Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play It was hard to put a team together until they found out who they were playing Director Peter Segal & comedian Adam Sandler join forces once more for a fun remake of the 1974 classic The Longest Yard In the role of Paul Wrecking Crewe first immortalized by Burt Reynolds (who appears here as Nate Scarborough) Sandler plays an ex-football star whose career ended amidst allegations of point shaving Fed up he drunkenly steals his unfriendly wife's (an uncredited Courtney Cox Arquette) luxury car & drives it into a multi-car pileup This lands Crewe in a cruel Texas state penitentiary His only respite comes from Warden Hazen (James Cromwell) who wants Crewe to help lead his well-equipped prison-guard football team to the league championship Crewe timorously agrees suggesting the creation of an opposing team of convicts to the give the guards an easy tune-up before the season To the ragtag inmates this is the chance they've been waiting for & they hustle to get their team together so they can exact some revenge on the harassing guards Actors Adam Sandler Chris Rock Burt Reynolds Nelly Michael Irvin Walter Williamson Bill Goldberg Rob Schneider Bob Sapp Nicholas Turturro David Patrick Kelly William Fichtner Edward Bunker Steve Austin Ed Lauter & James Cromwell Director Peter Segal Certificate 15 years & over Year 2005 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English ; Spanish
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English ; English for the hearing impaired ; Dutch ; Hindi ; Portuguese ; Spanish Duration 1 hour & 48 minutes (approx)
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AS SEEN IN THE TIMESEat the foods that will help you live longer THIS is the internationally bestselling clinically tested revolutionary & straightforward diet to help you slow-down ageing fight disease & lose weight------------------' The diet that holds the key to staying young Dr Valter Longo is now considered one of the most influential voices in the 'fasting movement' The Times' Dr Valter Longo is one of the real scientific pioneers when it comes to researching the impact of food on health' Dr Michael Mosley bestselling author of The Fast Diet & The Clever Guts Diet------------------Following 30 years of research Professor Valter Longo
- a biochemist & one of the world's leading researchers into ageing
- has investigated genetics nutrition & stem cells to discover that the secret of longevity lies in cellular regeneration triggered by a special diet He is now able to reveal how by adhering to his fasting-mimicking diet we heal ourselves through food Dr Valter Longo's healthy lifespan-extending programme is based on an easy-to-adopt lifetime plan coupled with a fasting-mimicking diet 3-4 times a year & just 5 days at a time that gives all the health benefits of fasting without the hunger Including 30 easy recipes for an everyday diet based on Longo's Five Pillars of Longevity The Longevity Diet is the key to living a longer healthier & more fulfilled life------------------Try easy plant-&-fish based recipes that use phenomenal live-long ingredients Great for the heart & rich in antioxidants black rice with courgette & shrimp with a mixed green salad sweet tomatoes & carrots drizzled in balsamic vinegar For a good source of iron snack on dark chocolate & yoghurt & for dessert try tangy dried cranberries & walnuts----------------------Make simple changes that can extend your healthy lifespan Prevent age-related muscle & bone loss Build your resistance to diabetes cardiovascular disease Alzheimer's & cancer Maintain your ideal weight & reduce abdominal fat Why rely on medication to cure illness when you can help to prevent it altogether with your diet?

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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 From director Michael Winterbottom comes the sexy funny & outrageously true story of Paul Raymond (Steve Coogan) the controversial entrepreneur & property baron who established the Raymond Revue Bar in the 50’s & went on to become Britain’s richest man by the early 90’s The Look of Love is a real-life tale which focuses on Raymond’s relationships with the three most important women in his life his wife Jean (Anna Friel) his lover Fiona (Tamsin Egerton) & his daughter Debbie (Imogen Poots) Special Features Deleted Scenes Paul Raymond Timeline Interviews with Michael Winterbottom Steve Coogan Anna Friel Tamsin Egerton Imogen Poots Chris Addison David Walliams James Lance Melissa Parmenter James Pearson & Matt Greenhalgh ...

