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  • In the lawless Oregon country of 1842, local magnate Gerald Montgomery dsecress that any unattached woman belongs to the first taker. Dan Kirby is lynched, strating a stampede for his half-Indian wife Paca. Trouble starts with the local tribe, but worse is in store when Dan’s tough brother Tex rides in…
  • The year is 120 A.D. The Roman Empire is at the height of its power. In China, the Han dynasty is firmly ensconced as the ruling empire and is expanding into Central Asia. Merong Mahawagpa, a descendant of Alexander the Great, is to escort a Roman price to South East Asia to wed a beautiful Chinese princess. They are to meet halfway and marry on neutral grounds - a marriage set to bring together the great civilsations of the East and West. But the pirate nation of Geruda have other plans and plot to kidnap the princess and hold her for ransom.   Also released as The Malay Chronicles: Bloodlines.
  • Beware the Low Men...Bobby Garfield couldn't possibly know what that means - but before the summer is over, he'll know...and he'll summon depths of courage and forgiveness he never imagined he had.  It's 1960, in small-town Connecticut. Ted Brautigan is a mysterious, psychically gifted loner who becomes and mentor and father figure to Bobby when he enlists the boy's help in eluding the shadowy figures who seek control of Ted's powers.  Based on the Stephen King book of the same name.
  • Texas greenhorn Joe Buck abandons his job as a dishwasher and takes his first trip to New York City. Preening himself as a real "hustler" and feeling he'll make the big time as a male prostitute, he finds that he is the one getting "hustled" until he teams up with down-and-out but resilient outcast Ratso Rizzo. The initial "country cousin meets city cousin" relationship deepens. In their efforts to bilk a hostile world rebuffing them at every turn, this unlikely pair progress from partners in shady business to comrades as each learn the other's life stories. Each has found his first real friend.
  • The Canadian comedy series about a struggling Shakespearean troupe explores the conflicts of middle age and rebranding - am I who I want to be - or not to be?  Now ensconced as artistic director of the New Burbage theatre festival, Geoffrey must stage the cursed play MacBeth to fulfil the vision of his deceased predecessor Oliver. The leader actor engages in a gigantic clash of egos with Geoffrey, while Oliver weighs in from the grave. The festival copes with a financial crisis that forces its CEO to engage in some risky business, while leading lady Ellen endures a life-altering tax audit. Adding to the mayhem is the return of madcap director Darren Nichols who stages a post-modern Romeo and Juliet after the original director breaks her neck...is this the curse of MacBeth???  Also stars Mark McKinney, Martha Burns and Don McKellar.
  • Kevin McLeod is once more amazed by the ingenuity and determination of the families who set out to build their dream homes. From an enormous loft-style apartment hidden underground in the middle of a field to a prototype factory-made kit home built in just four weeks, this series features extraordinary builds from: The isle of Wight; The Cotswolds; Woodbridge; Stowmarket; Ipswich; Lizard Peninsula; West Cumbria and the Lake District.
  • Are you bovvered?  You should be! When Catherine Tate's most infamous characters meet Britain's top  film and TV talent - and the Prime Minister - you know it's going to be mad and messy. These sketches were filmed especially for  Comic Relief Red Nose Day 2007. Featuring: David Tennant; Daniel Craig; The Right Honorable Tony Blair; Noel Edmonds and Lenny Henry.
  • An incredible voyage of discovery from the frozen summit of Ben Nevis to the white sands of the Isle of Scilly; and from the rain-drenched tip of western Ireland to the dry expanses of East Anglia. Alan descends a Yorkshire waterfall twice as tall as Niagara Falls, climbs one of the highest mountains in Scotland, forages with red squirrels in  Formby, takes a trip back in time to find hippos roaming Trafalgar Square, a huge forest from Land's End to John O'Groats and prehistoric reptiles paddling Britain's tropical seas.  Here is the evolution of the British landscape and wildlife through dramataic geological, cliatic and human change, and an examination of the land today with fresh challenges and responsibilities for us to face.
  • Allegedly based on a recently discovered manuscript by one William Cobbler, which reveals that Henry VIII did in fact have two more wives. Although it was first thought that Cromwell originated the story, it is now known to be definitely all Cobbler's... from beginning to end...Of course, Henry VIII is experiencing marital problems - as usual. Having disposed of one wife, he immediately marries Marie of Normandy, only to discover that she eats garlic - and he can't stand the smell! As he puts of consummating his nuptials and Marie threatens to tell her cousin the King of France, Henry's troubles multiply when the beautiful and busty Bettina, daughter of the Earl of Bristol. It looks like he has a way out when it's revealed that Marie is pregnant and it can't possibly be his - but then the King of France arrives to visit his dear cousin - who Henry has locked in the tower for treason!  Also stars  Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Terry Scott,  Barbara Windsor and Kenneth Connor.
  • A top-secret chemical formula has been stolen by STENCH (the Society for the Total Extinction of Non-Conforming Humans). Hoping against hope to retrieve the formula from enemy hands, the chief of the Secret Service reluctantly sends the only agent he has left, the bumbling and silly Agent Desmond Simpkins and his three trainees – Agent Harold Crump, Agent Daphne Honeybutt, and Agent Charlie Bind. It's a battle of half-wits as our heroes versus the Fat Man, The Head Waiter, Lila - the beautiful agent provocateur in the pay of SNOG (Society for the Neutralisation of Germs) and the sinister Dr. Crow - head of STENCH...Also stars Bernard Cribbins, Charles Hawtrey, Eric Barker and Dilys Laye.
