The Last Templar: Based on the International New York Times best selling book by Raymond Khoury. It's 1291 AD following the fall of Acre a small party of Knights Templar leave the city with a small chest & a terrible secret. Their ship the Falcon Temple is damaged in a ferocious storm at sea & sinks. One of the Knights is mortally wounded & dies after hiding a small leather pouch under a gravestone. He charges the remainder of the ship's company to deliver an encoded letter to the Head of the Templars. The last surviving Knight reaches Paris in 1314 just in time to see the Grand Master being burned at the stake after refusing to reveal the location of the Templars' treasure. The last Knight commits himself to maintaining the legend of the Templars' threat to the Catholic Church. With non stop action violence & bloody recreations of the Knight Templars last st&. Rome Blood & Sand: The Roman Empire is plunged into chaos when Julius Caesar is assassinated & his power is passed on to his 18-year-old nephew Octavius. With his guardian former gladiator Tyrannus Octavius is forced into exile to escape those who wish to sever Caesar's bloodline permanently. Under Tyrannus' tutelage Octavius prepares to face off against the treacherous Marc Antony & fulfill his destiny as the leader of Rome. Lionheart: King Henry II keeps his wife Eleanor locked away in the towers because of her frequent attempts to overthrow him. With Eleanor out of the way he can have his dalliances with his young mistress. Needless to say the queen is not pleased although she still has affection for the king. Working through her sons she plots the king's demise & the rise of her second & preferred son Richard to the throne. The youngest son John
- an overweight buffoon & the only son holding his father's affection
- is the king's choice after the death of his first son young Henry. But John is also overly eager for power & is willing to plot his father's demise with middle brother Geoffrey & the young king of France Phillip. Geoffrey of course sees his younger brother's weakness & sees that route as his path to power. Obviously political & court intrigue ensue.

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The Complete Victorian Farm Collection Tales From The Green Valley Turning the clock back over 400 years five archaeologists & historians take on the challenge of running a farm for a year as it was in the 1600s when King James I held the throne. Victorian Farm & Victorian Farm Christmas In Victorian Farm Ruth Goodman Peter Ginn & Alex Langlands devote a year of their lives to re-creating life in a 19th century rural environment. From the warmth of summer to the depths of winter they rediscover this almost forgotten world. & in Victorian Farm Christmas the team return to prepare for a truly festive holiday season. Victorian Pharmacy Historian Ruth Goodman Professor of Pharmacy Nick Barber & Ph D student Tom Quick open thedoors to an authentic Victorian Pharmacy. They source ingredients mix potions & dispense cures. But in an age when skin creams contained arsenic & cold medicines were based on opium the team needs to be highly selective. Edwardian Farm The Victorian Farmers Alex Langlands Peter Ginn & domestic historian Ruth Goodman return to experience life on an Edwardian Farm. Setting up home at Morwellham Quay in Devon the intrepid trio have to get to grips with the trials & tribulations of life at the turn of the 20th century. ...

This electrifying offbeat Disney comedy slyly raises the age-old question of friendship & its true meaning. Before nerds geeks & cyberpunks there was regular-guy Medfield College student Dexter Riley (Kurt Russell) who accidentally turns into a human computer through a shocking lab mishap. As the hype over his instant genius threatens to swell his head he becomes the centre of a winner-take-all tug-of-war between greedy college deans & dangerous gamblers which lands him in big trouble. The genius Dexter then learns a valuable lesson when the same friends he had earlier turned his back on now rush to bail him out. This delightful Disney romp is guaranteed to entertain your entire family with hour of riotous laughter
- for every generation.
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Condemned: Jack Conrad is a death row prisoner in a corrupt Central American prison who is purchased by a wealthy television producer to take part in an illegal reality game show. Brought to a desolate island Conrad finds himself trapped in a fight to the death against nine other condemned killers from all corners of the world. With no possible escape
- andmillions of viewers watching the uncensored violence online
- Conrad must use all his strength to remain the last man standing... & earn his only chance at freedom. See No Evil Seven feet tall. Four hundred pounds. A rusty steel plate screwed into his skull & razor-sharp fingernails that pluck out his victim's eyes like a fruit bowl. Meet reclusive psychopath Jacob Goodnight (Kane heavyweight WWE wrestling star) holed up in the dilapidated Blackwell Hotel with nothing but his nightmares for company. That is until eight delinquents arrive for community service duty along with the cop that put a bullet through Goodnight's head four years before...

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The Confidence Man: Detective Stevie Grimes kept his faith in the brotherhood of the badge & always managed to stay on the right side of the law. For the past year he has been suspended on trial for the accidental shooting of a young boy. The trial ends with a hung jury & finally after twelve months Stevie is reinstated but the possible retrial of the case forces him to relive the nightmare. Under Surveillance: Two insurance investigators try to uncover the truth about the murder of their colleague & friend. They're findings lead them to some dark truths about the company they work for & the people they believed to be friends. The Hit: In a drunken rage of jealously & anger Keith a crime reporter for a city newspaper decides to take out a contract to have his wife killed. As the following morning sobers him up he realises what he has done & attempts to cancel the contract but in this business contracts can't be revoked. ...

