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Sullivan Stapleton, Rodrigo Santoro and Eva Green star in this
action film based on Frank Miller's graphic novel 'Xerxes' and set
before, during and after the events of '300' (2006). In 480 BC,
Athenian General Themistocles (Stapleton) leads the Greek Army in a
war against the invasion of King Xerxes I (Santoro), naval
commander Artemisia (Green) and their Persian forces. Themistocles
allies with the Spartans but they are still outnumbered by Xerxes'
men. Who will be victorious? The film was co-written by Zack Snyder
and Kurt Johnstad and also stars Lena Headey, Jack O'Connell and
Hans Matheson.
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Starred Up (DVD)
Jack O'Connell, Ben Mendelsohn, Sam Spruell, Rupert Friend, David Ajala, …
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David MacKenzie directs this British drama in which a troubled
teenager and his father bond in the unusual surroundings of a
prison. 19-year-old Eric (Jack O'Connell) has had an extremely
difficult childhood. Taken into care after the death of his mother
and the sentencing of his father (Ben Mendelsohn), Eric's
subsequent struggles with authority are highlighted by the fact
that he has been 'starred up' from juvenile prison to the real
thing, despite his tender years. Eric is happy with the outcome,
though, as it gives him a chance to reconnect with his father and
to demonstrate his toughness. However, with certain prison wardens
not averse to using extreme violence to enforce order and protect
others, Eric may have to tread carefully and pay attention to the
calming words of his father if he is to make it out of the facility
in one piece.
"The Resurrectionist" is a wild ride into a territory where nothing
is as it appears. Part classic noir thriller, part fabulist fable,
it is the story of Sweeney and his comatose son, Danny. Hoping for
a miracle, Sweeney has brought Danny to the fortresslike Peck
Clinic, whose doctors claim to have "resurrected" patients who were
similarly lost in the void. but the real cure for his son's
condition may lie in Limbo, a comic book world beloved by Danny
before he slipped into a coma.
O'Connell has crafted a spellbinding novel about stories and what
they can do for and "to" those who create them and those who
consume them. About the nature of consciousness and the power of
the unknown. And, ultimately, about forgiveness and the depth of
our need to extend it and receive it.
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'71 (Blu-ray disc)
Sean Harris, Charlie Murphy, Martin McCann, Paul Anderson, David Wilmot, …
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Director Yann Demange makes his feature debut with this British
action thriller set in Belfast during the Troubles. In 1971 during
a Belfast riot British soldier Gary Hook (Jack O'Connell) gets
separated from his army unit and is forced to spend the night alone
on the dangerous streets, unable to distinguish between his friends
and his enemies. Can he find his way to safety? The cast also
includes Sean Harris, Killian Scott, Martin McCann and Charlie
Murphy.
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God's Pocket (DVD)
Jack O'Connell, Eddie McGee, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Turturro, Richard Jenkins, …
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Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christina Hendricks, Richard Jenkins and
John Turturro star in this comedy drama directed by John Slattery
and adapted from the novel by Pete Dexter. In the 1970s in the
working-class town of God's Pocket, troubled 20-something Leon
(Caleb Landry Jones) is seemingly accidentally killed on a building
site. At the request of Leon's mother Jeannie (Hendricks), who is
convinced there was some foul play, her husband, small-time
criminal Mickey Scarpato (Hoffman), investigates the death with the
help of his friend Arthur 'Bird' Capezio (Turturro). Meanwhile, the
well-known journalist Richard Shellburn (Jenkins) is also searching
for the truth behind the incident and gets close to Jeannie in the
process.
Why would two Eastern European meatboys want to whack an innocent
cab driver? That's the question that occurs to Gilrein as Raban and
Blumfeld press the gun barrel into his mouth. Does it have
something to do with the ritual death-by-flencing of Leo Tani? Or
does the answer involve Gilrein's ex-lover, now working as a
librarian for a bibliomaniac gangster. Or maybe the whole thing has
something to do with the Inspector, inventor of the notorious
Methodology? And how does Bobby Oster figure in the mix, with his
crew of murder-for-hire rogue cops who call themselves The
Magicians? To find the answers, Gilrein will drive the night
streets of his hometown and face down more than one demon from his
past. From the Vacuum, where child-artists are held captive in veal
pens and forced to forge graphic novels, to the Houdini Lounge,
where the second annual immigrant death-match is being marketed,
Gilrein will wander the underworld, collecting stories and looking
for absolution. In the end, he'll brush up against "Alicia's Tale"
and learn new truths about the terrifying negotiations always
taking place between the storyteller and the audience in the city
of Quinsigamond.
