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A Single Shot (DVD)
Sam Rockwell, Kelly Reilly, Ted Levine, Joe Anderson, Amy Sloan, …
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Sam Rockwell and William H. Macy star in this crime thriller
directed by David M. Rosenthal. When hunter John Moon (Rockwell)
mistakingly shoots a young girl in the woods he follows her trail
back to a cabin where he finds a briefcase full of money. Ever the
opportunist, John decides to take the money and treat his
girlfriend to a better lifestyle. When he gets a visit from a
mysterious man named Pitt (Macy) however, he realises that he has
entered a world of underground criminals who will stop at nothing
to get their money back.
This book is a richly detailed exploration of the complex and
cosmopolitan urban culture inhabited by the Presbyterian elite of
late-Georgian Belfast, which will prove to be of interest to a wide
range of scholars working on the political, cultural and
intellectual histories of both Ireland and Britain during the age
of reform. Employing both biographical and thematic approaches, the
book begins by examining the story of the Tennents, one of the most
prominent Presbyterian families in early-nineteenth-century
Belfast, before turning to reconstruct their milieu. Challenging
existing narratives, the study provides a major re-assessment of
the political life of late-Georgian Belfast, highlighting the
activities of a close-knit group of advanced reformer - the
'natural leaders' of the books title - who sought to promote the
cause of reform and engage with British and European political
events. In addition, the book contains the first serious scholarly
examination of the cultural and intellectual life of the town in
the early-nineteenth century, and the first major treatment of the
middle classes' philanthropic activities. The interplay of politics
and culture is discussed, as is the accuracy of Belfast's
reputation as the 'Athens of the North' and the religious
underpinnings of the town's charitable societies. In examining
these areas, attention is paid to the influence of trends such as
romanticism and evangelicalism and of writers such as Lord Byron,
Walter Scott, Robert Owen and Thomas Chalmers, and it is argued
that, both culturally and politically, the Presbyterian middle
classes of Belfast inhabited a British world.
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (DVD)
Jennifer Lawrence, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Sam Claflin, …
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Jennifer Lawrence reprises her role as Katniss Everdeen in the
second instalment of the sci-fi adventure trilogy based on the
novel by Suzanne Collins. Fresh from her triumph in the 74th Annual
Hunger Games, Katniss, along with fellow winner Peeta Mellark (Josh
Hutcherson), returns home to District 12 for some much needed rest.
But soon after, while on a 'Victory Tour' of the other districts,
she becomes aware of growing dissent to the Capitol's rule, and
realises that rebellion is in the air. As Panem prepares itself for
the third 'Quarter Quell' (75th Hunger Games), autocratic ruler
President Coriolanus Snow (Donald Sutherland), still smarting from
the Capitol's humiliation in the last games, stacks the deck to
ensure that the upcoming tournament will wipe out any resistance
from the districts once and for all.
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Source Code (Blu-ray disc)
Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright, Russell Peters, …
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The director of the acclaimed 'Moon' (2009), Duncan Jones, helms
this sci-fi action thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Soldier
Colter Stevens (Gyllenhaal) wakes up in the body of an unknown man
and discovers that he is part of a government mission to identify
the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. The experiment, known as
the 'Source Code', enables its subjects to take on a person's
identity for the last eight minutes of their lives. Colter has been
programmed to relive the incident over and over again, piecing
together clues until he can figure out who the suspect is and
prevent another large-scale terrorist attack. Michelle Monaghan,
Vera Farmiga and Jeffrey Wright co-star.
