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One of the most powerful crime dramas of all time is hotter than ever!
This all-new 2-Disc Director's Definitive Edition of Heat features a pristine restoration personally supervised by Michael Mann, plus hours of revealing extras, including in-depth Q&As with the director as he reflects on the film two decades after its initial release.
Academy Award Winners Al Pacino and Robert De Niro square off in this ground-breaking cat-and-mouse thriller written and directed by Michael Mann as the personal lives of a brilliant thief and an obsessive L.A. cop intertwine and quickly unravel as the criminal plans his final heist. Co-starring Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore and Ashley Judd, Heat sizzles with hard-hitting action and gripping suspense.
Male entitlement takes many forms. To sex, yes, but more insidiously to admiration, bodily autonomy, knowledge, power, even care. In this urgent intervention, philosopher Kate Manne offers a radical new framework for understanding misogyny.
In clear-sighted, powerful prose, she ranges widely across the culture to show how the idea that a privileged man is tacitly deemed to be owed something is a pervasive problem. Male entitlement can explain a wide array of phenomena, from mansplaining and the undertreatment of women's pain to mass shootings by incels and the seemingly intractable notion that women are 'unelectable'. The consequences for girls and women
are often devastating. As Manne shows, toxic masculinity is not just the product of a few bad actors; we are all implicated, conditioned as we are by the currents of our time.
With wit and intellectual fierceness, she sheds new light on gender and power and offers a vision of a world in which women are just as entitled as men to be cared for, believed and valued.
The stories in Once Removed traverse the theatres, artist studios and archives that characterise the world of contemporary art and performance. But they also zero in on the homes, private lives, daily journeys and emotional interiorities of the various characters that inhabit them. While the stories in Once Removed draw from the undercurrents of the South African art world, their concerns and evocations are not limited to it.
“Once Removed is for readers who are familiar with the worlds of art and performance, and those for whom it is completely foreign. A reader doesn’t need to be immersed in the world of artists, critics, exhibitors, gallerists or academics to access the collection, and to enjoy the imbalances, precarity, hilarity, and possibilities represented in it,” explains Mann.
Part ironic realism, part experimental surrealism, these stories will matter differently, but equally significantly, to those inside and outside the world they evoke and inhabit.
After 9/11/2001, gendered narratives of humiliation and revenge
proliferated in the U.S. national imaginary. How is it that gender,
which we commonly take to be a structure at the heart of individual
identity, is also at stake in the life of the nation? What do we
learn about gender when we pay attention to how it moves and
circulates between the lived experience of the subject and the
aspirations of the nation in war? What is the relation between
national sovereignty and sovereign masculinity? Through examining
practices of torture, extra-judicial assassination, and first
person accounts of soldiers on the ground, Bonnie Mann develops a
new theory of gender. It is neither a natural essence nor merely a
social construct. Gender is first and foremost an operation of
justification which binds the lived existence of the individual
subject to the aspirations of the regime. Inspired by a
reexamination of the work of Simone de Beauvoir, the author exposes
how sovereign masculinity hinges on the nation's ability to tap
into and mobilize the structure of self-justification at the heart
of masculine identity. At the national level, shame is repeatedly
converted to power in the War on Terror through hyperbolic displays
of agency including massive aerial bombardment and practices of
torture. This is why, as Mann demonstrates, the phenomenon of
gender itself demands a four-dimensional analysis that moves from
the phenomenological level of lived experience, through the
collective life of a people expressed in the social imaginary and
the operations of language, to the material relations that prevail
in our times.
This collection of previously published essays by one of the
world's most distinguished experts in international law provides a
detailed analysis of some of the most complex issues to have
occupied international lawyers over the last quarter century.
