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The Kingdom/Jarhead (DVD)
Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Ashraf Barhom, …
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R25
Discovery Miles 250
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Ships in 10 - 20 working days
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Double bill featuring movies that focus on America's recent
involvement in foreign countries. In 'The Kingdom' (2007), when a
terrorist bomb detonates inside a Western housing compound in
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, an international incident is ignited. While
diplomats slowly debate equations of territorialism, FBI Special
Agent Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx) quickly assembles an elite team
and negotiates a secret five-day trip into Saudi Arabia to locate
the madman behind the bombing. Upon landing in the desert kingdom,
however, Fleury and his team discover Saudi authorities suspicious
and unwelcoming of American interlopers into what they consider a
local matter. Hamstrung by protocol, and with the clock ticking on
their five days, the FBI agents find their expertise worthless
without the trust of their Saudi counterparts who want to locate
the terrorist in their homeland on their own terms. Fleury's crew
finds a like-minded partner in Saudi Police Captain Al-Ghazi
(Ashraf Barhom), who helps them navigate royal politics and unlock
the secrets of the crime scene and the workings of an extremist,
hell bent on further destruction. 'Jarhead' (2006) is an adaptation
of former Marine Anthony Swofford's Gulf War memoir. Young recruit
Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal) joins up with the US Marines (nicknamed
'Jarheads' because of their distinctive haircuts) on the eve of the
1990 Gulf War. After a brutal spell in boot camp, during which
Swofford and his fellow recruits are systematically geared up for
the conflict, the Marines are dispatched to the deserts of the
Persian Gulf to take part in a war that sees them required to do
very little in the way of fighting. Bored and frustrated in the
middle of nowhere, the young soldiers resort to a macabre sense of
humour as they wait for the war to happen to them.
Third film in the Disney animated comedy series following a family
of chihuahuas. Chihuahua Papi (voice of George Lopez) moves into a
luxury hotel in Beverly Hills along with both his dog and human
families. When his smallest puppy, Rosa (Kay Panabaker), feels
insignificant because of her size, Papi encourages her to discover
her hidden strengths.
In settings that range from the old American West to
pre-revolutionary France, from a present-day dig site in the high
tablelands of South America to deep space, That Tiny Life is a
wide-ranging and utterly original collection of short fiction and a
novella that examines the idea of progress — humanity’s
never-ending cycle of creation and destruction. In the
award-winning story, “Valley Floor,” a surgeon performs an
amputation in the open desert in the American West. In “Da Capo
al Fine,” set in eighteenth-century France, the creator of the
fortepiano designs another, more brutal instrument. And in “That
Tiny Life,” the reader gets a glimpse into a future in which
human resource extraction goes far beyond Earth. Each story is
infused with impeccably researched detail that brings obscure and
fascinating subject matter into bright relief, be it falconry,
ancient funeral rites, or space exploration. The result is an
amazing interplay of minute detail against the backdrop of huge
themes, such as human expression and impact, our need for
connection, the innate violence in nature, and the god-complex
present in all acts of human creation. A highly accomplished,
evocative, and wholly impressive work of short fiction, That Tiny
Life introduces readers to a writer with limitless range and
imagination.
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The Host (Blu-ray disc)
Saoirse Ronan, Diane Kruger, William Hurt, Max Irons, Jake Abel, …
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R511
R47
Discovery Miles 470
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Andrew Niccol directs this science fiction romance adapted from the
novel by Stephenie Meyer, creator of 'The Twilight Saga'. An alien
race has begun colonising Earth by taking over human bodies and
erasing their minds and memories and only a small band of survivors
remain who are working to protect themselves from extinction. One
of them is Melanie Stryder (Saoirse Ronan), who, when out on a
search for food, meets another human being named Jared Howe (Max
Irons) and it isn't long before they begin to develop feelings for
one another. However, when Melanie is taken by the alien species
and is made host to one of their own, it seems all hope is lost.
That is, until Melanie's mind begins to fight back against her new
inhabitor and her human emotions and memories ignite some empathy
in the alien parasite.
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Jared Leto, Matt Smith, …
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R179
Discovery Miles 1 790
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