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Quantum of Solace (Blu-ray disc)
Daniel Craig, Gemma Arterton, Rachel McDowell, Jeffrey Wright, Giancarlo Giannini, …
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Daniel Craig returns as James Bond 007 in the globe-trotting
franchise for which the term action movie was invented. After being
betrayed by Vesper in Casino Royale, Bond (Craig) turns his sights
on those who controlled her. Interrogating Mr White (Jesper
Christensen), Bond discovers that the shadowy organisation
responsible for blackmailing Vesper is a lot more powerful and
dangerous than he ever imagined. Tracing a link to Hawaii, Bond
soon crosses paths with Ukrainian beauty Camille (Olga Kurylenko)
who leads him to megalomaniacal businessman Dominic Greene (Mathieu
Amalric), head of the organisation known simply as Quantum. Wishing
to control one of the world's natural resources, Greene's
organisation has a finger in every government agency worldwide, and
it falls to Bond to keep one step ahead of his friends, and
enemies, to stop Greene holding the world to ransom.
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Quantum of Solace (DVD)
Daniel Craig, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Gemma Arterton, Olga Kurylenko, …
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Discovery Miles 380
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Daniel Craig returns as James Bond 007 in the globe-trotting
franchise for which the term action movie was invented. After being
betrayed by Vesper in Casino Royale, Bond (Craig) turns his sights
on those who controlled her. Interrogating Mr White (Jesper
Christensen), Bond discovers that the shadowy organisation
responsible for blackmailing Vesper is a lot more powerful and
dangerous than he ever imagined. Tracing a link to Hawaii, Bond
soon crosses paths with Ukrainian beauty Camille (Olga Kurylenko)
who leads him to megalomaniacal businessman Dominic Greene (Mathieu
Amalric), head of the organisation known simply as Quantum. Wishing
to control one of the world's natural resources, Greene's
organisation has a finger in every government agency worldwide, and
it falls to Bond to keep one step ahead of his friends, and
enemies, to stop Greene holding the world to ransom.
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Casino Royale (DVD)
Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, …
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21st film in the 007 Franchise introduces a new 007 and goes back
to its roots. Daniel Craig stars as the latest incarnation of James
Bond, special agent and international man of mystery and intrigue.
The first Bond film in many years to be based on one of the
original Ian Fleming books, Casino Royale is a quieter, subtler,
more brooding breed of action film, which is not to say there's any
less blowings up, dirty tricks, sexy women or chase sequences. Bond
is in Montenegro at a highly exclusive casino where Le Chiffre
(Mads Mikkelsen) a moneyman for an international terrorist group,
is raising funds for their misdeeds through high-stakes gambling.
007 must infiltrate the group and ultimately defeat the rogue
player, both on and off the tables.
'Global' knowledge was constructed, communicated and contested
during the long nineteenth century in numerous ways and places.
This book focuses on the life-geographies, material practices and
varied contributions to knowledge, be they medical or botanical,
cartographic or cultural, of actors whose lives crisscrossed an
increasingly connected world. Integrating detailed archival
research with broader thematic and conceptual reflection, the
individual case studies use local specificity to shed light on
global structures and processes, revealing the latter to be lived
and experienced phenomena rather than abstract historiographical
categories. This volume makes an original and compelling
contribution to a growing body of scholarship on the global history
of knowledge. Given its wide geographic, disciplinary and thematic
range this book will appeal to a broad readership including
historical geographers and specialists in history of science and
medicine, imperial history, museum studies, and book history.
'Global' knowledge was constructed, communicated and contested
during the long nineteenth century in numerous ways and places.
This book focuses on the life-geographies, material practices and
varied contributions to knowledge, be they medical or botanical,
cartographic or cultural, of actors whose lives crisscrossed an
increasingly connected world. Integrating detailed archival
research with broader thematic and conceptual reflection, the
individual case studies use local specificity to shed light on
global structures and processes, revealing the latter to be lived
and experienced phenomena rather than abstract historiographical
categories. This volume makes an original and compelling
contribution to a growing body of scholarship on the global history
of knowledge. Given its wide geographic, disciplinary and thematic
range this book will appeal to a broad readership including
historical geographers and specialists in history of science and
medicine, imperial history, museum studies, and book history.
