Soon to be a Netflix Original starring Reese Witherspoon as control-queen Susan Green who aged 45 falls unexpectedly pregnant & real life in all its messiness shows her it's never too late to bloom 384 pages Haywood Sarah ...

In just four months in 2009 Sri Lanka's 26 year-old desperate civil war came to a brutal & bloody end on a desolate stretch of beach in the island's north east 400 pages Weiss Gordon ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Political satire directed by Nanni Moretti targeting Silvio Berlusconi&s time as Italian Prime Minister Bruno Bonomo (Silvio Orlando) plays a down-on-his-luck B-movie director with a crumbling marriage who is thrown a lifeline to direct a film about the PM Initially non-committal about the subject matter Bonomo soon warms to his subject imagining the film in his mind with Berlusconi portrayed by a variety of actors including Moretti himself Essentially a film-within-a-film & The Caiman& contrasts the political machinations of Italian politics with the &real-life& events unfolding in the director&s life the break-up of his marriage & the daily struggles involved in film-making ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Nominated for seven Academy Awards in 1954 including Best Picture & Best Actor The Caine Mutiny is a classic film about the unstable Captain Queeg (Humphrey Bogart) & his tumultuous command of an old minesweeper & her weary crew On the high seas during the dramatic battles of World War II Queeg’s by-the-book approach pushes his crew & his popular second-in-command Lt Maryk (Van Johnson) to the breaking point After a series of questionable orders Maryk confronts Queeg when he orders the ship directly into the path of a deadly typhoon Maryk invokes naval code & relieves Queeg of his command forcing the crew to mutiny Once safely back in port Maryk is court-martialed for treason setting off a tense trial that exposes the true state of Queeg’s mind Nominated for Best Actor Humphrey Bogart gives a searing performance as he is systematically broken down in this classic tale of military conduct in a time of war ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Humphrey Bogart is Lt Commander Queeg the skipper of the minesweeper Caine who when involuntarily relieved of his command during a violent typhoon brings his officers up on charges for conspiring Nominated for seven 1954 Academy Awards
- including Best Picture & Actor (Bogart)
- & co-staring Jose Ferrer Van Johnson & Fred Mac Murray the Caine Mutiny is an exciting adaptation of Herman Wouk&s Pulitzer Prize novel

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Tracklist A1 Broken Record A2 Real Enough To Believe A3 That's When It's Over B1 Untouchable B2 In The Heart Of Her Heart B3 Let It Gain You B4 Will It To Be B5 What Can You Do? ...

Filled with compelling drama earthy humour & remarkable insight this book traces three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence 1376 pages Mahfouz Naguib ...

Featuring exclusive new content about Jimmy's time in the UK " Jim if you don't help us out John's going to get sent back to Britain The feds have a hard-on for him" Harry Nilsson" Going back to Britain isn't like going to the electric chair Harry They have women there & daffodils & cozy little pubs" Jimmy Webb In 1969 Webb was a 'heavy pot smoker sexual adventurer & hopelessly liberal Democrat who hated the war in Vietnam'; writing songs for Glenn Campbell Frank Sinatra & Liza Minelli He lived in a ' Valleywood' mansion with two grand pianos & stained glass windows commemorating his musical inspirations Joni Mitchell Art Garfunkel Paul Simon & Bob Dylan; George Harrison John Lennon & Elvis Presley Vegas came calling offering him 40k to play ' Mac Arthur Park' on the piano once a night for eight weeks Four years later he was living in his gated mansion lying for John Lennon & stashing hundred dollar bills & cocaine in his house-safe In 1973 the man who brought to the world songs including ' Up Up & Away' ' By The Time I Get To Phoenix' ' Mac Arthur Park' ' Galveston' & ' Wichita Lineman' accidentally over-dosed on what proved to be street-level PCP When he awoke from his coma he didn't recognise a piano The Cake & The Rain sees Webb whirl between the early 70s & across the whole of the preceding three decades that led to him weeping over the piano keys as his fingers finally remembered what they'd been born to do Because there almost wasn't Jimmy Webb still plays & records like there's no tomorrow This is the memoir of one of the greatest songwriters of all time a man with unfathomable talent
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Actress Mary Stuart Masterson makes her feature directorial debut with this drama detailing the manner in which three generations of men deal with the death of the family matriarch Evicted from his New York City apartment starving musician Guy Kimbrough (Jayce Bartok) makes his way back upstate for the first time in three years Upon returning to his hometown Guy does his best to deal with the recent death of his mother while desperately attempting to reconnect with his ex-girlfriend Stephanie (Miriam Shor) -- who has since moved on & found happiness with another man Meanwhile as Guy does his best to win Stephanie back his shy brother Beagle (Aaron Stanford) falls deeply in love with Friedreich's Ataxia-stricken high school student Georgia & their father Easy (Bruce Dern) attempts to rekindle his relationship with Georgia's grandmother Marg (Elizabeth Ashley) ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play He doesn&t just beat his opponents he creams them! Young milkman & amateur boxer & Calcium Kid& Jimmy (Bloom) is just as stunned as the rest of the boxing world when through an unusual (to say the least) sequence of events he&s offered the opportunity to fight the world champion in his home town Jimmy&s got a lotta bottle & he&s going to need it too! Actors Orlando Bloom Omid Djalili Michael Pena Michael Lerner Ronni Ancona & Billie Piper Director Alex De Rakoff Certificate 15 years & over Year 2004 Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Duration 1 hour & 26 minutes (approx)
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