Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Life is a contact sport & football is life when three-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone & a dynamic acting ensemble explore the fortunes of the Miami Sharks in & Any Given Sunday& At the 50-yard line of this gridiron cosmos is Al Pacino as Tony D& Amato the embattled Sharks coach facing a full-on blitz of team strife plus a new marketing-savvy Sharks owner (Cameron Diaz) who&s sure Tony is way too old-school An injured quarterback (Dennis Quaid) a flashy bull-headed backup QB (Jamie Foxx) a slithery team doctor (James Woods) & a running back with an incentive-laden contract (LL Cool J) also provide some of the stories that zigzag like diagrams in a playbook Actors Al Pacino Cameron Diaz Dennis Quaid James Woods Jamie Foxx LL Cool J Matthew Modine Charlton Heston Ann-Margret Aaron Eckhart John C Mc Ginley & Lauren Holly Director Oliver Stone Certificate 15 years & over Year 2000 Screen Widescreen Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Duration 2 hours & 31 minutes (approx)
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Life is a contact sport & football is life when three-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone & a dynamic acting ensemble explore the fortunes of the Miami Sharks in & Any Given Sunday& At the 50-yard line of this gridiron cosmos is Al Pacino as Tony D& Amato the embattled Sharks coach facing a full-on blitz of team strife plus a new marketing-savvy Sharks owner (Cameron Diaz) who&s sure Tony is way too old-school An injured quarterback (Dennis Quaid) a flashy bull-headed backup QB (Jamie Foxx) a slithery team doctor (James Woods) & a running back with an incentive-laden contract (LL Cool J) also provide some of the stories that zigzag like diagrams in a playbook & Full Contact& Making Of Documentary from HBO 4 Sensational Music Videos From Jamie Foxx & LL Cool J Out-takes Gag Reel Including Football Out-Takes Triva Games Screen Tests & Auditions Extra Footage Including 16 Deleted Extended Scenes With Optional Commentary DVD-ROM Feature Grid Iron Challenge Trivia Game Weblinks Complete Theatrical Website Essays & Reviews From Screen To Script Virtual Edit Suite Actors Al Pacino Cameron Diaz Dennis Quaid James Woods Jamie Foxx LL Cool J Matthew Modine Charlton Heston Ann-Margret Aaron Eckhart John C Mc Ginley & Lauren Holly Director Oliver Stone Certificate 15 years & over Year 2000 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English ; French ; Italian ; Dutch ; Arabic ; Spanish ; German ; English For Hard Of Hearing Duration 2 hours & 31 minutes (approx)
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Life is a contact sport & football is life when three-time academy award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone & a dynamic acting ensemble explore the fortunes of the Miami Sharks in Any Given Sunday At the 50-year line of this gridiron cosmos is Al Pacino as Tony D& Amato the embattled Sharks coach facing a full-on blitz of team strife plus a new marketing-savvy Sharks owner (Cameron Diaz) who&s sure Tony is way too old school An injured quarterback (Dennis Quaid) a flashy bull-headed backup QB (Jamie Foxx) a slithery team doctor (James Woods) & a running back with an incentive-laden contract (LL Cool J) also provide some of the stories that zigzag like diagrams in a playbook & throughout there&s the awesome spectacle of motion sound & action orchestrated by Stone ...

When Andrew -- a second-h&-book dealer -- comes across a pile of photographs from police archives he decides to exhibit them But then the gallery is raided the day before the opening & the photos seized with surprising violence It soon becomes clear that someone somewhere wants to keep the images hidden Who? Why? & who -- in a world where kidnap subterfuge & even murder are the norm & where no one is safe or above suspicion -- can Andrew turn to for help? 'A sophisticated literary thriller set on the seamier fringe of Rome's gay scene a magnet for the lonely & displaced located a long way off the tourist trail' Guardian Charles Lambert writes as if his life depends on it He takes risks at every turn' Hannah Tinti Charles Lambert is a seriously good writer' Beryl Bainbridge A slow-burning beautifully written crime story that brings to life the Rome that tourists don't see' Daily Telegraph ...

