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1) Nightbreed
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
1990.
Description
Boone (Craig Sheffer) may be a troubled young man, but his troubles are just beginning. Set up as the fall guy in a string of slasher murders, he decides he'll hide by crossing the threshold that separates “us” from “them” and sneak into the forbidden subterranean realm of Midian. Boone will live among the monsters. Based on Clive Barker's novella "Cabal".
2) Oklahoma!
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
In Oklahoma, several farmers, cowboys and a traveling salesman compete for the romantic favors of various local ladies.
3) Pajanimals
Publisher
The Jim Henson Company
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
PAJANIMALS uses music and stories to help preschool viewers learn important lessons they need every day like separating from mom at the end of the day, healthy routines, sleeping through the night, and being comfortable with the lights out.
4) The Mission
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Every year, over 60,000 young missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are sent across the world to preach their gospel. Sundance Film Festival selection THE MISSION follows four Latter-day Saints teenagers from their training in Utah to their missions in Finland, home of Europe’s most private and secular people. Tania Anderson's film tracks these wide-eyed, impassioned teens on their two-year rite of passage, as they struggle...
5) Party Dream
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
The story of Gil Mantera's Party Dream - the craziest live band you've never seen. Footage from their insane live show provides a vicarious thrill, fueled by electronic rock, ridiculous fashion and no small amount of booze.
6) Jules
Description
JULES follows Milton (Kingsley) who lives a quiet life of routine in a small western Pennsylvania town, but finds his day upended when a UFO and its extra-terrestrial passenger crash land in his backyard. Before long, Milton develops a close relationship with the extra-terrestrial he calls “Jules.” Things become complicated when two neighbors (Harris and Curtin) discover Jules and the government quickly closes in. What follows is a funny, wildly...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Unpack the term "Crusade" and situate it in its cultural context. When Pope Urban said it was the Christians' duty to take up arms against the "infidels," ordinary people were swept up in the idea that they were fighting to save Christianity and their own souls against the advance of Islam.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Explore the earliest printed cookbook, composed in the early 15th century and printed around 1470 (making it one of the first generation of books in print on any subject). Learn to create its blancmanger, a combination of capon breast, white flour, rosewater, sugar, and almond milk that still exists in Turkish cuisine. And discover how to make pasta by feel and texture, no measurements allowed.
9) Identikit
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
1974.
Description
In what remains the most obscure, bizarre and wildly misunderstood film of her entire career - and perhaps even '70s Italian cinema - Elizabeth Taylor stars as a disturbed woman who arrives in Rome to find a city fragmented by autocratic law, leftist violence and her own increasingly unhinged mission to find the most dangerous liaison of all.
10) Expecting
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
When Andie (Michelle Monaghan) gets pregnant after a one night stand, she offers to give the baby to her best friend (Radha Mitchell), who has been unable to conceive. But can their friendship survive the pregnancy?
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Building on your understanding of how the ocean affects weather, turn your attention to the tropical cyclone, generally known as the hurricane or typhoon. Examine the typical structures of the tropical cyclone, and investigate the conditions needed to unleash these dangerous storms.
13) Simple Passion
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
**WARNING**: This film contains nudity and sexual content. In this sexually frank portrait of female lust and vulnerability, a mother falls into an addictive relationship with a Russian diplomat, with whom she has nothing in common.
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
National Teachers Academy (NTA) is a top-ranked, high-achieving elementary school just south of downtown Chicago, with a thriving population of mostly low-income and Black students. But, as the neighborhood grows and gentrifies, a parents’ group eager for a high school in the community seeks to close NTA and replace it with a high school campus. As the Chicago Public Schools administrators, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and the city's politicians debate the...
16) Monsieur Hire
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1989.
Description
A recluse is accused of murdering a young woman simply because his neighbors think he is strange. (Nominee: Palme d'Or - Cannes Film Festival, 1989. Winner: Top Foreign Films - National Board of Review, 1990.)
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Why do cold and warm fronts exist? Can you dig a well so deep you cannot pump water from it? Find the answer to these and other questions as you explore three key concepts of weather—temperature, pressure, and density—and the equation that sums up their relationship: the ideal gas law.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
This lecture takes you into the world of Athenian women, who were subjugated to males all their lives and who rarely left the home except for festivals and funerals. You'll also look at the hetaerae - or female companions - whose lives were relatively independent.
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