Drawing on a lifetime's experience and knowledge, Mann provides
uncompromising and sometimes controversial essays on a host of
topics, including the doctrine of Jus Cogens in international law,
Britain's Bill of Rights, international wrong, state corporations
in international relations, the Barcelona Traction case, investment
treaties, the Aminoil arbitration, uniform statutes, the State
Immunity Act of 1978, inviolability, public rights, compound
interest as an item of damage, and the judicial recognition of
unrecognized states.
Diego Luna directs this biographical drama based on the life and
achievements of Mexican American civil rights activist and labour
movement leader Cesar Chavez. The film shows how Chavez (Michael
Peña) went from being just another Latino American farm worker to a
passionate and respected spokesperson whose embrace of non-violent
means of protest led to the securing of a living wage for workers
like himself.
Animated comedy adventure featuring the voice talents of Jesse
Eisenberg and Anne Hathaway. Blu (voiced by Eisenberg) is a rare
macaw living in a bookshop in small-town Minnesota. Believing
himself to be the last of his kind, he is thrilled to hear that a
female macaw of the same species has been spotted in South America.
Blu must now overcome his social ineptitude and fear of flying and
set out for Rio de Janeiro to track down the feisty and independent
Jewel (Hathaway) and try to win her heart.
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The Kingdom/Jarhead (DVD)
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The Kingdom (2007)
When a terrorist bomb detonates inside a Western housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, an international incident is ignited. While diplomats slowly debate equations of territorialism, FBI Special Agent Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx) quickly assembles an elite team and negotiates a secret five-day trip into Saudi Arabia to locate the madman behind the bombing. Upon landing in the desert kingdom, however, Fleury and his team discover Saudi authorities suspicious and unwelcoming of American interlopers into what they consider a local matter. Hamstrung by protocol, and with the clock ticking on their five days, the FBI agents find their expertise worthless without the trust of their Saudi counterparts who want to locate the terrorist in their homeland on their own terms. Fleury's crew finds a like-minded partner in Saudi Police Captain Al-Ghazi (Ashraf Barhom), who helps them navigate royal politics and unlock the secrets of the crime scene and the workings of an extremist, hell bent on further destruction.
Jarhead (2006)
An adaptation of former Marine Anthony Swofford's Gulf War memoir. Young recruit Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal) joins up with the US Marines (nicknamed 'Jarheads' because of their distinctive haircuts) on the eve of the 1990 Gulf War. After a brutal spell in boot camp, during which Swofford and his fellow recruits are systematically geared up for the conflict, the Marines are dispatched to the deserts of the Persian Gulf to take part in a war that sees them required to do very little in the way of fighting. Bored and frustrated in the middle of nowhere, the young soldiers resort to a macabre sense of humour as they wait for the war to happen to them.
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Rio 2 (Blu-ray disc)
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Animated adventure sequel featuring the voice talents of Jesse
Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Jamie Foxx and Andy Garcia. Following
their romantic escapades in the first film, Blu (voice of
Eisenberg) and Jewel (Hathaway) are now happily married macaws with
three children. Adventure lies in wait for the fledgling family
when they leave Rio de Janeiro for the wilds of the Amazon to visit
relatives. Not only does Jewel's estranged father Eduardo (Garcia)
intimidate Blu - who is already out of his comfort zone so far from
the city - but Nigel (Jermaine Clement), his nemesis, returns with
his heart set on revenge. To complicate matters further, Blu and
Jewel learn that the fragile habitat of the Amazon faces a grave
threat. Can the couple save the environment that nourishes the
creatures they visit and cope with the many challenges thrown their
way?
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A Dangerous Man (DVD)
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Action thriller starring Steven Seagal. After serving a 15-year
sentence for a crime that he did not commit, Shane Daniels (Seagal)
is released from jail with a formal pardon from the State of
Arizona. But within hours of claiming his freedom, he becomes
witness to a botched illegal diamond deal in which members of both
the Mexican Mafia and the State Troopers are killed, leaving behind
them a terrified girl and a bag of money. Shane must now fight his
way through a corrupt town and get the girl to safety in the only
way he knows how...
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