From the uniquely imaginative mind of writer/producer/director Baz Luhrmann comes the new big screen adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. The filmmaker created his own distinctive visual interpretation of the classic story, bringing the period to life in a way that has never been seen before, in a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role. The Great Gatsby follows would-be writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz, bootleg kings, and sky-rocketing stocks. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her philandering, blue-blooded husband, Tom Buchanan. It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits. As Nick bears witness, within and without of the world he inhabits, he pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams and high-octane tragedy, and holds a mirror to our own modern times and struggles.
When the ten-year-old son David (Blake Woodruff) of a wealthy New England socialite is abducted his kidnapper Max Harper (Josh Holloway) and his seedy associates assume it will be a routine kidnapping in exchange for a large ransom. Unknown to the kidnappers the shy and reserved David actually has a hidden agenda of his own and a mysterious way of tapping into the minds of others. Soon Max will wish that he had never kidnapped David much less even heard of him.
Warrior stars Tom Hardy (Inception, The Dark Knight Rises) and Joel Edgerton (The Thing). An inspirational and exhilarating roller-coaster of a film, Warrior centres around Tommy (Hardy) - an ex marine haunted by a tragic past, who enlists the help of his estranged father (Nick Nolte) to train up for the fight of his life. A former wrestling prodigy, Tommy blazes a path towards SPARTA - the biggest 'winner takes all' Mixed Martial Arts event in history. His brother, Brendan (Joel Edgerton), an ex-fighter-turned teacher, also returns to the ring in a desperate bid to save his family from financial ruin. So when Brendan's unlikely, underdog rise sets him on a collision course with the unstoppable Tommy, the two brothers must finally confront each other - and the forces that pulled them apart - in the ultimate face off.
Following the death of his mother, seventeen year-old Joshua 'J' Cody (James Frecheville) moves in with his hitherto-estranged family, under the watchful eye of his doting grandmother, Janine 'Smurf' Cody (Jacki Weaver), and her three criminal sons.
Lifeis a terrifying sci-fi thriller about a team of scientists aboard the International Space Station whose mission of discovery turns to one of primal fear when they find a rapidly evolving life form that caused extinction on Mars, and now threatens the crew and all life on Earth. Click Images to Enlarge
The Secret Life of Us follows eight twentysomethings sharing three apartments in a Melbourne residential block, and may well be Channel 4's best-kept secret. Buried in a mid-week late-night slot the show has nevertheless developed a cult following as an antipodean answer to This Life, though one mercifully free of amateurish shaky photography. This is actually a good-looking soap spiced with post-watershed language, sex, nudity and a refreshing dose of humour--think Sex and the City meets Coupling, or Dawson's Creek goes to The Book Group. The show takes a while to get going, introducing too many characters too quickly in disorientating fashion, but becomes engrossing entertainment filled with realistically young, aimless and confused, if not very likeable characters. Central to the show is Alex (Claudia Karvan, soon to become much more famous in Star Wars: Episode III) giving a strong performance as an emotional insecure doctor who sets things rolling by having a fling with her best friend's boyfriend. Samuel Johnson meanwhile is the highly sexed struggling novelist whose work in progress, the titular Secret Life of Us offers commentary on the ever more tangled web of romance, deception and friendship. It's Australian drama for those who have outgrown Melbourne's Neighbours. On the DVD: The Secret Life of Us comes to DVD in an anamorphically enhanced 16:9 transfer which looks fine, showing just a little graininess in the darker scenes. The sound is Dolby Prologic and is more than adequate given the small-scale, intimate nature of the production. There are optional subtitles. --Gary S Dalkin
Antarctica: an extraordinary continent of awesome beauty. It is also home to an isolated outpost where a discovery full of scientific possibility becomes a mission of survival when an alien is unearthed by a crew of international scientists.
Three prisoners are about to be released from jail. Hard experience and an unspoken bond have made them masters of their craft: armed robbery. But there's only rule: no one gets hurt.
