Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Thaddeus (RZA) is back in this explosive action adventure inspired by Kung Fu classics A reluctant villager joins forces with a mysterious outsider to fight off powerful evil forces both earthly & otherworldly in a 19th Century Chinese mining town When a stranger Thaddeus is found badly wounded near the village miner Li Kung (Dustin Nguyen) & his wife Ah Ni (Eugenia Kang) offer him refuge As he heals he becomes entrenched in a conflict that pits the townsfolk against the evil Master Ho (Carl Ng) his nefarious Beetle Clan & the terrifying Lord Pi (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) With Thaddeus at his side the mild-mannered Kung transforms into a deadly warrior in this martial arts epic ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Thaddeus (RZA) is back in this explosive action adventure inspired by Kung Fu classics A reluctant villager joins forces with a mysterious outsider to fight off powerful evil forces both earthly & otherworldly in a 19th Century Chinese mining town When a stranger Thaddeus is found badly wounded near the village miner Li Kung (Dustin Nguyen) & his wife Ah Ni (Eugenia Kang) offer him refuge As he heals he becomes entrenched in a conflict that pits the townsfolk against the evil Master Ho (Carl Ng) his nefarious Beetle Clan & the terrifying Lord Pi (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) With Thaddeus at his side the mild-mannered Kung transforms into a deadly warrior in this martial arts epic ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Quentin Tarantino presents The Man With The Iron Fists an action-adventure inspired by kung-fu classics as interpreted by his longtime collaborators RZA & Eli Roth Making his debut as a big-screen director & leading man RZA-alongside a stellar international cast led by Russell Crowe & Lucy Liu-tells the epic story of warriors assassins & a lone outsider hero in nineteenth-century China who must unite to destroy the clan traitor who would destroy them all Since his arrival in China&s Jungle Village the town&s blacksmith (RZA) has been forced by radical tribal factions to create elaborate tools of destruction When the clans& brewing war boils over the stranger channels an ancient energy to transform himself into a human weapon As he fights alongside iconic heroes & against soulless villains one man must harness this power to become savior of his adopted people Blending astonishing martial-arts sequences from some of the masters of this world with the signature vision he brings as the leader of the Wu-Tang Clan & as one of hip-hop&s most dominant figures of the past two decades RZA embarks upon his most ambitious stylized & thrilling project to date Actors Russell Crowe RZA Lucy Liu Rick Yune Jamie Chung Cung Le Dave Bautista Byron Mann Daniel Wu & Pam Grier Director RZACertificate 18 years & over Year 2012 Screen Widescreen 2401 Languages English
- DTS-HD Master Audio (51) Additional Languages French ; Italian ; German ; Latin American Spanish Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; French ; Italian ; German ; Danish ; Dutch ; Finnish ; Latin American Spanish ; Norwegian ; Swedish Duration 1 hour & 35 minutes (approx)
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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 Prague 1942 The Third Reich is at its zenith controlling most of Europe Reinhard Heydrich (Jason Clarke Zero Dark Thirty) aided by his wife Lina (Rosamund Pike Gone Girl) has risen to the top of the Nazi Party as head of the SS the Gestapo & the architect of the " Final Solution" His brutal & oppressive rule of occupied Czechoslovakia leads to Hitler dubbing him "the man with the iron heart" However a small group of Czech Resistance fighters led by Jan Kubiš (Jack O& Connell Starred Up) & Jozef Gabu 010Dík (Jack Reynor Free Fire) seek to stop the unstoppable & plan to assassinate Heydrich making him the highest-ranking Nazi officer ever to be killed during World War II Based on Laurent Binet&s bestselling book HHh H The Man With The Iron Heart & its all-star cast tell the incredible true story of how the brave men & women of the Resistance sacrificed everything in the name of freedom Actors Rosamund Pike Mia Wasikowska Jason Clarke Jack O& Connell Jack Reynor Directors Cedric Jimenez Writers Cedric Jimenez Audrey Diwan David Farr Producers Daniel Crown Language English Subtitles English Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Number of discs 1 ...

