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Author
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Anakin Skywalker--a Jedi Knight--and Ahsoka--Anakin's padawan--travel throughout the galaxy battling droids and monsters, and introduces the reader to the notorious Jabba the Hutt, a large slug-like alien crime lord.
2) District 9
Publisher
Tri Star
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago, aliens from another planet made contact with Earth. Now, the refugee camp they are forced to live in has deteriorated into a slum-like ghetto. When field operative Wikus van der Merwe is put in charge of evicting the aliens, he contracts a strange virus that changes his DNA to match that of the refugees. As his body begins to mutate, he becomes a hunted man, and the aliens' only hope for freedom. Includes commentary, deleted scenes,...
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc, PG, (ca. 93 min.) : sd., color, closed captioned; 4 3/4 in. + index guide.
Language
English
Description
An experimental invention accidently shrinks the inventor's and his neighbor's kids, who spend the bulk of the film ant-sized and trying to navigate their own backyard.
6) Blade runner
Author
Publisher
Warner Brothers
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
Stars Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young.
Language
English
Description
Evelyn Wang, a flustered immigrant mother, is contacted from a parallel universe and told that only she can save the world. The unlikely hero must learn to channel her newfound powers and fight through the splintering timeliness of the multiverse to save her home, her family, and herself in this big-hearted and irreverent adventure.
8) Uncharted
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Street-smart Nathan Drake is recruited by seasoned treasure hunter Victor "Sully" Sullivan to recover a fortune amassed by Ferdinand Magellan and lost 500 years ago by the House of Moncada. What starts as a heist job for the duo becomes a globe-trotting, white-knuckle race to reach the prize before the ruthless Santiago Moncada, who believes he and his family are the rightful heirs. If Nate and Sully can decipher the clues and solve one of the world2s...
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Torn between loyalty to his mentor, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and the seductive powers of the Sith, Anakin Skywalker ultimately turns his back on the Jedi, thus completing his journey to the dark side and his transformation into Darth Vader.
10) Them!
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Man has split the atom and created the ultimate weapon. But how could he have known he would also create Them!? The terror begins when a hard-nosed patrolman (James Whitmore) discovers a dazed child wandering in the New Mexico desert near a car and house trailer destroyed by a mysterious force. Whitmore next discovers a ransacked general store; its cash drawers are full but the sugar supply is missing. And on the floor lies a battered corpse containing...
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Brash adventurer Peter Quill steals a coveted orb and becomes the object of a relentless bounty hunt. To evade his enemies, Quill forges an uneasy truce with Rocket, a gun-toting raccoon; Groot, a tree-like humanoid; the deadly assassin Gamora; and the revenge-driven Drax. But when Quill discovers the true power of the orb, he must rally his ragtag band of misfits for a desperate battle that will decide the fate of the galaxy.
13) Interstellar
Language
English
Description
Film is a story about an ex-pilot turned farmer, who must leave his family and a foundering Earth to lead an expedition traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Fullscreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc, PG, (ca. 93 min.) : sd., color, closed captioned; 4 3/4 in. + index guide.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An experimental invention accidently shrinks the inventor's and his neighbor's kids, who spend the bulk of the film ant-sized and trying to navigate their own back yard.
15) Melancholia
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this beautifully filmed movie about the end of the world, Justine and Michael are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire and brother-in-law John. A planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth and threatening to collide. Meanwhile, tensions are mounting and relationships are fraying as the family deals with their fears.
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : digital sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in 'The French Dispatch.'
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
dvd
Language
English
Description
"Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow-covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across the wilderness"--Internet movie database WWW site, viewed September 25, 2020.
18) Prometheus
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A team of explorers aboard the spaceship Prometheus searches for an advanced civilization that may have been responsible for human life on Earth. Instead, they find a dark, twisted world that hides a terrifying threat of destroying them and all mankind.
19) Rogue One
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
In a period of great conflict, a group of unlikely heroes led by Jyn Erso, a daring fugitive, and Cassian Andor, a rebel spy, band together on a desperate mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction.
20) 3 days to kill
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dangerous international spy is determined to give up his high stakes life to finally build a closer relationship with his estranged wife and daughter, whom he's previously kept at arm's length to keep out of danger. First, he must complete one last mission, even if it means juggling the two toughest assignments yet: hunting down the world's most ruthless terrorist and looking after his teenage daughter for the first time in ten years while his wife...