Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A newly qualified vet with a heart of gold takes over an old practice & becomes rivals with another vet ...

Thacker's discourse on the intersection of horror & philosophy is utterly original & utterly captivating Thomas Ligotti author of The Conspiracy Against the Human Race The world is increasingly unthinkable a world of planetary disasters emerging pandemics & the looming threat of extinction In this book Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthinkable world To confront this idea is to confront the limit of our ability to understand the world in which we live
- a central motif of the horror genre In the Dust of This Planet explores these relationships between philosophy & horror In Thacker's hands philosophy is not academic logic-chopping; instead it is the thought of the limit of all thought especially as it dovetails into occultism demonology & mysticism Likewise Thacker takes horror to mean something beyond the focus on gore & scare tactics but as the under-appreciated genre of supernatural horror in fiction film comics & music
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It was the best of times it was the worst of times' Maligned misunderstood & fetishized the 1980's stands as the decade when post-modern life began in the west & London was at the epicenter of this shift An explosion of creativity took place against a backdrop of radical social change London became a city of tribes The vast youth culture categories of the preceding decades shattered into shards It was the decade that sub-culture as a way of life reached it's zenith before giving way to it's inevitable scene surfing conclusion Ridgers documented this cultural moment obsessively Punks post-punks cyber-punks gothic punks mods hard mods Trojan skins racist skins ska reggae dub early electronica synth pop acid house happy hardcore Blitz Kids New Romantics Hip-Hop Rap Electro Break Beat Techno Rave
- these were all sub-cultural spaces with scenes attached in London in the 1980's Unlike now subcultures in the 1980's were not casual playthings
- they were a way of life for their participants They inspired profound loyalty They were a beautiful a doomed flowering of the hope for a better world Derek Ridger's exquisite street portrait photography has captured this creative decade beautifully

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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play New Iberia Louisiana Detective Dave Robicheaux (Tommy Lee Jones) is on the hunt for a serial killer who preys on young women Driving home from another gruesome crime scene Dave meets glamorous Hollywood star Elrod Sykes (Peter Sarsgaard) Sykes is in town shooting his new movie with backing from local crime kingpin Baby Feet Balboni (John Goodman) He tells Dave he saw a body lying in a swamp
- the decomposed corpse of a black man in chains The discovery brings memories hurtling out of Dave&s past He senses the two cases are linked But as Dave gets closer to the murderer the murderer gets closer to Dave & his family Actors Tommy Lee Jones John Goodman Peter Sarsgaard Kelly Macdonald Mary Steenburgen Justina Machado Ned Beatty & James Gammon Director Bertrand Tavernier Certificate 15 years & over Year 2009 Screen 169 Anamorphic Languages English Duration 1 hour & 57 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 A detective tracking a serial killer who preys on young women finds his investigation complicated by a glamorous Hollywood starlet & a ruthless crime kingpin in director Bertrand Tavernier&s adaptation of the James Lee Burke novel In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead Jerzy Kromolowski Mary Olson-Kromolowski & Tommy Lee Jones collaborate on the screenplay for the film which stars Jones John Goodman Peter Sarsgaard Ned Beatty & Tom Sizemore Actors Tommy Lee Jones John Goodman Peter Sarsgaard Kelly Macdonald Mary Steenburgen Justina Machado Ned Beatty & James Gammon Director Bertrand Tavernier Certificate 15 years & over Year 2009 Screen 169 Anamorphic Languages English Duration 1 hour & 57 minutes (approx) ...

The leading art theorist takes on art in the age of the Internet In the early twentieth century art & its institutions came under critique from a new democratic & egalitarian spirit The notion of works of art as sacred objects was decried & subsequently they would be understood merely as things This meant an attack on realism as well as on the traditional preservative mission of the museum Acclaimed art theorist Boris Groys argues this led to the development of "direct realism" an art that would not produce objects but practices (from performance art to relational aesthetics) that would not survive But for more than a century now every advance in this direction has been quickly followed by new means of preserving art's distinction In this major new work Groys charts the paradoxes produced by this tension & explores art in the age of the thingless medium the Internet Groys claims that if the techniques of mechanical reproduction gave us objects without aura digital production generates aura without objects transforming all its materials into vanishing markers of the transitory present ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play In 1942 Belarus is in the hands of Nazis & the local militia Sushenya is taken from his house in the middle of the night by Burov & his sidekick Voitik two partisan fighters hiding out in the hills & forest Sushenya is the only one of four captured rail workers who has been allowed to live by the occupying Germans after seemingly sabotaging the rail tracks With the village & even his wife turned against him as a collaborator Sushenya accepts what must happen next until the Germans suddenly appear & he is
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- given a second chance leaving space for doubt both on his betrayal & on the legitimacy of punishment by death The three & later two
- men walk in the wood exhausted fleeing death from the Nazis while discussing & living the moral dilemmas of treason heroism guilt & revenge Shot in sumptuous long takes & vibrant colour In the Fog ultimately questions the corruption of man's very humanity in the context of war Actors Vladimir Svirski Vlad Abashin Sergei Kolesov Directors Sergei Loznitsa Format PALLanguage Russian Subtitles English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 1


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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 Michael Wood travels by bus boat & train from Europe to India retracing the journey taken by the army of Alexander the Great Along the way he visits the Khyber Pass the Indus River & the Makran Desert investigating the myths which still surround one of the planet&s greatest historical figures ...

A story of grim comedy amid the apocalypse & a celebration of the sheer indestructibility of the human spirit in a nation run riot Michela Wrong's vision of Congo Zaire during the Mobutu years is incisive ironic & revelatory Mr Kurtz the colonial white master brought evil to the remote upper reaches of the Congo River A century after Conrad's Heart of Darkness' was first published Michela Wrong revisits the Congo during the turbulent era of Mobutu Sese Seko From the heart of Africa comes grotesque confusion pink-lipsticked rebel soldiers mingle with track-suited secret policemen in hotels where fin de siecle dinner parties are ploughing through vintage wines rather than leave them to the new regime Congo the African country richest in natural resources has institutionalised kleptomania Everyone is on the take Someone has even swiped one of the uranium rods from the country's only nuclear reactor Having presided over unprecedented looting of the country's wealth Mobutu like Kurtz retreated deep within the jungle to his palace of marble floors & gold taps A hundred years on & nothing has changed ...

n a lush green forest a sloth sleeps Can you see him? CLANG! Machines come to tear down the trees but the sloth still sleeps will he wake up? Turn the pages of this ingenious & stylish pop-up book which tells the story of one lazy sloth who hangs on in there as the forest is destroyed & then reborn 8 pages Strady Sophie ...