Michael Mann
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Michael Mann, four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat, Collateral, Thief, Manhunter, and Miami Vice, teams up with Edgar Award-winning author Meg Gardiner to deliver Mann's first crime novel--an explosive return to the world and characters of his classic film Heat--an all-new story that illuminates what happened before and after the iconic film"--
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The conditions that allowed humans to live on Earth are incredibly fragile. Climate variability has at times created new niches that humans or their ancestors could potentially exploit, and challenges that at times have spurred innovation. But there's arelatively narrow envelope of climate variability within which human civilization remains viable, and our survival depends on conditions remaining within that range. In this book, renowned climate scientist...
3) Ferrari
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
It is the summer of 1957 and ex-racer Enzo Ferrari is in crisis, facing bankruptcy and a volatile marriage. Meanwhile, his drivers' passion to win pushes them to the edge, as they launch into Italy's most treacherous race, the Mille Miglia.
5) Blackhat
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A furloughed convict and his American and Chinese partners hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta.
Publisher
Twentieth Century-Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
The love of Hawkeye, rugged frontiersman and adopted son of the Mohicans, and Cora Munro, aristocratic daughter of a proud British Colonel, is tested by fate, amidst a brutal conflict between the British, the French and Native American allies that engulfs the majestic mountains and cathedral-like forests of Colonial America.
7) Heat
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A career thief and a detective square off to make sure that the other does not succeed. Special features include: additional scenes; audio commentary; documentaries; and more.
9) Hancock
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A superhero with total disregard for the damage he causes while saving people finds himself having his image changed by a public relations executive, in return for saving the executive's life.
10) The kingdom
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A terrorist bomb detonates inside a Western housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, causing an international incident to ignite.
11) Miami vice
Language
English
Description
Ricardo Tubbs lives with Bronx-born Intel analyst Trudy. The two work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders. Sonny Crockett is undercover working with the supplier of the South Florida group. He becomes romantically involved with Isabella, the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker. The intensity of the case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge. Identity and fabrication...
12) Heat
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Vincent Hanna is a brilliant L.A. cop following the trail from a deadly armed robbery to a crew headed by master thief Neil McCauley. The trouble is, McCauley's expertise is at least equal to Hanna's.
13) Ali
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Dramatic biography of boxing great Muhammad Ali, which focuses on the ten-year period of 1964-1974. In that time, the brash, motor-mouthed athlete quickly dominates his sport, meets and marries his first wife, converts to Islam (changing his name from Cassius Clay), and defies the United States government by refusing to submit to military conscription for duty in Vietnam. His world heavyweight champion title thus stripped from him entirely for political...
14) The kingdom
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A terrorist bomb detonates inside a Western housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, causing an international incident to ignite. FBI Special Agent Ronald Fleury quickly assembles an elite team and negotiates a secret five-day trip into Saudi Arabia to locate the madman behind the bombing. Fleury and his team discover that the Saudi authorities are suspicious and unwelcoming of the Americans into what they consider a local matter. The agents find...
15) Collateral
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Vincent is a cool, calculating contract killer at the top of his game. Max is a cabbie with big dreams looking for his next fare. This fateful night, Max becomes Vincent's collateral, and will transport him on his next mission - one night, five stops, five hits and then a perfect getaway. Together, Vincent and Max find themselves in a non-stop race against time. With the LAPD and the FBI after them, they each become dependent on the other to survive....