Second big screen outing for the popular cult superhero Hellboy (Ron Perlman), who originally appeared in Mike Mignola's Dark Horse comic series. In this highly acclaimed instalment, the mythical world starts an uprising against humanity in a bid to take over the Earth, and Hellboy and his team are all that stand in their way. Can the superheroic redfaced demon prevent the destruction of mankind once again? Guillermo del Toro writes and directs, and Selma Blair reprises her role as Hellboy's love interest, Liz Sherman.

Dark Horse Comics' popular cult superhero Hellboy makes the leap from the comic book pages to the big screen in this fantasy action adventure. In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is taking place, but not before a demon - Hellboy (Ron Perlman) - has already been conjured. Joining the Allied forces, Hellboy eventually grows to adulthood under the supervision of his adopted 'father', Professor Broom (John Hurt), serving the cause of good rather than evil. When the powerful and evil Nazi wizard who unleashed Hellboy suddenly reappears in modern times, he discovers that Hellboy is now working as a paranormal investigator at a secret U.S. government agency dedicated to protecting humanity from the forces of darkness. Now, Hellboy must fight to prevent the destruction of mankind.

Action comedy starring Ryan Reynolds as a dead cop having to take on supernatural villains when he's recruited into the 'Rest in Peace Department' - the afterlife police force. After being killed on active duty, S.W.A.T. team member Nick Walker (Reynolds) finds himself transported to the unearthly offices of the R.I.P.D., who protect the living from the ranks of villainous lost souls. Eager to hunt down his killer, he is teamed up with old-time ornery gunslinger Roy Pulsipher (Jeff Bridges), who wastes no time in giving Nick a crash course in afterlife policing. With the ranks of the dead about to make a final stand to take over the world, the pair soon set about protecting the living by cleaning up the streets - one soul at a time.

Second big screen outing for the popular cult superhero Hellboy (Ron Perlman), who originally appeared in Mike Mignola's Dark Horse comic series. In this highly acclaimed instalment, the mythical world starts an uprising against humanity in a bid to take over the Earth, and Hellboy and his team are all that stand in their way. Can the superheroic redfaced demon prevent the destruction of mankind once again? Guillermo del Toro writes and directs, and Selma Blair reprises her role as Hellboy's love interest, Liz Sherman.

Jean-Claude Van Damme stars in this time-travelling sci-fi thriller. In Washington, 1994, Max Walker (Van Damme) is an average cop enjoying life with his new wife (Mia Sara). One night she is murdered and the following morning Walker volunteers for a dangerous assignment in a new police department. Ten years later time-travelling is a reality and Walker is a maverick Timecop, going back and forth catching villains all over history. Then the opportunity arises to save his wife when he goes back to 1994 to face a politician who wants to take over the world.

All 13 episodes from the second season of the Canadian sci-fi drama written and created by Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie.

When six people wake up on a spaceship with no recollection of who they are or how they got there, they try to recall their seemingly wiped memories in an effort to regain control of their lives. In this season, the six survivors are divided as they continue to search for clues to their past.

The promotion of workplace partnership in the high performance workplace has become central to policy debates on the 'modernization' of employment relations in British industry. This book provides critical insights into the dynamics of partnership by way of in-depth case studies of employee experience in an under-researched industry noted for its high concentrations of skilled workers and graduates. Drawing on rich interview and questionnaire data, the authors highlight considerable conflicts of interest in the development of partnership that derive from the competitive capitalist environment in which management strategies operate.

Dark Matter is a fresh and dynamic space opera based on the graphic novel of the same name.

When the six-person crew of a derelict spaceship wake from stasis in the farthest reaches of space their memories have been wiped and they have no recollection of who they are or how they got on board. The mysteries of their respective pasts take them on a journey to the farthest reaches of colonized space. Hounded by the galactic authorities, their former employers, ruthless corporations, rivals, bounty hunters, and former enemies they ll have only each other to rely upon.

Meanwhile, the clock is ticking because there is a traitor in their midst, a mole who orchestrated their communal mind-wipe...

This DVD contains all 13 episodes along with a collection of featurettes offering a glimpse into how Dark Matter was brought to the screen essential viewing for fans.

This is the story of struggles against management regimes in the car industry in Britain from the period after the Second World War until the contemporary regime of lean production. Told from the viewpoint of the workers, the book chronicles how workers responded to a variety of management and union strategies, from piece rate working, through measured day work, and eventually to lean production beginning in the late 1980s. The book focuses on two companies, Vauxhall-GM and Rover/BMW, and how they developed their aroaches to managing labour relations. Worker responses to these are intimately tied to changing patterns of exploitation in the industry. The book highlights the relative success of various forms of struggle to establish safer and more humane working environments. The contributors bring together original research gathered over two decades, plus exclusive surveys of workers in four automotive final assembly plants over a ten year period.

This book makes a major contribution to the debate within the UK and abroad on the reality of workplace unionism in an era of change. Drawing on examples of union renewal, the authors present an historical overview, and compare the UK experience with contrasting international examples. It presents both qualitative and quantitative research to provide new and comprehensive evidence on trade union strategies.

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A lovely rhyming book, with bright and brilliant pictures that will capture any young childs imagination. This author has worked in the education field for nearly 20 years and knows how to work her magic on the very young using her light and whimsical prose to help toddlers and older children learn to read.