Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play The Grand Budapest Hotel is a British-German comedy-drama film written & directed by Wes Anderson & tells the story of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between WW1 & WW2 & his friendship with a young employee who becomes his most trusted protege… An all-star cast including Ralph Fiennes Adrien Brody Jeff Goldblum Jude Law Bill Murray Edward Norton Tilda Swinton & Owen Wilson Age rating 15 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Wes Anderson&s delightful comedy is set in the wake of WWI at a posh European hotel Wherein the famed concierge (Ralph Fiennes) bonds with his trusted lobby boy as they search for a valuable Renaissance painting & get involved in the fight over a family fortune Co-starring Saoirse Ronan Bill Murray & Jude Law ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The Book Thief Based on the best-selling book comes the story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II Germany Liesel (Sophie Nelisse) is adopted by a German couple (OSCAR Winner Geoffrey Rush & OSCAR Nominee Emily Watson) Although she arrives illiterate Liesel is encouraged to learn to read by her adoptive father When the couple take in Max (Ben Schnetzer) a Jew hiding from Hitler’s army Liesel befriends him Words & imagination provide the friends with an escape from the events unfolding around them in this acclaimed film directed by Brian Percival (Downton Abbey) Never Let Me Go Academy Award Nominees Carey Mulligan & Keira Knightley co-star with Andrew Garfield (The Social Network) in this poignant & powerful film Kathy (Mulligan) Ruth (Knightley) & Tommy (Garfield) are best friends who grow up together at an English boarding school with a chilling secret When they learn the shocking truth – that they are genetically engineered clones raised to be organ donors – they embrace their fleeting chance to live & love Based on the acclaimed novel by Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day ) Never Let Me Go is an intriguing exploration of hope & humanity Life of Pi Embark on the adventure of a lifetime in this visual masterpiece from Oscar Winner Ang Lee based on the best-selling novel After a cataclysmic shipwreck an Indian boy named Pi finds himself stranded on a lifeboat with a ferocious Bengal tiger Together they face nature’s majestic grandeur & fury on an epic journey of discovery ...

When & how did the universe begin? Why are we here? Is the apparent 'grand design' of our universe evidence for a benevolent creator who set things in motion? Or does science offer another explanation? In The Grand Design the most recent scientific thinking about the mysteries of the universe is presented in language marked by both brilliance & simplicity Model dependent realism the multiverse the top-down theory of cosmology & the unified M-theory
- all are revealed here This is the first major work in nearly a decade by one of the world's greatest thinkers A succinct startling & lavishly illustrated guide to discoveries that are altering our understanding & threatening some of our most cherished belief systems The Grand Design is a book that will inform
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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 An early success for acclaimed screenwriter Russell T Davies this peak-time drama series explores the &upstairs-downstairs& lives of the management staff & guests of a luxury Manchester hotel in the 1920s Starring Susan Hampshire Tim Healy & Mark Mc Gann The Grand&s compelling storylines often encompass the darker side of inter-war life as poverty & exploitation covert prostitution & unenlightened attitudes loom large life is not all it seems behind the hotel&s elegant facade New Year&s Eve 1918 Owners John & Sarah Bannerman celebrate the re-opening of their refurbished hotel & the return of demobbed son Stephen But their joy is marred by a crisis that could lose them the hotel & one that can only be resolved with the financial muscle of John&s brother Marcus Amoral & ruthless to the point of sadism with a barely concealed interest in Sarah Marcus now holds a key stake in the business making sibling rivalry & conflict inevitable This complete set contains all eighteen episodes from both series ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Martial arts drama written produced & directed by Kar Wai Wong Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man (Tony Chiu Wai Leung) travelled from Foshan in China to Hong Kong after the Sino-Japanese War where he progressed within his martial art & took on his rival Gong Yutian (Qingxiang Wang) With Gong retiring & ready to announce his successor Ip Man set up a school & started teaching his beloved art in order to find a suitable heir ...

A shabby chic style & The grandparents nest where the flock gathers& design wooden wall plaque with a gingham patterned bow ...

Tracklist Artiste &38; Repertoire Nine Days' Wonder The Management Fan Club Newsletter no 44 Backstage at the Ballroom Recorded Sound Keeping Time Widows & Orphans Now therefore Be that as it may ...

Tracklist So it begins Outside looking in Buyer beware There's always one Someone else Where does the Sadness come from?I suppose so The Performance of a Lifetime Commodities ...

Lyrical dark comic or iconoclastic the Irish short story has always punched well above its weight Anne Enright has brought together a dazzling collection of Irish stories by authors born in the twentieth century
- from Mary Lavin & Frank O' Connor to Claire Keegan & Kevin Barry With a pithy & passionate introduction by Enright The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story traces this great tradition through decades of social change & shows the pleasure Irish writers continue to take in the short-story form Deft & often devastating the short story dodges the rolling mythologies of of Irish life to produce truths that are delightful & real Also

Includes:: stories by Maeve Brennan Roddy Doyle Mary Lavin Colum Mc Cann William Trevor John Mc Gahern Colm Toibin Claire Keegan & Kevin Barry


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