In Paris's P&232;re-Lachaise cemetery Jim Morrison's graffiti-scrawled tombstone is a place of pilgrimage for local devotees adolescent hedonists & wayward backpackers alike Found dead in his bathtub aged only 27 having achieved worldwide stardom as lead singer of The Doors Morrison was quickly immortalised amongst the rock & roll deity such as Hendrix & Joplin In death however this debauched 'rock poet' remained more stubbornly enigmatic than ever Who was the real Jim Morrison? Nihilist egoist shaman he was a master of self-creation A mosaic mythology of new-age hippy rhetoric French poetry & Nietszchean symbolism obscured a man trapped by the mythology that he had so carefully constructed around himself In this colourful & intimate biography Dylan Jones strips bare the skin-tight leather suit of Jim Morrison's Lizard King persona & offers a frank & honest appraisal of a much beloved & often-romanticised counter-cultural icon Mr Mojo is littered with little-known anecdotes from fellow stars spurned lovers & industry moguls It is a refreshingly honest portrait of a self-indulgent artist with a penchant for pageantry & public self-destruction ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Domestic comedy starring Michel Keaton as Jack Butler a traditional family man who is unfairly dismissed by the car engineering firm where he works To make ends meet his wife Caroline (Teri Garr) takes a job in an advertising firm & Jack finds himself at home with the kids Switching roles from breadwinner to house-husband comes as quite a shock as Jack struggles with the multi-tasking low self esteem & emotional stress associated with full-time parenthood ...

Kyle's imaginary friend from childhood is back with a vengeance Kyle hasn't seen Mr Mumbles in years & there's a good reason for that Mr Mumbles doesn't exist But now Kyle's imaginary friend is back & Kyle doesn't have time to worry about why Only one thing matters staying alive A major series from a fresh new talent brought to you by the publisher that put horror on the map ...

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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 Most wanted Most wasted During the mid 1980s Howard Marks (Rhys Ifans) had forty-three aliases eighty-nine phone lines & owned twenty-five companies throughout the world Whether bars recording studios or offshore banks all were money laundering vehicles serving the core activity dope dealing At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up to thirty tonnes of marijuana from Pakistan & Thailand to America & Canada & had contact with organisations as diverse as MI6 the CIA the IRA & the Mafia Actors Rhys Ifans Chloë Sevigny David Thewlis Elsa Pataky Crispin Glover Andrew Tiernan Omid Djalili & Jack Huston Director Bernard Rose Certificate 18 years & over Year 2010 Languages English Duration 2 hours & 1 minute (approx) ...

The incredible story of an unconventional life During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases eighty nine phone lines & owned twenty five companies throughout the world At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up to thirty tons of marijuanna & had contact with organisations as diverse as MI6 the CIA the IRA & the Mafia Following a worldwide operation by the Drug Enforcement Agency he was busted & sentenced to twenty-five years in prison at the Terre Haute Penitentiary Indiana He was released in April 1995 after serving seven years of his sentence Told with humour charm & candour Mr Nice is his own extraordinary story ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Most wanted Most wasted During the mid 1980s Howard Marks (Rhys Ifans) had forty-three aliases eighty-nine phone lines & owned twenty-five companies throughout the world Whether bars recording studios or offshore banks all were money laundering vehicles serving the core activity dope dealing At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up to thirty tonnes of marijuana from Pakistan & Thailand to America & Canada & had contact with organisations as diverse as MI6 the CIA the IRA & the Mafia ...

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 man close to death ponders the many lives he might have led in this fantasy from director & screenwriter Jaco van Dormael 117-year-old Nemo Nobody (Jared Leto) is ill & facing his last days as he looks back on his past & a particular crucial moment -- at the age of nine Nemo&s parents divorced & as his mother (Natasha Little) & father (Rhys Ifans) stood on a train platform he had to choose who he would go with & whether he would live in the United States or Great Britain Either choice would bring with it a wide variety of possibilities regarding the sort of life he would lead & Nemo imagines nearly all of them including two different wives -- sweet but emotionally blank Jeanne (Linh-Dan Pham) & lovely but troubled Elise (Sarah Polley) -- & another woman Anna (Diane Kruger) who he loves but can not marry But as Nemo considers the many different paths his life could have taken his memory begins to fail him & he finds it increasingly difficult to be certain which was his real life & which is a product of his imagination Age Rating 15 ...

A tale of fun & friendship from former Children's Laureate & author of War Horse Michael Morpurgo Harry heard the key turn in the lock He had already made up his mind to run Harry is in trouble at school & doesn't like his stepfather or the new baby Then he befriends Ocky a chimpanzee from the circus Ocky's owner won't mind if Harry borrows her for a bit will he? But then Harry's stepfather & the police find out Harry & the chimp are soon on the run!A gripping & poignant animal adventure from the master storyteller of An Eagle in the Snow Listen to the Moon Shadow & An Elephant in the Garden ------ 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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