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6) The bank job
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
A small-time crook takes on a bank heist when an old friend offers him an inside track to the vault. Along with his hastily assembled team of low-rung criminals, Terry finds himself deep. Quite suddenly the group become the target of ruthless mobsters, the police, government officials at the highest level, and even the royal family. Based on the true story of a British princess and a sex scandal.
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
In post-Soviet Russia, nothing is as it seems. When members of the Russian Mafia pose as KGB agents to steal a nuclear missile, the CIA calls on martial arts master Jackie Chan to stop them. Jackie treks the globe--from the icy glaciers of the Ukraine to the pristine beaches of Australia--traveling by submarines, stilts and snowboards, encountering man-eating sharks and heartstopping beauties.
8) 15 minutes
Series
Description
When two Eastern European criminals come to New York City, one of them steals a video camera and starts to film all of their activities. When they learn how the American media can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and in turn make them rich, they target a media-savvy NYPD homicide detective and a media-naive NYFD fire marshal (both happen to be the cops investigating their criminal activities). Along the way, they film everything they...
Pub. Date
1994.
Description
Mixing reality with fantasy, Wes Craven writes a script for a new "Nightmare on Elm Street" movie. As pre-production begins, somehow it triggers the evil character of Freddy to come to life and go after the original cast and production crew (playing themselves). To thwart the murderous demon Krueger, it requires the actress who played the original heroine, Heather Langenkamp, to reprise her role as Nancy again to combat the villain.
10) 15 minutes
Pub. Date
2001
Description
When two Eastern European criminals come to New York City, one of them steals a video camera and starts to film all of their activities. When they learn how the American media can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and in turn make them rich, they target a media-savvy NYPD homicide detective and a media-naive NYFD fire marshal (both happen to be the cops investigating their criminal activites). Along the way, they film everything they...
Description
Wayne's World: Originally a skit on "Saturday Night Live" during the late '80s and early '90s, "Wayne's World" is about two teenage dudes who host a public access TV show, which is mainly about rock, babes and people who live in the area. One day Wayne and Garth go to a rock concert, and Wayne falls in love with a bass guitarist named Cassandra Wong. Wayne spends the rest of the movie trying to get Casandra to fall in love with him. He also struggles...
13) Gemstones
Author
Description
A visual identification guide to gemstones provides a concise description of each stone, photographs that highlight characteristics and distinguishing features, and general information on where gemstones are found and their natural properties.
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
From Central and South America to a deadly outbreak of a mystery virus in the American Southwest, from fieldwork in Egypt and the mountains of Kenya to immobilizing an army unit to stop a gut-wrenching outbreak of Ebola only miles from Washington, D.C., this book takes us backstage in the inevitable clash between biology and human lives. Because of new, emerging viruses, and the return of old, "vanquished" ones for which vaccines do not exist, there...
17) At heaven's door: what shared journeys to the afterlife teach about dying well and living better
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"A groundbreaking, authoritative exploration - through powerful personal stories and convincing research - of the many ways the living can and do accompany the dying on their journey into the afterlife"--
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