Tender downbeat British comedy directed by Damien O& Donnell (& East is East&) & starring Michael Sheen as Colin a gentle rather naïve shop owner who decides to give up everything to travel across England&s heartlands in pursuit of his first love & his dignity His wife Sandra (Jane Robbins) has left him for the captain of his darts team & taken off with him to Blackpool (&the & Las Vegas of the North&) for a national darts competition Colin hops aboard his moped & sets off to track her down encountering a string of colourful characters along the way Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play ...

Long before she was the Queen of Hearts Catherine Pinkerton was just a girl who wanted to fall in love Catherine may be one of the most desired girls in Wonderland & a favorite of the unmarried King of Hearts but her interests lie elsewhere A talented baker all she wants is to open a shop with her best friend But according to her mother such a goal is unthinkable for the young woman who could be the next queen Then Cath meets Jest the handsome & mysterious court joker For the first time she feels the pull of true attraction At the risk of offending the king & infuriating her parents she & Jest enter into an intense secret courtship Cath is determined to define her own destiny & fall in love on her terms But in a land thriving with magic madness & monsters fate has other plans From New York Times bestselling author of The Lunar Chronicles Marissa Meyer comes a vision of Wonderland like none you've seen before telling the untold story of the girl who would the notorious Queen of Hearts ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A beautiful supernatural thriller set in an elite Danish boarding school Twins Sofie & Sebastian (Sebastian Jessen & Julie Zangenberg Borgen) are no ordinary students They were born with a curse & carry a dark & fatal secret in order to live they need to suck the energy out of other people However if they don t stop their sucking in time their victims will burn to death Sofie & Sebastian try to find a way to overcome their curse but their new life at the school does not make it easy for them especially as they have to contend with other more normal teen emotions However the siblings are not the only ones with secrets A mystery that dates back to the year 1666 emerges with elements of sin life death & mysterious powers ...

Lady Alexia Maccon soulless is at it again only this time the trouble in the air is not her fault When a mad ghost threatens the queen Alexia is on the case following a trail that leads her deep into her husband's past Top that off with a sister who has joined the suffragette movement (shocking!) Madame Lefoux's latest mechanical invention & a plague of zombie porcupines
- & Alexia barely has time to remember she just happens to be eight months pregnant Will Alexia be able to figure out who is trying to kill Queen Victoria before it's too late? Is it the vampires again or is there a traitor lurking about in wolf's clothing? & do they really have to take up residence in Lord Akeldama's second best closet? Also available as a manga adaptation
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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 A menacing & magical Faustian tale of Jamie (Jim Sturgess) born with a heart-shaped birthmark on his face & living in a part of London&s East End notorious for gang violence When his mother is viciously murdered the media report it as a hoodie wearing a devil mask But Jamie soon realizes the thugs aren&t wearing disguises at all; they really are demons & hell on earth is beginning to plague the capital city ...

Drama following a group of friends in London as they search for happiness in their relationships & jobs Features the complete first & second series ...

An important new book by one of the Britain's great liberal thinkers Hearts & Minds is part memoir part political history & part history of ideas In it former Cabinet minister Oliver Letwin explains how the central ideas & policies of the modern Conservative party came into being how they have played out over the period from Mrs Thatcher to Mrs May & what needs to happen next in order to make the country a better place to live Far from being a sugar-coated version of events Letwin tells a story that he hopes will persuade readers that politicians are capable of recognising their mistakes & learning from them
- & will show that social & economic liberalism if correctly conceived are capable of addressing the issues that confront us today The book also describes Letwin's own journey from a remarkable childhood with American academic parents via Margaret Thatcher's policy unit into the very centre of first the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition & then the Cameron government where as Minister for Government Policy & then Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster every piece of government policy crossed his desk It

Includes:: Letwin's personal reflections on two devastating electoral events the EU referendum & the general election of June 2017


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FEATURED ON BBC RADIO 4 'START THE WEEK' Set against the colourful background of the entire campaign for women to win the vote Hearts & Minds tells the remarkable & inspiring story of the suffragists' march on London 1913 the last long summer before the war The country is gripped by suffragette fever These impassioned crusaders have their admirers; some agree with their aims if not their forceful methods while others are aghast at the thought of giving any female a vote Meanwhile hundreds of women are stepping out on to the streets of Britain They are the suffragists non-militant campaigners for the vote on an astonishing six-week protest march they call the Great Pilgrimage Rich & poor young & old they defy convention risking jobs family relationships & even their lives to persuade the country to listen to them This is a story of ordinary people effecting extraordinary change By turns dangerous exhausting & exhilarating the Great Pilgrimage transformed the personal & political lives of women in Britain for ever Jane Robinson has drawn from diaries letters & unpublished accounts to tell the inside story of the march against the colourful background of the entire suffrage campaign Fresh & original full of vivid detail & moments of high drama Hearts & Minds is both funny & incredibly moving important & wonderfully entertaining ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play In the late seventies celebrated director Francis Ford Coppola & his cast & crew ventured into the dense jungles of the Philippines to begin work on what would eventually become his masterpiece Apocalypse Now But the journey from page to screen soon spiralled into a hellish life-threatening nightmare that echoed the film&s narrative Plagued with adversity one of the most influential films ever made had one of the most notorious shoots in cinema history that few survived unscathed Compiled from rare on set footage filmed by Coppola&s wife Eleanor & interviews with the cast Hearts Of Darkness is the ultimate feature-length documentary capturing the explosive events that lead to Apocalypse Now becoming an acknowledged classic ...

The Hearts of Iron series has become renowned for being the biggest most detailed & complete strategic game series on World War 2 ever made Hearts of Iron 3 will follow that tradition closely while focusing on satisfying veteran players through a multitude of brand new features & systems including a huge map with more than 10000 provinces Play as any nation from 1936 to 1948 more than 150 countries to choose from Control the oceans with aircraft carriers submarines & battleships & use your air force to defend your skies support your naval & ground forces & to bomb your enemies Thousands of historically accurate real-world military commanders & politicians Realistic military command AI with unprecedented levels of interaction In-depth diplomatic & political system Historical accuracy combined with an unparalleled level of freedom of choice More than 10000 land provinces makes the game five times more detailed than Heart Of Iron 2 & the most detailed depiction of World War 2 ever made Customise your divisions in detail with more than 20 types of brigades New economic system makes it possible to buy weapons from abroad Mobilisation & reserves gives the option of surprise attacks Blitzkrieg made real Government-in-exile makes it possible to continue to struggle from abroad with underground movements & uprisings against the oppressing power Strategic warfare system makes it more important to defend the skies & oceans against foreign attacks
- leaving cities open to enemy bombing will now be devastating A completely new intelligence system with several types of intelligence sources makes it possible to get information about enemy reserves & troop movements Assign troops to "theatres" on the map to fight two-front wars more successfully The new AI system & more detailed map will allow for more strategic decisions Flexible technology system with hundreds of categories where major powers get their own unique attributes Minimum Requirements Windows 2000 XP Vista 24 G Hz Intel Pentium IV AMD 3500 (Quad Core) or equivalent 2GB RAM2GB HDD Spacen Vidia Ge Force 8800 ATi Radeon X1900 or equivalent Sound Card Direct X 90
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