Friday, September 7, 2018

New This Week (9/7/18)

Call the library to check availability and request these new items:

Blackout In Puerto Rico (NR)
In Blackout in Puerto Rico, FRONTLINE and NPR investigate the humanitarian and economic crisis in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. The film examines how the federal response, Wall Street, and years of neglect have left the island struggling to survive.




First Reformed (R)
Reverend Ernst Toller is a solitary, middle-aged parish pastor at a struggling church. When a pregnant parishioner asks the reverend to counsel her husband, Toller is plunged into his own tormented past--and equally despairing future--until he finds redemption in an act of grandiose violence.


Kings (R)
Los Angeles, 1992. In South Central, Jesse is fighting with newcomer William over a beautiful runaway they meet at school. On television, the Rodney King trial is in full swing and has captured the attention of the nation. Millie seeks help from her eccentric neighbor. When the accused are acquitted, the city explodes, and our three young heroes' romantic tribulations mingle with the fireworks that ignite the country.

Lean On Pete (R)
Charley finds acceptance and camaraderie at a local racetrack where he lands a job caring for an aging Quarter Horse named Lean on Pete. The horse's gruff owner, Del Montgomery, and his seasoned jockey, Bonnie, help Charley fill the void of his absent father. But when Charley discovers that Pete is bound for slaughter, he takes extreme measures to save him.

Life Of The Party (PG-13)
When her husband suddenly dumps her, Deanna goes back to college...landing in the same class and school as her daughter. Plunging headlong into the campus experience, the increasingly outspoken Deanna--now Dee Rock--embraces freedom, fun and frat boys on her own terms, finding her true self in a senior year no one ever expected.

Mary Shelley (PG-13)
She will forever be remembered as the writer who gave the world Frankenstein. But the real-life story of Mary Shelley--and the creation of her immortal monster--is nearly as fantastical as her fiction.





Shock And Awe (R)
The untold true story of an intrepid team of four reporters of Knight Rider who dared to ask the questions their colleagues did not in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The government got its war, but these reporters got it right.



Silhouettes (NR)
Aamod is a retired executive and playboy who lives alone in downtown Chicago; Nadia is a lawyer in transit to see her conservative Muslim parents for the first time in more than a decade. When her train is delayed, a chance encounter brings them together for a magical day in Chicago, wandering its secret corners and its most haunting spaces for a few fleeting hours.

The Terror : The Complete First Season (NR)
A crew of a Royal Naval expedition is sent to find the Arctic's treacherous Northwest Passage but instead discovers a monstrous predator--a cunning and vicious Gothic horror that stalks the ships in a desperate game of survival, the consequences of which could endanger the region and its native people forever.

Upgrade (R)
After his wife is killed during a brutal mugging that also leaves him paralyzed, Grey Trace is approached by a billionaire inventor with an experimental cure that will "upgrade" his body. The cure gives Grey physical abilities beyond anything experienced, and the ability to relentlessly claim vengeance against those who murdered his wife and left him for dead.

Woman Walks Ahead (R)
Based on true events, the story of Catherine Weldon, a widowed artist from New York who, in the 1880s, traveled alone to North Dakota to paint a portrait of Chief Sitting Bull. As Catherine and Sitting Bull grow closer, and as their friendship--and his life--are threatened by government forces, Catherine must stand up and fight for what is most important to her.

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