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The Cook and The Chef : Summer (2 disc set)
(2006) [G]
Take one inspired cook with a national and international reputation for mouth-watering home cooked creations. Add one chef who creates five star restaurant masterpieces on a daily basis.
Mix the magnificent setting of the Barossa Valley in South Australia with the abundance of local... More
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The Cook and The Chef : Spring (2 disc set)
(2007) [G]
It's Spring, and Cook Maggie Beer and Chef Simon Bryant are out visiting the local producers whose crops are ready for the table. Back in the kitchen they transform these spring ingredients into dishes that anyone can make with the help of the cooking secrets Maggie and Simon so generously share.... More
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The Cook and The Chef : Winter (2 disc set)
(2006) [G]
It's wintertime and Maggie and Simon, the Cook and the Chef, are on the trail to find the freshest seasonal produce available during these colder months. Once found, they take the produce back to Maggie's kitchen in the Barossa and transform it into dishes anyone can cook, along the way divulging... More
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The Cook and The Chef : Autumn (2 disc set)
(2006) [G]
Maggie and Simon, the Cook and the Chef, are two people who share a passion for food. While Maggie aims to show us how to get the wow factor out of the simplest of cooking, Simon brings to the table his fantastic technique and knowledge of food. Together they joyfully produce great dishes using... More
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The Boys Are Back
(2009) [M]
The Boys Are Back is a confessional tale of fatherhood. It follows a witty, wisecracking, action-oriented sportswriter who, in the wake of his wife's death, finds himself in a sudden, stultifying state of single parenthood. Joe Warr throws himself into the only child-rearing philosophy he thinks... More
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Capitalism: A Love Story
(2009) [M]
When the Global Financial Crisis hit its lowest point America was in meltdown. Still amidst a country in the grip home foreclosures, losing 25% of its national worth and laying off up to fourteen thousand blue collar workers a day, the fat cats on wall street asked the very people they were... More
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Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
(1989) [PG]
This film recounts the lives and deaths of various victims of AIDS who are commemorated in the AIDS quilt. It is a massive cloth collecting each piece as a memorial for each victim of the disease to both show the death toll and to show the humanity of the victims to those who would rather... More
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Bruno
(2009) [R]
Gay fashionista Brüno (Sacha Baron Cohen) is the host of the top-rated late night fashion show in any German-speaking country...apart from Germany. Brüno's mission? To become the biggest Austrian celebrity since Hitler. His strategy? To crisscross the globe in the hopes of finding fame and love. More
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Young @ Heart
(2007) [PG]
Get ready to rock with the most entertaining Golden Oldies you'll ever meet, a fun loving senior citizens' choir called Young @ Heart - average age 81. Celebrating the unbreakable bonds of friendship and the life-affirming power of music, they prepare to perform a range of tunes from James Brown... More
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A Complete History of My Sexual Failures
(2008) [R]
Dumped and despondent over an endless string of disastrous relationships, filmmaker Chris Waitt attempts to root out the source of his romantic woes by asking each of his ex-girlfriends point-blank about his shortcomings as a boyfriend. Later taken to task by his own mother, the long-suffering... More
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Love the Beast
(2009) [M]
What if you were a Hollywood movie star with an obsession for cars and racing? You would probably read every script with even the tiniest link to the subject matter, in the hope that you could tell a great car story of the likes of 'Grand Prix', 'Le Mans' or 'Mad Max'. Then one day you happen to... More
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The Grocer's Son
(2007) [M]
It is summer, and thirty-year-old Antoine is forced to leave the city to return to his family in Provence. His father is sick, so he must assume the lifestyle he thought he had shed - driving the family grocery cart from hamlet to hamlet, delivering supplies to the few remaining inhabitants.... More
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Up the Yangtze
(2007) [M]
A luxury cruise boat motors up the Yangtze - navigating the mythic waterway known in China simply as "The River." The Yangtze is about to be transformed by the biggest hydroelectric dam in history. At the river's edge - a young woman says goodbye to her family as the floodwaters rise towards... More
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Walk Like a Man
(2008) [M]
Narrated by former rugby champion, Ian Roberts, walk like a man traces the journey of two of the world’s best gay rugby teams - reigning champions, San Francisco Fog and Feisty upstarts, Sydney convicts as they prepare to battle in the world cup of gay rugby - The Bingham Cup.
