Please note this is a region 2 DVD & region B Blu-ray It will require a region B Blu-ray player to play the Blu-ray & DVD or a Region 2 DVD player for the DVD THE KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE (DVD Blu-ray) A film by John Cassavetes In an absorbing performance Ben Gazzara plays small-time Sunset Strip entrepreneur Cosmo Vittelli owner of the Crazy Horse West night spot An obsessive showman Cosmo navigates a murky world of loan sharks & crooks to keep his club afloat but when a gambling debt spirals out of control he is blackmailed into accepting a murderous commission Featuring st&-out turns by Seymour Cassel & Timothy Carey as the underworld racketeers out to fleece Cosmo John Cassavetes& portrayal of one man&s hubristic descent subverts the conventions of its genre to explore the darker side of the American dream Special Features Presented in both High Definition & Standard Definition

Includes:: both the long 1976 version & the 1978 re-edit Selected scenes commentary on the 1976 version by Al Rubin & Peter Bogdanovich Fully illustrated booklet featuring a new essay by Tom Charity recollections from Al Ruban & an original review Warning This film contains flashing lights which may be harmful to some viewers

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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 Colin Farrell & Nicole Kidman star in this horror drama written & directed by Yorgos Lanthimos Steven Murphy (Farrell) is a successful cardiac surgeon who lives a happy life with his ophthalmologist wife Anna (Kidman) & their two children Kim (Raffey Cassidy) & Bob (Sunny Suljic) However his perfect life starts coming apart at the seams after he befriends 16-year-old Martin (Barry Keoghan) Steven spends much of his time hanging out alone with the teenager & also invites him round to his upper-class home to socialise with his kids However when Steven visits Martin & his mother (Alicia Silverstone) for dinner the teenager's motives for their unusual friendship become clear & it transpires he's willing to go to great lengths to get what he wants to the detriment of Steven & his family Actors Nicole Kidman Colin Farrell Barry Keoghan Alicia Silverstone Directors Yorgos Lanthimos Format PALLanguage English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Aspect Ratio Unknown Number of discs 1 ...

CANYON COUNTY HALLOWEEN 1983 Bobbi Lomax was the first to die the bomb killed the prom queen on her own front lawn Just moments later one of the nails from the city's second bomb forced its way into the brain of property investor Peter Gudsen killing him almost instantly The third bomb didn't quite kill Clark Houseman Hovering on the brink the rare books dealer turns out to be Detectives Sinclair & Alvarez's best hope of finding out what linked these unlikely victims & who wanted them dead & why But can they find the bomber before he kills againset deep in the religious heartlands of America The Killing of Bobbi Lomax follows this troubled investigation as a narrative of deceit corruption & forgery emerges with an unlikely hero at its heart
- a rare coins books & manuscript dealer
- who could either be a genius or the devil

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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 The Killing of John Lennon is a chilling insight into the mind of Mark David Chapman the 25 year old narcissist who gunned down John Lennon outside his Dakota apartment in New York in 1980 Meticulously researched & filmed on actual locations where events occurred it is a gritty & imagistic examination of a celebrity stalker&s mind leading up to the kill
- & his descent into madness & exorcism Independently financed & filmed over three years in Hawaii Decatur Georgia & New York it is unflinching in its presentation of the truth It does not set out to condone or exonerate the shooting death of Lennon or his killer&s desire for fame Its theme of bomb-ticking loneliness & by extension the notion that America is a nation of angry strangers who vent paranoid resentment toward public figures couldn&t be more resonant today Actors Jonas Ball Joe Abbate Sofia Dubrawsky Krisha Fairchild James Hadde Robert C Kirk & Thomas A Mc Mahon Director Andrew Piddington Certificate 15 years & over Year 2007 Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Duration 1 hour & 54 minutes (approx)

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In 2011 an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad & killed Osama bin Laden the man the United States had begun chasing before the devastating attacks of 911 The news did much to boost President Obama's first term & played a major part in his reelection victory of the following year But much of the story of that night as presented to the world was incomplete or a lie The evidence of what actually went on remains hidden At the same time the full story of the United States' involvement in the Syrian civil war has been kept behind a diplomatic curtain concealed by doublespeak It is a policy of obfuscation that has compelled the White House to turn a blind eye to Turkey's involvement in supporting ISIS & its predecessors in Syria This investigation which began as a series of essays in the London Review of Books has ignited a firestorm of controversy in the world media In his introduction Hersh asks what will be the legacy of Obama's time in office Was it an era of "change we can believe in" or a season of lies & compromises that continued George W Bush's misconceived War on Terror? How did he lose the confidence of the general in charge of America's forces who acted in direct contradiction to the White House? What else do we not know? ...

