Paul Kemp has moved from New York to the steamy heat of Puerto Rico to work at the Daily News He starts hanging out at Al's Backyard a local den selling booze & hamburgers to vagrant journalists who are mostly crazy drunks on the verge of quitting Then he meets Yeamon whose delectable girlfriend has Kemp stewing in his own lust But the idle tension that builds up in places where men sweat twenty-four hours a day is reaching a violent breaking point ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play Based on the debut novel by Hunter S Thompson which initiated his long distinguished & brilliantly unpredictable career The Rum Diary tells the increasingly unhinged story of itinerant journalist Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp) Tiring of the noise & madness of New York & the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local newspaper The San Juan Star run by downtrodden editor Lotterman (Richard Jenkins) Adopting the rum-soaked life of the late 50&s version of Hemmingway&s lost generation Paul soon becomes increasingly obsessed with Chenault (Amber Heard) the wildly attractive Connecticut-born fiancee of Sanderson (Aaron Eckhart) a businessman involved in shady property development deals Actors Johnny Depp Aaron Eckhart Michael Rispoli Amber Heard Richard Jenkins Giovanni Ribisi Amaury Nolasco Marshall Bell Bill Smitrovich Julian Holloway Bruno Irizarry Enzo Cilenti Aaron Lustig Natalia Rivera & Karen Austin Director Bruce Robinson Certificate 15 years & over Year 2011 Screen 1851 Languages English
- DTS-HD Master Audio (51) Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 59 minutes (approx)
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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 Based on the debut novel by Hunter S Thompson which initiated his long distinguished & brilliantly unpredictable career The Rum Diary tells the increasingly unhinged story of itinerant journalist Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp) Tiring of the noise & madness of New York & the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local newspaper The San Juan Star run by downtrodden editor Lotterman (Richard Jenkins) Adopting the rum-soaked life of the late 50&s version of Hemmingway&s lost generation Paul soon becomes increasingly obsessed with Chenault (Amber Heard) the wildly attractive Connecticut-born fiancee of Sanderson (Aaron Eckhart) a businessman involved in shady property development deals A Voice made from Ink & Rage Inside The Rum Diary The Rum Diary Back-Story Trailer Actors Johnny Depp Aaron Eckhart Michael Rispoli Amber Heard Richard Jenkins Giovanni Ribisi Amaury Nolasco Marshall Bell Bill Smitrovich Julian Holloway Bruno Irizarry Enzo Cilenti Aaron Lustig Natalia Rivera & Karen Austin Director Bruce Robinson Certificate 15 years & over Year 2011 Screen 1851 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 54 minutes (approx)
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THE RUNAWAY by No 1 Sunday Times bestselling author Martina Cole is an unputdownable thriller of corruption & violence & was adapted for television with an all-star cast including Alan Cumming Jack O' Connell & Keith Allen ' Martina tells it like it really is'
- Sun You can't run for ever All that prostitute's daughter Cathy Connor & drunkard's son Eamonn Docherty want to do is escape their grim childhoods in London's East End & soon events turn so dangerous they are left with no choice but to flee Cathy to the red lit streets of Soho Eamonn to the high ranks of gangland New York Now she's a hardened survivor he's Gotham's most ruthless villain & their paths are about to cross once again
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Will he ever find what he's looking for? Oliver Wainwright is still a boy when he first sets eyes on the fair delicate Florence
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Our relentless drive to create makes us unique among living creatures What is special about the human brain that enables us to innovate? Why don't cows choreograph dances? Why don't squirrels build elevators to their treetops? Why don't alligators invent speedboats? Weaving together the arts & sciences neuroscientist David Eagleman & composer Anthony Brandt explore the need for novelty the simulation of possible futures & the social components that drive the inventiveness of our species Taking us on a tour of human creativity from Picasso to concept cars to umbrellas to lunar travel Brandt & Eagleman explore the cognitive software that generates new ideas & illuminate the key facets of a creative mentality Through understanding our ability to innovate
- our most profound mysterious & deeply human capacity
- we can meet the challenge of remaking our constantly shifting world

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This series of short stories has been written with the help of a language expert for young children who are just beginning to read ...

Meet Samuel Blink He's been sent to Norway to live with an aunt & uncle he never knew he had He has just started at a new school where no one wants to be his friend He is forced to eat Aunt Eda's horrible stinky brown cheese But just when Samuel thinks life couldn't get any worse he finds a troll under the bed A smelly grotesque lumpy-faced bulbous-nosed smelly one-eyed troll who's escaped from the terrifying Shadow Forest next to Aunt Eda's cottage (Did I mention smelly?) A troll now being hunted down by an evil creature who likes to kidnap & tortures trolls & children & who is heading towards Samuel's house right now ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Kristen Stewart (The Twilight Saga Adventureland) & Dakota Fanning (The Twilight Saga Coraline) star as Joan Jett & Cherie Currie in The Runaways the music-fuelled coming of age story of the groundbreaking all girl 1970s rock band that paved the way for future generations of female musicians Plucked from obscurity by rock impresario Kim Fowley (Michael Shannon Revolutionary Road) raven-haired rocker Joan the rebellious Cherie & their band become an outrageous sensations thanks to their tough image & raw talent But their fast drug-fuelled lifestyle soon catches up with the teenage girls as success starts to cloud their judgments Actors Kristen Stewart Dakota Fanning Michael Shannon Riley Keough Tatum O& Neal Stella Maeve Scout Taylor-Compton & Riley Keough Director Floria Sigismondi Certificate 15 years & over Year 2010 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Duration 1 hour & 46 minutes (approx)
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THE PENULTIMATE NOVEL IN THE CHINA SERIES FROM THE RICHARD & JUDY MILLION-SELLING AUTHOR OFTHE BLACKHOUSETHE SUFFERERA prodigious Chinese swimmer kills himself on the eve of the Beijing Olympics Days later a champion weightlifter suffers a fatal heart attack prior to competition THE LISTENERDetective Li Yan senses a conspiracy surrounding the fatalities & finds a female athlete willing to talk But she will only trust one person Li's fiancee Margaret Campbell THE RUNNERWhen Campbell's contact herself vanishes the gun is fired on a race against time & Li must now outrun & outwit an enemy bent on pushing him beyond endurance ...