A Cold War thriller from the master of spy fiction John le Carre's The Looking Glass War is a gripping novel of double-crosses audacious bluffs & the ever-present threat of nuclear war published in Penguin Modern Classics When the Department
- faded since the war & busy only with bureaucratic battles
- hears rumour of a missile base near the West German border it seems like the perfect opportunity to regain some political standing in the Intelligence market place The Cold War is at its height & the Department is dying for a piece of the action Swiftly becoming carried away by fear & pride the Department & her officers send deactivated agent Fred Leiser back into East Germany armed only with some schoolboy training & his memories of the war In the land of eloquent silence that is Communist East Germany Leiser's fate becomes inseparable from the Department's If you enjoyed The Looking Glass War you might like le Carre's The Secret Pilgrim also available in Penguin Modern Classics'A devastating & tragic record of human not glamour spies' New York Herald Tribune'A book of rare & great power' Financial Times

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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 In exchange for political asylum Polish defector Leiser (Jones) agrees to return behind the Iron Curtain to confirm the suspicions of the British Security Chief that East Germany is building a rocket in violation of the disarmament pact Once in East Berlin Leiser falls in love with a beautiful young girl & the couple decide to flee the espionage experts
- both East & West
- to start a new life together But they soon find themselves pawns in the brutal game where the stakes are human lives Adapted from the classic John Le Carre spy novel

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Brilliantly written compelling & highly original The Looming Tower is the first book to tell the full story of Al Qaeda from its roots up to 911 Drawing on astonishing interviews & first-hand sources it investigates the extraordinary group of idealogues behind this organization
- & those who tried to stop them There is the tormented resentful Egyptian Sayyid Qutb who was horrified by the godlessness & decadence he perceived in America in 1948 & whose subsequent writings turned him into a martyr for Islamic extremists There is Ayman al-Zawahiri a devout student who by the age of fifteen had already helped to form an underground jihadist cell There is the deeply contradictory Osama bin Laden Saudi multimillionaire turned muhajideen commander whose interests merged with al-Zawahiri's to form a global terror coalition & there is the FBI's counterterrorism chief the flamboyant cigar-smoking John O' Neill who found his warnings that 'something big' was coming continually ignored & would finally meet his fate in the shadow of the Twin Towers Interweaving this extraordinary story with events including the Israeli-Palestine conflict the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan & the first attack on the World Trade Center Lawrence Wright takes us into training camps mountain hideouts & top secret meetings to explore how it all fed into the planning & execution of 911
- & reveals the real complex origins of Al Qaeda's hatred of the West Wright's brilliantly acclaimed book now

Includes:: a new Afterword which covers events that have unfolded since publication including the death of Osama Bin Laden



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A shocking investigative journey into the way the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa The Looting Machine' explores the dark underbelly of the global economy The Looting Machine' is a searing expose of the global web of traders bankers middlemen despots & corporate raiders that is pillaging Africa's vast natural wealth From the killing fields of Congo to the crude-slicked creeks of Nigeria a great endowment of oil diamonds copper iron gold & coltan has become a curse that condemns millions to poverty violence & oppression That curse is no accident This gripping investigative journey takes us into the shadows of the world economy where secretive networks conspire with Africa's kleptocrats to bleed the continent dry & like their victims the beneficiaries of this grand looting have names ...

The Lorax is the original eco warrior & his message still rings loud today in this fable about the dangers of destroying our forests told in the trademark rhyme of the irrepressible Dr Seuss Mister! He said with a sawdusty sneeze I am the Lorax I speak for the trees The Lorax is a hilarious & timeless story with the trademark humour & silly rhymes of Dr Seuss that packs a punch with its ecological message without feeling heavy-handed or worthy The Lorax is the original eco warrior as he tries to save the Truffula trees from the greedy once-ler's axe & the Dr Seuss blend of zany pictures & unique rhyme rhythm & repetition mean that all ages will learn from & love this wonderful book ...

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 12-year-old boy searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world Actors Danny De Vito Ed Helms Zac Efron Taylor Swift & Betty White Director Chris Renaud & Kyle Balda Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 2012 Screen 1851 Languages English
- DTS-HD Master Audio (51) Additional Languages Spanish ; Thai ; Arabic ; Cantonese ; Hindi ; Korean ; Mandarin ; Romanian ; English Audio Description Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 26 minutes (approx)
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The fourth volume of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC series All Creatures Great & Small Finally home from London after his wartime service in the RAF James Herriot is settling back into life as a country vet While the world has changed after the war the blunt Yorkshire clients & menagerie of beasts with weird & wonderful ailments remain the same But between his young son Jimmy trailing him around aping his every move stubborn farmers refusing to try his new-fangled' treatments & a goat that has eaten 293 tomatoes Darrowby is far from quiet & with another baby on the way life is about to get even more chaotic Since they were first published James Herriot's memoirs have sold millions of copies & entranced generations of animal lovers Charming funny & touching The Lord God Made Them All is a heart-warming story of determination love & companionship from one of Britain's best-loved authors ...