THE THIRD CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED CHINA THRILLER FROM THE MILLION-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE RICHARD & JUDY BESTSELLER THE BLACKHOUSETHE NEW CASEWhen a mass grave containing eighteen mutilated female corpses is discovered in Shanghai detective Li Yan is sent from Beijing to establish if the bodies are linked to an unsolved murder in the capital Here Li will be working with Mei Ling deputy head of Shanghai's serious crime squad THE NEW COLLEAGUEMei Ling is a formidable woman a fact that is not lost on Li's on-off lover forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell But when Campbell vulnerable & still grieving the loss of her father learns that the victims were subjected to 'live' autopsies she knows the case is bigger than her pride THE KILLING ROOMLi Campbell & Mei Ling are now entering the arena of a sickening nemesis & opening a door behind which lies each of their very worst nightmares ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Season 3 begins one year after the close of the Rosie Larsen case (the focus of The Killing&s first two seasons) with Sarag Linden (Mireille Enos) no longer working as a Seattle homicide detective But when her ex-partner Stephen Holder&s (Joel Kinnaman) search for a runaway girl leads him to discover a gruesome string of murders that may connect to a previous murder investigated by Linden she is drawn back into the life she thought she&d left behind The new season also stars Peter Sargaard Elias Koteas & Amy Seimetz ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Robert De Niro & John Travolta star in this action thriller from director Mark Steven Johnson Emil Kovac (Travolta) is a former Scorpions soldier based in Serbia on the assignment of his career find & capture Colonel Benjamin Ford (De Niro) Wanted for being a former NATO operative Ford has now retired from war & lives a reclusive lifestyle in the Appalachian mountains Determined to finish what his people started Kovac poses as a friendly European tourist & tracks Ford to his secret hideaway As Kovac gets all the evidence he needs he pursues Ford in a brutal game of cat & mouse intent on bringing him to justice ...

' Simply the best detective writer since Agatha Christie' The Sunday Times Named by the CWAs as one of ' The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time' The Killings at Badger's Drift is the first spectacular novel in the Midsomer Murders series by Caroline Graham the novel that inspired the ITV hit drama now featuring an exclusive foreword by John Nettles who played best-loved TV detective & star of Midsomer Murders DCI Tom Barnaby If you love Agatha Christie M C Beaton & James Runcie's The Grantchester Mysteries you won't be able to get enough of the Midsomer Murders mysteries The village of Badger's Drift is the essence of tranquillity But when resident & well-loved spinster Miss Simpson takes a stroll in the nearby woods she stumbles across something she was never meant to see & there's only one way to keep her quiet Miss Simpson's death is not suspicious say the villagers But Miss Lucy Bellringer refuses to rest her friend has been murdered She is sure of it She calls on Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby to investigate & it isn't long until the previously unseen seamy side of Badger's Drift is brought to light But as old rivalries past loves & new scandals surface the next murder is not far away Praise for Caroline Graham's novels' One to savour' Val Mc Dermid 'A mystery of which Agatha Christie would have been proud A beautifully written crime novel' The Times' Tension builds bitchery flares resentment seethes lots of atmosphere' Mail on Sunday'A witty well-plotted absolute joy of a book' Yorkshire Post ' Swift tense & highly alarming' TLS ' Lots of excellent character sketches & the dialogue is lively & convincing' Independent ' Read her & you'll be astonished very sexy very hip & very funny' Scotsman ...

Tracklist U R A Fever Cheap & Cheerful Tape Song Getting Down Last Day Of Magic Hook & Line Black Balloon MEXICO Sour Cherry Alphabet Pony What New York Used To Be Goodnight Bad Morning ...