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Pompeii (DVD)
Kit Harington, Carrie-Anne Moss, Emily Browning, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jessica Lucas, …
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Sword-and-sandal disaster epic directed by Paul W.S. Anderson and
starring Kit Harington. Set before and during the Mount Vesuvius
eruption of 79 AD, the film follows the plight of
slave-turned-gladiator Milo (Harington) who falls in love with
Cassia (Emily Browning), the daughter of a wealthy merchant who has
recently become engaged to Corvus (Kiefer Sutherland), an
influential Roman Senator. As the mountain erupts and quickly
destroys the city of Pompeii as well as its surrounding
communities, Milo must track down his one true love before all hope
of survival is annihilated.
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The Bye Bye Man (DVD)
Doug Jones, Douglas Smith, Michael Trucco, Cressida Bonas, Lucien Laviscount, …
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Supernatural horror about a group of college students who are
terrorised by malevolent supernatural being The Bye Bye Man (Doug
Jones). Trouble begins when the three friends move into an old
house together off-campus. There, The Bye Bye Man begins to stalk
them and appears whenever they say his name or even dare to think
about him. Their investigations into the history of The Bye Bye Man
lead them to believe he may be responsible for possessing a number
of historical murderers and forcing them to carry out their killing
sprees. Meanwhile, he enters their minds and grows in power the
more they think about him. They decide the only way to get rid of
the evil entity is to try and forget about him and keep his
existence a secret for all of time, but can they first save
themselves and stop others from being hunted by The Bye Bye Man?
The first intimate look at the cracked fairytale life of
Hollywood's first family, the Farrows. Â John Farrow was
Hollywood royalty. An Academy Award-winning director and
screenwriter, he was married to the talented and beautiful actress
Maureen O'Sullivan, best known for playing Jane in Tarzan films
with Johnny Weissmuller. Together they had seven children,
including esteemed actress Mia Farrow, mother of journalist Ronan
Farrow. From the outside, they were a fairytale Hollywood family.
But all was not as it seemed. The Farrows of Hollywood: Their Dark
Side of Paradise reveals that Mia Farrow's allegations of sexual
molestation by Woody Allen of their seven-year-old adopted
daughter, Dylan, has roots in Farrow’s childhood relationship
with her father, John Farrow. John was often an abusive father to
his children, his wife, and to his co-workers in Hollywood. Called
the most disliked man in Hollywood, John Farrow was a tortured,
tragic artist and father. He left his children a legacy of trauma
and pain that the family kept hidden. It erupted only years later
when Mia Farrow unknowingly revealed her pain through her words and
behavior in her allegations aimed at Allen. The book includes new
research, never-before-revealed interviews with actors who worked
with John Farrow, and an original theory from author, biographer,
and documentarian Marilyn Ann Moss.
Collected in this volume are the best articles and symposia from
Poverty & Race, the bimonthly newsletter journal of The Poverty
& Race Research Action Council (PRRAC), a Washington, DC-based
national public interest organization founded in 1990. Poverty
& Race in America includes over six-dozen works originally
published between mid-2001 and 2005, many of which have been
updated and revised. The contributors represent the best of
progressive thought and activism on America's two most salient, and
seemingly intractable, domestic problems-race and poverty. Divided
into topical sections, this volume considers the issues of race,
poverty, housing, education, health, and democracy. Poverty &
Race in America is especially concerned with the links between and
among these areas, both for purposes of analysis and policy
prescriptions. Featuring a foreword by Congressman Jesse L.
Jackson, Jr., this edited collection will be of great interest to
policy makers and human rights activists and hopefully stimulate
creative thought and action to bring an end to racism and poverty.
Collected in this volume are the best articles and symposia from
Poverty & Race, the bimonthly newsletter journal of The Poverty
& Race Research Action Council (PRRAC), a Washington, DC-based
national public interest organization founded in 1990. Poverty
& Race in America includes over six-dozen works originally
published between mid-2001 and 2005, many of which have been
updated and revised. The contributors represent the best of
progressive thought and activism on America's two most salient, and
seemingly intractable, domestic problems-race and poverty. Divided
into topical sections, this volume considers the issues of race,
poverty, housing, education, health, and democracy. Poverty &
Race in America is especially concerned with the links between and
among these areas, both for purposes of analysis and policy
prescriptions. Featuring a foreword by Congressman Jesse L.
Jackson, Jr., this edited collection will be of great interest to
policy makers and human rights activists and hopefully stimulate
creative thought and action to bring an end to racism and poverty.
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The Matrix (DVD)
Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Joe Pantoliano, …
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This hugely successful blockbuster stars Keanu Reeves as Neo, a
young computer hacker who comes to believe that the world around
him is not as it appears to be. With the aid of mysterious
subversive Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), Neo discovers that his
whole existence as he knows it is a lie. Together with Morpheus'
acolyte Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss), Neo begins to fight back
against the computerised hierarchy which is secretly manipulating
the human race.
This is the first comprehensive study of the Renaissance
commonplace-book. Commonplace-books were the information-organizers
of Early Modern Europe, notebooks of quotations methodically
arranged for easy retrieval. From their first introduction to the
rudiments of Latin to the specialized studies of leisure reading of
their later years, the pupils of humanist schools were trained to
use commonplace-books, which formed an immensely important element
of Renaissance education. The common-place book mapped and
resourced Renaissance culture's moral thinking, its accepted
strategies of argumentation, its rhetoric, and its deployment of
knowledge. In this ground-breaking study Ann Moss investigates the
commonplace-book's medieval antecedents, its methodology and use as
promulgated by its humanist advocates, its varieties as exemplified
in its printed manifestations, and the reasons for its gradual
decline in the seventeenth century. The book covers the Latin
culture of Early Modern Europe and its vernacular counterparts and
continuations, particularly in France. Printed Commonplace-Books
and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought is much more than an
account of humanist classroom practice: it is a major work of
cultural history.
This book is a major study of the development of French poetry in
the Renaissance, which examines changes in style and vision by
looking both at how poetry was read in this period and how it was
written. Dr Moss examines vernacular versions of fables from Ovid's
Metamorphoses, published between the end of the fifteenth century
and beginning of the seventeenth century, which reveal fundamental
changes both in reading habits and in assumptions about literary
aesthetics and the relationship of literature to truth. Through
detailed analysis of mythological narratives in the Ovidian
tradition composed by Lemaire de Beiges, Francois Habert, Baif and
Ronsard, among others, and by concentrating on a few specific
mythological subjects Dr Moss is able to identify the salient
features in these developments and so broaden our understanding of
the aesthetic revolution which transformed the literature and
mentality of France and Western Europe during the Renaissance.
Renaissance Truth and the Latin Language Turn provides an entirely new look at an era of radical change in the history of West European thought, the period between 1480 and 1540, mainly in France and Germany. The book's main thesis is that the Latin language turn was not only concurrent with other aspects of change, but was a fundamental instrument in reconfiguring horizons of thought, reformulating paradigms of argument, and rearticulating the relationship between fiction and truth. Its topics include Latin dictionaries and phrase-books; religious disputation; and early approaches to literary criticism.
Raoul Walsh (1887--1980) was known as one of Hollywood's most
adventurous, iconoclastic, and creative directors. He carved out an
illustrious career and made films that transformed the Hollywood
studio yarn into a thrilling art form. Walsh belonged to that early
generation of directors -- along with John Ford and Howard Hawks --
who worked in the fledgling film industry of the early twentieth
century, learning to make movies with shoestring budgets. Walsh's
generation invented a Hollywood that made movies seem bigger than
life itself. In the first ever full-length biography of Raoul
Walsh, author Marilyn Ann Moss recounts Walsh's life and
achievements in a career that spanned more than half a century and
produced upwards of two hundred films, many of them cinema
classics. Walsh originally entered the movie business as an actor,
playing the role of John Wilkes Booth in D. W. Griffith's The Birth
of a Nation (1915). In the same year, under Griffith's tutelage,
Walsh began to direct on his own. Soon he left Griffith's company
for Fox Pictures, where he stayed for more than twenty years. It
was later, at Warner Bros., that he began his golden period of
filmmaking. Walsh was known for his romantic flair and playful
persona. Involved in a freak auto accident in 1928, Walsh lost his
right eye and began wearing an eye patch, which earned him the
suitably dashing moniker "the one-eyed bandit." During his long and
illustrious career, he directed such heavyweights as Humphrey
Bogart, James Cagney, Errol Flynn, and Marlene Dietrich, and in
1930 he discovered future star John Wayne.
Raoul Walsh (1887--1980) was known as one of Hollywood's most
adventurous, iconoclastic, and creative directors. He carved out an
illustrious career and made films that transformed the Hollywood
studio yarn into a thrilling art form. Walsh belonged to that early
generation of directors -- along with John Ford and Howard Hawks --
who worked in the fledgling film industry of the early twentieth
century, learning to make movies with shoestring budgets. Walsh's
generation invented a Hollywood that made movies seem bigger than
life itself. In the first ever full-length biography of Raoul
Walsh, author Marilyn Ann Moss recounts Walsh's life and
achievements in a career that spanned more than half a century and
produced upwards of two hundred films, many of them cinema
classics. Walsh originally entered the movie business as an actor,
playing the role of John Wilkes Booth in D. W. Griffith's The Birth
of a Nation (1915). In the same year, under Griffith's tutelage,
Walsh began to direct on his own. Soon he left Griffith's company
for Fox Pictures, where he stayed for more than twenty years. It
was later, at Warner Bros., that he began his golden period of
filmmaking. Walsh was known for his romantic flair and playful
persona. Involved in a freak auto accident in 1928, Walsh lost his
right eye and began wearing an eye patch, which earned him the
suitably dashing moniker "the one-eyed bandit." During his long and
illustrious career, he directed such heavyweights as Humphrey
Bogart, James Cagney, Errol Flynn, and Marlene Dietrich, and in
1930 he discovered future star John Wayne.
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