Any Human Heart is William&s Boyd&s classic bestselling novel now available as a Penguin Essential for the first time Every life is both ordinary & extraordinary but Logan Mountstuart&s
- lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century
- contains more than its fair share of both As a writer who finds inspiration with Hemingway in Paris & Virginia Woolf in London as a spy recruited by Ian Fleming & betrayed in the war & as an art-dealer in &60s New York Logan mixes with the movers & shakers of his times But as a son friend lover & husband he makes the same mistakes we all do in our search for happiness Here then is the story of a life lived to the full
- & a journey deep into a very human heart Any Human Heart will be enjoyed by readers of Sebastian Faulks Nick Hornby & Hilary Mantel as well as lovers of the finest British & historical fiction around the world It was recently adapted for a major Channel 4 four-part drama series scripted by William Boyd & starring Kim Cattrall Gillian Anderson Jim Broadbent & Tom Hollander This edition features beautiful cover artwork from the television series & Astonishing touching extremely funny A brilliant evocation of a past era & an immensely readable story& Sunday Telegraph& Superb wonderful enjoyable& Guardian&A terrific journey through the twentieth century Thoroughly entertaining & enjoyable& Jeremy Paxman


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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play An adaptation of William Boyd&s best-selling novel Any Human Heart tells the story of Logan Mountstuart&s long & rackety life one which spans every decade of the twentieth century in all its fantastic & humdrum dangerous & tranquil tragic & humorous aspects The four films follow Logan from his time in Oxford; through literary market success with the publication of his &racy& novel & The Girl Factory&; through numerous affairs & two marriages; one tragic true love; adventures as a spy behind enemy lines; flirtations with Wallis Simpson; encounters with Ernest Hemingway Ian Fleming sexual scandal in the New York art scene; destitution in Pimlico; unlikely heroism to a final & perhaps even contented death Although it would appear to the outside that his life has been defined by a combination of random quantities of good & bad luck for Logan if he really looked closely it has probably been more accurately defined by sex While it is compelling pacy witty sexy emotional & clever it is also a brilliant & innovative charting of the history of the 20th Century Logan has the habit of popping up Zelig-like at pivotal moments in 20th Century history & teetering on the brink of immortality before inevitably plunging back into obscurity Logan&s journey touches on key moments & movements that still shape our times in the 21st Century the pre-war emergence of the working class power & the end of establishment complacency; the rise of European Fascism; the last global conflict that was World War 2; the zenith of American hegemony in the 1950s & 60s; the emergence of political terrorism (the Baader-Meinhof Gang); the squalor & degradation of urban poverty; the long shadow of the 2nd World War; & finally the serenity & wisdom that a long fully-lived life can provide ...

Every great creation starts with an idea but where does that special spark come from? What do you do when your mind goes blank? & how do you recognise the ideas that are worth taking further? This is a book about how to have ideas
- on your own or with other people
- & how to nurture them Packed with tips mind games & practical techniques Rob Eastaway provides down-to-earth insights on how to think creatively & solve problems in your professional & personal life Find out how to solve problems more effectively evaluate & build on ideas brainstorm successfully overcome idea killers turn ideas into actions

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play This timely powerful drama based on real-life stories & staged in promenade amongst a captivated audience is performed by a cast made up of professional actors & ex-offenders including former inmates of HMP Wormwood Scrubs & HMP Pentonville It is gritty funny brutal & ultimately poignant ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Los Angeles trucker Phil Beddoe (Clint Eastwood) is less than delighted to win orangutan Clyde in a fight Together the unlikely twosome set out to track down Phil&s lost love a country & western singer (Sandra Locke) Along the way they get involved in various brawls & escapades 2 Sequel to & Every Which Way But Loose& in which trucker come street-fighter Philo Beddoe (Clint Eastwood) once more hits the road looking for a well-paid brawl The purse this time round is offered by an underworld king whose boxing champion has gained such a reputation that no-one dare face him Philo however knows no fear & can always rely on the back-up of his trusty orang-utan sidekick Clyde ...

Anya embarrassed by her Russian immigrant family & self-conscious about her body has given up on fitting in at school but falling down a well & making friends with the ghost there just may be worse ...