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Alex Garland
1) The beach
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
371 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
2) Ex machina
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Caleb, a coder at the world's largest Internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a retreat belonging to the company's reclusive CEO, Nathan. But when Caleb arrives he finds that he will have to participate in a fascinating experiment with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot woman, Ava. Truths, emotions, and motives are blurred as the relationship between Caleb, Ava, and Nathan intensifies....
3) Men
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper (Jessie Buckley) retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to have found a place to heal. But someone or something from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her. What begins as simmering dread becomes a fully-formed nightmare, inhabited by her darkest memories and fears in visionary filmmaker Alex Garland's (Ex Machina, Annihilation) feverish, shape-shifting horror film.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy are best friends who grow up together at an English boarding school with a chilling secret. When they learn the shocking truth that they are genetically engineered clones raised to be organ donors, they embrace their fleeting chance to live and love.
5) Annihilation
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Biologist and former soldier Lena is shocked when her missing husband comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone from which no one has ever returned. Now, Lena and her elite team must enter a beautiful, deadly world of mutated landscapes and creatures, to discover how to stop the growing phenomenon that threatens all life on Earth.
6) Civil war
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In a dystopian future America, a team of military-embedded journalists race against time to reach DC before rebel factions descend upon the White House.
7) Ex machina
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Caleb, a 24-year-old coder at the world's largest Internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a retreat belonging to the company's reclusive CEO, Nathan. But when Caleb arrives he finds that he will have to participate in a fascinating experiment with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot woman, Ava. Truths, emotions, and motives are blurred as the relationship between Caleb, Ava, and Nathan...
8) Dredd
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The future America is an irradiated wasteland. On its East Coast lies Mega City One, a vast, violent metropolis where criminals rule the chaotic streets. The only force of order lies with the urban cops called Judges who possess the combined powers of judge, jury and instant executioner.
9) The beach
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Special ed., widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
"A young American backpacker ... on a secret, deceptively perfect beach ... will discover that 'heaven on earth' can instantly change into a jungle of seduction and danger"--Container.
10) Sunshine
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is the year 2057, the sun is dying and mankind faces extinction. Earth's last hope rests with a courageous crew of eight men and women on a mission to ignite the fading star with a massive nuclear weapon. Deep into their voyage, out of radio contact with Earth, their mission begins to unravel and they find themselves fighting not only for their lives, but for the future of us all.
11) Never let me go
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
[Blu-ray version].
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Some sexuality and nudity.
Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy are best friends who grow up together at an English boarding school with a chilling secret. When they learn the shocking truth that they are genetically engineered clones raised to be organ donors, they embrace their fleeting chance to live and love. Based on the acclaimed novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. Bonus features included.
12) 28 days later
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An infirmary patient wakes up from a coma to an empty room ... in a vacant hospital ... in a deserted city. A powerful virus, which locks victims into a permanent state of murderous rage, has transformed the world around him into a seemingly desolate wasteland. Now a handful of survivors must fight to stay alive, unaware that the worst is yet to come.
13) 28 days later
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jim is an infirmary patient who wakes up from a coma to find an empty room, in a vacant hospital, in the deserted city of London. A powerful virus, which locks victims into a permanent state of murderous rage, has transformed the world around him into a seemingly desolate wasteland. He runs into a mob of crazed plague victims. He gradually finds other still-human survivors with whom he heads off across the abandoned countryside to find the source...
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (665 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The terminator: In 2029, the ruling giant super-computer, Skynet, sends an indestructible cyborg, a Terminator, back in time to 1984 to kill a woman, Sarah Connor, whose unborn son will become mankind's only hope.
Ex machina: Caleb, a coder at the world's largest Internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a retreat belonging to the company's reclusive CEO, Nathan. But when Caleb arrives he finds that he will have to participate in a...
