Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A personal social commentary from internationally acclaimed director Wim Wenders investigating anxiety & disillusionment in post 911 America After years of living abroad with her American missionary father Lana (Michelle Williams) returns to the United States to begin her studies But instead of focusing on her education Lana sets out to find her only other living relative
- her uncle Paul her deceased mother&s brother A Vietnam veteran Paul is a reclusive vagabond with deep emotional war wounds A tragic event witnessed by the two unites them in a common goal to rectify a wrong & takes them on a journey of healing discovery & kinship Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2004WINNER of the UNESCO Award Venice Film Festival 2004 Actors Michelle Williams John Diehl Shaun Toub Wendell Pierce Richard Edson Burt Young Jeris Poindexter Matthew Kimbrough & Rhonda Stubbins White Director Wim Wenders Certificate 15 years & over Year 2004 Screen Widescreen 169 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Duration 2 hours (approx)

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Dazzling hallucinatory stories by Sara Gallardo a rediscovered Argentinian contemporary of Garcia Marquez An old man wakes up one morning to find that his beloved garden the envy of all his neighbours is floating away
- with him on board; a bored young woman decides to start a new double life in Buenos Aires
- with the useful prop of a spare head she keeps in her closet; a meek German missionary leaves Paraguay for the Pampas completely unprepared for what he will encounter there at night Land of Smoke is the first English translation of this recently rediscovered major Argentinian writer Dazzling & hallucinatory the stories collected here recall the masters of magical realism
- but with Gallardo's distinctive idiosyncratic slant


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SHORTLISTED FOR ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 EDWARD STANFORD AWARD A thrilling & dangerous adventure through Arunachal Pradesh one of the world's least explored places 'A fabulously thrilling journey through a beguiling land' Joanna Lumley ' With tremendous verve & determination Antonia plunges through an extraordinary world Thank heavens she survived to tell this vivid & thoughtful tale' Ted Simon author of Jupiter's Travels 'A tale of delight & exuberance
- & one I'd thoroughly recommend Bolingbroke-Kent proves a great travelling companion
- compassionate spirited & with a sharp eye for human oddity' Benedict Allen author of Edge of Blue Heaven & Into the Abyss 'A transformative journey that gripped me from the very first page' Alastair Humphreys author of The Boy Who Biked the World & Microadventures' Remote mountainous & forbidding here shamans still fly through the night hidden valleys conceal portals to other worlds yetis leave footprints in the snow spirits & demons abound & the gods are appeased by the blood of sacrificed beasts' A mountainous state clinging to the far north-eastern corner of India Arunachal Pradesh
- meaning 'land of the dawn-lit mountains'
- has remained uniquely isolated Steeped in myth & mystery not since pith-helmeted explorers went in search of the fabled ' Falls of the Brahmaputra' has an outsider dared to traverse it Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent sets out to chronicle this forgotten corner of Asia Travelling some 2000 miles she encounters shamans lamas hunters opium farmers fantastic tribal festivals & little-known stories from the Second World War In the process she discovers a world & a way of living that are on the cusp of changing forever 'A beautifully written exciting & revealing book that harks back to a golden age of travel writing' Lois Pryce author of Revolutionary Ride