To impress his Fascist friends Marcello plans to assassinate his former professor now considered a subversive. A blend of thriller psychological portrait & political parable The Conformist found Bertolucci on peak form & the resulting stylistic tour de force paved the way for the likes of Scorsese Schrader & Michael Mann. Special

Features: HD restoration supervised by Director of Photography Vittorio Storaro in the original 1.66:1 aspect ratio Original Mono 2.0 Audio Audio commentary with Italian cinema expert David Forgacs Feature length documentary Bernardo Bertolucci: Reflections on Cinema directed by Sandro Lai on Bertoluccis career with on-set archive material & interviews Reversible sleeve featuring original & newly commissioned artwork A comprehensive booklet featuring: Brand new writing on the film by critic Michael Atkinson Re-printed interview with Bernardo Bertolucci from 1971 Bertoluccis thoughts on filmmaking illustrated with original stills

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At the peak of his creative powers the 29 year old Bernardo Bertolucci eschewed the influence of mentor Jean-Luc Godard & partnered up with Vittorio Storaro & developed his own style for one of the most visually dazzling politically & psychologically intriguing & possibly greatest of all Italian films. Told in a non linear structure that would go on to influence The Godfather Part II (not the only influence on Coppola’s film) the story begins in Rome 1938. Marcello (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a young fascist who takes on the job of assassinating his former professor who has fled to Paris. With his girlfriend (Stefania Sandrelli) in tow he meets the professor & his young wife (Dominique Sanda). A thriller as well as study of Italian politics & psychological character Bertolucci’s Oscar nominated adaptation of Alberto Moravia’s novel (an adaptation Moravia greatly admired) has gone on to influence filmmakers such as Paul Schrader Martin Scorsese & Michael Mann & remains one of the great triumphs of world cinema. Arrow Academy is proud to present Bernardo Bertolucci’s masterpiece on DVD & Blu-ray for the first time in the UK. ...

Based on the true life story The Conjuring tells the tale of how world renowned paranormal investigators Ed & Lorraine Warren were called upon to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in a secluded farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful demonic entity the Warrens find themselves caught in the most horrifying case of their lives. From New Line Cinema comes a feature film drawn from the case files of married demonologists Ed & Lorraine Warren. The Conjuring stars Academy Award nominee Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air TVs Bates Motel) & Patrick Wilson (Insidious) as the Warrens & Ron Livingston (The Odd Life of Timothy Green) & Lili Taylor (TVs Hemlock Grove) as Roger & Carolyn Perron residents of the house. Joey King Shanley Caswell Hayley Mc Farland Mackenzie Foy & newcomer Kyla Deaver play the Perrons five daughters & Sterling Jerins is the Warrens little girl Judy. Rounding out the cast are Marion Guyot Steve Coulter Shannon Kook & John Brotherton. James Wan (Saw Insidious) directed the film from a screenplay by Chad Hayes & Carey W. Hayes (The Reaping). The film is produced by Tony De Rosa-Grund Peter Safran & Rob Cowan with Walter Hamada & Dave Neustadter serving as executive producers. Special

Features: Scaring the “@$*%” Out of You

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Based on the true life story The Conjuring tells the tale of how world renowned paranormal investigators Ed & Lorraine Warren were called upon to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in a secluded farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful demonic entity the Warrens find themselves caught in the most horrifying case of their lives. From New Line Cinema comes a feature film drawn from the case files of married demonologists Ed & Lorraine Warren. The Conjuring stars Academy Award nominee Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air TV's Bates Motel) & Patrick Wilson (Insidious) as the Warrens & Ron Livingston (The Odd Life of Timothy Green) & Lili Taylor (TV's Hemlock Grove) as Roger & Carolyn Perron residents of the house. Joey King Shanley Caswell Hayley Mc Farland Mackenzie Foy & newcomer Kyla Deaver play the Perrons' five daughters & Sterling Jerins is the Warrens' little girl Judy. Rounding out the cast are Marion Guyot Steve Coulter Shannon Kook & John Brotherton. James Wan (Saw Insidious) directed the film from a screenplay by Chad Hayes & Carey W. Hayes (The Reaping). The film is produced by Tony De Rosa-Grund Peter Safran & Rob Cowan with Walter Hamada & Dave Neustadter serving as executive producers. Special

Features: The Conjuring: Face-to-Face with Terror
- Be there as the real Perron family returns to the mysterious farmhouse that they shared with diabolical spirits for nearly a decade & relive the horror as the memories come flooding back A Life in Demonology
- Journey into the world of the undead with renowned demonologist & paranormal expert Lorraine Warren as she hosts a graveyard tour & allows a visit into her occult cellar which houses demonic unholy & haunted relics collected from thousands of cases Scaring the “@$*%” Out of You
- Horror master Director James Wan welcomes you into his world & gives an inside look at the secrets that scare the S@*% out of movie goers time & time again




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