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For Your Entertainment - DVDs May 2021
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Another RoundFour friends, all teachers, embark on a unique experiment: to see if a constant level of alcohol in their blood will help them reach greater levels of freedom and happiness. Director Thomas Vinterberg and Mads Mikkelsen explore the euphoria and pain of an unbridled life. Not Rated.
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News of the WorldFive years after the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd (Academy Award winner Tom Hanks) moves from town to town as a non-fiction storyteller, sharing the news from the far reaches of the globe. In the plains of Texas, he crosses paths with a 10-year-old girl taken in by the Kiowa people and raised as one of their own. Kidd agrees to deliver the child where the law says she belongs. As they travel hundreds of miles into the unforgiving wilderness, the two face tremendous challenges of both human and natural forces as they search for a place they can call home. MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Some language, disturbing images, thematic material and violence)
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Our FriendOur Friend tells the inspiring and extraordinary true story of the Teague family -- journalist Matt, his vibrant wife Nicole, and their two young daughters -- and how their lives are upended by Nicole's heartbreaking diagnosis of terminal cancer. As Matt's responsibilities as caretaker and parent become increasingly overwhelming, the couple's best friend Dane Faucheux offers to come and help out. As Dane puts his life on hold to stay with his friends, the impact of this life-altering decision proves greater and more profound than anyone could have imagined. MPAA Rating: R (Language)
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Promising Young WomanFrom visionary director Emerald Fennell comes a delicious new take on revenge. Everyone said Cassie was a promising young woman... until a mysterious event abruptly derailed her future. But nothing in Cassie's life is what it appears to be: she's wickedly smart, tantalizingly cunning, and she's living a secret double life by night. Now, an unexpected encounter is about to give Cassie a chance to right the wrongsof the past in this thrilling and wildly entertaining story. MPAA Rating: R (Language throughout, drug use, sexual assault, some sexual material, strong violence)
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The UndoingGrace and Jonathan Fraser have the life they always wanted: She's a successful therapist, he's an acclaimed pediatric oncologist, and their son attends an elite private school in Manhattan. But for Grace, everything unravels overnight. A violent death. A missing husband. A series of unthinkable revelations. Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant star in this gripping HBO limited series from writer David E. Kelley and director Susanne Bier. An edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller filled with shocking twists and turns, The Undoing exposes the lies we tell ourselves -- even when the truth is right in front of us. Not Rated.
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The CodebreakerAmerican Experience: The Codebreaker tells the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst whose painstaking work decoding thousands of messages for the U.S. government would send infamous gangsters to prison and bring down a massive, near-invisible Nazi spy ring in WWII. A suburban wife and mother who led a secret double life, her remarkable contributions to the science of cryptology would only come to light decades after her death, when classified government files were unsealed. But together with her husband, the legendary cryptologist William Friedman, Elizebeth helped develop the methods that led to the creation of the powerful new science of cryptology and laid the foundation for modern codebreaking today. Not Rated.
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