The scene is Quinsigamond, a decaying New England factory town, a
model locale of turn-of-the-century chaos. An activist priest meets
a grisly death in his own cathedral. The crime has all the
hallmarks of a routine Bangkok Park gang killing. But the perp is
no everyday low-life but a demented ex-FBI agent named Speer in
search of the jammers, particularly the infamous O'Zebedee brothers
who have been hijacking local radio airwaves with their singular
brand of subversive diatribe. Detective Hannah Shaw, Bangkok Park's
undisputed overseer, tracks Speer's enraged quest to Wireless, the
funky retro-radio nightclub and epicentre of the diverse jammer
subculture. Shaw and/or the Wireless crew must stop the defrocked
Fed or fall prey to a campaign of censorship, violence and death.
Jack O'Connell possessed an uncanny ability to be at the center of
things. On his arrival in Jordan in 1958, he unraveled a coup aimed
at the young King Hussein, who would become America's most reliable
Middle East ally. Over time, their bond of trust and friendship
deepened. His narrative contains secrets that will revise our
understanding of the Middle East. In 1967, O'Connell tipped off
Hussein that Israel would invade Egypt the next morning. Later, as
Hussein's Washington counselor, O'Connell learned of Henry
Kissinger's surprising role in the Yom Kippur War. The book's
leitmotif is betrayal. Hussein, the Middle East's only bona fide
peacemaker, wanted simply the return of the West Bank, seized in
the Six-Day War. Despite American promises, the clear directive of
UN Resolution 242, and the years of secret negotiations with
Israel, that never happened. Hussein's dying wish was that
O'Connell tell the unknown story in this book.
A harrowing and ecstatic descent into a breathtaking netherworld
aswirl with the real, the imagined and the absolutely
unforgettable. Amid the post industrial decay of Quinsigamond
glitters a fabulous jewel - Herzog's Erotic Palace - America's most
lavish porn theatre and a gangland laundry for semi-sour cash. But
most of all, Herzog's is the place where dreamers meet and
seductive nightmares find their dazzling realisation. For the
obsessed grunge auteur, the heartsick crime king, the apocalyptic
tele-evangelist and the young woman intent on a capturing a
shrouded past and an onrushing future within a camera's lens, The
Skin Palace will reveal all secrets, in a script fraught with
danger and feverish transformation.
Double bill of fantasy action films. '300' (2006), adapted from
Frank Miller's comic book series, is a modern retelling of the
Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, when the 100,000 strong invading
Persian Army of King Xerxes was held back in a narrow mountain pass
by 300 Spartans. King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) is given four days
by Persia's King Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) to lay down his arms and
surrender. Rejecting the proposal, the battle ensues, and the
Spartans are only defeated by the treachery of local shepherd
Ephialtes (Andrew Tiernan), who shows the Persians a secret route,
enabling them to outflank their opponents. In the second film,
'300: Rise of an Empire' (2014), based on Miller's graphic novel
'Xerxes' and set before, during and after '300', Athenian General
Themistocles (Sullivan Stapleton) leads the Greek Army in a war
against the invasion of King Xerxes I, naval commander Artemisia
(Eva Green) and their Persian forces. Themistocles allies with the
Spartans but they are still outnumbered by Xerxes' men. Who will be
victorious? The film was co-written by Zack Snyder and Kurt
Johnstad and also stars Lena Headey, Jack O'Connell and Hans
Matheson.
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The Liability (DVD)
Tim Roth, Talulah Riley, Jack O'Connell, Peter Mullan, Kierston Wareing, …
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Discovery Miles 1 390
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Dark comedy thriller starring Tim Roth and Jack O'Connell. When
Adam (O'Connell) is asked to be the driver for a business associate
of his mother's crime boss boyfriend, he soon finds out that this
business associate is Roy (Roth) - an aging hitman on the eve of
his retirement. While Adam drives Roy to what he hopes are his last
ever jobs, a series of unexpected events lands the pair in a game
of cat and mouse with a mysterious Latvian woman (Talulah Riley).
