Library News for the week of January 31, 2022
After a summer of very limited DVD releases, film buffs can rejoice that we are finally able to offer a good selection of new movies to check out and enjoy at home!
Cry Macho, rated PG13, features a one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder (Clint Eastwood) who takes a job from an ex-boss (Dwight Yoakam) to bring the man’s young son home and away from his alcoholic mom. Crossing rural Mexico on their way back to Texas, the unlikely pair faces an unexpectedly challenging journey, during which the world-weary horseman may find his own sense of redemption through teaching the boy what it means to be a good man.
In Dear Evan Hansen, rated PG13, Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award winner Ben Platt reprises his Broadway role as an anxious, isolated high schooler aching for understanding and belonging amid the chaos and cruelty of the social-media age. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Stephen Chbosky, the film is written for the screen by the show’s Tony winner Steven Levenson with music and lyrics by the show’s Oscar, Grammy, and Tony-winning songwriting team of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.
Free Guy, PG13, centers on a bank teller (Ryan Reynolds), who discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, decides to become the hero of his own story, one he rewrites himself. Now in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who saves his world his way, before it is too late.
Check out Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, rated R, to see Bodyguard Michael Bryce (Ryan Reynolds), hitman Darius Kincaid (Samuel L. Jackson) and his wife Sonia (Salma Hayek) return as the mismatched, high-octane trio — that are once again forced together into another life-threatening mission to save Europe from a vengeful and powerful zealot (Antonio Banderas). (We have The Hitman’s Bodyguard too, released in 2017.)
Enjoy Paw Patrol: The Movie, rated G, with the whole family! When their rival, Humdinger, becomes Mayor of nearby Adventure City and starts wreaking havoc, Ryder and the heroic pups kick into high gear to face the most challenging mission of their careers. Along the way, the team finds help from a new ally, the savvy dachshund Liberty, and together they fight to save the citizens of Adventure City!
Pig, rated R, immerses viewers in the world of a truffle hunter (Nicolas Cage) who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness, but must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped.
In A Quiet Place: Part II, rated PG13, the Abbott family must now face the terrors of the outside world as they fight for survival in silence. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path. (We also have Part I, released in 2018.)
Respect, rated PG13, offers a look into the life of Aretha Franklin: from her childhood traumatized by the loss of her mother through her difficult rise to international fame in the sixties, when she was also struggling with an abusive marriage and alcohol problems.
Spirit Untamed: The Movie, rated PG, follows free-spirited Lucky Prescott as she moves to Miradero to join her estranged father, and is decidedly unimpressed with the sleepy town until she discovers a unique tie to her late mother, who was a fearless horse-riding stunt performer. She quickly forms a bond with a wild mustang named Spirit.
Re-enter the Marvel universe with Venom: Let There Be Carnage, rated PG13. Separated from his fiancée Ann (Michelle Williams) and in a rocky relationship with his symbiote, Eddie Brock’s (Tom Hardy) life appears to be in a downward spiral until renowned serial-killer Cletus Kasady (Woody Harrelson) insists he conduct an exclusive interview.
It is free to check out movies at the library, but they are the only items that will still result in fines of $1 a day if they are returned late. Our new movies are overnight checkouts and are due the next day (When we are closed on Sunday and on holidays, you get a bonus night!) The rest of our DVD collection are one-week checkouts and can be renewed as long as no one else has reserved them.
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