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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... |
Apollo 11
[ Universal Pictures / DVD - released 11/Dec/2019 ] From director Todd Douglas Miller (Dinosaur 13) comes a cinematic event fifty years in the making. Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage, and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, Apollo 11 takes us straight to the... |
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... |
Ophelia
[ Madman / DVD - released 5/Dec/2019 ] One of the world's greatest dramas is turned on its head through a bold and new perspective in OPHELIA. Set in medieval Denmark and spoken in a modern tongue with a poetic twist, it recalibrates the classic Shakespearean tragedy of "Hamlet" so that... |
Painter And The Thief, The
[ Madman / DVD - released 12/Aug/2021 ] Desperate for answers about the theft of two of her paintings, Czech artist Barbora Kysilkova seeks out and befriends the career criminal who stole them. After inviting her thief to sit for a portrait, the two form an improbable relationship and an... |
Photograph
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 9/Jul/2020 ] Ritesh Batra returns to the Mumbai streets of his festival favourite The Lunchbox (NZIFF14) with this delightful romance that doubles as a sensuous love letter to that bustling metropolis. The plot, in which a poor street photographer Rafi convinces... |
Shayda
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 8/Feb/2024 ] SHAYDA, a brave Iranian mother, finds refuge in an Australian women's shelter with her six-year-old daughter. Over Persian New Year, they take solace in Nowruz rituals and new beginnings, but when her estranged husband re-enters their lives, Shayda's... |
Squaring the Circle
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 8/Feb/2024 ] The Story of Hipgnosis Celebrated photographer, creative director and filmmaker Anton Corbijn's first feature documentary SQUARING THE CIRCLE (THE STORY OF HIPGNOSIS) tells the story of Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey "Po" Powell, the creative... |
Whale Rider 20th Anniversary Edition
[ South Pacific Pictures DVD / DVD - released 17/Nov/2022 ] On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the... |
The Father
[ Lime Light DVD / DVD - released 2/Sep/2021 ] Anthony is 80, mischievous, living defiantly alone and rejecting the carers that his daughter, Anne, encouragingly introduces. Yet help is also becoming a necessity for Anne; she can't make daily visits anymore and Anthony's grip on reality is... |
Hail Satan?
[ Madman / DVD - released 7/Nov/2019 ] Chronicling the extraordinary rise of one of the most colorful and controversial religious movements in American history, HAIL SATAN? is an inspiring and entertaining new feature documentary from acclaimed director Penny Lane (Nuts!, Our Nixon). When... |
The Kindergarten Teacher
[ Madman / DVD - released 8/Aug/2019 ] Stuck in an unsatisfying marriage and with teenage children who ignore her, 40-year-old Lisa Spinelli (Maggie Gyllenhaal) treads water by teaching kindergarten with quiet dispassion. One day everything changes when Lisa discovers that Jimmy, a... |
Searching
[ Sony Pictures / DVD - released 19/Dec/2018 ] After David Kim (John Cho)'s 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where... |
Wetlands
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 15/Jan/2015 ] The adventures of an eccentric girl who has strange attitudes towards hygiene and sexuality longs for the reunion of her divorced parents. |
3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets
[ Madman / DVD - released 14/Jul/2016 ] 3 AND A HALF MINUTES, TEN BULLETS dissects the aftermath of the murder of 17-year-old Jordan Davis and the trial of Michael Dunn who, in 2012, shot him repeatedly at a Florida gas station for playing his music too loudly. Special features: Bertha... |
45 Years
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 14/Jul/2016 ] Kate Mercer is planning a party to celebrate her 45th wedding anniversary. One week before the celebration a letter arrives for her husband, Geoff, containing news that the body of his first love has been discovered,frozen and preserved in the icy... |
52 Tuesdays
[ Vendetta Films / DVD - released 1/Oct/2014 ] 52 Tuesdays intimately captures the journey of a family over the course of an eventful year. Tilda Cobham-Hervey shines in a critically acclaimed performance as Billie, a 16 year old girl who documents her path to independence, and the formative year... |
99 Homes (Blu-Ray)
[ Madman / Blu-ray Disc - released 14/Apr/2016 ] In this timely thriller, hard-working single father Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield) and his mother (Academy Award® nominee Laura Dern) are cruelly evicted from their home. Desperate to get his house back, Nash goes to work for the wealthy and ruthless... |
The Art Star And The Sudanese Twins
[ Pietra Brettkelly / DVD - released 1/Jan/2008 ] When you're a contemporary-art world star and a self-avowed feminist known for stinging audiences with audacious performances involving red paint and naked African women-like Vanessa Beecroft-life and art inevitably bleed together. So when Beecroft.. |
Beauty Will Save The World
[ Pietra Brettkelly / DVD ] Before Saddam and Osama, Colonel Muammar Gadaffi was one of the most reviled leaders in the world. Libya still ranks in the Axis of Evil roster. Why then does this hotbed of anti-Americanism host the most iconic of Western competitions... |
Best Of Enemies
[ Hi Gloss Entertainment / DVD - released 10/Mar/2016 ] Best of Enemies is a behind-the-scenes account of the explosive 1968 televised debates between the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr., and their rancorous disagreements about politics, God, and sex. Masterfully directed by... |
The Biggest Little Farm