A stunningly original nightmare novel about the impact of a new
synthetic drug - Lingo - on the depressed New England factory town
of Quinsigamond, where it was secretly developed. Besides offering
a potent high, Lingo also delivers a shot to the brain cells
governing linguistic comprehension and verbal skill. Until
murderous rages and babbling insanity take over, this
mind-expanding feature makes the drug dangerously seductive to the
unusually literate cops, scientists and dope dealers competing to
find its distribution source. Written in the cranked up style of
Lingo, Box Nine shows a noir vision of a city that has become a
virtual war zone between warring multi-ethnic drug cartels. The
narrative shifts from one head case to another but never loses
sight of Det. Lenore Thomas, an undercover officer addicted to
speed, rough sex, heavy metal and the feel of her .357 Magnum. A
dark, disturbing book that speaks with a fine fury about the
yearning for forbidden knowledge and the language to articulate the
mysteries it unlocks...
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United (Blu-ray disc)
Sam Claflin, David Calder, Melanie Hill, David Tennant, Dean Andrews, …
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R128
Discovery Miles 1 280
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TV drama following the turmoil of football club Manchester United
through the Munich air disaster that killed a number of its staff
and star players. In February 1958 a flight leaving Munich-Riem
Airport crashed on its third attempt to take off. On board were the
famous 'Busby Babes', a team of gifted young players led by the
famous manager Matt Busby, returning to Manchester after successful
qualification to the European cup semi-finals. A number of players,
including Duncan Edwards, were killed in the crash, and still more
injured. This BBC dramatisation of events follows star player Bobby
Charlton (Jack O'Connell) and coach Jimmy Murphy (David Tennant) as
they attempt to recover from the crash. With Busby (Dougray Scott)
still hospitalised with his injuries and so many of their players
gone, stand-in coach Murphy and the still-grieving Charlton will be
crucial to the success on the field that would honour those so
tragically lost.
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Box Nine (Paperback)
Jack O'Connell
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R683
R601
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A narcotics detective wages war against a deadly new stimulant The
drug is called Lingo, and it's the most powerful narcotic Lenore
has ever seen. This cheaply manufactured pill races straight for
the brain's language center, supercharging it so that even a
dimwitted person can speak and read at 1,500 words per minute. It
induces giddiness, confidence, and sexual euphoria-with a side
effect of murderous rage. The drug has come to Quinsigamond, a
fading industrial center in the heart of Massachusetts, and it's
going to tear this town apart. Lenore believes she can stop that
from happening. A narcotics detective with a few addictions of her
own-amphetamines and heavy metal, to name a couple-she loves
nothing more than her gun, until she meets Dr. Frederick Woo, the
linguist assisting her on the case. Together they can stop the
drug-if it doesn't take hold of them first. "Stunningly original .
. . Jack O'Connell's vision is spellbinding: by turns hilarious and
terrifying." -James Ellroy "This dark, disturbing book . . . speaks
with a fine fury about the yearning for forbidden knowledge and the
language to articulate the mysteries it unlocks." -The New York
Times "Strong stuff, all right: O'Connell gets so deep inside his
small-town cast that it''s a relief to turn the last page." -Kirkus
Reviews Jack O'Connell (b. 1959) is the author of five critically
acclaimed, New York Times bestselling crime novels. Born in
Worcester, Massachusetts, O'Connell's earliest reading was the dime
novel paperbacks and pulp fiction sold in his corner drug store,
whose hard-boiled attitude he carried over to his own writing. He
has cited his hometown's bleak, crumbling infrastructure as an
influence on Quinsigamond, the fictional city where his first four
novels were set, and whose decaying industrial landscape served as
a backdrop for strange thrillers which earned O'Connell the
nickname of a "cyberpunk Dashiell Hammett." O'Connell's most recent
novel was The Resurrectionist (2008). A former student at
Worcester's College of the Holy Cross, he now teaches there, not
far from where he and his family live just outside of his hometown.
Jack O'Connell was not the most popular guy in high school. After
failing miserably at fitting in with his peers, Jack made a promise
to himself as he entered college-to become better at meeting girls.
Surviving the College Game details Jack's personal journey from
battling low self-esteem to achieving successful social
interactions with female students. As Jack shares the lessons and
realizations he discovered while on the long road to gaining
confidence, he chronicles how he eventually learned to implement a
system that allowed him to take chances, look girls in the eye,
enjoy a fun and entertaining conversation, build curiosity, dance
with the best of them, and become true to himself in the process.
