Catalog Search Results
1) My Hero
Description
George Sunday lives in London with the love of his life, Nurse Janet Dawkins. Their busy lives are overshadowed by one unique yet significant element - George is Thermoman, a superhero. The humour and strains of their relationship (she doesn't understand that Thermoman's tights must not go in the washing machine; he doesn't realise that you don't French-kiss your girlfriend's mother - a light peck will do) make for captivating viewing.
2) The Congress
Description
An aging actress decides to take her final job: preserving her digital likeness for a future Hollywood. Through a deal brokered by her loyal, longtime agent, her alias will be controlled by the studio and will star in any film they want with no restrictions. In return, she receives healthy compensation so her digitized character will stay forever young.
Formats
Description
On an isolated island, Uma (Emma Roberts) wakes up to find herself at PARADISE HILLS, a facility where high-class families send their daughters to become perfect versions of themselves. The facility is run by the mysterious Duchess (Milla Jovovich) where calibrated treatments including etiquette classes, vocal lessons, beauty treatments, gymnastics and restricted diets, revolve all physical and emotional shortcomings within two months. The outspoken...
4) Lapsis
Formats
Description
In a parallel present, delivery man Ray Tincelli is struggling to support himself and his ailing younger brother. After a series of two-bit hustles and unsuccessful swindles, Ray takes a job in a strange new realm of the gig economy: trekking deep into the forest, pulling cable over miles of terrain to connect large, metal cubes that link together the new quantum trading market. As he gets pulled deeper into the scheme, he encounters growing hostility...
6) Colossal
Formats
Description
After Gloria (Anne Hathaway) loses her job and is kicked out of her boyfriend's apartment, she leaves her life in New York and move back to her hometown. When news reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, Korea, Gloria gradually comes to the realization that she is somehow connected to this far-off phenomenon. As events begin to spin out of control, Gloria must determine why her seemingly insignificant existence has such a colossal...
7) Cosmos
Formats
Description
"Cosmos explores the thrilling first hours of first contact when three astronomers accidentally intercept what they believe to be a faint, coded signal from a distant alien civilisation"--www.imdb.com.
Formats
Description
In 2035, our dreams are no longer our own–they’re infused with product placement and auditors assess unpaid taxes on our most private reveries. Beleaguered taxman James Preble arrives at a run-down house in the countryside for a routine audit and encounters Bella Isadora, a lifelong dreamer who remains resolutely analog, circumventing the surveillance state with VHS tapes and homemade headgear. As Preble works his way through Bella’s archive...
10) Atlantis
Description
Ancient Greek myths and legends are brought to life for a new generation in this thrilling fantasy drama. Ripped from his present day search for his father, Jason wakes up on the shores of a strange land. A wondrous place; a world of bull leaping, of snake haired Goddesses and vast palaces - this is the lost city of Atlantis. As Jason searches for the truth about his father he embarks on an epic adventure which sees him brush shoulders with Medusa,...
11) Proxima
Formats
Description
Sarah is an astronaut and lives alone with her daughter. When she is chosen to be part of a space mission, it creates chaos in their relationship.
12) Edie
Formats
Description
Following the death of her husband, EDIE (Sheila Hancock) breaks free from years of his control and rebels against her daughter’s wish for her to move into assisted living by embarking on an adventure she and her father had always longed for: a trip to the Scottish Highlands to climb the world famous Mt. Suilven. Along the way, she hires young camping shop owner Jonny (Kevin Guthrie) to be her guide. Despite the generational differences, Jonny encourages...
13) Elf-Man
Description
An Elf is left behind by Santa to help rescue the Harper family from a lousy Christmas. The Elf and the family get more than they bargained for, as the kids help the Elf discover his special powers and true identity as a budding superhero.
14) Bodied
Formats
Description
Words are weapons in the world’s most brutal lyrical sport. Produced by Eminem and directed by world-renowned music video director Joseph Khan, BODIED is a go-for-the-jugular, hilarious look inside the competitive world of rap battles. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**.
Formats
Description
After his noisy garage band gets him in hot water, 15 year old Brewster Banner and his little sister Kimmy find themselves sent to a Babysitter's house while their mother attends a weekend convention - only to find that their gregarious old lady caretaker is actually the legendary super hero known as Agent Action.
16) Nightbreed
Description
Boone (Craig Sheffer) may be a troubled young man, but his troubles are just beginning. Set up as the fall guy in a string of slasher murders, he decides he'll hide by crossing the threshold that separates “us” from “them” and sneak into the forbidden subterranean realm of Midian. Boone will live among the monsters. Based on Clive Barker's novella "Cabal".
17) Farscape
Description
Thrown into a distant part of the universe, an Earth astronaut finds himself part of a fugitive alien starship crew.
Description
In this adorable sequel to “Christmas Thieves”, Frank (Tom Arnold) and his housemate, Tony (William Baldwin), are babysitting for Liam and Olivia, while their parents are out shopping for last minute Christmas presents. Their parents get into a traffic collision with Santa Claus (Bruce McGuire) and have scared off all of his reindeer! Santa needs to call in back-up and the only person left to save the day is the Good Winter Witch (Cristina Moglia)....
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Ajax Public Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request