Is it possible to have it all? If by 'all' you mean irritants building up into one great mess, then that's exactly what Cassandra French has got
- a mother who's under house arrest for fraud, a boring job as a lawyer for a Hollywood film studio, & three men in her basement. Actually, the three men are proving to be the least of her worries.
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Cassandra's sheltered life is transformed when she gets employed as governess to the Baron's children. He draws her into games where lust can feed on the erotic charge of submission. Games where only he knows the rules & where unusual pleasures can flourish. ...

Two cockney brothers suffer a crisis of conscience as they try to sort out their financial problems by turning to crime. Director Woody Allen's tale stars Ewan Mc Gregor & Colin Farrell as the brothers, Ian & Terry Blaine, both eager to move on from their cash-strapped existence to brighter & better things. Ian (Mc Gregor) helps run the family restaurant business, but dreams of finding the right opportunity to spread his wings, while Terry (Farrell), unable to make enough as a mechanic, supplements his income by gambling whenever he gets the opportunity. While Ian's life takes an upturn when he meets actress Angela Stark (Hayley Atwell), Terry's goes into freefall when he loses 90, 000 pounds to a loan shark, who promises serious injury on default. When the boys' uncle Howard (Tom Wilkinson) turns up, offering a chance to clear Terry's debt in return for making an old business partner 'disappear', the brothers are suddenly faced with a major moral dilemma. ...

Young Jane
- or Jenny, as she was known
- is a girl with a head full of questions that no one seems able to answer. But the

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Since his death in 1989, John Cassavetes has become increasingly renowned as a cinematic hero
- a maverick loner who fought the
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A reference to terms & models used in semiotics. Based on the theory evolved by the Paris School of Semiotics, it combines a wordbook with explanation of theory & practical illustrations. In the final section of the book there is a semiotic analysis of the fairy-tale, Sleeping Beauty. ...