  • 1789 - and the Terror of the French Revolution is in full swing and the guillotine is doing overtime. Two bored British noblemen, Sir Rodney Ffing and Lord Darcy Pue go undercover as the Black Fingernail - after his calling card of two digits rampant -  carrying out the daring rescue of French aristocrats. Their daring antics enrage incompetent revolutionary leader, Citizen Camembert, and his toadying lackey, Citizen Bidet, especially after the Black Fingernail rescues the Duc de Pommfrit, the head of the Royalists. Camembert must capture and unmask the Black Fingernail, or face the guillotine himself! Loads of laughs and double-entendres from the Carry On regulars. Also stars Charles Hawtrey and Joan Sims.
  • Frank Cross has made the meteoric rise from mail room to TV network president. He's mean. He's nasty. He's uncaring, unfeeling and unforgiving, with a degree in sarcasm and a sadistic sense of humour. Something needs to be done. On the night before Frank's pride and joy - the most tacky and tasteless Christmas spectacular ever created - goes to air, Frank is visited by the ghost of his old boss, Lew Hayward, who in life was just as unloved and mean-spirited as Frank and who warns him that high-spirited spirits will be swinging into action: a maniacal cab driver takes him on a trip to the past, a present-day fiendish fairy with a love for painful pratfalls gives him a hard time and a ghoulish creature with a television screen for a face shows him a grim future...Also stars John Forsythe, John Glover, Bobcat Goldthwait, Carol Kane, Robert Mitchum, Michael J. Pollard and Alfre Woodard.  
  • In the mountain retreat of a gifted Internet billionaire, a young man takes part in a strange experiment: testing an artificial intelligence housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl. But the experiment spirals into a dark psychological battle - a lover triangle of loyalties, man and machine.
  • After incinerating the evil witch in her candy-house oven, Hansel and Gretel grow up to become famed witch hunters - with loads of cool weaponry and a bag of tricks to outwit evil witches everywhere. Mayor Englemann of Ausberg has hired the siblings to rescue the town's missing children, who are presumed abducted by witches - and Hansel and Gretel must find them before  the coming Blood Moon, where the witches plan to sacrifice twelve children to gain immunity to fire, their greatest weakness. But it's going t0 take all their ingenuity, knowledge and weaponry to defeat the greatest evil they have ever faced. Also stars Thomas Mann, Famke Janssen and Peter Stormare    
  • Margaret McGinty, a barmaid and former actress, is found hanged, and her lodger, Harold Taylor, caught at the scene, seems plainly guilty. Everyone believes it to be an open-and-shut case except for Miss Marple. She is the lone holdout in the jury that tries him, leading to a mistrial. Despite the disapproval of Inspector Craddock.  Miss Marple decides to delve into the case - but each new discovery deepens the mystery and Miss Marple must tread the boards in order to unmask the killer.  Also stars Charles Tingwell and James Bolam. Based on Agatha Christie's novel Mrs McGinty's Dead. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/the-murder-of-roger-ackroydthey-do-it-with-mirrors-agatha-christie/
  • While Miss Marple  and Mr Stringer  are soliciting donations for a charity - The Reformed Criminals Assistance League - they call on the rich and reclusive Mr Enderby. He tumbles down the long entrance staircase, apparently the victim of a fatal heart attack. The late Mr Enderby had a pathological fear of cats - but why is there one in the house? That and a muddy riding boot print is enough to get Miss Marple investigating - especially when the relatives gather for the reading of the will. Also stars Flora Robson and Bud Tingwell. Based on the Agatha Christie novel After The Funeral. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/after-the-funeral-agatha-christie/
  • The Battledore is a training ship for teenage boys with criminal tendencies, who are supposedly being set on the straight and narrow path – when, in fact, one of the members of the crew is training them for careers in housebreaking. Shortly after joining the board of management of the Trust, Miss Marple witnesses the sudden death of a fellow trustee, who has just returned from a surprise visit to the ship, much disturbed by something he has discovered there. He dies without being able to reveal his discovery and Miss Marple resolves to learn what he discovered - even if it means going aboard the Battledore herself. Also stars Nicholas Parsons, Derek Nimmo and Charles Tingwell. This film is not based on an Agatha Christie novel, although it does contain elements of  They Do It With Mirrors. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/mirrors-agatha-christie/ https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/margaret-rutherford-dreadnought-good-manners-andrew-merriman/
  • While travelling by train, Miss Marple witnesses the strangling of a young woman in another train on a parallel track. The police find nothing to support her story, so she conducts her own investigation, with the aid of her close friend Jim Stringer.  They conclude the body must have been thrown from the train near Ackenthorpe Hall. There's only one thing for it - Miss Marple goes undercover as a housekeeper at the Hall. Based on Agatha Christie's 4.50 From Paddington. Also stars James Robertson Justice, Joan Hickson and Rutherford's husband Stringer Davis. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/4-50-from-paddington-agatha-christie/   https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/margaret-rutherford-dreadnought-good-manners-andrew-merriman/