Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Based on real events The Children of Huang Shi is a sweeping but intimate story set against war-torn China in the 1930&s The film centers on a young English journalist (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) an American nurse (Radha Mitchell) & the leader of a Chinese partisan group (Chow Yun Fat) who meet in desperate & unexpected circumstances Together they rescue 60 orphaned children leading them on an extraordinary journey across hundreds of miles of treacherous terrain through snow-covered mountains & an unforgiving desert Along the way they discover the true meaning of love responsibility & courage Making Of Stills Gallery Actors Yun-Fat Chow Jonathan Rhys Meyers Radha Mitchell Michelle Yeoh Guang Li Lin Ji Matt Walker Anastasia Kolpakova Ping Su Imai Hideaki Sciichiro Hashimoto Shinichi Takashima Xing Mang Ruixiang Zhu & Yuelong Fang Director Roger Spottiswoode Certificate 15 years & over Year 2008 Languages English Duration 2 hours (approx) ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The man with the patch is back Call him Snake Kurt Russell rejoins filmmakers John Carpenter & Debra Hill to do to the Big Orange what they did to the Big Apple in Escape From New York
- with even more futuristic thrills & slam-bang action! Into the 96-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake Plissken (Russell) His job wade through LA&s ruined landmarks to retrieve a doomsday device Don&t miss the excitement as Snake surfs Wilshire Blvd shoots hoops at the Coliseum dive bombs the Happy Kingdom theme park & mixes it up with a wild assortment of friends fiends & foes (Stacy Keach Steve Buscemi Peter Fonda George Corraface Cliff Robertson Pam Grier & more) Actors Kurt Russell Michelle Forbes Pam Grier Peter Fonda Peter Jason Stacy Keach Steve Buscemi Valeria Golino Cliff Robertson Jeff Imada Georges Corraface AJ Langer Bruce Campbell Robert Carradine Leland Orser & Breckin Meyer Director John Carpenter Certificate 15 years & over Year 1996 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages German Subtitles Arabic ; Bulgarian ; Czech ; Danish ; Dutch ; English ; English for the hearing impaired ; Finnish ; German ; Hungarian ; Icelandic ; Norwegian ; Polish ; Romanian ; Swedish ; Turkish Duration 1 hour & 36 minutes (approx)

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Years ago unbeknownst to the public the US government built a walled city on an abandoned island in the Pacific Ocean The purpose of this city was to house an experimental testing facility for a multitude of monsters that had been captured over the years In 2012 disaster struck & the island was evacuated & is now overrun by a multitude of different terrifying creatures & beings But something extremely valuable was left behind & some very rich people want it & the only way to get what they want is by sending a mercenary unit into the most dangerous place in the world Monster Island ...

Charlie & the Chocolate Factory meets A Night in the Museum in this the action-packed New York Times bestseller from Chris Grabenstein coauthor of I Funny & other bestselling series with James Patterson! Kyle Keeley is a huge fan of all games
- board games word games & particularly video games His hero Luigi Lemoncello the most famous & creative gamemaker in the world is the genius behind the town's new library that is as much a home for tech & trickery as it is for stories Kyle wins a spot at a puzzle-packed lock-in on the library's opening night But when morning comes the doors stay locked Kyle & the other kids must solve every clue & figure out every secret riddle to find the hidden escape route!
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The Pet Defenders Code 1 The safety of Planet Earth depends on you 2 Humans MUST NOT know the truth GOOD LUCK
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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 Children&s animated adventure featuring the voice talents of Brendan Fraser Rob Corddry & William Shatner On planet Baab Gary Supernova (voice of Corddry) is head of mission control at the Baabian Aeronautics & Space Administration (BASA) while his younger & more charismatic brother Scorch (Fraser) is the planet&s most famous astronaut The difference between the brothers is vast & even Gary&s son Kip (Jonathan Morgan Heit) favours his uncle over his father However when a failed rescue mission results in Scorch being held captive on planet Earth at the infamous Area 51 by Agent Shanker (Shatner) it&s left up to Gary to save the day Can he succeed in saving his brother & change his son&s opinion of him? ...

ESCAPE FROM POMPEII tells the story of a young boy fleeing Pompeii as Mount Vesuvius erupts This gripping first-hand account is perfect for children studying Pompeii at school An exciting story
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Travel back in time to the days of the Roman Empire & join Tranio the son of an actor & his friend Livia the baker&s daughter in witnessing the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79 Tranio like most Roman boys likes to watch whatever is going on tradesmen selling their goods ships unloading their exotic cargoes politicians making speeches in the forum But one hot August day a very different scene unfolds The ground begins to shake the sky to darken People run gasping for air Heading for the harbor Tranio & his friend Livia hide on a boat & witness one of the most terrifying moments in recorded history-the eruption of Mount Vesuvius & the destruction of their beloved city Pompeii ...

His mother is now serving a life sentence for her husband's murder Max's mission to learn the truth about his family takes him on an thrilling journey from London to the horrors of the terrifying Shadow Island in central America Escapology is dangerous but not nearly as dangerous as real life 288 pages none Adam Paul ...

A gripping & heartfelt war story from War Horse author & former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo Turned away by his own son Cessie's long-lost grandfather finds himself in the place he fears most
- a nursing home called Shangri-La Only Cessie loves him & is determined to help him escape & unravel the truth of his past A past that comes to him only in glimpses
- a lifeboat a tin of condensed milk a terrifying night on the beaches of Dunkirk in World War II -----Former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo needs no introduction He is one of the most successful children's authors in the country loved by children teachers & parents alike Michael has written more than forty books for children including the global hit War Horse which was made into a Hollywood film by Steven Spielberg in 2011 Several of his other stories have been adapted for screen & stage including My Friend Walter Why the Whales Came & Kensuke's Kingdom Michael has won the Whitbread Award the Smarties Award the Circle of Gold Award the Children's Book Award & has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times He started the charity Farms for City Children in 1976 with his wife Clare aimed at relieving the poverty of experience many young children feel in inner city & urban areas Michael is also a patron of over a dozen other charities Living in Devon listening to Mozart & working with children have provided Michael with the ideas & incentive to write his stories He spends half his life mucking out sheds with the children feeding sheep or milking cows; the other half he spends dreaming up & writing stories for children For me the greater part of writing is daydreaming dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out
- the writing down of it I always find hard But I love finishing it then holding the book in my hand & sharing my dream with my readers Michael received an OBE in December 2006 for his services to literature


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