Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Friends & family convene at a beach house for the wedding of Lila (Paquin) & Tom (Duhamel) But things don&t go swimmingly mainly because of one thing that Lila & her maid of honor Laura (Holmes) have in common
- Tom the groom Laura & Tom were an item before Lila came along & nobody seems able to forget that With very few successful marriages to look up to & friends that she&s not sure she can trust will Lila be able to go through with the wedding? Actors Katie Holmes Josh Duhamel Elijah Wood Anna Paquin Malin & Aring;kerman Adam Brody Dianna Agron Jeremy Strong Rebecca Lawrence & Candice Bergen Director Galt Niederhoffer Certificate 12 years & over Year 2010 Languages English Duration 1 hour & 38 minutes (approx)
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The glamorous capital city of Italy is brought to startling life in The Rome Affair a compelling summer novel by Karen Swan 1974 & Elena Damiani lives a gilded life Born to wealth & a noted beauty no door is closed to her no man can resist her At twenty-six she is already onto her third husband when she meets her love match But he is the one man she can never have & all the beauty & money in the world can't change it 2017 & Francesca Hackett is living la dolce vita in Rome leading tourist groups around the Eternal City & forgetting the ghosts she left behind in London When she finds a stolen designer handbag in her dustbin & returns it she is brought into the orbit of her grand neighbour who lives across the piazza
- famed socialite Viscontessa Elena dei Damiani Pignatelli della Mirandola Though the purse is stolen Elena greets the return of the bag with exultation for it contains an unopened letter written by her husband on his deathbed twelve years earlier Mutually intrigued by each other the two women agree to collaborate on a project with Cesca interviewing Elena for her memoirs As summer unfurls Elena tells her sensational stories leaving Cesca in her thrall But when a priceless diamond ring found in an ancient tunnel below the city streets is ascribed to Elena Cesca begins to suspect a shocking secret at the heart of Elena's life
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For a thousand years Rome was enshrined in myth & legend as the Eternal City No Grand Tour would be complete without a visit to its ruins But from 1870 all that changed A millennium ended as its solitary moonlit ruins became floodlit monuments on traffic islands & its perimeter shifted from the ancient nineteen-kilometre wall with twelve gates to a fifty-kilometre ring road with thirty-three roundabouts & spaghetti junctions The Rome We Have Lost is the first full investigation of this change John Pemble musters popes emperors writers exiles & tourists to weave a rich fabric of Roman experience He tells the story of how why & with what consequences that Rome centre of Europe & the world became a national capital no longer central & unique but marginal & very similar in its problems & its solutions to other modern cities with a heavy burden of 'heritage' This far-reaching book illuminates the historical significance of Rome's transformation & the crisis that Europe is now confronting as it struggles to re-invent without its ancestral centre
- the city that had made Europe what it was & defined what it meant to be European
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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 A collection of classic Ronnie Barker shows Titles Comprise Open All Hours (Series 1-4) Arkwright (Ronnie Barker) a stammering tight-fisted corner shop owner from Yorkshire has a special way of running his business with nephew Granville (David Jason) When he buys a large batch of damaged tinned goods with no labels he thinks nothing of passing them off as good stock to his customers Always on the look out for a bargain he spots a broken down ice cream van Before you know it he&s got himself a mobile store But will Nurse Gladys Emmanuel (Lynda Baron) be impressed? Featuring all the episodes from series 1-4 Porridge
- Series 1-3 & Christmas Specials Including all the episodes from series 1-3 & the Christmas specials; Porridge is set within the walls of HMP Slade as Fletcher & Godber take on the prison system Going Straight Winner of two BAFTAs
- this sequel to Porridge sees Norman Stanley Fletcher released from jail having served 3 years 8 months & 4 days Following his release from Slade after numerous spells in prison & at the age of 45 Fletcher tries to stick to the straight & narrow but it isn&t easy! Life in the outside world is just not the same as it used to be Clarence This comedy series written by Ronny Barker & set in 1937 is something of a lost classic Barker plays Clarence Sale short-sighted removals man & suitor of Jane a ladies maid Ostensibly a comedy of manners with moments of slapstick mayhem (he&s as blind as a bat!) Clarence resurrects the title character from an episode of the 1971 ITV series Six Date With Barker Featuring all 6 episodes Seven Of One Written by & starring Ronnie Barker this comedy series was a marvellously successful venture leading to two long-lasting shows; Open All Hours & Porridge Featuring all 7 episodes The Magnificent Evans Set in rural Wales The Magnificent Evans centers around
- the bizarrely named
- Platagenet Evans a man who could best be described as a egotistical bully with an intolerant attitude towards the slow He is a man of hidden means who also deals in anything saleable under the guise of "antiques" Larger than life & flamboyantly dressed Evans is driven by sordid motives & lust Featuring all 6 episodes



