Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play "A First-Rate Political Action Thriller!" -The Hollywood Reporter Gene Hackman & Nick Nolte deliver tour-de-force performances in this riveting "jigsaw puzzle" (Los Angeles Times) "that triumphantly combines politics & romance turmoil & destiny into the most exciting & entertaining drama in years" (David Denby New York Magazine)! From "an edgy & maliciously smart script" (Pauline Kael The New Yorker) about three reporters caught in a political revolution
- & a love triangle
- this sure-fire thriller co-starring Joanna Cassidy & Oscar nominee Ed Harris will grab you with heart-pounding suspense & never let go Russell Price (Nolte) is a gutsy photojournalist who gets caught between his love for reporter Claire Stryder (Joanna Cassidy) & his friendship with her husband Alex Grazier (Hackman) He&s also caught in the horns of a dilemma when he&s asked to take sides instead of just pictures in the war between the Nicaraguan government & the Sandinista rebels But when he loses sight of his objectivity & becomes involved in the skirmish Russell could lose both his battles & his life as he comes Under Fire from all sides! Actors Joanna Cassidy Gene Hackman Nick Nolte Ed Harris Richard Masur & Jean-Louis Trintignant Director Roger Spottiswoode Certificate 15 years & over Year 1983 Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English ; German ; French ; Spanish ; Italian
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Subtitles English For The Hard Of Hearing ; German For The Hard Of Hearing ; French ; Italian ; Spanish ; Dutch Duration 2 hours & 3 minutes (approx)


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Veteran White House reporter April Ryan thought she had seen everything in her two decades as a White House correspondent & then came the Trump administration In Under Fire Ryan takes us inside the confusion & chaos of the Trump White House to understand how she & other reporters adjusted to the new normal 192 pages Ryan April ...

The classic bestseller by the acclaimed author of The Shell Seekers & Winter Solstice now available in a new edition No two women could have been more different No two women could have been closer Flora & Rose are identical twins who do not know of each other's existence Rose has been raised by her frivolous mother with the glossy international jet set Flora has spend her childhoold in the beauty & quiet of her father's Cornish cottage & then by chance they meet The encounter seems heaven-sent to Rose who longs to escape from a man she no longer desires Flora can free her & in taking her sister's place her uneventful life is changed forever She finds drama & danger
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THREE CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED EPIC SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME from the Under Jurisdiction series by John W Campbell award finalist Susan R Matthews THE SECOND OF TWO SERIES OMNIBUS VOLUMES following Fleet Inquisitor This volume

Includes:: series entries Hour of Judgment The Devil & Deep Space & Warring States Fleet Renegade will be followed by the new Under Jurisdiction novel Blood Enemies Hour of Judgment Burkhayden is a subject colony leased by the Bench to a Dolgorukij familial corporation for economic exploitation When a Nurail woman from the service house is brutally raped & beaten Andrej Koscuisko –- Ship’s Inquisitor on board the Jurisdiction Fleet Ship Ragnarok –- is called upon to render services under contract Before one fateful night is out Andrej Koscuisko will put himself under sentence of death by doing what he realizes at last he should have done from the beginning & Port Burkhayden will burn The Devil & Deep Space Andrej Koscuisko the Ragnarok’s Ship&s Inquisitor is going home on leave His ship of assignment is participating in training exercises & when an observer station unexpectedly explodes Andrej will have to fight Fleet itself to bring the Ragnarok the only thing that can save the ship & crew from destruction –- a single piece of evidence with the potential to change the course of the history of Jurisdiction Space forever Warring States Chilleau Judiciary’s senior administrative officer has been murdered in the very heart of Chambers Bench Intelligence Specialist Jils Ivers has been unable to ferret out the perpetrator & that means she’s the Bench’s prime candidate for execution –- so that justice may be seen to have been done whether or not she is guilty Andrej Koscuisko means to take this opportunity to execute a daring theft & if he is successful the rule of Law will be rocked to its very core & the fundamental nature of the Bench will be changed forever Meet the Author Susan R Matthews was raised in a military family & spent her younger years living around the globe in a myriad of places including Germany both coasts of the US & India Often cut off from television & other media she read voraciously Her first encounters with science fiction came via classics such as I Robot & Stranger in a Strange Land Matthews& debut novel An Exchange of Hostages the first entry in her critically acclaimed Under Jurisdiction series was nominated for the Philip K Dick Award Matthews was also a finalist for the John W Campbell award for best new writer There are now seven novels in the Under Jurisdiction series The first six are collected in two omnibus editions Fleet Inquisitor & upcoming Fleet Renegade The newest entry in the series is Blood Enemies published by Baen Books Matthews lives in Seattle with her wife Maggie & two delightful dogs She is a veteran of the US Army where she served as operations & security officer of a combat support hospital She is also an avid HAM radio operator

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THREE CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED EPIC SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME from the Under Jurisdiction series by John W Campbell award finalist Susan R Matthews THE FIRST OF TWO SERIES OMNIBUS VOLUMES This volume

