If that doesn't provide enough action for you, you'll want to check out the latest in Tom Clancy's popular character's films, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. This film takes us to the dawn of Ryan's career as he becomes a CIA agent under handler Kevin Costner and uncovers a financial terror plot. Kenneth Branagh directed this baby and we've got it on Blu-ray and DVD.
Many of you are probably familiar with British actor Steve Coogan from his work in the film Philomena and man others. He finally brings his most famous character - pompous television broadcaster Alan Partridge - to the United States in the film bearing his character's name.
SERIES: The dark and violent but very compelling HBO series True Detective brought critical acclaim to its two leads, as Matthew McConaughey continues his career resurgences and Woody Harrelson returns to television. They play a couple of couple of troubled detectives who try to solve a serial killing that happened many years earlier. Another well-reviewed new series is Showtime's Ray Donovan, featuring Liev Schreiber as a "fixer" for wealthy clients, who faces his own personal life dilemmas. You may not have heard of Klondike, which is The Discovery Channel's first scripted miniseries, and which two adventurers who travel to the Yukon during the Gold Rush. This week also brings us season 4 of Rizzoli & Isles, season 2 of Major Crimes and season 3 of the AMC drama The Killing.
SUBTITLED: A Palestinian baker becomes a informant for the Israelis in the tense drama Omar. Also this week, famed director Costa-Gavras brings us the financial thriller Capital, about a young, newly appointed French bank CEO who must deal with various challenges, including a hostile takeover attempt by an American hedge fund (led by Gabriel Byrne).
DOCUMENTARIES: Neil deGrasse Tyson brings up an updated version of Carl Sagan's groundbreaking series in the critically acclaimed Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. Monty Python funnyman and world traveller Michael Palin takes us to South America in Brazil With Michael Palin.
All of our new and upcoming films are available in Bibliocommons.
Monday Night at the Movies
We will be screening Still Mine at 1:00 and 7:00 on Monday, June 16 at the Glencoe Woman's Club at 325 Tudor Court. Based on an actual events, Still Mine is both a love story and a tale of one man stubbornly determined to build a new home for he and his increasingly infirm wife over the objections of his children and the local bureaucracy. James Crowell is moving and commanding as the fiercely independent husband while Genevieve Bujold makes a very welcome return to American film screens as Crowell’s ailing wife. The film is 102 minutes long and is rated PG-13. All of our film screenings are free of cost and open to everybody.
Theatre on Screen
- The Phantom of the Opera never gets old and we've got the 25th anniversary version filmed at the Royal Albert Hall. We also have its sequel Love Never Dies.
- Maybe it was inevitable that Shrek would be adapted as a musical. See how it translates!
- There's no shortage of filmed Shakespeare plays but the series filmed at the Globe Theater are particularly unique. Titles include Much Ado About Nothing and All's Well That Ends Well.
- The hit musical Memphis is a rocking look at the early days of rock and roll.
- Take another look at some of the classics, including Pippin, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Into the Woods and The Fantasticks!
- Opera fans have plenty to choose from, including the filmed-for-the big-screen Metropolitan Opera HD Live DVDs.
- We've also got a documentary about the history of the Great White Way in Broadway, the American Musical.
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