Mike Vogel
Author
Language
English
Description
When he was 8 years old, Mike Vogel rode the NYC subways for fun, going to Coney Island and the beach with his rowdy Brooklyn pals. In his early 20s, Vogel married and taught sixth grade in Brooklyn's East New York/Brownsville section, which he says included some wonderful kids and not so wonderful stitches from breaking up classroom brawls.
At 30, Vogel "flipped out", got divorced, quit teaching, moved to Manhattan and went into standup comedy,...
3) The Help
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In 1960s Mississippi, Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer but turns her friends' lives and a small Mississippi town upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
4) Cloverfield
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
New York is suddenly under attack from a Godzilla-like monster who stomps through midtown, destroying everything and everybody in sight.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Omnipotent aliens arrive to save humanity from self-destruction. Under their benign gaze, war, famine and injustice become things of the past. But a small group of people are beginning to question whether this "Golden Age of Man" comes at a secret and terrible price. And when the Supervisor for Earth, Karellen, finally reveals his true form to the world, the sight is as profound as it is disturbing.
6) The help
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
Author
Language
English
Description
In this tense, stylish noir thriller, Terry (Danny Pino, TV's Cold Case) follows his fiancee, June (Brittany Murphy, The Ramen Girl, 8 Mile), to a seedy hotel where she's meeting another man. Drunk and distraught, Terry calls best friend Julian (Mike Vogel, Cloverfield) and reveals that he's holed up across the hall from the lovers with a stolen gun and murder on his mind. A chilling cat-and-mouse game ensues, forcing Julian to risk his own life to...
8) In My Dreams
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Language
English
Description
Natalie & Nick are frustrated by love. After tossing coins into a fountain, the two begin dreaming about each other. But, according to fountain mythology, they only have a week to turn those dreams into reality. A Hallmark Hall of Fame original movie.
9) Cloverfield
Author
Language
English
Description
Five young New Yorkers face a life or death struggle in order to escape from the city when a monster the size of a skyscraper suddenly appears.
10) Havoc
Author
Language
English
Description
"We're just teenagers and we're bored." From the writer of Traffic comes Havoc, a gritty mortality tale about culture clash in modern day Southern California. Convinced their world is nothing more than a plastic illusion, wealthy teenagers Allison (Anne Hathaway) and Emily (Bijou Phillips) take a drive to the East Side of Los Angeles to experience the "ghetto." Fascinated by what they experience, they immerse themselves into the thug life. But what...
11) Blue Valentine
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Language
English
Description
Academy-Award®-nominees Ryan Gosling (HALF NELSON, THE NOTEBOOK) and Michelle Williams (BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, SHUTTER ISLAND) star in BLUE VALENTINE, an intimate, shattering portrait of a disintegrating marriage. Once passionately in love, Dean (Gosling) and Cindy (Williams) try to rekindle their lost feelings by spending a night in a hotel, remembering what brought them together six years earlier. Moving between the present and the past courtship...
12) McCanick
Author
Language
English
Description
An out of control narcotics detective with a secret past hunts down a harmless low level criminal who knows the real truth about his past.