New Recreational DVDs

  • January 15, 2013

The Library recently added the following recreational DVDs to its collection.

Dredd
Summary: The future America is an irradiated wasteland. On its East Coast lies Mega City One, a vast, violent metropolis where criminals rule the chaotic streets. The only force of order lies with the urban cops called Judges who possess the combined powers of judge, jury and instant executioner.
http://localhost/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%281492121%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

Compliance
Summary: Tells the chilling story of just how far one might go to obey a figure of authority. On a particularly busy day at a suburban Ohio fast food joint, high-strung manager Sandra Ann Dowd receives a phone call from a police officer saying that an employee, a pretty young blonde named Becky, has stolen money from a customer. Convinced she's only doing what's right, Sandra commences the investigation, following step-by-step instructions from the officer at the other end of the line.
http://localhost/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%281492157%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

Hit & run
Summary: A nice guy with a questionable past, Charlie Bronson, risks everything when he busts out of a witness protection program to drive his girlfriend to Los Angeles for the job opportunity of a lifetime. Their road trip grows awkwardly complicated, however, when they're chased by an inept fed and Charlie's ex-pal, a vengeance-crazed criminal he helped put behind bars.
http://localhost/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%281492158%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

House at the end of the street
Summary: Newly divorced Sarah and her teenage daughter Elissa have just moved to the suburbs for a fresh start. But their hopes quickly shatter as they learn that, years earlier, a grisly murder took place next door when a deranged girl killed her parents and disappeared. The girl's older brother Ryan still occupies the house, and when he befriends Elissa, his secretive past could become her worst nightmare.
http://localhost/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%281492159%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

Killer Joe
Summary: 'Killer' Joe Cooper is a Dallas detective who doubles as a hit man with the charm of a Southern gentleman. Chris hires Joe to kill his mother in order to collect her life insurance and pay off his debts. When Chris is unable to pay for the service up front, Joe takes Chris's sister Dottie as a retainer until he can be paid.
http://spydus.niagara.edu/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%281492064%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

Cosmopolis
Summary: Eric Packer, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager, heads out in his tricked-out stretch limo, while remotely wagering his company's massive fortune on a bet against the Chinese Yuan. Little does he know his perfectly ordered, doubt-free world is about to implode.
http://spydus.niagara.edu/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%281492065%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

The words
Summary: A writer at the peak of his literary success discovers the steep price he must pay for stealing another man's work.
http://spydus.niagara.edu/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%281492066%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

Looper
Summary: In the year 2074, the mob sends problem people back in time, where a hired gun awaits to eliminate them. Joe is one such hired gun, good at what he does. But problems arise when the mob tries to 'close the loop,' and Joe comes face-to-face with his future self during a hit. When Joe's future self escapes after he hesitates to finish the assignment, Joe must chase himself down and finish the job.
http://spydus.niagara.edu/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%281492067%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

Answers to nothing
Summary: When an 11-year-old girl goes missing in Los Angeles, a chain of events is unleashed that will affect several strangers all struggling to find their own paths to redemption.
http://spydus.niagara.edu/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%281492068%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

Frankenweenie
Summary: Young Victor conducts a science experiment that will bring his dog Sparky back to life, only to face unintended, sometimes monstrous consequences.http://spydus.niagara.edu/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%281492072%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

Stolen
Summary: A now former thief frantically searches for his missing daughter, who has been kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a taxi by a former partner who believes he has hidden ten million dollars. Montgomery must partner up with another old partner to pull off one more heist to get his daughter back. All this takes place during ten frantic hours on Mardi Gras day.
http://spydus.niagara.edu/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%281492073%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert