Mark Burg
1) Airheads
Description
Desperate for recognition, a struggling rock band sneaks into a radio station in an attempt to get their demo played on the air. Things turn hilariously chaotic when they pull out water machine guns and inadvertently take over the radio station while it's on the air.
2) Saw
Description
Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer is abducting morally wayward people and forcing them to play horrifric games for their own survival. Faced with impossible choices, each victim must struggle to win back his or her life, or else die trying.
3) Airheads
Description
Desperate for recognition, a struggling rock band sneaks into a radio station in an attempt to get their demo played on the air. Things turn hilariously chaotic when they pull out water machine guns and inadvertently take over the radio station while it's on the air.
4) Jigsaw
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Bodies are turning up around the city, each having met a uniquely gruesome demise. As the investigation proceeds, evidence points to one suspect, John Kramer, the man known as Jigsaw, who has been dead for ten years.
5) Bull Durham
Series
Criterion collection volume 936
Description
A fan who has an affair with one minor-league baseball player each season meets an up-and-coming pitcher and the experienced catcher assigned to him.
6) The cure
Series
Pub. Date
[2004], c1995
Description
Dexter, an eleven-year-old boy with AIDS, and his friend Erik build a raft and set sail down the Mississippi River, determined to find a New Orleans doctor they believe has a cure. Their journey gives Dexter a chance to experience life as it should be lived and will change both boys' lives forever.
7) Bull Durham
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
American romantic comedy, dealing with a very minor minor-league team and three of its current constituents, an aging baseball groupie that beds one player each season, a cocky foolish new pitcher, and the older, weary catcher brought in to wise the rookie up.
8) John Q
Pub. Date
[2002]
Formats
Description
John Q. is a factory worker facing financial hardship as a result of reduced hours in his workplace. He and his wife soon discover that their child is in need of an emergency heart transplant. Although they have an HMO, they are informed that their policy doesn't cover such an expensive procedure. Unable to raise the money for the surgury himself and with no recourse but to take his son home to die, John snaps and holds the staff and patients of the...
9) Saw III
Description
Jigsaw is missing, and with his new apprentice, Amanda, the puppet master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture. While the city detectives scramble to locate him, Dr. Denlon and Jeff are unaware that they are about to become the latest pawns on Jigsaw's vicious chessboard.
Description
Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda are dead. But when the news of Detective Kerry's murder becomes public, two seasoned FBI profilers, Agent Strahm and Agent Perez, arrive in the terrified community. There, they assist veteran Detective Hoffman in sifting through Jigsaw's latest grisly remains and piecing together the puzzle. However, when SWAT Commander Rigg is abducted and thrust into a game, the last officer untouched by Jigsaw has only ninety minutes...
11) Saw V
Pub. Date
2009
Description
After Jigsaw's death, his apprentice and successor to his killing dynasty kidnaps five people, forcing them to complete a series of tasks in order to survive.
12) The intruder
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
When a young married couple buys their dream house in the Napa Valley, they think they have found the perfect home to take their next steps as a family. But when the strangely attached seller continues to infiltrate their lives, they begin to suspect that he has hidden motivations beyond a quick sale.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
A criminal mastermind unleashes a twisted form of justice in this terrifying new chapter from the book of Saw. Working in the shadow of his father, an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel 'Zeke' Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city's gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer's morbid game....
14) Bull Durham
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Catcher Crash Davis is closing in on a dubious record: all-time home run leader for the minor leagues. Trying to continue his career in a very unforgiving sport, Davis finds his contract bought out, and he is sent to the Durham Bulls. Seems the Bulls have a bona fide major league pitching prospect -- Ebby Calvin LaLoosh. The thinking is that with Davis' knowledge of the game he will be able to season LaLoosh and prepare him for "the show." LaLoosh...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
William Easton is an oily executive who denies John Kramer (a.k.a. Jigsaw) access to an experimental cancer treatment. This lands William and a handful of additional lost souls into yet another chamber of horrors. Now, the game is overseen by Jigsaw's acolyte, Detective Hoffman. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set his game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally understood.
William Easton is an oily executive...
Pub. Date
2009
Description
In the not-so-distant future, a worldwide epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet. Out of the tragedy, a savior emerges called GENECO, a biotech company that offer organ transplants, but at a steep price. Those who miss their payments are scheduled for repossession and are hunted by the Repo Man.
17) Dead silence
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
After receiving a strange package with the doll named Billy, Jamie's wife is murdered. Destined to find out the truth, Jamie goes to the town of Raven's Fair where the ventriloquist Mary Shaw used to perform and is buried. After she went mad in the 1940s, Mary was accused of kidnapping a young boy who yelled out in one of her performances that she was a fraud. Because of this she was hunted down by townspeople, who in the ultimate act of revenge,...
18) Run Ronnie run!
Pub. Date
[2003], c2001
Description
Ronwell "Ronnie" Quincy Dobbs has a unique talent for getting arrest. A British television personality, Terry Twillstein, gets sight of Ronnie and brings him to Hollywood. Now Ronnie has his own, successful TV show. Ronnie must then deal with his new life, while having to deal with missing the ex-wife that he left back home.
19) Good Advice
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Successful stockbroker, Ryan, gets a bum tip and suddenly his world comes crashing down. Out of a job, he decides to secretly write his ex-girlfriend's advice column. Once a boorish, insensitive guy, he transforms the column, and himself, into a winner of hearts and minds.
20) Dead silence
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
After receiving a strange package with the doll named Billy, Jamie's wife is murdered. Destined to find out the truth, Jamie goes to the town of Raven's Fair where the ventriloquist Mary Shaw used to perform and is buried. After she went mad in the 1940s, Mary was accused of kidnapping a young boy who yelled out in one of her performances that she was a fraud. Because of this she was hunted down by townspeople, who in the ultimate act of revenge,...