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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 A collection of classic Ronnie Barker shows Contains the following Open All Hours (Series 1-4) Arkwright (Ronnie Barker) a stammering tight-fisted corner shop owner from Yorkshire has a special way of running his business with nephew Granville (David Jason) When he buys a large batch of damaged tinned goods with no labels he thinks nothing of passing them off as good stock to his customers Always on the look out for a bargain he spots a broken down ice cream van Before you know it he&s got himself a mobile store But will Nurse Gladys Emmanuel (Lynda Baron) be impressed? Featuring all the episodes from series 1-4 Porridge
- Series 1-3 & Christmas Specials Including all the episodes from series 1-3 & the Christmas specials; Porridge is set within the walls of HMP Slade as Fletcher & Godber take on the prison system Going Straight Winner of two BAFTAs
- this sequel to Porridge sees Norman Stanley Fletcher released from jail having served 3 years 8 months & 4 days Following his release from Slade after numerous spells in prison & at the age of 45 Fletcher tries to stick to the straight & narrow but it isn&t easy! Life in the outside world is just not the same as it used to be Clarence This comedy series written by Ronny Barker & set in 1937 is something of a lost classic Barker plays Clarence Sale short-sighted removals man & suitor of Jane a ladies maid Ostensibly a comedy of manners with moments of slapstick mayhem (he&s as blind as a bat!) Clarence resurrects the title character from an episode of the 1971 ITV series Six Date With Barker Featuring all 6 episodes Seven Of One Written by & starring Ronnie Barker this comedy series was a marvellously successful venture leading to two long-lasting shows; Open All Hours & Porridge Featuring all 7 episodes The Magnificent Evans Set in rural Wales The Magnificent Evans centers around
- the bizarrely named
- Platagenet Evans a man who could best be described as a egotistical bully with an intolerant attitude towards the slow He is a man of hidden means who also deals in anything saleable under the guise of "antiques" Larger than life & flamboyantly dressed Evans is driven by sordid motives & lust Featuring all 6 episodes



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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 After his career in professional baseball is abruptly terminated by a severe shoulder injury pitcher Jim Morris (Dennis Quaid) takes a job as a high school baseball coach & begins a family with his wife Lorri (Rachel Griffiths) But when surgery restores his powers allowing him to pitch faster than ever before he makes a deal with with his high school team if they do well in the local championships then he will try out once again for the major leagues Based on a true story ...

Chess was invented more than 1500 years ago & is played in every country in the world Stephen Moss sets out to master its mysteries & unlock the secret of its enduring appeal What he asks is the essence of chess? & what will it reveal about his own character along the way? In a witty accessible style that will delight newcomers & irritate purists Moss imagines the world as a board & marches across it offering a mordant report on the world of chess in 64 chapters
- 64 of course being the number of squares on the chessboard He alternates between black chapters
- where he plays largely uncomprehendingly in tournaments
- & white chapters where he seeks advice from the current crop of grandmasters & delves into the lives of great players of the past It is both a history of the game & a kind of Zen & the Art of Chess; a practical guide & a self-help book Moss's quest to understand chess & become a better player is really an attempt to escape a lifetime of dilettantism He wants to become an expert at one thing What will be the consequences when he realises he is doomed to fail? Moss travels to Russia & the US
- hotbeds of chess throughout the 20th century; meets people who knew Bobby Fischer when he was growing up & tries to unravel the enigma of that tortured genius who died in 2008 at the inevitable age of 64; meets Garry Kasparov & Magnus Carlsen world champions past & present; & keeps bumping into Armenian superstar Levon Aronian in the gents at tournaments He becomes champion of Surrey wins tournaments in Chester & Bury St Edmunds & holds his own at the famous event in the Dutch seaside resort of Wijk aan Zee (until a last-round meltdown) but too often he is beaten by precocious 10-year-olds & finds it hard to resist the urge to punch them He looks for spiritual fulfilment in the game but mostly finds mental torture



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' It is quite an experience to be locked up all by yourself in any size room' says the anonymous narrator of Hubert Selby Jr's second novel What follows is a startling series of recollections & fantasies that illuminate the workings of a prisoner's unhinged mind He yearns for his violent childhood rages against obscure authorities & imagines enacting horrible revenge on those who imprisoned him The prisoner's remand cell becomes the scene of a surreal mental torture Disorienting nightmarish & structurally inventive The Room is a shocking examination of the suffering humans can inflict on each other ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region Free Blu-ray player in order to play She&s cute She&s loyal She&s psychotic & unfortunately for college freshman Sara (Minka Kelly) she&s The Roommate When Sara arrives at school she finds new romance with Stephen (Cam Gigandet) & forms a fast friendship with her roommate Rebecca (Leighton Meester) What begins as camaraderie soon turns creepy & Sara comes face-to-face with the terrifying realization that her new best friend is obsessive unbalanced & maybe even a killer! Special Featuresmovie IQCommentary with Director Christian E Christiansen Alternate Opening Sequence Obsession The Making of The Roommate Featurette The Roommate The Next Generation of Stars 10 The Roommate The Next Generation of Stars Featurette Dressing Dangerously Featurette Technical Details Actors Leighton Meester Cam Gigandet Alyson Michalka Minka Kelly Matt Lanter Billy Zane Danneel Harris Katerina Graham Frances Fisher Lauren Storm Tomas Arana Cherilyn Wilson Jacqueline Mazarella Elena Franklin & Carrie Finklea Director Christian E Christiansen Certificate 15 years & over Year 2011 Languages English ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play She&s cute She&s loyal She&s psychotic & unfortunately for college freshman Sara (Minka Kelly) she&s The Roommate When Sara arrives at school she finds new romance with Stephen (Cam Gigandet) & forms a fast friendship with her roommate Rebecca (Leighton Meester) What begins as camaraderie soon turns creepy & Sara comes face-to-face with the terrifying realization that her new best friend is obsessive unbalanced & maybe even a killer! ...