Flick Picks 2/18/14: Game of Thrones Season 3, Nurse Jackie Season 5

New This Week on DVD at the Library

ENTERTAINMENT: President's Day means it's a quiet week for new releases. Naomi Watts stars as Diana, Princess of Wales, in Diana, which focuses on her romantic relationship with Hasnat Khan. Afternoon Delight is a comedy from first-time director Jill Soloway about a woman (Kathryn Hahn) whose suburban life becomes turned upside down when she decides to invite a stripper (Juno Temple) into her home.

SERIES: The addicting Game of Thrones offers up season 3 with many more surprises about exactly which characters will still be around for season 4. The equally entertaining Nurse Jackie is all the way up to season 5.

SUBTITLED: An Israeli pilot (Stephen Dorff) is shot down over Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War and while imprisoned he bonds with a young boy, in Zaytoun.

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American Presidents on DVD

Looking to get a little smarter about the great and not-so-great men who have held the most powerful seat in this nation? Try one of our presidential DVDs on for size!

• A great place to start is The Ultimate Guide to the Presidents which looks at how the position has changed over the years.
• We've also got a series made just for kids: The American Presidents series.
• Mandate: The President and the People takes a historical look at the relationship between the president and mass media.
• The American Experience series The Presidents has features on Ronald Reagan, LBJ, Harry Truman and many more!
• There have been a number of excellent dramatized versions of Presidents, from the recent The Butler, to the award-winning Lincoln, to the HBO series John Adams and the entirely fictionalized West Wing. Stop by the library and we'll find you something suitably presidential!