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Hiding under the witness protection programme, Rick Jarmin gets nervous when his old flame Marianne recognises him as her fiancè who vanished years ago. But before he can assume a new identity, the man he put in jail is released and comes to pay his respects. Rick and Marianne are thrown together on the run across the country, barely evading the police, gangsters and an amorous veterinarian. Also stars David Carradine, Joan Severance and Bill Duke. -
One man is dead, two are accused of murder and the entire Marine Corp is on trial. A powerhouse drama about the dangerous difference between following orders and following one's conscience. -
Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings) brings it all to create a cinema spectacular of the classic tale of the legendary gorilla brought from a treacherous island to civilisation, where he faces the ultimate fight for survival. Also starring Adrien Brody, Colin Hanks and Andy Serkis as Kong. -
Cleaner: Retired policeman Tom Cutler works as a crime scene cleaner to support his young daughter. His quiet life is thrown into turmoil when Ann Norcut contacts him in the wake of a routine job. When she reveals her husband has disappeared and his agency has sterilised an apparent crime scene in her home without her permission, Cutler turns to his hardened former partner, detective Eddie Lorenzo. Also stars Eva Mendes and Ed Harris. Lakeview Terrace: Moving into their first home, married couple Chris and Lisa Mattson look forward to a blissful new life together - until they meet their new neighbour, Abel Turner, who introduces himself to Chris as an armed car-jacker. Getting off to a bad start, things only get worse as Chris and Lisa realise that Turner is angered by their interracial relationship. Also starring Patrick Wilson and Kerry Washington. S.W.A.T: Hondo Harrelson recruits Jim Street to join an elite unit of the Los Angeles Police Department. Together they seek out more members including tough Deke Kay and single mum Chris Sanchex. Their first assignment is to escort crime boss Alex Montel to prison. It seems like a routine assignment but when Montel offers a huge reward to anyone who can bust him out, plenty of criminals are ready to step up for the prize. Also stars Colin Farrell, LL Cool J and Michelle Rodriguez. Freedomland: A mother blames the disappearance of her son Cody on a black man from the projects after she reports a car-jacking. Detective Lorenzo Council suspects the woman is hiding something and he enlists the aid of missing child activist Karen Collucci. While the search for Cody continues, the media amplifies the notoriety of the case, bringing up explosive racial issues. Also stars Julianne Moore, Edie Falco and Ron Eldard. -
An update on H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man into a sci-fi slasher. A scientist volunteers to be the first human test subject for an invisibility serum, but when his fellow scientists can restore him to normal, he begins to slowly go insane...In Hollow Man 2 - a stand-alone sequel to Hollow Man - a scientist is ambushed at a Washington think tank by a brutal invisible force which demands information about a formula that was created to render humans invisible. The scientist mentions someone who might know what 'it' is looking for - Maggie Dalton, who was one of two survivors of the original human invisibility experiment five years earlier. The research has been recommenced - this time with a view to create the perfect invisible soldier. But there's a new and more dangerous side-effect of invisibility... -
Transformers: Shia LaBeouf, Tyrese Gibson, Josh Duhamel, Megan Fox. When the epic struggle between the Autobots and Decepticons comes to Earth, all that stands between the evil Decepticons and ultimate power is a secret held by teenager Sam Witwicky. Star Trek: John Cho, Ben Cross, Bruce Greenwood ,Chris Pine Winona Ryder Karl Urban and Leonard Nimoy. When the Romulan Nero comes from the future to take revenge on the Federation, rivals Kirk and Spock must team up to stop him from destroying everything they know. G.I. Joe - The Rise Of Cobra: Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans, Dennis Quaid, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Rachel Nichols. After a high-tech secret weapon is stolen by the mysterious and evil Cobra organisation, the G.I. Joes must race against time to stop Cobra from using the weapon and plunging the world into chaos. -
Hundreds of hopefuls congregate at a cattle call for Broadway dancers. Sour director, Zach and his brusque assistant whittle down the ranks until they're left with 16 dancers. Each one has a story - some are tragic, some are comic - and explain their love of dance. Tension mounts when Cassie - once both a big star and the director's lover but now desperate for a part - auditions. But Zach must choose only the best for his show. Musical. -
Back To The Future: Eighties teen Marty's family is dysfunctional - Mum's a depressed alcoholic, Dad's a coward bullied by his boss Biff and his siblings are social and professional failures. Marty's friend 'Doc' Emmett builds a time machine which he shows to Marty in the middle of the night - a DeLorean powered by plutonium stolen from Libyan terrorists. The Doc wants to go back to November 1955, the day he first conceived the idea of possible time travel. But when the Libyan terrorists arrive, they shoot Doc Brown dead and Marty flees in the Delorean, accidentally hitting the speed of 88 miles per hour necessary for time travel. Now he's not only stuck in 1955 with no plutonium to get him back to the future, he has to convince 1955 Doc Brown to believe his story AND get his parents to meet and marry - but things become even more complicated when Marty's mum begins to fall in love with her