A lot of great movies including The Cotton Club Encore, Ave, Shirley, The Assistant, and Ammonite, have recently been added to Kanopy.

Kanopy is a video streaming service that provides residents of Norridge and Harwood Heights with Eisenhower Library cards instant access to thousands of critically acclaimed movies, documentaries, and kids favorites.

The Cotton Club Encore

Francis Ford Coppola’s lavish, 1930s-era epic comes to vivid new life in this newly remastered and restored version featuring never-before-seen scenes and musical sequences.

Ava

AVA (Jessica Chastain) is a deadly assassin who works for a black ops organization, traveling the globe specializing in high profile hits. When a job goes dangerously wrong she is forced to fight for her own survival.

Shirley

Renowned horror writer Shirley Jackson is on the precipice of writing her masterpiece when the arrival of newlyweds upends her meticulous routine and heightens tensions in her already tempestuous relationship with her philandering husband. The middle-aged couple, prone to ruthless barbs and copious afternoon cocktails, begins to toy mercilessly with the naive young couple at their door.

The Assistant

Jane, a recent college graduate and aspiring film producer has recently landed her dream job as a junior assistant to a powerful entertainment mogul. Her day is much like any other assistant’s – making coffee, changing the paper in the copy machine, ordering lunch, arranging travel, taking phone messages, onboarding a new hire. But as Jane follows her daily routine, she, and we, grow increasingly aware of the abuse that insidiously colors every aspect of her work day, an accumulation of degradations against which Jane decides to take a stand, only to discover the true depth of the system into which she has entered.

Ammonite

1840s England, acclaimed fossil hunter Mary Anning and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.