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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 An all-new chapter of horror has arrived Now that zombies have taken over the world the living have built a walled-in city to keep the dead out But all&s not well where it&s most safe as a revolution plans to overthrow the city leadership & the zombies are turning into more advanced creatures George A Romero&s Land of the Dead is the acclaimed director&s long awaited return to the genre he invented BE SCARED ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play With 2005&s LAND OF THE DEAD George A Romero positions the bulk of his story in a giant skyscraper which houses the last humans left on the planet & the film appears to be Romero&s commentary on the post-911 political landscape The zombies only bother crews who venture outside the makeshift city for supplies but the people are kept sedated by their leader the irascible Kaufman (Dennis Hopper) who exaggerates their threat What Kaufman doesn&t realise is that the zombies are learning skills they half-remember from their old selves leading to some impressively blood-soaked scenes of tumult ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The crew & passengers of the crashed spacecraft Spindrift return for the second & final instalment of Irwin Allen&s legendary sci-fi series Land of the Giants Captain Steve Burton (Gary Conway) leads the team of survivors as they continue to fight for survival on the hostile giant planet where they are stranded With the totalitarian government&s Special Investigations Department out to seize the &little people& at every turn the survivors have their work cut out for them as they attempt to avoid capture & return to Earth A world of science-fiction & adventure awaits you in the Land Of The Giants Episodes comprise 1 The Inside Rail 2 Chamber Of Fear 3 The Mechanical Man 4 Collector&s Item 5 Giants & All That Jazz 6 Six Hours To Live 7 The Unsuspected 8 A Place Called Earth 9 Deadly Pawn 10 Land Of The Lost 11 Every Dog Needs A Boy 12 The Clones 13 Comeback 14 Nightmare 15 Home Sweet Home 16 Our Man O& Reilly 17 Panic 18 Pay the Piper 19 The Secret City Of Limbo 20 Doomsday 21 Wild Journey 22 The Deadly Dart 23 Graveyard Of Fools 24 A Small War 25 The Marionettes Actors Gary Conway Don Matheson Stefan Arngrim Don Marshall Deanna Lund Heather Young & Kurt Kasznar Certificate PG Year 1968 Languages English Duration 20 hours & 20 minutes (approx) ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Debuting in 1968 & lasting just two all-too-brief series Land Of The Giants the original science-fictionadventure series created by sci-fi visionary Irwin Allen has far outlived its initial run Taking on a remarkable life of its own the show maintained an astonishing degree of popularity spawning worldwide fan clubs newsletters & convention appearance Now for the first time in the UK the first series on this cult classic comes to DVD in a wonderful 7 disc set which

Includes:: some fantastic Special Features! Actors Gary Conway Don Matheson Stefan Arngrim Don Marshall Deanna Lund Heather Young & Kurt Kasznar Certificate PG Year 1968
- 1969 Screen Fullscreen 1331 Languages English Duration 22 hours (approx)


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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 From the unchallenged master of 1960s small screen sci-fi Irwin Allen presents his boldest & most expensive show Land of the Giants Premiering in 1968 Giants has built up a devoted fan base over the past four decades thanks to its heady mix of mind-blowing special effects suspense & pure escapism It&s 1983 & sub-orbital spaceship the Spindrift is en route from Los Angeles to London Mid-flight the craft is drawn into a terrifying space storm forcing it to crash on a hostile planet where &little people& are hunted down by giants Join Captain Steve Burton & his crew & passengers as they battle for their lives in this complete collection of all 51 episodes of Land of the Giants! Actors Gary Conway Don Matheson Stefan Arngrim Don Marshall Deanna Lund Heather Young & Kurt Kasznar Certificate PG Year 1968
- 1970 Screen 43 Languages English
- Mono Subtitles English Duration 42 hours (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 Space-time vortexes suck Will Ferrell stars as has-been scientist Dr Rick Marshall sucked into one & spat back through time Way back Now Marshall has no weapons few skills & questionable smarts to survive in an alternate universe full of marauding dinosaurs & fantastic creatures from beyond our world-a place of spectacular sights & super-scaled comedy known as the Land of the Lost Sucked alongside him for the adventure are crack-smart research assistant Holly (Anna Friel) & a redneck survivalist (Danny Mc Bride) named Will Chased by T rex & stalked by painfully slow reptiles known as Sleestaks Marshall Will & Holly must rely on their only ally-a primate called Chaka (Jorma Taccone)
- to navigate out of the hybrid dimension Escape from this routine expedition gone awry & they&re heroes Get stuck & they&ll be permanent refugees in the Land of the Lost Based on the classic television series created by Sid & Marty Krofft Land of the Lost is directed by Brad Silberling & produced by Jimmy Miller & Sid & Marty Krofft Actors Will Ferrell Anna Friel Danny Mc Bride Bobb&e J Thompson & Jorma Taccone Director Brad Silberling Certificate 12 years & over Year 2009 Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; Icelandic ; Arabic Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 37 minutes (approx)

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A Kondansha Comics trade paperback original--Colophon 200 pages 1 Illustrations unspecified Ichikawa Haruko ...