Isle of Wight News on Ventnor Blog

If you fancy a night in watching a DVD, then take a look at the selection available at Island Libraries. At just £1 per night, they’re a great bargain. Ed

In 1997, Melbourne Australia, I was intrigued to review a film called ‘Gross Point Blank’, starring John Cusack and Minnie Driver, Joan Cusack and Dan Ackroyd.

A fusion of dark sarcasm, excellent soundtrack and strong character acting, this film revealed a side of enthusiastic, intelligent, madness that John Cusack portrayed extremely well.

(more…)

If you’re planning to have some quiet nights in, why not try out the DVD or book collection at your local library?

Here are the latest acquisitions for Ventnor Library.

DVD
An Education – 3 Oscar nominations
Julie and Julia – Meryl Street – Oscar nominated for Best Actress

Fiction
Clive CUSSLER Spartan Gold – a Fargo adventure
Annie GROVES Hettie of Hope Street – heart versus head…
(more…)

If you fancy a night in watching a DVD, then take a look at the selection available at Island Libraries. At just £1 per night, they’re a great bargain. Ed

Written by Ronnie Christensen and starring Anne Hathaway and Patrick Wilson – an actor of immense bravado for appearing in the extremely intense ‘Hard Candy’.

(more…)

Are you interested in researching your family tree but have no idea where to start?

A two and a half hour course being held at Ventnor Library may be just what you’re looking for.

Using the Internet and with helpful advice from those who know where to look, you could leave the sessions knowing much more about where you came from.

Check Events on the Wight for full details of where and when.

Image: Rick under CC BY-SA 2.0

If you’re recently retired and looking for something interesting and constructive to do in your spare time, then why not head to Ventnor Library tomorrow?

All throughout the day, they will be giving advice and information on how to widen your horizons.

Details of local groups from Wight Squirrels to U3A, St Catherine’s Lighthouse to the Badger Trust, Sam the Health Trainer to Quarr Abbey, Canine Partners (with puppies!) and many more will be at Ventnor Library.

Normal Tuesday opening hours apply: 9.30am – 12.30pm and then again between 1.30pm – 5pm

Image: Jason Swain

If you fancy a night in watching a DVD, then take a look at the selection available at Island Libraries. At just £1 per night, they’re a great bargain. Ed

From the ‘land of the brave’ hails a DVD that throws new light on the role of the detective and how they work and gives pursuit to solving a murder that at first seems almost impossible to even begin to understand.

(more…)

Need some distractions for the weekend ahead?

Try the library for a new DVD or book. DVDs at 50p for children overnight and £1 for adults

FICTION
J L CARRELL The Shakespeare curse – a sickening modern killer…Best Seller
Alexander McCall SMITH Tea time for the traditionally built – Best seller
John CONNOLLY The lovers – Best seller
Linwood BARCLAY Fear the worst …can anything be more terrifying?…
(more…)

If you fancy a night in watching a DVD, then take a look at the selection available at Island Libraries. At just £1 per night, they’re a great bargain. Ed

There have been occasional documentaries that follow the process of creation and through perseverance and attempts at understanding of the subject, something stunning or worthy of attention duly arrives.

(more…)

Need some distractions for the weekend? Try the library for a new DVD or book. DVDs at 50p for children overnight and £1 for adults

DVD
Michael Jackson – this is it
Up – the new Pixar
Pandorum – don’t fear the end of the world, fear what happens next…

FICTION
Karen ROSE Don’t tell – shhh..he’s coming for you…Best Sellers
(more…)

If you fancy a night in watching a DVD, then take a look at the selection available at Island Libraries. At just £1 per night, they’re a great bargain. Ed

If you have not heard of Chuck Palaniuk, an American writer, then ‘Choke’ is an excellent introduction into his perspective on ‘the land of the free…’, with its excellent dialogue and brave attempts at understanding of taboo subject matter, ‘Choke’ reveals the talent Chuck really has.

(more…)

Need some distractions for the weekend? Try the library for a new DVD or book. DVDs at 50p for children overnight and £1 for adults

DVDs
Driving Aphrodite – star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding finally goes to Greece
The Ugly Truth – Gerard Butler and Katherine Heigl
Time Traveller’s Wife – from the best selling book
Love Happens – Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart
Invention of lying – Ricky Gervais
(more…)

If by next Thursday you’ve run out of ways to entertain the little ones in your life, then why not head down to Ventnor Library.

A free session running between 10.30 and 11.45am should keep them busy with stories and games.

Suitable for 4-8 year olds – Thursday 18th February.

Image: Meddygarnet under CC BY 2.0

If you fancy a night in watching a DVD, then take a look at the selection available at Island Libraries. At just £1 per night, they’re a great bargain. Ed

Being a female film director in an industry that is predominantly more male cannot be too easy.

