james's - Rented List

Asteroid City: a fictional American desert town, circa 1955. Junior Stargazers and Space Cadets from across the country assemble for the annual Asteroid Doy celebration - but the scholarly competition is spectacularly upended by world-changing events.

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Danger. Power. Seduction. Welcome to Las Vegas 1973. Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci star in director Martin Scorsese's riveting look at how blind ambition, white-hot passion and 24-carat greed toppled an empire.

In an era of over-the-top glitz, Sam 'Ace' Rothstein (De Niro) is riding high as frontman for the Mob's multi-billion dollar Las Vegas operation. To protect their 'investment', the bosses send in Ace's boyhood pal, hot-headed enforcer Nicky Santoro (Pesci). It's a winning hand: Ace's brain and Nicky's muscle - until sexy wild card Ginger McKenna (Stone) turns up the heat. This gripping, fact-based tale boasts extraordinary performances, a sizzling soundtrack and a dizzying look beneath the glamorous facade, beyond the closed doors and behind the eyes of the men and women whose fortunes - and lives - were made and lost with a roll of the dice.

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Set during disco's heyday, 'Boogie Nights' is a hilarious and hysterical expose of the pornography industry as seen from those inside. Eddie (Mark Wahlberg) is a 17-year-old busboy looking for a break when veteran porn director Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds) spots him in a disco.

Jack immediately senses that the virile and well-endowed young man can make him very, very rich. Lead by Jack into the wickedly glamorous realm of porn movies, Eddie emerges as Dirk Diggler, the superstar who's always pleased to see you...

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Ever since their saga started on the streets of L.A.'s underground KS racing scene, Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his family have overcome impossible odds to outsmart, out-nerve and outdrive every foe.

Yet when the team took down a nefarious kingpin back in Brazil, they had no id his son Dante (Jason Momoa) was watching from the shadows. More lethal than any other enemy they've faced, Dante now rises as a terrifying new nemesis who's fuelled by revenge and determined to shatter their family and destroy everything and everyone Dom loves.

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Martin Scorsese’s Gangs Of New York introduces today’s world to the Five Points, a dark corner of the city known to New Yorkers of long ago as the centre of vice and chaos. Into this frontier of extreme lawlessness arrives the young Amsterdam Vallon (Leonardo DiCaprio).

Amsterdam is the orphaned son of the slain Priest Vallon (Liam Neeson) – once chief warrior of the Dead Rabbits gang that rallied the Irish immigrants of the Five Points. Amsterdam has returned to the Five Points to hunt down his father’s killer. His target is William cutting AKA "Bill the Butcher" (Daniel Day-Lewis), who has since become the merciless new leader of the neighbourhood, a Nativist who detests the newly arrived immigrants and is determined to fend off all so-called "foreign invaders." Amsterdam works his way deep into the Butcher’s inner circle, a world of alternating honour and cruelty from which he can only hope to escape.

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Academy Award-winners Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn star as a team of Allied military specialists recruited for a dangerous but imperative mission: to infiltrate a Nazi-occupied fortress and disable two long-range field guns so that 2,000 trapped British soldiers may be rescued.

Faced with an unforgiving sea voyage, hazardous terrain, and the possibility of a traitor among them, the team must overcome the impossible without losing their own lives.

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"Taxi Driver" provoked fierce controversy when it was released, running into censorship problems in America as some of the scenes of violence were described to be "as gory as Clockwork Orange and Straw Dogs".

In addition there was an outcry at a 13-year-old schoolgirl actress (Jodie Foster) co-starring as a prostitute. It won Best Picture at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival and received Academy Award Nominations for Best Film, Best Actor (Robert de Niro) and Best Supporting Actress (Foster).

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In the near future, the sun is rapidly expanding and will engulf the earth within 100 years. To ensure the survival of humankind, nations join hands to form an unprecedented, ambitious global project to build powerful engines on the Earth's surface and propel the planet away from impending doom.

Meanwhile, protests have broken out to demand the restart of the controversial Digital Life Project, which digitalises human beings after they have passed. Tensions soon escalate and the protestors plan to sabotage the Wandering Earth Project by attacking the Ark Space Station...

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Adam Sandler stars as 'Happy Gilmore' in the over-the-top comedy that scores a hole in one for hilarity. After his dream of stardom on the hockey ice melts, 'Happy Gilmore' discovers he has a gift that could bring him glory on the greens.

Trouble is, with his hot head and hard-hitting drives, Happy doesn't just play golf...he destroys it. With the help of a retired golfer (Carl Weathers) and hot publicist (Julie Bowen), can Happy perfect his game and tame his temper to win the tournament prize money? With unforgettable appearances by Bob Barker, Christopher McDonald and Kevin Nealon, this comedy favorite features non-stop laughs that are par for the course!

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Based on the true life best seller 'Wiseguy' by Nicolas Pileggi and backed by a dynamic pop/rock oldies soundtrack, critics and filmgoers alike declared 'GoodFellas' great.

It was named the best film of the '90s by the New York, Los Angeles and National Society of film critics, and it earned 6 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director.

Upon examining the Warren Commission report on President Kennedy's assassination, New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) suspects that there is more to the story than the public is being told.

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Police Academy salutes the men, women and borderline cases who protect the people very much like themselves. A comic success story over a decade, it begat six sequels and both animated and live-action TV series.

New recruits include sound-effects wizard Larvelle Jones, florist Moses Hightower, shy Laverne Hooks. and gun buff Eugene Tackleberry, Instructors Harris and Callahan aim to wash these turkeys out before they graduate. As directed by Hugh Wilson, they and stars Steve Guttenberg and Kim Cattrall make some police farce.

Sean Cannery is back for his final performance as agent James Bond in this high-velocity action thriller. Agent 007 is hurled into a pulse-pounding race to save the world from Armageddon when two atomic warheads are hijacked by the evil 'Spectre' organisation.

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Vincent (Tom Cruise) is a cool, calculating contract killer at the top of his game. Max (Jamie Foxx) is a cabbie with big dreams and no results. On this fateful night, Max has to transport Vincent on his next job - one night, five stops, five hits and a getaway.

Thrown together, their lives in collision - neither man will ever be the same again. Tonight everything is changing...

A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people...