The UV copy is only available in the UK and Ireland. From the producer of Whiplash and The Purge, Jason Blum, comes a chilling, psychological thriller-horror that marks the feature directorial debut of acclaimed actor and writer Joel Edgerton (The Great Gatsby, Zero Dark Thirty, Warrior). Simon (Jason Bateman; Horrible Bosses, Arrested Development) and Robyn (Rebecca Hall; Transcendence, Iron Man 3) are a young married couple whose life is going just as planned until a chance encounter with an acquaintance from Simon's high school sends their world into a harrowing tailspin. Simon doesn't recognize Gordo (Joel Edgerton) at first, but after a series of uninvited encounters and mysterious gifts prove troubling, a horrifying secret from the past is uncovered after more than 20 years. As Robyn learns the unsettling truth about what happened between Simon and Gordo, she starts to question: how well do we really know the people closest to us, and are past bygones ever really bygones?
Want to see Kylie as a sex-mad gun-toting coke-snorting hooker? Who Doesn't?! Check out this contemporary thriller featuring the dark underbelly of counter-culture life in Sydney Australia...
A down-on-his-luck Aussie rock promoter secures the coup of his career in this comedy.
Police officer Malcolm Toohey (Joel Edgerton) has it all - a loving wife beautiful children and a reputation for being an outstanding detective. But it only ever takes a single moment to change a life forever. One night following a successful drug bust Toohey and his team hit a bar for drinks he has cheated death and it requires celebrating. On the way home he knocks down a young boy severely injuring him. Toohey desperately fights to save the boy’s life until the ambulance arrives. Driven by fear he lies to the paramedics claiming he found the boy on the road. But Toohey knows better than anyone where lies ultimately lead.
Kieran Darcy-Smith directs this mystery drama starring Joel Edgerton and Felicity Price. When Alice (Price) and her husband Dave (Edgerton) decide to get away from it all before the birth of their third child, they invite Alice's sister Steph (Teresa Palmer) and her new boyfriend Jeremy (Antony Starr) to join them. A relaxing holiday is not what's in store for the group however, when a night of drinking, dancing and drug-taking leads to Jeremy's disappearance. As fragments of the previous nig.
Izzy (Robin Tunney) is a young photographer and her partner Peter (Joel Edgerton) is assistant professor at an LA university. Newly engaged and madly in love they find their idyllic world shattered by a random act of violence. But there is more than one victim to this indiscriminate crime as Izzy's parents the eccentric Arlene (Cybill Shepherd) and sportswriter John (Elliott Gould) together with Peter's mercurial father Eddie (Scott Wilson) all become affected by the events. Can the couple and their close circle of family and friends find the strength to recover from the trauma? They key is not about looking at what happened but looking to what happens next.
It's got a round table, some knights, and a noble warrior who rises to become King Arthur, but everything else about this revisionist legend is pure Hollywood. That's not such a bad thing if you enjoyed Rob Roy, Braveheart, Gladiator and Troy, and there's some intriguing potential in presenting the "real" Arthur (played by Clive Owen) as a 5th-century soldier of Rome, assigned to defend Roman-imperial England against a hoard of invading Saxons (led by Stellan Skarsgard in hairy villain mode). As revamped history and "archaeological findings" would have us believe, Guinevere (Keira Knightley) is a warrior babe in face-paint and Lancelot (Ioan Gruffudd) is a nonentity who fades into the woodwork. Never mind. Best to enjoy the harsh, gloomy atmosphere of Irish locations, the ruggedness of Owen and his hearty supporting cast, and the entertaining nonsense of a Jerry Bruckheimer production that strips battle-ready Guinevere down to leather-strap S&M gear while all the men sport full-body armor. Hail to the queen, indeed! --Jeff Shannon
Unfocused twentysomething Gordon (Peter Fenton) moves in with Cynthia (Sacha Horler) a former co-worker with low self-esteem due to her outward appearance and begins a relationship with her based on drinking drugs and sex.
Legend Of The Guardians When a young owl is abducted by an evil Owl army, he must escape with newfound friends to seek out the legendary Guardians to stop the menace. Happy Feet Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!
Praise tells the bizarre and erotic tale of two down-on-their-luck individuals whose passionate affair has the potential to either save or destroy their lives.Based on a semi-autobiographical cult novel by Andrew McGahan, this acclaimed drama is an example of Australian cinema at its most quirky and passionate.
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