mr. Eberts commentary provides insights into basic editing techniques such as matching action, parallel editing and continuity as well as the effects of camera angles, point of view and reaction shots. The film concludes with two...
18) Crush
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Edition
Widescreen version.
Description
Kate and her two best friends, all forty-something, get together weekly for ritual gin drinking, cigarette smoking, chocolate eating and discussing their intimate adventures with the opposite sex. When Kate reconnects with a 25-year-old former student, they begin a steamy love affair. But when Kate's friends conspire to save her from her obsession, their sisterhood is put to the ultimate test.
19) Deathtrap
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Standard version.
Description
A famed mystery playwright with a recent string of flops may be planning to murder a talented former student in order to steal his work.
20) Confusion Na Wa
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Set in an anonymous Nigerian city, Confusion Na Wa is a dark comedy about a group of strangers whose fates become intertwined over the course of 24 hours. At the heart of everything is a phone found by two opportunist street boys, Charles and Chichi, who, having read through the contents, decide to blackmail the owner Emeka. Little do they realize that their misdemeanors have set in motion a chain of events that will lead to a shattering end. Confusion...
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