1961 The height of the Cold War Just hours before work begins on the Berlin Wall a KGB assassin & his young wife flee for the West before the Iron Curtain comes down & traps them in the East forever This gripping story of real-life espionage & intrigue began when the Soviets invented a special weapon that killed without leaving a trace & put it in the hands of Bogdan Stashinsky It is a tale of exploding parcels fake identities forbidden love & a man who knew the truth about the USSR's most classified programme By the time Stashinsky had his day in court the whole world was watching ...

When Vladimir Putin an unimportant low-level KGB operative was rushed to power by a group of Oligarchs in 1999 he was a man without a history Within a few brief years Putin had dismantled Russia's media wrested control & wealth from the country's burgeoning business class & decimated the fragile mechanisms of democracy Virtually every obstacle to his unbridled control was removed & every opposing voice silenced with political rivals & critics driven into exile or to the grave Drawing on information & sources no other writer has tapped Masha Gessen's fearless account charts Putin's rise from the boy who had scrapped his way through post-war Leningrad schoolyards to the 'faceless' man who manoeuvred his way into absolute
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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 Mel Gibson directed & starred in this rites of passage movie Gibson plays the disfigured teacher Mc Leod who befriends a young & lonely boy Chuck Nastadt & secretly provides him with tuition so that he can pass the entry exams of the military academy once attended by the boy&s late father The friendship causes gossip amongst the tightly knit community leading to accusations of abuse against the innocent Mc Leod ...

From bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates a taut & fascinating novel that examines the mysteries of human memory & personality In 1965 a young research scientist named Margot Sharpe meets Elihu Hoopes the subject of her study a handsome amnesiac who cannot remember anything beyond the last seventy seconds Over the course of thirty years the two embark on mirroring journeys of self-discovery Margot enthralled by her charming mysterious & deeply lonely patient as well as her officious supervisor attempts to unlock Eli's shuttered memories of a childhood trauma without losing her own sense of identity in the process & Eli haunted by memories of an unknown girl's body underneath the surface of a lake pushes to finally know himself once again despite potentially devastating consequences As Margot & Eli meet over & over again Joyce Carol Oates' tightly written nearly clinical prose propels the lives of these two characters forwards both suspended in a dream-like shadowy present & seemingly balanced on the thinnest sharpest of lines between past & future Made vivid by Oates' eye for detail & searing insight into the human psyche The Man Without a Shadow is an eerie ambitious & structurally complex novel as poignant as it is thrilling ...

With an introduction by Jonathan Lethem It is 1913 & Viennese high society is determined to find an appropriate way of celebrating the seventieth jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef But as the aristocracy tries to salvage something illustrious out of the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire the ordinary Viennese world is beginning to show signs of more serious rebellion Caught in the middle of this social labyrinth is Ulrich youngish rich an ex-soldier seducer & scientist Unable to deceive himself that the jumble of attributes & values that his world has bestowed on him amounts to anything so innate as a 'character' he is effectively a man 'without qualities' a brilliant detached observer of the spinning racing society around him Part satire part visionary epic part intellectual tour de force The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil is a work of immeasurable importance ...

We often invoke the "magic" of mass media to describe seductive advertising or charismatic politicians In The Mana of Mass Society William Mazzarella asks what happens to social theory if we take that idea seriously How would it change our understanding of publicity propaganda love & power? Mazzarella reconsiders the concept of "mana" which served in early anthropology as a troubled bridge between "primitive" ritual & the fascination of mass media Thinking about mana Mazzarella shows means rethinking some of our most fundamental questions What powers authority? What in us responds to it? Is the mana that animates an Aboriginal ritual the same as the mana that infuses a rioting crowd a television audience or an internet public? At the intersection of anthropology & critical theory The Mana of Mass Society brings recent conversations around affect sovereignty & emergence into creative contact with classic debates on religion charisma ideology & aesthetics ...