David Day

Exploring the brilliant web of verbal hocus-pocus that J.R.R. Tolkien delightedly spun in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, master hobbit investigator David Day reveals the myriad crafty puns and riddles, hidden meanings, and mythical associations beneath the saga's thrilling surface. Exploring the brilliant web of verbal hocus-pocus that J. R. R. Tolkien delightedly spun in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, master hobbit investigator David...

Dive into the fantastical world and vocabulary of J. R. R. Tolkien from Aglarond to Zirakzigil. J. R. R. Tolkien created characters and a world so unique and so rich with details that they warranted a whole new vocabulary to go with them. On these pages, you'll find a chronology of Tolkien's life, along with a short biography and an explanation of his writings. Then you can flip through the dictionary to discover terms like Aglarond (the great caverns...

Douglas Mawson was determined to make his mark on Antarctica as no other explorer had done before him. What really happened on the ice has been buried for a century. Flaws in the Ice is the untold true story of Douglas Mawson's 1911-1914 Antarctic Expedition, mistakenly hailed for a century as a courageous survival story from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Prize-winning historian David Day takes off on a five-week odyssey in search of the...

Two brothers—one searching for answers to his father's suicide, the other for relief from a decade of guilt—share a dark family secret. A deputy, consumed by the decade-old disappearance of her cousin, draws lines connecting both brothers to her own obsession. When the discovery of an ancient artifact summons an old man to a small town, the stone relic's haphazard unearthing strips the townsfolk of their daily facade and forces them to confront...

King Zombie meets the Demon Lord and we find out that King Zombie serves this Lord. King Zombie is chastised for not capturing Deake fast enough. The city where Dan and Joey are staying witness a sky opening, unaware that it is bringing new demonic recruits to help King Zombie. Many of the townspeople haven't had conflicts with the zombies and doubt some of the stories that Dan and Joey tell them. But not for long.

John must kill one of his own men as he was bitten by a zombie. Kirk finds himself trapped by zombies again and comes across a pilot flying a small plane and manages to join him in escaping. John's men on a hunting party see some movement and they lay an ambush for the zombies that are coming towards them.

In a flashback to the community city where Dan and Joey were, it is revealed that King Zombie has tortured some of the people and found out about Dan and Joey. That puts him in the hunt of them. Moloch, Reyna, and Deake join up with another paramilitary organization but Moloch is not in charge this time, he is more of a prisoner. The leader of this new group agrees with Reyna's plan as she is willing to let Moloch be killed.

Joey resists leaving the city but he won't let Dan leave alone. Kirk is a member of a loosely organized faction that refuses to take the overall zombie threat seriously. They hunt down zombies for sport and set them on fire. Kirk and a few others decide to leave the Appalachians because they know that disaster awaits them in this group. Wayne and Albert find themselves forced to watch a family fall to the zombies, realizing they would only get themselves...

Magpie is a British independent film about an absent young father (Tony) who returns to town in order to attend his 9 year old, shark-obsessed son's funeral with 2 friends (Phil and Craig). His glaring failure as a parent makes his presence an unwelcome one, especially with the boy's mother (Emily) who struggles with her loss and the lack control she has over the funeral arrangements. Tony discovers that his son's obsession with sharks may have come...