own son! Back To The Future II: This time there's a trip to the future - in a flying DeLorean - to save Marty and Jennifer's son from a life of crime. But when Marty acquires a sports almanac intending to make some money by gambling on sports matches on his return to 1985, things definitely go awry when old Biff steals the almanac AND the DeLorean and gives the almanac to himself in 1955 - and Marty and Jennifer return to a very different 1985...one where Hill Valley is a sleazy ruin caused by Biff. The only possible way to change all this is to return to 1955, steal the almanac back from Biff and destroy it. Back To The Future III: After the DeLorean is struck by lightning in 1955, Marty receives a letter from the Doc dated 1885 - he's alive and well and working as a blacksmith. Now, 1955 Doc and Marty know where the DeLorean is hidden and can get Marty back to 1985. He is not to try and retrieve the Doc from 1885 - but Marty sees Doc's tombstone in Hill Valley Cemetery, dated 6 days after the date of the letter. He has to save the Doc's life. When Marty shows Doc the photo of the tombstone, the Doc agrees to return top the future with him - but the DeLorean's fuel line is ruptured, the Doc falls in love and they have no way of getting the DeLorean up to the necessary 88 miles per hour - or do they? -
The perennial tale of Judah Ben-Hur and his journey to to acceptance, forgiveness and Christianity are re-told in this epic 190- minute mini-series. Also starring Hugh Bonneville, James Faulkner, Ray Winstone, Eugene Simon and Art Malik. -
The great kingdom of Tir Esplaine is besieged by the dark elves. Its young princess, Alora, must embark on a quest that will take her through the Black Forest of Sidhe to enlist the help of Lord Blackthorn. Along the way, she receives help from noble warriors, encounters bandits and meets a mysterious necromancer - and yes, there is a dragon! Many will die, long-buried secrets will be revealed - but a hero will rise! -
A commercial airliner crashes, killing all aboard except for one of the crew, a stewardess. Civil Aeronautics Board investigators blame pilot error, but the airline’s Director of Flight Operations, himself a pilot, refuses to accept that conclusion and demands that the inquiry probe deeper into all the circumstances that contributed to the disaster. The narrative explores the lives of passengers and crew as well as the technical operations of aircraft, the process of investigation, and the pressures brought to bear by relentless news media and industry politics.Also stars Rod Taylor, Mary Wickes and witrh a guest appearance by Jane Russell as herself. -
In the near future, Major is the first of her kind - a human saved from a terrible crash and cyber enhanced to be the perfect soldier devoted top stopping the world's criminals. When terrorism reaches a new level that allows the perpetrators to hack into human minds and control them, Major is uniquely qualified to stop them. As she prepares to face a new enemy, Major learns that she's been lied to - her life was not saved, it wa stolen. She will stop at nothing to recover her past,find out who did this to her and stop them before they do it to others. -
For over 100 days, Rwanda was the scene of a bloody genocide that claimed the lives of almost 1 million people. The streets literally ran with rivers of blood - and the international community looked the other way. But one man could not. Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager in Rwanda, used his courage and cunning to shelter over a thousand refugees from certain death. As Rwanda descended into blood-madness, Rusesabagina risked his liberty and life to save those who the world had abandoned. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/an-ordinary-man-paul-rusesabagina/ -
Contains all eight episodes from Series 2. -
In this year of Covid and the Great Toilet Paper Stampede of 2020, it could be a good thing to revisit and laugh at Shane Jacobson as Kenny Smyth, Australia's favourite portaloo plumber who scours the globe for bizarre, intriguing and often downright ridiculous examples of toilet technology. Kenny's travels take him to the world's fastest Porta-loo in Indianapolis, Egypt's City of the Dead, and The World Toilet Summit and the Expo in India. -
Here is the enigmatic Lawrence's story - from World War I misfit Army lieutenant to outspoken Arab Bureau assessor to the man who planned a daring surprise attack to capture a strategically important port city from the Turks. He becomes the Turks' worst nightmare - a guerilla fighter whose deeds are made famous by a war correspondent, but who must live with the decisions he must make to kill and slaughter he orders that he later comes to regret. With a fabulous supporting cast: Jack Hawkins, Josè Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Omar Sharif, Jack Gwillim and Arthur Kennedy. -
Bo had no reason to believe she was different to her human parents - until she finds she is a Succubus, one of the legendary Fae, who drain their victims of sexual energy. She hits the road, alone and afraid and finds that she is not alone. Relieved yet still horrified at what she and her kind are, she chooses a middle path between humans and Fae, helping both with the aid of her human friend Kenzi and Dyson, a Fae posing as a human detective and at the same time, making it her mission to discover her own origins. -
A group of soldiers, scientists and civilians, fleeing an attack, are stranded billions of miles from Earth on the Ancient spaceship Destiny. Locked on an unknown course, the crew must not only fight to survive, they must also face their personal demons...in the StarGate Universe. Robert Carlyle ( Trainspotting, The Full Monty) stars with Louis Ferreira, Brian J. Smith and Elyse Levesque.
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