The story of the life of Andy Kaufman the eccentric comedian who was best known as the mechanic Latka in the sitcom & Taxi& ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free blu-ray player in order to play Documentary profiling Philippe Petit the French performance artist who defied the law by walking a tightrope between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in 1974 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit&s daring but illegal high-wire routine performed between New York City&s World Trade Center&s twin towers in 1974 what some consider "the artistic crime of the century" Director James Marsh Certificate 12 years & over Year 2008 Screen Widescreen Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Duration 1 hour & 30 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 Your fear is his deadliest weapons Agents of an oil tycoon vanish while exploring a swamp marked for drilling The local sheriff investigates & faces a Seminole legend come to life Man-Thing a shambling swamp-monster whose touch burns those who feel fear ...

After half a century writes renowned Indonesia scholar Benedict Anderson " Pramoedya Ananta Toer has found a successor" Eka Kurniawan has been described as the "brightest meteorite" in Indonesia's new literary firmament the author of two remarkable novels whose sheer beauty elegance cosmopolitanism & ambition have brought comparisons not only to Pramoedya universally considered Indonesia's modern literary genius but also to Salman Rushdie Gabriel Garcia Marquez & Mark Twain A new generation of young literary figures in Indonesia emerging after decades of repressive dictatorship ended in 1998 is renewing the culture of the world's largest Muslim nation (and its language which was only nationally instituted in 1945) Kurniawan's Beauty Is a Wound & Man Tiger are the capstones of this movement A slim wry story set in an unnamed town near the Indian Ocean Man Tiger tells the story of two interlinked & tormented families & of Margio an ordinary half-city half-rural youngster who also happens to be half-man half-supernatural female white tiger (in many parts of Indonesia magical tigers protect good villages & families) At once elegant & bawdy experimental & political Man Tiger will help to establish Indonesia's new voice underrepresented in world literature while demonstrating the influence of world literature on Indonesian writers ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play This Box Set features the following Man To Man Live from his luxury apartment in London&s glittering East End Dean Learner club owner celebrity manager restaurateur entrepreneur & publisher of high-class gentlemen&s magazines invites you to meet some of his closest friends Man to Man Garth Marenhi&s Dark Place Celebrated horror genius Garth Marenghi introduces his long-lost television project a haunting medical drama set in Romford The best-selling writer is already known to hundreds as the creative force behind such classic chillers as The Ooze (can water die?) Afterbirth (a mutated placenta attacks Bristol) & Black Fang (rats learn to drive) Darkplace was originally filmed in the 1980s & has since earned a cult reputation as one of the most terrifying & radical television programmes ever made Even now Garth warns that the show which he describes as an effort to radicalise men&s minds may prove &too subversive too dangerous too damn scary& Actors Matthew Holness Richard Ayoade Matt Berry Alice Lowe Julian Barratt Stephen Merchant Graham Linehan & Noel Fielding Certificate 15 years & over Year 2004 2007 Screen Fullscreen 43 Languages English
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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 Opera singer Joan Spruance (Ellen Barkin) moves into her sister Andy&s (Beverly D& Angelo) Hollywood home after her own house is mysteriously ransacked But with Andy just about to publish a kiss-&-tell memoir which reveals uncomfortable information about her mobster ex-boyfriend (Harry Dean Stanton) the move only brings more trouble Joan then hires guard dog trainer Harry Bliss (Jack Nicholson) in an attempt to beef up the security & soon she & Bliss are embarking on an affair of their own in this light-hearted screwball comedy ...

'A valuable book for parents' Barbara Ellen Observer Why are boys three times more likely than girls to be suspended from school? & four times more likely to have behavioural difficulties? Why do men make up 75 of suicides & 95 of prisoners? From babyhood through school & adolescence to work & relationships fatherhood & old-age Man Up investigates the unique difficulties boys & men encounter today Through fascinating research & real-life case studies this book shows that change is possible & that there is room for men & boys to find greater fulfilment & happiness
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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 producer of Shaun of the Dead Hot Fuzz &38; Paul & the director of The Inbetweeners Movie comes MAN UP an honest heart-warming comedy about taking chances & rolling with the consequences One night two people on a first date like no other Meet Nancy (Lake Bell In A World) 34 single hung-over & exhausted by her well-meaning but clueless friends&8217; continual matchmaking Nancy is done with dating She&8217;s reached the end of her rope & is more than happy to hole up seal up & resign herself to a life alone That is until Jack (Simon Pegg Hot Fuzz) mistakes Nancy for his blind date at Waterloo Station & she does the unthinkable & just&8230; goes with it Because what if pretending to be someone else finally makes her man up & become her painfully honest awesomely unconventional & slightly unstable true self? Actors Simon Pegg Lake Bell Language English Number of discs 1 ...

Man Up! teaches the importance of self-reliance common sense & useful but often long-neglected skills With this book every man will be able to overcome whatever perils & difficulties he might encounter in the course of an adventurous life 160 pages bw line drawings throughout Green Rod ...