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Tom Cruise reprises his role as Impossible Mission Force (IMF)
agent Ethan Hunt in the fifth film of the action thriller series.
Written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, the movie follows on
from events in the previous instalment where the IMF agents find
themselves being targeted by a shadowy organisation of
highly-trained assassins known only as the Syndicate.
Can Ethan
reassemble the now-disbanded IMF team to bring down this rogue
organisation before it's too late?
Loaded with heart-pounding action and jaw-dropping stunts, prepare for the best Mission ever.
With his elite organization shut down by the CIA, agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team (Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames) race against time to stop the rise of a new global threat, The Syndicate, a dangerous network of rogue operatives turned traitors.
To stop them, Ethan must join forces with an elusive, disavowed agent (Rebecca Ferguson) who may or may not be on his side as he faces his most impossible mission yet.
Collection of eight action films produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and starring some of Hollywood's biggest stars, including Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Bruce Willis, Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie.
The Rock (1996)
The safety of San Francisco hangs in the balance when General Francis X. Hummel and his renegade squad of US Marines take over the abandoned Alcatraz prison and threaten to launch a poison gas attack on the city if their demands are not met. The FBI's response is to call in Stanley Goodspeed, a nerdy weapons expert, and John Patrick Mason, a former SAS man who has been in jail for the last 30 years, and send them together into the prison complex. Can this unlikely pairing prevent mass murder?
Armageddon (1998)
Planet Earth comes under threat from an asteroid the size of Texas. NASA's attempt to avert global catastrophe involves sending a motley crew of oil drillers, led by Harry Stamper, into space, where they will drop a nuclear bomb into the asteroid's core. Amongst Stamper's team is A.J., the headstrong suitor of his daughter, who waits on Earth alongside NASA chief Dan Truman for news of the mission's success.
Con Air (1997)
Former Army Ranger Cameron Poe is returning home on parole to his wife and child after serving eight years for manslaughter. The plane he is flying on is a special convict-only transport aircraft filled with some of the meanest and deadliest villains of them all. Once in the air the plane is hijacked by convict Cyrus 'The Virus' Grissom, who gets rid of the crew of prison guards at the first scheduled stop, picking up more convicts as he does so. But US Marshal Vince Larkin is already on his trail. Poe does his best to stop Grissom from escaping with the group of convicts, and just to complicate matters further his diabetic cellmate reveals that he will die if he does not receive his next
insulin injection within two hours.
Enemy of the State (1998)
The National Security Agency is a covert organisation whose secret activities are protected by a state-of-the-art surveillance network operated by a team of first-rank techno-boffins. When a videotape proving their involvement in a recent political assassination falls into the hands of Washington DA Robert Clayton Dean, the agency do everything they can to encourage Dean's silence. But Dean is determined to reveal the truth, and teaming up with veteran anti-establishment surveillance expert Edward Lyle,
he decides to play the government spies at their own game.
Crimson Tide (1995)
Combat veteran Frank Ramsey and his second-in-command Ron Hunter are the chief officers on board US nuclear submarine USS Alabama. They are heading for Russia, ready to intervene in an escalating crisis which could result in the outbreak of World War III. When they then receive orders to launch their missiles, Ramsay and Hunter clash
over the validity of the command and mutiny ensues.
Deja Vu (2006)
When a ferry filled with crewmen from the USS Nimitz and their families is blown up in New Orleans, Federal Agent Doug Carlin is brought in to help with the investigation.
He becomes attached to an experimental FBI surveillance unit that uses spacefolding technology to look back a little over four days into the past. While tracking down the bomber Carlin gets an idea in his head: could they use the device to actually travel back in time and not only prevent the bombing but also the murder of a local woman whose truck was used in the atrocity?
Gone In 60 Seconds (2000)
Legendary car thief Randall 'Memphis' Raines is forced to come out of retirement when his brother Kip ends up in debt to a ruthless mobster. Charged with stealing fifty cars in three days, Randall sets about reassembling his old team - including former lover Sara 'Sway' Wayland, mechanic Otto Halliwell and the silent but strong Toby - but faces further challenges in the form of rival car thief Donny and local detective Roland Castlebeck, who would love to put Randall behind bars once and for all.
Pearl Harbor (2001)
Rafe McCawley is a gung-ho US pilot whose determination to fly against the enemy leads him to Europe and active service in the Battle of Britain. His girlfriend Evelyn is
left waiting at the Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii, and before long tragedy strikes, with the news reaching Evelyn that Rafe has flown off to the great aircraft hanger in the sky. Heartbroken, she is comforted by Rafe's best friend Danny, and romance soon blooms between them. Meanwhile, the Japanese are preparing their forces for the attack which will trigger the US entry into World War II.
Thirty years after the defeat of the Galactic Empire, the galaxy faces a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and the First Order.
When a defector named Finn crash-lands on a desert planet, he meets Rey, a tough scavenger whose droid contains a top-secret map. Together, the young duo joins forces with Han Solo to make sure the Resistance receives the intelligence concerning the whereabouts of Luke Skywalker, the last of the Jedi Knights.
(Academy Award nominations for Best Visual Effects; Best Sound Editing; Best Sound Mixing; Best Film Editing; Best Original Score)
Revising dominant accounts of Puritanism and challenging the
literary history of sentimentalism, Sympathetic Puritans argues
that a Calvinist theology of sympathy shaped the politics,
religion, rhetoric, and literature of early New England. Scholars
have often understood and presented sentimentalism as a direct
challenge to stern and stoic Puritan forebears: the standard
history traces a cult of sensibility back to moral sense philosophy
and the Scottish Enlightenment, not Puritan New England. In
contrast, Van Engen's work unearths the pervasive presence of
sympathy in a large archive of Puritan sermons, treatises, tracts,
poems, journals, histories, and captivity narratives. Sympathetic
Puritans also demonstrates how two types of sympathy - the active
command to fellow-feel (a duty), as well as the passive sign that
could indicate salvation (a discovery) - pervaded Puritan society
and came to define the very boundaries of English culture,
affecting conceptions of community, relations with Native
Americans, and the development of American literature. By analyzing
Puritan theology, preaching, prose, and poetry, Van Engen
re-examines the Antinomian Controversy, conversion narratives,
transatlantic relations, Puritan missions, Mary Rowlandson's
captivity narrative - and Puritan culture more generally - through
the lens of sympathy. Demonstrating and explicating a Calvinist
theology of sympathy in seventeenth-century New England, the book
reveals the religious history of a concept that has largely been
associated with more secular roots.
Gritty action thriller starring Cuba Gooding Jr. as a reporter
trying to stop a serial killer. After discovering the dismembered
body of his girlfriend, crime journalist Lewis Hicks (Gooding)
finds a diary, seemingly left by the murderer, detailing a list of
his next victims and the gruesome methods he will use to kill them.
Realising his own name is on the list, Hicks must use all of his
experience to track down the serial killer in a desperate race
against time before the madman strikes again.
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