This... More
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The Times of Harvey Milk
(1984) [PG]
Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Harvey Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Supervisor Dan White on November 27, 1978. Milk's life leading up to his election, his successful efforts to politically represent San Francisco's gay community, and the city's... More
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The Tracey Fragments
(2007) [MA]
She’s just an ordinary girl who hates herself, says 15-year old Tracey Berkowitz (Best Actress Oscar-nominee Ellen Page) as she shivers, naked under a shower curtain at the back of bus. She’s out on the street looking for her little brother Sonny, who is missing after she hypnotised him into... More
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Patti Smith: Dream of Life
(2008) [M]
Steven Sebring's multi-award winning plunge into the philosophy and artistry of cult rocker Patti Smith - legendary singer, artist and poet. Known as the godmother of punk, Patti Smith emerged in the 1970s, galvanizing the music scene with her unique style of poetic rage, music and trademark... More
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First Australians (2 disc set)
(2008) [PG]
First Australians chronicles the birth of contemporary Australia as never told before, from the perspective of its first people. First Australians explores what unfolds when the oldest living culture in the world is overrun by the world?s greatest empire.
Over seven documentaries,... More
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Edward Burtynsky: Manufactured Landscapes
(2006) [G]
Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of 'manufactured landscapes' ? quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams ? Edward Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilisation's materials and debris. This astounding documentary by award winning director... More
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Sex and the City: The Movie (2 disc set)
(2008) [MA]
Strap on your Manolos and grab a cupcake and a Cosmopolitan! Those four fabulous New Yorkers – Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte – are back!
Four years after the hit series ended, our favourite femmes fashionables continue to juggle jobs, friendships and relationships while... More
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Warren Miller's Off The Grid
(2007) [E]
Warren Miller film crews rewrite the definition of adventure as the world's best winter sports athletes embark on a global mission to discover the deepest snow and the steepest mountains in their latest feature film, Off The Grid. Having captured unprecedented snow conditions from around the... More
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Annie Leibovitz - Life Through a Lens
(2006)
Annie Leibovitz has produced some of the most iconic images of the last 30 years and is, literally, our most influential woman photographer. She has shot the rich and famous, the profound and powerful, the exceptional and notorious. Her camera has documented the horrors of war most recently in... More
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Mouchette
(1967) [M]
Following Au Hasard Balthazar, Bresson’s Mouchette is the heartbreaking story of an alienated teenage girl whose life is mired in desolation and brutality. A metaphor for wider social conflict and alienation, Bresson said of the film: "Mouchette offers evidence of misery and cruelty."... More
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Bossa Nova - the Sound That Seduced the World
(2005) [G]
Mixing samba, jazz and sophisticated lyricism, the sultry bossa nova sound was spawned in the beaches and bars of Rio, Brazil in the late 50s, and quickly seduced the world when anthems like "The Girl From Ipanema" became huge international hits. This compelling documentary, filmed on location in... More
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The Sorrow and The Pity (2disc set)
(1969) [M]
From the moment it was first released at a tiny Left Bank theater in Paris, this epic account of France under the occupation of the Nazi regime during World War II has been acclaimed as one of the most moving and influential films of all time. Originally refused by French TV, the film garnered... More
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The Bridge (Documentary)
(2006) [MA]
People suffer largely unnoticed while the rest of the world goes about its business. This is a documentary exploration of the mythic beauty of the Golden Gate Bridge, the most popular suicide destination in the world, and those drawn by its call. Steel and his crew filmed the bridge during... More
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Mclibel - Two Worlds Collide (2 disc set)
(1998) [PG]
McLibel is the story of two ordinary people who humiliated McDonald’s on the biggest corporate PR disaster in history.
McDonald’s loved using the UK libel laws to suppress criticism. Major media organizations like the BBC and The Guardian crumbled and apologized. Then they sued gardener... More
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