Includes:: series entries An Exchange of Hostages Prisoner of Conscience & Angel of Destruction Volume Two Fleet Renegade will be followed by the new Under Jurisdiction novel Blood Enemies An Exchange of Hostages Under Jurisdiction torture isn’t about truth It s about terror The Jurisdiction’s Bench has come to rely on the institutionalized atrocities of the Protocols to maintain its control of an increasingly unstable political environment When Andrej Koscuisko a talented young doctor reports to orientation as a Ship’s Inquisitor he will discover in himself something far worse than a talent for inflicting grotesque torments on the Bench’s enemies He will confront a passion for the exercise of the Writ to Inquire whose intensity threatens to consume him utterly As Andrej struggles to find some thread of justice & compassion under the Law & to hang on to what remains of his sanity he will make powerful enemies who are eager to use his knowledge his empathy & his passion against anyone who challenges the Bench Prisoner of Conscience He wanted to be a doctor but his family sent him to be a Ship’s Inquisitor Only his fierce determination to hold to justice wherever he can find it has preserved his sanity his own force of will & a peculiar partnership with a man condemned by the Bench to serve on pain of agonizing punishment inflicted by the governor in his brain In Port Rudistal a defeated people have been consigned to the authority of their ancestral enemies to suffer & work & die like cattle Bereft of his friend drunk on absolute license to work his will on prisoner after prisoner will Andrej realize what horrors are contained within the walls of the Domitt Prison & can he bring the truth to light before his enemies silence him forever? Angel of Destruction Bench Intelligence Specialist Garol Vogel is one of an elite few chartered by the Bench to uphold the Jurisdiction’s rule of Law by any means he sees fit to rewrite policy assassinate corrupt officials & topple planetary governments at his Jurisdiction’s discretion His most treasured achievement was the amnesty he brokered for the Langsarik rebels But someone is raiding depot stations in the Shawl of Rikavie around Port Charid torturing & murdering with unprecedented savagery Vogel knows the Langsariks are innocent but who could be to blame & how can he prevent a Judicial crime of horrific proportions? Garol Vogel finds the answer on the wrong side of the Judicial order he s served faithfully all his life & once he sets foot on a path of subversion & sabotage there will be no going back ever

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' To begin at the beginning it is spring moonless night in the small town starless & bible-black' When Richard Burton breathed the opening words of Under Milk Wood into a microphone broadcasting history was made For this 'play for voices' conjures up the intimate dreams & waking lives of the inhabitants of a Welsh seaside village in a remarkable way It is bawdy & beautiful; its colourful characters lust & love gossip & fantasise Through the magic of language Under Milk Wood creates a rich modern pastoral which once heard touches the listener with its poetry & haunts the imagination for ever This radio drama is the completed version broadcast in 1963 which

Includes:: several passages that were omitted from the first recording in 1954 2 CDs 1 hr 41 mins

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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 Michael Sheen Tom Jones & Ioan Gruffudd star in this BBC adaptation of Dylan Thomas&s radio play The plot reveals the innermost thoughts of the residents of the little Welsh fishing village Llareggub as it delves into the dreams of various townspeople including blind sailor Captain Cat (Jones) who is haunted by visions of drowned shipmates Mog Edwards & Myfanwy Price (Gruffudd & Kimberley Nixon) who dream of each other & Mrs Ogmore Pritchard (Charlotte Church) who dreams of her former husbands The cast also

Includes:: Matthew Rhys John Rhys-Davies Jonathan Pryce Katherine Jenkins & Sin Phillips

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Dylan Thomas's classic radio play reprinted to celebrate the centenary of his birth A true masterpiece that has never been out of print 160 pages Thomas Dylan ...

Meet Molly Sue Once she's under your skin there's no getting rid of her Seventeen-year-old Sally Feather is not exactly a rebel Her super-conservative parents & her treatment at the hands of high school bullies means that Sally's about as shy & retiring as they come
- but all that's about to change Accidentally ending up in the seedier side of town one day Sally finds herself mysteriously lured to an almost-hidden tattoo parlour
- & once inside Sally is quickly seduced by its charming owner Rosita & her talk of how having a secret tattoo can be as empowering as it is thrilling Almost before she knows what she is doing Sally selects sexy pin-up Molly Sue & has her tattooed on her back
- hoping that Molly Sue will inspire her to be as confident & popular as she is in her dreams But things quickly take a nightmareish turn Almost immediately Sally begins to hear voices in her head
- or rather one voice in particular Molly Sue's & she has no interest in staying quiet & being a good girl
- in fact she's mighty delighted to have a body to take charge of again Sally slowly realises that she is unable to control Molly Sue & before long she's going to find out the hard way what it truly means to have somebody 'under your skin'




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In the majority of mainstream writing & discussions on music women appear purely in relation to men as muses groupies or fangirls with our own experiences ideas & arguments dismissed or ignored But this hasn't stopped generations of women from loving being moved by & critically appreciating music even
- & sometimes especially
- when we feel we shouldn't Under My Thumb Songs that Hate Women & the Women Who Love Them is a study of misogyny in music through the eyes of women It brings together stories from journalists critics musicians & fans about artists or songs we love (or used to love) despite their questionable or troubling gender politics & looks at how these issues interact with race class & sexuality As much celebration as critique this collection explores the joys tensions contradictions & complexities of women loving music
- however that music may feel about them Featuring murder ballads country metal hip hop emo indie Phil Spector David Bowie Guns N' Roses 2 Pac the Rolling Stones Bob Dylan ACDC Elvis Costello Jarvis Cocker Kanye West Swans Eminem Jay-Z Taylor Swift Combichrist & many more


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