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  • 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...
  • 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.  
  • Frank Ashby, an Oxford University Professor, has a secure, well-ordered life. When he ventures into the Swiss Alps for a well-earned holiday before his prospective appointment as president of his college, he is suddenly brought face to face with a midlife crisis when he meets two American ladies: Miss Caroline Hartley and her 18 year old ward Miss Elinor Hartley. Ashby eventually finds enjoyment in their company as a refreshing diversion from the exclusively masculine world he normally inhabits. But on his return to Oxford, he must fight a young professor who aspires to the college presidency and what's more, there's the unexpected arrival in Oxford of  Miss Caroline and Miss Elinor. His well-ordered life is topsy turvy - and it seems that love is responsible! Also stars Trini Alvarado, Alfred Molina, Roger Lloyd Pack and Alun Armstrong.
  • There comes a time in life when you are on the brink of finding your place in the world - the path you chose at that crucial point affects who you are and who you will become. At the crossroads are Iris, Margaret, Paula and Jane, trying to make their mark. They come together as 'temps' for the Global Credit Association, each girl seeing her job as temporary and they each dream of bigger things. They become friends, sharing their dreams and desires - but the fragile bond between them is broken with the introduction of a fifth woman and the strange events that follow - resulting in paranoia, suspicion and betrayal.
  • In the city of New York, a crime is committed every eight seconds. But across the river in New Jersey lies a quiet town called Garrison, home to some of New York's finest. It's a place where the local sheriff wears a badge - but the big city cops run the town. Garrison sheriff Freddy Heflin always dreamed of becoming one of the finest - but now he's discovered something that will force him to choose between his idols and upholding the law. Based on a true story.
  • U.S. Marshall Pete Nessip gets into hot water when the prisoner he's transporting parachutes out of a 747 and disappears safely into the night with his deadly cohorts. While Nessip did his best to prevent the escape, he can't stop the force from suspending him - and that won't stop him from tracking down the cadre of techno-terrorists...even if it means taking a 30,000 foot sky-dive.
  • 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.
  • Tom Stewart is an ambitious crime reporter - which means digging up facts that many would prefer stay buried. And there's a few who'd like someone Tom has - the unethical detective sergeant Ray Birch who is looking for information on a robbery. During the investigation, Tom meets Morris Martin, a man mourning the accidental death of his wife Claudine. But Morris develops the erratic idea that his friends are keeping Claudine, who is alive and being kept hidden. One by one, Morris tracks his friends down and kills them - and Tom uses his newspaper connections to dig a little deeper to find a real surprise twist in the case - together with the realisation that Morris AND Birch are after him...
  • 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.
  • Initially proposed as 20 short films shot in the arrondissements of Paris, but two had to be omitted as they could not be properly integrated into it. Each bite is about love, of course - and the many paths we take to love; some rough, some smooth and some completely absurd! With a fabulous international cast including Marianne Faithfull, Miranda Richardson, Steve Buscemi, Willem Dafoe, Juliette Binoche, Bob Hoskins, Elijah Wood, Rufus Sewell and many more.
  • The innocence of a nation  is shattered by a sudden and devastating act of warfare. As the lives and loves of a generation  are swept into the conflict of World War II, the events at Pearl Harbour become a test of the strength of the human spirit. Also starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Alec Baldwin, Jon Voight and Tom  Sizemore.
  • Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are friends and rival trumpeters with 'O'Neill's Perennials', a college band and they've managed to prolong their college careers by failing seven years in a row. Ellen Miller catches the eye of both Danny and Hank at a performance - and when she serves them a notice for her boss, a debt collector, the fast-talking guys soon have her working as their manager. Tired of losing gigs to the 'Perennials', Artie Shaw ( playing himself) steals the competent Ellen away to be his booking manager. And now the rivals begin to scheme to get themselves into Shaw's band - each determined to  out-play the other! Light musical comedy.
  • 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.
