Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Memoirs Of A Geisha UMD Video For PSP Widescreen

Memoirs Of A Geisha (UMD Video For PSP) (Widescreen)

Memoirs Of A Geisha (UMD Video For PSP) (Widescreen)...The director of 'Chicago,' Rob Marshall, transports us into a mysterious and exotic world that casts a potent spell. this stunning romantic epic shows how a house servant blossoms, against all odds, to become the most captivating geisha of her day. A Cinderella story like no other, 'Memoirs Of A Geisha' stars Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh and Gong Li.... Click here or on the image for details



Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Widescreen

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Widescreen)

DVD, PG, 110 minutes, MGM Home Entertainment...-- The New York Times One's got a sophisticated, suave and debonair con act. The other's got...well, an act. Together, Steve Martin and Michael Caine are 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,' and they're absolutely ruining the Riviera in this 'hilarious battle of wits and double-crosses' (Boxoffice) that 'couldn't be more delightful' (The Wall Street Journal)! Martin is Freddy Benson, a small-time con man sleazing his way through Europe on whatever handouts he can scam. Caine is Lawrence Jamieson, an impeccably dressed and high-minded artiste who thinks Freddy is giving him -- and all con men -- a bad name. At first, Lawrence agrees to help Freddy spruce up his talents and his wardrobe. But whe n it becomes apparent that the Riviera isn't big enough for the both of them, they make a winner-take-all wager over the fortunes of a naive American soap heiress (Glenne Headly): The first one to 'clean her out' can make the other clear out -- and keep the Riviera and its unsuspecting tourists to himself!.

Behind The Scenes Featurette, Director Commentary, Film Highlights, Original Theatrical Trailer, Trailers, NTSC.... Click here or on the image for details



Sunday, April 12, 2009

Shopaholic Takes Manhattan by Sophie Kinsella ISBN 0385335881

Shopaholic Takes Manhattan by Sophie Kinsella, ISBN 0385335881

TV financial guru Becky Bloomwood has finally paid off her debts and credit card bills, until her boyfriend, Luke, invites her to accompany him when he moves to New York, and she discovers sample sales, power lunches, and Fifth Avenue....'This expensive, glossy world is where I've been headed all along. Limos and flowers; waxed eyebrows and designer clothes from Barneys. These are my people; this is where I'm meant to be.'
-Becky Bloomwood
Universally beloved by readers, Sophie Kinsella's national bestseller, Confessions of a Shopaholic, introduced the irrepressible one-woman shopping phenomenon, Becky Bloomwood. Now, in this hilarious follow-up, Becky and her credit cards are headed across the Atl antic....
With her shopping excesses (somewhat) in check and her career as a TV financial guru thriving, Becky's biggest problem seems to be tearing her entrepreneur boyfriend, Luke, away from work for a romantic country weekend. And worse, figuring out how to 'pack light.' But packing takes on a whole new meaning when Luke announces he's moving to New York for business-and he asks Becky to go with him!
Before you can say 'Prada sample sale,' Becky has landed in the Big Apple, home of Park Avenue penthouses and luxury department stores.
Surely it's only a matter of time until she becomes an American TV celebrity, and she and Luke are the toast of Gotham society. Nothing can stand in their way, especially with Becky's bills miles away in London.... Click here or on the image for details



Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Lost in a Good Book

Lost in a Good Book

In order to rescue the love of her life from the corrupt multinational Goliath, Thursday seeks out a believed-vanquished enemy from the pages of 'The Raven' and finds unexpected assistance from Miss Havisham of 'Great Expectations.'...The inventive, exuberant, and totally original literary fun that began with 'The Eyre Affair' continues with Fforde's magnificent second adventure starring the resourceful, fearless literary sleuth Thursday Next.... Click here or on the image for details



Sunday, April 5, 2009

When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro ISBN 0375724400

When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro, ISBN 0375724400

Sent to live in England after the disappearance of his parents, Christopher Banks returns to Shanghai, the city of his birth, more than twenty years later to uncover the truth about the tragedy that transformed his childhood....From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Remains of the Day' comes this stunning work of soaring imagination.
Born in early-twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age of nine after the separate disappearances of his parents. Now, more than twenty years later, he is a celebrated figure in London society; yet the investigative expertise that has garnered him fame has done little to illuminate the circumstances of his parents' alleged kidnappings. Banks travels to the seething, labyrinthine city of his memory in hopes of solving the mystery of his own, painful past, only to find that war is ravaging Shanghai beyond recognition-and that his own recollections are proving as difficult to trust as the people around him.
Masterful, suspenseful and psychologically acute, When We Were Orphans' offers a profound meditation on the shifting quality of memory, and the possibility of avenging one's past.... Click here or on the image for details



Friday, April 3, 2009

Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu ISBN 0394735307

Gallop!: A Scanimation Picture Book

Gallop!: A Scanimation Picture Book...Employing a patented new technology called Scanimation, which harkens back to the old magical days of the kinetoscope, each page in this book is a marvel that brings animals, along with one shining star, to life with art that literally moves.... Click here or on the image for details


< h3> Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, ISBN 0394735307 The classical novel of court life in tenth and eleventh-century Japan centers on the life and loves of a nobleman known as the shining Genji, son of an emperor, and those of Kaoru, grandson of Genji's best friend...The Tale of Genji is a very long romance, running to fifty-four chapters and describing the court life of Heian Japan, from the tenth century into the eleventh.... Click here or on the image for details


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