Then having the added grand pressure of having a Father who has single-handedly and very successfully changed the very structure of film-making in America to an art-form, Jennifer Lynch, daughter of David Lynch has at long last become a proven successor.

(more…)

More new acquisitions at Ventnor Library. Why not hire a DVD for the weekend or start reading a new book? DVDs start at 50p for children and £1 for adults overnight.

DVDs
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (pictured)
Halloween II : Family is Forever

(more…)

Another week of new items at the library in Ventnor. DVDs are just 98p a night, what a bargain!

DVDs
Fame – the remake
Whiteout – Antarctica, the most isolated landmass on earth

Fiction
Neil CROSS Captured – how many wrongs will put things right?
(more…)

If you fancy a night in watching a DVD, then take a look at the selection available at Island Libraries. At just 98p per night, they’re a great bargain. Ed

The work of cinematic films is not always a case of impressive budgets and special effects, sometimes there is an intimacy with the viewer that of all directors in America, Woody Allen genuinely seems to achieve, there is a great deal more in 90 minutes here than other film-makers achieve in a lifetime.

(more…)

More new items at Ventnor Library this month. DVDs at only 98p per night.

DVDs
CREATION – how Darwin saved the world and changed it forever – Paul Bettany
Dorian Gray – forever young, forever cursed
500 days of summer – “..an anti-romantic comedy about love..”
Gamer – unleash him
Mesrine – Vincent Cassel is Public Enemy parts 1 & 2 (English subtitles of French film)

(more…)

If you fancy a night in watching a DVD, then take a look at the selection available at Island Libraries. At just 98p per night, they’re a great bargain. Ed

An established director in Sweden, Jan Troell has managed to capture a story on film that is remarkable, poetic, romantic and at times very Swedish.

Personally speaking, a film set over the 1900’s in Sweden might not create an interest.

Yet the capability to encapture an audience in the story is pretty much down to the work of Maria Larsson, the central character.

(more…)

Interested in climate change?

Did you know that there’s a collection of books and DVDs at Ventnor Library for you to borrow during January and February that might help expand your knowledge base.

DVDs are priced at just 98p per night. What a bargain!

Image: Peter Blanchard under CC BY-SA 2.0

Talking of Island Libraries …. don’t forget that you can hire a DVD for just 98p per night. Read on for Liam’s next review of films you can hire from the Library. Ed

From Sweden, hails the release of ‘Let The Right One In’ on DVD, a subtitled into English story based on the book by Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist.

This is a remarkable and breathtaking piece of work that is beautifully timed for the lead into the transformation of the onset of Winter.

(more…)

More books and DVDs in this week at Ventnor Library.

DVD
Final Destination – they have cheated Death but Death is only getting started
District 9 – “..a Sci-Fi unlike any you have seen before..” (pictured)
Taking of Pelham 123 – the remake with Denzil Washington and John Travolta

(more…)

This just in from Tess at Ventnor Library. Ed

Our apologies for not being here on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday but …. thanks to Tanith and Matthew, Ventnor Library will be open from 9.30 – 1.00 on Saturday!

If you are not desperate for new books or DVDs, why not avoid treacherous pavements and roads and ring us on 852039 to renew or make enquiries.

We hope to be back to normal next week, weather permitting.

Image: Jeffrey Beall under CC BY-ND 2.0

The Island Libraries might be closed today, but when they re-open you can hire a DVD for just 98p per night. Read on for Liam’s next review of films you can hire (nor not) from the Library. Ed

In-flight movies of an American nature seem to be a genre all to themselves and ‘Something’s Gotta Give’ is an all-star movie that would seem to be made for an audience who are detached momentarily from the planet Earth and are therefore cruising at around 30,000 feet.

However, when viewed on DVD at closer ground level, the force of gravity causes the viewer to question the movie a little too much, to be rather critical.

‘Something’s Gotta Give’ is as shallow a movie that Nancy Meyers could have made.

(more…)

Before you get snowed in, why not make a quick trip to the library to borrow a new book or DVD?

Here’s a very brief selection of new stock we had at Ventnor Library in December

DVDs
My sister’s keeper – from the Jodi Piccoult novel
The Hangover – they planned a Vegas bachelor party
(more…)

Liam delivers his next review of DVDs available from Island Libraries – rental just 98p per night. Ed

As the writer Theodore Roschak pointed out in his excellent book ‘Flicker’, every film has something in it that makes watching it an experience worthwhile, even if it was a two second cut of a leaf with water dripping on to it.

‘Le Serpent’ – a subtitled French film appearing at the Ventnor Library on DVD, is highly recommended to anyone who has the notion that French cinema is not so ‘bon’.

(more…)