Through his openly honest and revealing anecdotes, Jack shares both
his social successes and failures during his first two years in
college. From initiating his first real pick-up of a brown-eyed
girl to making out with multiple girls in one night to
transitioning from the friend zone into something more, Jack's
experiences will be relatable to any young male ready to change his
life into an amazing and fun journey.
Jack O'Connell was not the most popular guy in high school. After
failing miserably at fitting in with his peers, Jack made a promise
to himself as he entered college-to become better at meeting girls.
Surviving the College Game details Jack's personal journey from
battling low self-esteem to achieving successful social
interactions with female students. As Jack shares the lessons and
realizations he discovered while on the long road to gaining
confidence, he chronicles how he eventually learned to implement a
system that allowed him to take chances, look girls in the eye,
enjoy a fun and entertaining conversation, build curiosity, dance
with the best of them, and become true to himself in the process.
Through his openly honest and revealing anecdotes, Jack shares both
his social successes and failures during his first two years in
college. From initiating his first real pick-up of a brown-eyed
girl to making out with multiple girls in one night to
transitioning from the friend zone into something more, Jack's
experiences will be relatable to any young male ready to change his
life into an amazing and fun journey.
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Weekender (DVD)
Jack O'Connell, Emily Barclay, Zawe Ashton, Dean Andrews, Sam Hazeldine, …
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British drama set amidst the rave scene of the early 1990s. The
film follows the exploits of 20-something best friends Matt (Henry
Lloyd-Hughes) and Dylan (Jack O'Connell) as they progress from
partying at illegal warehouse raves to becoming successful
promoters at the peak of the scene in Manchester, Amsterdam and
Ibiza. But whilst their success increases, their friendship begins
to unravel as they become caught up in a dark and sinister world
and lose sight of their dreams.
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The Take/The Runaway (DVD)
Tom Hardy, Kierston Wareing, Shaun Evans, Charlotte Riley, Brian Cox, …
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Double bill of TV dramas adapted from the novels of crime writer
Martina Cole. 'The Take' (2009) stars Tom Hardy as Freddie Jackson,
an armed robber who is released from prison in 1984 having served a
four-year sentence for his crimes. His wife Jackie (Kierston
Wareing), who has been waiting for him on the outside in the
mistaken belief that that he wants to go straight, soon finds
herself disappointed. Freddie is in fact raring to get back into
the game and has set his sights on becoming top dog in the East End
underworld. Meanwhile his younger cousin Jimmy (Shaun Evans) is hot
on his heels, and dreams of riding Freddie's coat-tails to rise
through the ranks of the crime empire. 'The Runaway' (2010) follows
the story of Cathy Connor (Joanna Vanderham) and Eamonn Docherty
(Jack O'Connell), who form a strong bond growing up together in the
East End of London but are later pulled apart due to difficult
circumstances. Cathy is determined not to end up like her
prostitute mother, Madge (Kierston Wareing), but when she is abused
whilst in care, she is forced to run away and ends up living on the
streets, where she meets transvestite Desrae (Alan Cumming). During
this time, Eamonn is becoming more and more involved in criminal
activity. When this leads to murder, Eammon journeys to New York
where he quickly becomes a notorious villain.
From crimes of heart and crimes of violence, A CITY EQUAL TO MY
DESIRE effortlessly guides you through the narrows of human
existence in all its forms. In this selection of new stories, James
Sallis, author of the acclaimed Lew Griffin series of detective
novels, both entertains and engages the mind with stories that will
linger in memory long after they've been experienced. "Sallis wants
to take your experience of the world, mutate it to the edge of
recognition, and then deliver it back before your eyes like a coin
pulled from behind your earlobe. And in this way, he makes you see
and feel, all over again, the meaning, the beauty-and, pointedly
sometimes, the horror-of being human." Jack O'Connell from his
introduction
From crimes of heart and crimes of violence, A CITY EQUAL TO MY
DESIRE effortlessly guides you through the narrows of human
existence in all its forms. In this selection of new stories, James
Sallis, author of the acclaimed Lew Griffin series of detective
novels, both entertains and engages the mind with stories that will
linger in memory long after they've been experienced. "Sallis wants
to take your experience of the world, mutate it to the edge of
recognition, and then deliver it back before your eyes like a coin
pulled from behind your earlobe. And in this way, he makes you see
and feel, all over again, the meaning, the beauty-and, pointedly
sometimes, the horror-of being human." Jack O'Connell from his
introduction
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