Friday, October 27, 2017

New This Week (10/27/17)


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

Baby Driver (R)
Baby--a talented, young getaway driver--relies on the beat of his personal soundtrack to be the best in the game. When he meets the girl of his dreams, Baby sees a chance to ditch his criminal life and make a clean getaway. But after being coerced into working for a crime boss, he must face the music when a doomed heist threatens his life, love, and freedom.

Beatriz At Dinner (R)
Beatriz, an immigrant from a poor Mexican town, draws upon her innate kindness as a spiritual health practitioner in L.A. Doug Strutt is a rich and ruthless real-estate developer. When fate brings them together at a dinner party, it leads to a culture clash of wildly comic proportions--and a night that will change both their worlds forever.

The Beguiled (R)
When a wounded Union soldier, Corporal McBurney, is found near a school, he's taken in by its headmistress, Miss Martha. As the young women provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries when McBurney seduces several of the girls.


The B-Side : Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography (R)
Portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman found her medium in 1980: the larger-than-life Polaroid Land 20x24 camera. For the next thirty-five years she captured the "surfaces" of those who visited her Cambridge, Massachusetts studio. As pictures begin to fade and her retirement looms, Dorfman gives Errol Morris an inside tour of her backyard archive.

Girls Trip (R)
When four lifelong friends travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival, sisterhoods are rekindled, wild sides are rediscovered, and there's enough dancing, drinking, brawling and romancing to make the Big Easy blush.




The Hero (R)
Lee Hayden spends his days reliving old glories, until a surprise cancer diagnosis brings his priorities into sharp focus. He soon strikes up an exciting, contentious relationship with stand-up comic Charlotte, and he attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter, Lucy, all while searching for one final role to cement his legacy.

Lady Macbeth (R)
Rural England, 1865. Katherine is stifled by her loveless marriage to a bitter man twice her age, whose family is cold and unforgiving. When she embarks on a passionate affair with a young worker on her husband's estate, a force is unleashed inside her, so powerful that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.



Maudie (PG-13)
Maud, hunched and with hands disabled by arthritis, yearns to be independent from her overly protective family. She answers an advertisement for a housekeeper. She is a terrible housekeeper and spends most of her time painting. Maud’s determination for her art, along with her partnership with Everett, blossoms into a career as a famous folk artist.

Personal Shopper (R)
This evocative character study tells the story of a young American fashion assistant and spiritual medium who is living in Paris and searching for signs of an afterlife following the sudden death of her twin brother.





Spider-Man : Homecoming (PG-13)
Thrilled by his experience with the Avengers, Peter returns home, where he lives with his Aunt May, under the watchful eye of his new mentor Tony Stark. Peter tries to fall back into his normal daily routine, but when the Vulture emerges as a new villain, everything that Peter holds most important will be threatened.


War For The Planet Of The Apes (PG-13)
In this thrilling, climactic chapter of the Planet Of The Apes saga, Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. But after suffering unimaginable losses, Caesar resolves to avenge his kind, pitting him against the Colonel for a final showdown that will determine the future of the planet.