  • The greatest stories of the Old Testamant are brought to life in this adaptation of the first 22 books of the Bible. An extravaganza by  Dino de Laurentiss and John Huston.  Featuring: John Huston, Peter O'Toole, George C. Scott and  Franco Nero
  • Wealthy businessman A. J. Mason takes his son Andrew Jr. and nervous business partner Peyton Potter to  lavish Club New Yorker for a grand send off before his son departs for the war. In the course of an evening there is much falling-in-love and the pursuit of Potter by Brazilian beauty Dorita - and when Andrew Jr distinguishes himself in battle and is on the way home to his girl, his father wants to throw him a welcome party, but Club New Yorker is closed for two weeks for  rehearsal for the new show. More shenanigans ensue as it's revealed that Peyton's good lady wife may have a racy past, and Dorita hasn't given up her pursuit of Peyton! A Busby Berkley spectacular also featuring Benny Goodman and his orchestra.
  • Messenger is a man in the middle of a mystery. With his suspicions raised by a series of gruesome, seemingly unrelated deaths, Messenger asks his friend, retired MI5 operative Gethryn to investigate a secret list bearing the names of the deceased. When Messenger himself is killed, it transpires that a sinister villain is using a variety of disguises to work his way through the list. It's now up to Gethryn to uncover the deadly conspiracy before it's too late. Also starring George C. Scott, Robert Mitchum, Burt Lancaster, Dana Winter and Gladys Cooper.
  • Made in 1955, and so controversial that both the Canne and Venice Film Festivals banned it.  Based on a play by Bridget Boland and set in an unnamed East European country where communist tyranny has recently replaced Nazi tyranny, it is the story of a strong-willed Cardinal arrested as a traitor to the state following World War II. The Inquisitor, an equally strong-willed character seems benevolent, but uses his oily charm to lure the Cardinal into speaking freely. He eventually resorts to false evidence, dirty tricks and cruelty yet months pass and the Cardinal's spirit does not break or bend - the tyrants must turn to the last stand of the immorally powerful - torture.
  • Katya,  a beautiful Russian book editor, attempts to send British publisher Barley Blair a manuscript written by a noted Soviet scientist and in doing so unwittingly draws them both into a world, of international espionage. The manuscript, containing information that could alter the balance of world power,  is intercepted by Western spy-masters who then send Blair to Russia to gain more information on the mysterious document.  But when Blair meets Katya, he is torn between his mission and the woman whose passion for her country - and for Blair - know no bounds. Also starring Roy Scheider and James Fox. And for more John  Le Carrè:  https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/the-little-drummer-girl-john-le-carre/
  • Persuaded by a beautiful Russian Countess to help her flee her loathsome fiancè, Captain Jonathan Clark sails from San Francisco to Alaska, evading cunning rival Captain Portugee - who will unite with Clark to defeat the Russian menace, Prince Semyon.
  • Legendary Nordic warrior Thor sets out with his army of Vikings on a journey to discover foreign lands. treasure to plunder, glory to bask in and fame to call their own. But when a scout goes missing on a strange island, the search party discovers a tribe of native inhabitants who are being terrorised by packs of savage werewolves. Inspired by his visions of a powerful weapon, Thor takes up the challenge to track down the fabled Hammer Of The Gods - a mighty weapon of immense power that wielded properly, may save his army and the islanders from the marauding beasts and establish Thor as a hero of mythic proportions.
  • Seeking refuge in the eye of a violent typhoon, the crew of a crippled salvage tug makes a potentially profitable discovery. A Russian military vessel, loaded with hi-tech computer hardware worth millions in salvage fees, appears to have been abandoned by its crew. After restoring power to the ship, greedy Captain Everton and his navigator Kit encounter a lone scientists who seems to be scared almost to death. She begs them to turn off the power - but it it too late?
  • The classic H. Rider Haggard adventure comes to life. Adventurer Allan Quartermain is commissioned by beauty Jessie Huston to find her explorer father in Africa - and the way is littered with Nazis, cannibals, a jungle full of dangerous creatures...and the wiles of the woman who's hired him! But as they near the spot where her father was last seen -  the legendary mines of King Solomon - there's even more adventure and danger than they bargained for. And if you'd like to find out all about the legend... https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/king-solomons-minessheallan-quatermain-h-rider-haggard/