The Rebel is a 1961 comedy film starring Tony Hancock (Hancock’s Half Hour) Hancock plays a downtrodden London office clerk who gives up his job to pursue his dream of being an artist With an enthusiasm far exceeding any artistic talent he sets to work on his masterpiece Aphrodite at the Waterhole moving to Paris where he expects his genius will be appreciated While his ideas & persona gain acceptance among the art set legitimate critics scoff at his work He manages however to achieve success when the work of his former roommate a genuinely talented painter becomes confused with his own Hancock was nominated for the BAFTA of most promising newcomer to leading film roles in 1962 for his performance Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play ...

After decades of war the brutal Tathadann Party restored order to shattered Eitan City by outlawing the past & rewriting history Memory is a commodity
- bought & sold & experienced like a drug Henraek works as a Tathadann memory thief draining citizens' memories Everything changes when Henraek harvests a memory of his own wife's death in the hidden rebellion that once tore apart their city Now he will do whatever it takes to learn the truth
- even if it means burning Eitan City to the ground File Under Science Fiction Memory Thieves Collaborators Brothers In War City on Fire

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Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free blu-ray player in order to play Sandy (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is a smart sexy mum of two On discovering her husband has been cheating on her she decides to start a new life so up-roots & takes her kids with her to New York Her demanding new job forces her to hire a nanny – 25yr-old Aram (Justin Bartha – The Hangover) As Aram becomes increasingly attached to her kids sandy becomes more aware of their undeniable chemistry & her growing attraction to him But is he just too young to be anything more than a rebound? Or could it be the real thing? 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 Sandy (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is a smart & sexy mum of two On discovering her husband has been cheating on her she decides to start a new life so up-roots & takes her kids with her to New York Her demanding new job forces her to hire a nanny
- 25-year-old Aram (Justin Bartha
- The Hangover) as Aram becomes more aware of their un-deniable chemistry & her growing attraction to him But is he just too young to be anything more than a rebound? Or could it be the real thing? Actors Catherine Zeta-Jones Justin Bartha Eliza Callahan Saidah Arrika Ekulona Kelly Gould Art Garfunkel Liv Freundlich Samantha Ivers Tom Riis Farrell Steve Antonucci Marc Alan Austen Paul Basile Robert Bizik & Megan Byrne Director Bart Freundlich Certificate 15 years & over Year 2009 Screen Widescreen 2351 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Duration 1 hour & 31 minutes (approx)


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' If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance then marriage was a crime against human nature' Two moving stories of love loss desire & divorce from one of the great chroniclers of nineteenth-century New York life Introducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range & diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world & across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California & the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical & savage; poems epic & intimate; essays satirical & inspirational; & ideas that have shaped the lives of millions Edith Wharton (1862-1937) Wharton's works available in Penguin Classics are Ethan Frome The Age of Innocence The Custom of the Country & The House of Mirth ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Set in England during the late 1300s Paul Mc Guigan&s The Reckoning follows Nicholas (Paul Bettany) a young priest literally running from his past After encountering a band of wandering actors Nicholas is grudgingly allowed into the fold by the good-natured Martin (Willem Dafoe) When the troupe reaches an impoverished village they get word of a strange murder & look into the story as the basis for a new play However Nicholas & Martin uncover more than they&d expected & soon a deeper mystery emerges Meanwhile as Nicholas attempts to find justice he also struggles to come to terms with his own troubled history A medieval murder mystery in the vein of the Name of the Rose The Reckoning is based on the Barry Unsworth novel Morality Play Under the artfully somber direction of previous collaborator Mc Guigan Bettany turns in an excellent performance as a guilt-ridden priest struggling to atone for his sins In addition to Dafoe the film also features fine supporting actors such as Brian Cox & Gina Mc Kee Utilising its historical backdrop to the fullest extent The Reckoning immerses the audience in its medieval setting revealing the period&s many hardships & enhancing the drama of this intriguing unfolding mystery ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Sally (Ashley Jensen) a single mother with a seriously ill daughter will receive an inheritance of £5 million on one condition she must kill Richard Bury a stranger who deserves to die Deeply conflicted Sally faces an impossible challenge to her morality could she save her daughter&s life at the expense of someone else&s? Sally&s boyfriend Mark (Max Beesley) an ex-copper who now works as a security guard becomes entangled in seeking out the man Sally is supposed to kill Do they have what it takes to commit murder & if the trigger is pulled what will be the consequences for Sally? Actors Ashley Jensen & Max Beesley Director Jim O& Hanlon Certificate 15 years & over Year 2011 Languages English Duration 1 hour & 30 minutes (approx) ...

The electrifying thriller from internationally bestselling author John Grisham 432 pages Grisham John ...

An anthology of inspirational heartfelt letters written by people who have recovered or are recovering from depression & addressed to those who are currently affected by it with additional resources for recovery 232 pages NA ...

Translated by C K Scott Moncrieff (revised by Moya Longstaffe) With an Introduction & Notes by Moya Longstaffe The Red & the Black has been hailed as the first great realist' novel of the nineteenth century offering a lively & detailed picture of social & political life in the provinces & in Paris towards the end of the 1820s the close of the stifling reactionary period of the Bourbon Restoration Stendhal himself claimed that no-one before him had ventured to portray with such verisimilitude the moral & morose' France of 1830 However moral & morose' his novel is definitely not Ironic fast-moving entertaining & incisive in its social criticism it is a novel of ambition & passion of indignation & tenderness of polemic & poetry which speaks to us today as clearly as it did to the author's contemporaries of the heights depths & idiocies of which our human nature is capable or culpable ...