CHARLES ASHTON – 28-30
Husband to Lily and old friend to Richard Burton, Charles is arrogant but with an easy charm and loyalty to his friends that allows him to carry it off. He has moved his family to Melbourne to oversee family investments in the hope of staving off the decline of his family’s fortune. Charles is the epitome of a Victorian gentleman of the ruling class with a deeply held belief in the conventions of home, family and the surety of his birthright.  Despite this, he also believes himself to be a modern thinker.  It is this clash of ideas that will lead to the implosion of his marriage and friendships as the series continues.

DOCTOR EDWARD WILKIE – 30-35
Un-ambitious society doctor, frustrated scientist and husband to Eleanor. Edward and Eleanor’s marriage was conceived as a way to shore up Edward’s family’s ailing fortunes and although there was some affection between the two at first this has now cooled under the weight of Eleanor’s expectations.  Edward has come to Australia at his wife’s suggestion to take advantage of the economic boom, though he continues to be beset by failure.

In severe cases treatments would involve doctors having to stimulate the clitoris by hand until women ‘released’ the hysteria.  While the treatment was effective initially, the symptoms would often recur, forcing patients back to their doctors.  To make matters worse, as the diagnosis gained notoriety, more women seemed to develop the symptoms.  When doctors reported that some patients could take up to 45 minutes to release the ‘hysteria’ a ‘vibrating machine’ was developed to increase productivity.  For doctors it was a boon – for women it opened up a Pandora’s box…

Welcome to the world of THE LADIES HOME COMPANION where a naïve upper-class housewife in 1880s Melbourne becomes the covert developer and distributor of the world’s first vibrator.  When Lily Ashton is diagnosed with ‘Hysteria’ and prescribed a course of ‘genital stimulation’ to produce ‘paroxysm’ (read orgasm) to relieve the symptoms, she is catapulted into a new world.  Lily undergoes a quiet evolution.  Bored, frustrated and thousands of miles from home Lily dares to explore the possibilities of sexual pleasure and soon how to give, receive and control it.  She becomes a clandestine entrepreneur, secretly developing and selling the vibrator to Melbourne’s ex-patriot society housewives and instigating a rebellion under the very noses of Australia’s new male ruling class.

‘Popbot’: an epic love story set against the backdrop of War, Robots and a Punk band led by a singing cat…

We pick up our story in “1943” (but not as we know it) and the world it is about to be thrown into World War 4.  This will not be a war against brothers, this time the world fights an army of Mortis. The Mortis are machines designed to be the ultimate pleasure toy. Once the slaves of man, the Mortis became self-aware and rebelled. Their leader (The Mortis Queen) found a way to make herself immortal and is responsible for the time loop trapping the human race. The only thing standing between The Mortis and total destruction are our stories unlikely “heroes”.

SYNOPSIS

Despite local storm warnings, Rob and Pia set out boating and become lost in a mangrove swamp. As darkness sets in, they come ashore on French Island and – like Goldilocks – find shelter in an old farmhouse, where Rob soon discovers a shed full of hydroponic dope.

The couple are besieged by the house’s three occupants – a rum-soaked psychopath named Poppy and his two homicidal adult sons, Jimmy and Brett. The city couple realize they’re in deep trouble and it quickly becomes obvious that they won’t get out alive unless they take matters into their own hands. After Brett breaks Rob’s legs to prevent escape, it’s left to Pia to scrounge through the barn for the implements to build several horrific man-traps, and before the night is finished the three dope-growers are very, very sorry they ever messed with Pia Brewer. 

SYNOPSIS 

The Bank Job movie is based on the 1971 Baker Street robbery in central London, from which the money and valuables stolen were never recovered. In September 1971, thieves tunneled into the vault of a bank in London’s Baker Street and looted safe deposit boxes of cash and jewelry worth over three million pounds.

None of it was recovered. Nobody was ever arrested. The robbery made headlines for a few days and then disappeared – the result of a ‘D’ Notice, gagging the press. This film reveals what was hidden for the first time. The story involves murder, corruption and a sex scandal with links to the Royal Family – a story in which the thieves were the most innocent people involved.