Benedict Cumberbatch
2) Walk With Me
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With unprecedented access, 'Walk With Me' takes us deep inside the world-famous monastery of Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh, and captures the life of a monastic community who have given up all their possessions for one common purpose - to practice the art of mindfulness. Filmed over three years, this visceral film is a meditation on a community determined to develop a deep sense of presence, not just for themselves but for all those they love....
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Patrick Melrose volume 2
Description
It's 1967, Lacoste, and the Melroses are hosting a dinner party for their friends in their chateau. However, it is also the time when eight-year-old Patrick's world is turned upside down after he endures a traumatic event, which will cloud his life forever.
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Patrick Melrose volume 3
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In 1990s England, we see Patrick, now thirty-one, clean and practicing law. The invitation to a high society event in the Cotswolds allows Patrick to see this decadent world through sober eyes for the first time and comes one-step closer to resolving his troubled childhood.
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Patrick Melrose volume 5
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It's 2005 and Patrick's life-long wish comes true with mixed results, which allows him to think about his future.
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Patrick Melrose volume 4
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It's 2003 and Patrick is now forty-four and married to Mary with two sons. Patrick may be off the heroin but is struggling with substance abuse when his ill mother makes an illicit request, and the Melrose family return to London to face the future.
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Series
Patrick Melrose volume 1
Description
Despite being in the grip of an all-consuming heroin addiction, Patrick flies from London to New York to collect his father's ashes. Assuring his friends that he will detox during the trip, Patrick indulges in a cocktail of drugs and alcohol in an attempt to supress his past.
9) Hawking
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A drama documenting the life and work of the theoretical physicist Professor Stephen Hawking who, despite being diagnosed with motor neuron disease at the age of 21, has galvanized the scientific world with his ground-breaking work on the nature of the universe. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock)
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Pub. Date
2018
Description
"Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike"-- Provided by publisher.
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Marvel Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Doctor Strange tampers with a risky forbidden spell that alters time and space and accidentally opens a gateway to the multiverse. Together with the Scarlet Witch and the unflappable Wong, Doctor Strange confronts countless dangers in strange and mysterious alternate realities to attempt to restore a single stable reality. As they travel through myriad different layers of the multiverse, they face down a new yet unsettlingly familiar adversary that...
12) War horse
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distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets; British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter....
15) Naples ’44
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
In 1943 a young British officer, Norman Lewis, entered a war-torn Naples with the American Fifth Army. Lewis began writing down everything that happened to him during his one-year stay, observing the complex social cauldron of a city that contrived unbelievable methods of survival on a daily basis. These notes turned into his masterpiece, a memoir titled NAPLES ‘44. Francesco Patierno's new documentary imagines Lewis returning many years later to...
16) Jerusalem
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
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National Geographic is proud to present Jerusalem, a large format 3D/2D film made for IMAX, giant screen, and digital cinemas that immerses audiences in this ancient city and the Holy Land as never before. Using the world's most advanced film technology, Jerusalem plunges audiences into the ancient alleys and vibrant neighborhoods of Jerusalem's Old City and soars with the first-ever large format aerial views of iconic sites cherished by billions...
17) The Grinch
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
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A re-telling of the classic tale about a grumpy old creature living in a cave on Mt. Crumpet who can't stand to see his neighbors in Whoville enjoying themselves. Things are especially bad at Christmas, when the Whos kick their merriment into high gear with fantastic celebrations. This year, the Grinch decides to dress up like Santa Claus on Christmas Eve and steal all the Christmas gifts and decorations so the Whos can't enjoy the season. What he...
19) Double blind
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"A dramatic and powerful novel reflecting on nature, nurture, inquiry, perception, and the myriad ways we try to understand what it means to be alive"-- Provided by publisher.
London. Olivia's connection to Francis, a committed naturalist living off the grid, is immediate and startling. Eager to involve her friend Lucy in her joy, Olivia introduces the two-- but Lucy has received shocking news of her own that binds the trio unusually close. Over...
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Criterion collection volume 1158
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Description
Jane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape--pulsating with both freedom and menace--that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the masculine psyche in The Power of the Dog, set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas Savage's novel. After a sensitive widow and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son move in with her gentle new husband, a tense battle of wills plays out between...