Yet again, more new YA DVDs are available. Since they’re so new and so popular you may need to reserve them, which you can do online. Click on the title!
These are the new DVDs:
- Rudy – Originally released in 1993. It’s about American football – or ‘gridiron’
- Viva La Bam : The Complete First Season – A comedy about … who knows? R13
- The Best of Cribs – A documentary about the houses cribs of the famous and rich.
- Lock ‘n Load – Motorcyling doco
- All Apologies, Kurt Cobain – Doco about Nirvana and Cobain.
- Tekkonkinkreet – Award-winning anime. R13
- Being Eve – The NZ teen comedy drama series
- Sabrina, The Teenage Witch : The First Season
- Old School Sesame Street 1969-1974 and Old School Sesame Street 1974-1979 – These are in the children’s section, but who can resist?
YA DVDs cost 50c when issued on a YA or Child’s card. Reserves are free.
It has been said that if William Shakespeare were alive today he would be a screenwriter, not a playwright. I don’t know how true that is, but it’s certainly true that his plays translate well to the big screen. If you’re studying Shakespeare at school, often the best place to start with his work is to watch the film adaption; reading them is great but can take some time, and watching them performed isn’t always an option.
A well-choreographed fight can often make an action film worth watching. It might be the awesome special effects that make it so great, or that the outcome of the battle determines the fate of humanity … or else it just looks cool. Or (usually) it is all those things. Here, then, are some exceptional fight scenes from DVDs held in the Young Adult area:
