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Pelican Blood (DVD)
Emma Clifford, Arthur Darvill, Harry Treadaway, Emma Booth, Christopher Fulford, …
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British indie drama telling the story of the intense and
destructive relationship between two teenagers who first meet on a
suicide website. Obsessive-compulsive Nikko (Harry Treadaway) and
beautiful loose cannon Stevie (Emma Booth) embark on a
rollercoaster relationship that ultimately distances Nikko from his
life, his friends and his obsession with bird-spotting.
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Nowhere Boy (Blu-ray disc)
Kristin Scott Thomas, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Anne-Marie Duff, David Morrissey, …
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Sam Taylor Wood's directorial debut is a chronicle of John Lennon's
teenage years. Set in 1950s Liverpool, the film tells the story of
the spirited but troubled fifteen-year-old Lennon (Aaron Johnson),
who finds himself caught in the crossfire between his formidable
Aunt Mimi (Kristin Scott Thomas) and his mother Julia (Anne-Marie
Duff). When John meets fellow musician and kindred spirit Paul
McCartney (Thomas Sangster), his creative genius at last finds an
outlet and the most famous partnership in music is born. But just
as John's new life begins, a dark truth from his past leads to a
tragedy he will never escape.
May 20, 1969: Four members of the revolutionary Black Panther Party
trudge through woods along the edges of the Coginchaug River
outside of New Haven, Connecticut. Gunshots shatter the silence.
Three men emerge from the woods. Soon, two are in police custody.
One flees across the country. Nine Panthers would be tried for
crimes committed that night, including National Chairman Bobby
Seale, extradited from California with the aide of Panther nemesis,
California Governor Ronald Reagan. Activists of all denominations
descended on the New England city--and the campus of Yale. The
Nixon administration sent 4,000 National Guardsmen. U.S. military
tanks lined the streets outside of New Haven. In this white-knuckle
journey through a turbulent America, Doug Rae and Paul Bass let us
eavesdrop on late-night meetings between Yale President, Kingman
Brewster, and radical activists, including Jerry Rubin and Abbie
Hoffman, as they try to avert disaster. Meanwhile, most
heartrending of all is the never-before-told story of Warren
Kimbro--star community worker turned Panther assassin--who faces an
uphill battle to turn his life around.
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A Royal Night Out (DVD)
Bel Powley, Jack Reynor, Jack Laskey, Roger Allam, Ruth Sheen, …
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Julian Jarrold directs this British comedy drama following the
future Queen of England and her sister as they go out on the town
to celebrate the end of the Second World War. On VE Day, 8th May
1945, Princess Elizabeth (Sarah Gadon) and her younger sister
Princess Margaret (Bel Powley) beg their parents King George VI
(Rupert Everett) and Queen Elizabeth (Emily Watson) to let them
leave Buckingham Palace for the night so they can join in the
celebrations. The King and Queen give their consent and Elizabeth
and Margaret head out incognito but their night takes some
unexpected turns...
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Equalities (Paperback, New Ed)
Douglas Rae; As told to Douglas Yates, Jennifer L. Hochschild, Joseph Morone, Carol Fessler
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Equality has always been the most powerful political idea in
America, and it is becoming the most powerful idea in the world.
Observers from Alexis de Tocqueville to the most recent social
critics have commented upon the idea's great force. Yet, for all
its influence upon popular ideology, the idea of equality becomes a
bundle of contradictory impulses once it is applied to public
policy and social institutions. As the title of this lively book
suggests, equality becomes equalities. Once inequality is
established, there is a deep difference between equal policies and
policies that lead to equality. Once people have different needs,
there is a sharp difference between treating them equally and
treating them in ways that serve them equally. Once people have
unequal (or unequally developed) talents, then equal opportunity
cannot mean both equal opportunity and an equal prospect of
success. Once society is cleaved by differences of race, sex,
income, and so on, there is an intense difference between policies
and reforms that reduce racial, sexual, and economic inequality and
policies that diminish equality among persons. Douglas Rae and his
colleagues develop an ingenious "grammar of equality" to explain
and explicate the main ways in which equality turns into equalities
as it passes from the realm of ideas to the realm of practice. The
book's exciting new method of analysis, based on logic and theories
of political economy and political science, is a valuable
contribution. Equalities helps us answer such questions as: "Is
equality possible?" "How, after so long a period of ostensible
egalitarianism, can inequality still dominate so much of the social
landscape?" The responses are bound to stir controversy among all
those interested in political theory or in social policy or in the
attainment of equality.
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Becoming Jane (Blu-ray disc)
Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters, James Cromwell, Maggie Smith, …
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Fictional romantic biopic of author Jane Austen. A young girl's
future prospects in English society of 1795 are based around
marrying for financial gain. As a rebellious twenty-year-old, Jane
Austen (Anne Hathaway) contemplates a future mapped out for her by
her parents, when into her life rides trainee Irish lawyer Tom
Lefroy (James McAvoy). Handsome, intelligent and poor, Lefroy is
initially scornful of the unstylish country family, but when Jane
begins imposing her independent spirit, the pair soon realise they
are falling in love. With her family increasingly concerned about
the cost, both personal and financial, of continuing with the
liason, Jane must decide between the path of love or honour.
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