[ Madman / DVD - released 14/May/2020 ] THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM chronicles the eight-year quest of John and Molly Chester as they trade city living for 200 acres of barren farmland and a dream to harvest in harmony with nature. Through dogged perseverance and embracing the opportunity... |
Boy
[ Universal Pictures DVD / DVD - released 3/Sep/2010 ] It's 1984, and Michael Jackson is king - even in Waihau Bay, New Zealand. Here we meet Boy, an 11-year-old who lives on a farm with his gran, a goat, and his younger brother, Rocky (who thinks he has magic powers). |
Bronson
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 10/Jun/2010 ] The Man. The Myth. The Celebrity In 1974, a hot-headed 19 year old named Michael Peterson decided he wanted to make a name for himself and so, with a homemade sawn-off shotgun and a head full of dreams he attempted to rob a post office. Swiftly... |
City Of Ghosts
[ Madman / DVD - released 10/May/2018 ] A documentary that follows the efforts of "Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently," a handful of anonymous activists who banded together after their homeland was taken over by ISIS in 2014. With deeply personal access, this is the story of a brave group... |
Crumb - Robert Crumb
[ Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 25/Aug/2004 ] Terry Zwigoff's funny and engrossing portrait of counter-culture hero and artist Robert Crumb has collected rave reviews around the globe. The film was voted Best Film of the year in a critics poll conducted by Premiere magazine including... |
The Diary Of A Teenage Girl (Blu-ray & UV)
[ Sony Pictures / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Jan/2016 ] Like most teenage girls, Minnie Goetze (Bel Powley) is longing for love, acceptance and a sense of purpose in the world. Minnie begins a complex love affair with her mother's (Kristen Wiig) boyfriend, "the handsomest man in the world," Monroe... |
The Diary Of A Teenage Girl
[ Sony Pictures / DVD - released 20/Jan/2016 ] Like most teenage girls, Minnie Goetze (Bel Powley) is longing for love, acceptance and a sense of purpose in the world. Minnie begins a complex love affair with her mother's (Kristen Wiig) boyfriend, "the handsomest man in the world," Monroe... |
Dinosaur 13
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 11/Jun/2015 ] On August 12, 1990, in the badlands of South Dakota, paleontologist Peter Larson and his team from the Black Hills Institute unearthed the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever found. It was the find of a lifetime-the world's greatest... |
Dope (Blu-ray & Ultraviolet)
[ Sony Pictures / Blu-ray Disc - released 9/Dec/2015 ] A critical hit and audience favorite out of the Sundance Film Festival, in DOPE, Malcolm (Shameik Moore) is carefully surviving life in the tough neighborhood of Inglewood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and... |
Generation Wealth
[ Madman / DVD - released 6/Dec/2018 ] For the past 25 years acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield (The Queen of Versailles, Thin, kids+money, # likeagirl) has travelled the world, documenting with ethnographic precision and an artist's sensitivity a vast range of... |
A Ghost Story
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 24/Nov/2017 ] With A Ghost Story, acclaimed director David Lowery (Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Pete's Dragon) returns with a singular exploration of legacy, loss, and the essential human longing for meaning and connection. Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost... |
Gleason
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 13/Jul/2017 ] The hit documentary from the 2016 Sundance Film Festival goes inside the life of Steve Gleason, the former New Orleans Saints defensive back who, at the age of 34, was diagnosed with ALS and given a life expectancy of two to five years. Weeks later,... |
God's Pocket
[ Madman / DVD - released 14/Aug/2014 ] Directed by MAD MEN star John Slattery (who plays aging playboy Roger Sterling), GOD'S POCKET stars the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman in one of his final roles... |
Hell and Back Again
[ Madman Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 11/Oct/2012 ] The Oscar-nominated HELL AND BACK AGAIN follows 25-year-old Marine Sgt. Nathan Harris on his most difficult mission: coming home. After being seriously wounded in Afghanistan, Harris is forced to cut his tour short, leaving the danger and... |
Hoop Dreams
[ Madman / DVD - released 15/Aug/2012 ] Keep your eye on the ball. Never give up. Cited as one of the all-time best sporting movies ever made, the Oscar-nominated HOOP DREAMS, follows the sporting aspirations of two inner-city basketball hopefuls who dare to dream the... |
The House I Live In
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 9/Jan/2014 ] R16: Violence, offensive language & drug use. The House I Live In is an award winning documentary that reveals the reality behind America's "War on Drugs". From the dealer to the narcotics officer, the inmate to the federal judge... |
How To Change The World
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 11/Feb/2016 ] In 1971 a group of friends sailed into a nuclear test zone. Their protest captured the world's imagination. Using never before seen archival footage that brings their extraordinary journey to life, HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD is an intimate portrait... |
The Hunting Ground
[ Madman / DVD - released 9/Jun/2016 ] THE HUNTING GROUND takes audiences straight to the heart of a shocking epidemic of violence and institutional cover-ups sweeping college campuses across America. The team behind the Oscar®-nominated THE INVISIBLE WAR presents a scorching exposé of... |
I Am Not A Witch
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 12/Jul/2018 ] Following a banal incident in her local village, 8-year old girl Shula is accused of witchcraft. After a short trial she is found guilty, taken into state custody and exiled to a witch camp in the middle of a desert. At the camp she takes part in an... |