This book is a richly detailed exploration of the complex and
cosmopolitan urban culture inhabited by the Presbyterian elite of
late-Georgian Belfast, which will prove to be of interest to a wide
range of scholars working on the political, cultural and
intellectual histories of both Ireland and Britain during the age
of reform. Employing both biographical and thematic approaches, the
book begins by examining the story of the Tennents, one of the most
prominent Presbyterian families in early-nineteenth-century
Belfast, before turning to reconstruct their milieu. Challenging
existing narratives, the study provides a major re-assessment of
the political life of late-Georgian Belfast, highlighting the
activities of a close-knit group of advanced reformer - the
'natural leaders' of the books title - who sought to promote the
cause of reform and engage with British and European political
events. In addition, the book contains the first serious scholarly
examination of the cultural and intellectual life of the town in
the early-nineteenth century, and the first major treatment of the
middle classes' philanthropic activities. The interplay of politics
and culture is discussed, as is the accuracy of Belfast's
reputation as the 'Athens of the North' and the religious
underpinnings of the town's charitable societies. In examining
these areas, attention is paid to the influence of trends such as
romanticism and evangelicalism and of writers such as Lord Byron,
Walter Scott, Robert Owen and Thomas Chalmers, and it is argued
that, both culturally and politically, the Presbyterian middle
classes of Belfast inhabited a British world.
All 28 episodes from the first three seasons of the hit HBO sci-fi drama.
Westworld takes place in a futuristic and technologically advanced Western theme park where androids known as hosts cater to their guests' every desire. Its creator Dr. Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins) has designed an expansive experience where wealthy customers pay to immerse themselves in the Wild West, with his artificially intelligent beings on hand to indulge their fantasies. One such customer (Ed Harris) enters the park in search of a maze and like so many of his fellow clients attacks two of the robots, Teddy and Dolores (James Marsden and Evan Rachel Wood), shortly after his arrival.
Dolores' subsequent strange behaviour leads Dr. Ford to investigate her programming, which appears normal, but it seems she is not the only host displaying changes in their behaviour. And it soon becomes clear a reckoning is coming...
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Ali (DVD)
Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight, Mario Van Peebles, Ron Silver, Jeffrey Wright, …
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Will Smith plays boxing legend Muhammad Ali in this
much-anticipated biopic from director Michael Mann. Beginning with
Ali's 1964 World Heavyweight Championship victory over Sonny
Liston, and moving through his subsequent involvement with the
Nation of Islam and refusal to be drafted during the Vietnam war,
the film tells of Ali's rise to fame, the years in which he was
banned from boxing due to his political and religious commitments,
and his triumphant return in the early 1970s, culminating in the
famous Rumble in the Jungle. Also stars Jon Voight as sports
commentator Howard Cosell, Jamie Foxx as Ali's friend Drew
'Bundini' Brown, and Mario Van Peebles as Malcolm X.
This edited collection explores the complexities of Irish
involvement in empire. Despite complaining regularly of treatment
as a colony by England, Ireland nevertheless played a significant
part in Britain's imperialism, from its formative period in the
late eighteenth century through to the decolonizing years of the
early twentieth century. Framed by two key events of world history,
the American Revolution and Indian Independence, this book examines
Irish involvement in empire in several interlinked sections:
through issues of migration and inhabitation; through literary and
historical representations of empire; through Irish support for
imperialism and involvement with resistance movements abroad; and
through Irish participation in the extensive and intricate networks
of empire. Informed by recent historiographical and theoretical
perspectives, and including several detailed archival
investigations, this volume offers an interdisciplinary and
evolving view of a burgeoning field of research and will be of
interest to scholars of Irish studies, imperial and postcolonial
studies, history and literature.
Urban spaces in nineteenth-century Ireland is a wide-ranging and
innovative collection of essays, which offers new insights on the
Irish urban experience. Adopting a spatial approach, the essays
presented in this collection move beyond study of events that
happened and people who lived in the towns and cities of
nineteenth-century Ireland, instead exploring the ways in which
particular urban spaces were constructed and experienced. Focusing
on a range of urban spaces, from individual streets and districts,
to schools, asylums and entire cities, they highlight both the
multifaceted nature of the Irish urban experience and the potential
of the spatial approach to the study of history.
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