Jim Gaffigan
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Language
English
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"Gaffigan has made his career rhapsodizing over the most treasured dishes of the American diet ('choking on bacon is like getting murdered by your lover') and decrying the worst offenders ('kale is the early morning of foods') ... [Now] he will give them what they really crave--hundreds of pages of his thoughts on all things culinary(ish). Insights such as: why he believes coconut water was invented to get people to stop drinking coconut water, why...
2) Dad is fat
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English
Description
"In Dad is Fat, stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan, who's best known for his legendary riffs on Hot Pockets, bacon, manatees, and McDonald's, expresses all the joys and horrors of life with five young children--everything from cousins ("celebrities for little kids") to toddlers' communication skills ("they always sound like they have traveled by horseback for hours to deliver important news"), to the eating habits of four year olds ("there is no difference...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
An animated film inspired by the Playmobil brand toys. When her younger brother vanishes into the colorful and animated world of Playmobil, Marla is compelled to abandon her organized and structured life to rescue him. Finding herself on an amazing and unpredictable escapade within this new world, Marla begins to see the potential of which she had never dreamed.
6) Experimenter
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard) designs a psychology experiment that remains relevant to this day, in which people think they're delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger (Jim Gaffigan) strapped into a chair in another room. Disregarding his pleas for mercy, the majority of subjects do not stop the experiment, administering what they think are near-fatal electric shocks, simply because they've been told to....
8) Linoleum
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Cameron Edwin, the host of a failing children's science TV show called Above & Beyond, has always had aspirations for being an astronaut. After a mysterious space-race era satellite coincidentally falls from space and lands in his backyard, his midlife crisis manifests in a plan to rebuild the machine into his dream rocket. As his relationship with his wife and daughter start to strain, surreal events begin unfolding around him: a doppelgänger moving...
9) Tesla
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English
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Brilliant, visionary Nikola Tesla fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy. The film tracks Tesla's uneasy interactions with his fellow inventor Thomas Edison and his patron George Westinghouse. Another thread traces Tesla's sidewinding courtship of financial titan J.P. Morgan, whose daughter Anne takes a more than casual interest...
10) Collide
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A gripping thriller about infidelity, theft, and revenge, Collide chronicles three couples whose paths cross over the course of one fateful evening inside an LA restaurant.
11) Tesla
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
Ethan Hawke stars as iconic inventor Nikola Tesla, fighting an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition. Increasingly displeased by the greed of fellow inventor Thomas Edison (Kyle MacLachlan), Tesla forges his own path toward creating the innovative alternate-current motor. In this biopic, director Michael Almereyda weaves together a portrait of a rebel ahead of his time through all his controversies, legal battles,...
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Martin Scorsese reveals the story of a single performance in 1826 that changed America's cultural landscape with the introduction of Italian opera to New York City. Taking place in Scorsese's childhood church where successive waves of immigrants have been embraced, this watershed event was lost to history for almost 200 years but has been rediscovered and the "lost oratorio" will be restaged.
13) Linoleum
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When the host of a failing children's science show tries to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming an astronaut by building a rocket ship in his garage, a series of bizarre events occur that cause him to question his own reality.
14) Chuck
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Liev Schreiber, Naomi Watts, & Elisabeth Moss star in the incredible true story of a New Jersey liquor salesman who became the real-life inspiration for Rocky Balboa.
15) Chappaquiddick
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on historical events, this suspenseful thriller examines the infamous 1969 death of Mary Jo Kopechne, who drowned after Senator Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, and the moral and legal complexities that play out over the following week.
16) Them That Follow
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
As Mara, the devoted daughter of a snake-handling preacher (Walton Goggins), prepares for her wedding under the watchful eye of Hope Slaughter (Olivia Colman), she reveals a secret that threatens to shatter the entire community.
17) Away we go
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Description
Burt and Verona are a loving couple. Burt has always wanted to marry Verona, but Verona resists, not seeing the point of the institution. Regardless, they are having a baby together and question their potential parenting abilities. They decide to move closer to Burt's parents so they can share the experience with the baby's grandparents. In Verona's sixth month, she and Burt learn that his parents are moving to Belgium the month before the baby is...
18) Gilbert
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Gilbert Gottfried rose to fame in the 1980's thanks to his brash stand-up act and personality. Now, after decades of flying solo in both his work and in his personal life, Gilbert has shockingly reinvented himself...as a family man. Nominated for Best Film at the **Austin Fanatastic Fest.** Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. *"A tenderly observed, remarkably insightful keeper. No joke." - Michael Rechtshaffen, **The Los Angeles Times***...
19) Them that follow
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Deep in Appalachia, Pastor Lemuel Childs officiates over an isolated community of serpent handlers, an obscure sect of Pentecostals who freely take up venomous snakes to prove themselves before God. As his loyal daughter, Mara prepares for her wedding day under the observant eye of Hope Slaughter, a dangerous secret is unearthed, and she is forced to confront the deadly tradition of her father's church.
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Erin's wry wit and unfiltered frankness charms newly single Garrett over beer, bar trivia and breakfast the next morning. Their chemistry sparks a full-fledged summer fling, but neither expects it to last once Erin heads home to San Francisco and Garrett stays behind for his job in New York City. But when six weeks of romping through the city inadvertently become meaningful, neither is sure they want it to end.
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