THE MULTIMILLION COPY BESTSELLER It is 1941 & Captain Antonio Corelli a young Italian officer is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces At first he is ostracised by the locals but as a conscientious but far from fanatical soldier whose main aim is to have a peaceful war he proves in time to be civilised humorous
- & a consumate musician When the local doctor's daughter's letters to her fiance
- & members of the underground
- go unanswered the working of the eternal triangle seems inevitable But can this fragile love survive as a war of bestial savagery gets closer & the lines are drawn between invader & defender?


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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 In keeping with Hollywood&s time-honored tradition of turning celebrated novels into cinematic spectacles director John Madden brings Louis de Berniere&s acclaimed 1994 work & Captain Corelli&s Mandolin& to life Set on the Greek island of Cephalonia in 1940 the film tells the story of the beautiful Pelagia (Penelope Cruz) who lives with her father Dr Iannis (John Hurt) & is engaged to local fisherman Mandras (Christian Bale) When Mandras leaves the island to fight for his country against the approaching German army Pelagia is left behind to worry & wait for a letter which never arrives In the meantime the Italian army occupies Cephalonia & Pelagia & Dr Iannis receive a new visitor into their home Captain Antonio Corelli (Nicolas Cage) a romantic opera lover with a passion for playing the mandolin annoys Pelagia with his free-spirited personality but it is this charm that eventually wins her heart Soon the two are head-over-heels in love only for Mandras to return ...

New cover reissue in million copy best-selling Duck in the Truck series Ahoy there sailors!' comes a cry Is this a boating trip I spy?' If there are seas to be exploredmake way CAPTAIN DUCK'S ON BOARD! As usual with Duck things get terribly out of hand when he takes the long-suffering Frog & Sheep on a trip out to sea in Goat's boat! But although Duck likes to think of himself as an expert sailor he soon runs into problems & the friends have to spend a long cold night out on the rolling waves ...

Nintendo characters come to life in new ways as amiibo interactive figures that have the ability to communicate with multiple specially designed games by just touching them to the Wii U Game Pad controller Nintendo first series of amiibo characters will be compatible with Super Smash Bros for Wii U with further games to be announced FEATURES Amiibo can interact with compatible games when players touch them to the Wii U Game Pad controller reading character data into games & saving data to the figure Different compatible games will use amiibo in different ways Super Smash Bros for Wii U will be the first game to use amiibo Games like Mario Kart 8 Mario Party 10 Captain Toad Treasure Tracker & Yoshi’s Woolly World are also planned to support amiibo In Super Smash Bros players can battle alongside or against their amiibo characters leveling them up in the process They can then bring them to a friend who has a Wii U & the game to show off how they’ve trained & customized their characters A new NFC readerwriter which is being designed for Nintendo 3DS is scheduled to launch in 2015 ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Unconventional family drama from writer-director Matt Ross Viggo Mortensen stars as Ben a father raising his six children Bodevan (George Mac Kay) Kielyr (Samantha Isler) Vespyr (Annalise Basso) Rellian (Nicholas Hamilton) Zaja (Shree Crooks) & Nai (Charlie Shotwell) in the isolated forests of the Pacific Northwest As a result of their rural location the children have been sheltered from popular culture supplemented with Ben's rigorous home-schooling which imparts to them a left-leaning education in which Noam Chomsky's birthday is celebrated as if it's Christmas When a tragic event propels the family unit into reality they find themselves much at odds with their fellow citizens & Ben's parenting methods are scrutinised The film was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance By an Actor in a Motion Picture
- Drama (Mortensen) the BAFTA for Best Leading Actor (Mortensen) & the Academy Award for Best Actor (Mortensen) Actors Viggo Mortensen George Mac Kay Samantha Isler Steve Zahn Frank Langella Directors Matt Ross Format PAL Blu-ray Language English Region Region B2 (Read more about DVDBlu-ray formats) Aspect Ratio 169
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In August 1970 Elton John achieved overnight fame after a rousing performance at the Troubadour in Los Angeles; over the next five years he was unstoppable scoring seven consecutive number 1 albums & sixteen Top 10 singles in America But behind his outre image & comedy glasses lay a desperately shy individual conflicted about his success his sexuality & his narcotic indulgences In 1975 at the apex of his fame John attempted suicide twice yet after announcing his retirement in 1977 at the age of thirty as well as coming out as a gay man he gradually found his way back to music Captain Fantastic is an intimate look at the rise fall & rise again of John's fame-&-drug fuelled decade with a final section bringing his life up to the present ...

Welcome to Cap'n Firebeard's School for Pirates
- the fiercest baddest school on all the Seven Seas Step aboard me hearties & learn
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It's blazing science fiction adventure starring Dominic Flandry
- Science Fiction's James Bond
- in the Fifth Volume of the

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No longer a brash young ensign Captain Dominic Flandry has risen in rank but now appreciates fully that the Terran empire is old & tired wanting to be left in peace But the enemies it has made & the competing empire of Merseia will give it no peace Too evenly matched for open warfare not to destroy them both the opponents engage in subtle thrust & counter-thrust feint & counter-feint with Flandry in the thick of it Though through this & his succeeding adventures he will struggle gloriously & snatch victory from the alien jaws of defeat Flandry is yet a tragic figure a man who knows too much history who knows that battle scheme & even betray as he will in the end it will mean nothing For with the relentlessness of physical law the Empire is falling & the Long Night is approaching If that darkness is not to fall in his own lifetime if the things he cares about are to be saved he must do what he can & anyone human or alien who gets in his way will most definitely regret it! ...

Giles Andreae & Russell Ayto's super-fun Captain Flinn & the Pirate Dinosaurs Smugglers Bay! Captain Flinn is Puffin's favourite pirate He has swashbuckled his way through THREE pirate dinosaur adventures & lived to tell the tale But now he faces his toughest challenge yet Captain T Rex & his pirate crew are smuggling sausages out of a secret cove & their favourites are CHILDREN CHIPOLATAS
- gulp! Watch out Captain Flinn! But this time the Captain T Rex has bitten off more than he can chew & wily Captain Flinn & his friends soon teach him a lesson he won't forget Giles Andreae is an award-winning children's author & has written both fiction titles & best-selling picture books His picture book The Lion Who Wanted to Dance won The Federation of Children's Book Award in the best picture book category in 1998 However he is probably most famous as the creator of the phenomenally successful violet Ronnie Britain's favourite stickman Giles lives in Notting Hill with his wife & three young children Russell has illustrated books by prolific children's authors such as Ian Whybrow & Cressida Cowell The Witch's Children was shortlisted for the Greenaway last year & this year The Witch's Children & the Queen is on the Smarties shortlist Russell lives in Penzance Cornwall Don't miss the other Captain Flinn picture books
- they're all rip-roaring fun! Captain Flinn & the Pirate Dinosaurs; Captain Flinn & the Pirate Dinosaurs Missing Treasure!; Captain Flinn & the Pirate Dinosaurs Smugglers Bay!; Captain Flinn & the Pirate Dinosaurs The Magic Cutlass And Giles Andreae's brilliant book with illustrator Korky Paul Sir Scallywag & the Golden Underpants

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