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Birdy
[ Kaleidoscope / DVD - released 17/Jun/2020 ] Birdy (Matthew Modine) returns from the Vietnam War scarred from the horrific experiences of battle. He is so damaged by what he saw that he has shut himself off from reality completely, imaging that he is actually a bird. Birdy is confined to a... |
Chocolat
[ Roadshow / DVD - released 18/Apr/2006 ] In the small French village of Lansquenet where life has remained the same for 100 years, the wind of change is about to sweep through it, altering it forever… From acclaimed filmmaker Lasse Hallstrom ('The Cider House Rules' / 'My LIfe as a Dog')... |
The Great Gatsby
[ Roadshow / DVD - released 2/Oct/2013 ] Fitzgerald-like would-be writer Nick Carraway leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his... |
Mad Max: Fury Road
[ VRP DVD / DVD - released 2/Sep/2015 ] An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and almost everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be... |
The Matrix - Reloaded
[ Roadshow DVD / 2 DVD - released 7/Nov/2005 ] Free your mind... In this second chapter of the 'Matrix' trilogy, Neo assumes greater command of his extraordinary powers as Zion falls under siege to the Machine Army. Only a matter of hours separates the last human enclave on Earth from 250,000... |
O Brother Where Art Thou?
[ Universal Pictures / DVD - released 18/Sep/2003 ] From the makers of 'The Big Lebowski' and 'Fargo'. They have a plan, but not a clue. Loosely based on Homer's 'Odyssey' the movie deals with the adventures of Everett Ulysses McGill (George Clooney) and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s... |
The Sapphires
Chris O'Dowd & Deborah Mailman [ DVD - released 6/Feb/2013 ] Based on a true story. It's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when their all girl group The Sapphires entertain the US troops in Vietnam. PG Violence, coarse language and sexual references |
An Inconvenient Truth
[ Paramount Home Entertainment / DVD - released 14/Jul/2010 ] A Global Warning. Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail-spin of epic... |
Bad Santa
[ Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / DVD - released 14/Nov/2007 ] The traditional Christmas tale will never be the same after this cleverly twisted, merrily irreverent story of a Santa so bad he's funny. Billy Bob Thornton stars (in a Golden Globe-nominated role) as Willie T. Stokes, a washed-up, wisecracking... |
Battle of Algiers
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 16/Feb/2005 ] A Film by Gillo Pontecorvo. NOMINATED Best Foreign Language Film, 39th Annual Academy Awards® One of the most influential films in the history of political cinema, Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers focuses on... |
Harrison Ford & Cate Blanchett
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull [ Paramount Home Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 29/Oct/2008 ] Famed archaeologist / adventurer Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones is called back into action when he becomes entangled in a Soviet plot to uncover the secret behind mysterious artefacts known as the Crystal Skulls. Starring Harrison Ford; Cate Blanchett;... |
Inglourious Basterds
[ Universal Pictures DVD / DVD - released 17/Dec/2009 ] Once upon a time in German-occupied France, Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel, Hans Landa. She narrowly escapes and flees to Paris where she forges a new identity as the owner & operator of a cinema.... |
No Country for Old Men (Academy Gold Collection)
[ Paramount Home Entertainment / DVD - released 20/May/2009 ] Based on the book by Cormack McCarthy. Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) finds a pickup truck surrounded by a sentry of dead men with a load of heroin and two million dollars in cash still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain... |
The Piano
[ Icon DVD / DVD - released 21/Apr/2022 ] Ada (Holly Hunter), mute since birth, her nine year old daughter (Anna Paquin), and her piano arrive to an arranged marriage in the remote bush of nineteenth century New Zealand. Of all her belongings her husband refuses to transport the piano and it... |
UTU (Redux)
[ Aromedia DVD / DVD - released 4/Dec/2015 ] "Hands down, the best New Zealand movie of our time" - Quentin Tarantino. In 1870s New Zealand, Te Wheke (Anzac Wallace), a Maori scout for the colonial troops, finds his tribe massacred by the army... |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
[ Hopscotch / DVD - released 5/Dec/2012 ] Woody Allens breezy romantic comedy is about two young American women and their amorous escapades in Barcelona, one of the most romantic cities in the world. Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) are best friends, but have completely... |
Wake in Fright
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 10/Dec/2009 ] Sweat, Dust and Beer... There's Nothing Else Out Here Mate! Awe-inspiring, brutal and stunning, 'Wake in Fright' is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba, planning to stay overnight... |
Winter Sleep
[ Madman / DVD - released 9/Apr/2015 ] A film by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Winner of the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes, the new film from Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan (ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA) is an immersive and provocative drama. Set in the picturesque and striking landscape of... |
Leave No Trace
[ Sony Pictures / DVD - released 19/Dec/2018 ] New Zealand actress Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie is mesmerising as 13-year-old Tom living off the grid with her war vet father (Ben Foster) in this haunting new film from the director of Winter's Bone. A father and daughter live a perfect but... |
Blue Valentine
[ Palace Films / DVD - released 7/Jul/2011 ] Nobody baby but you and me... Two of the most gifted young actors working in cinema today - Academy Award nominees Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams - star in 'Blue Valentine', a romantic drama that follows the intense relationship between a... |
