New to DVD Highlights
This is where you will find many interesting DVDs and Blu-rays new to the library. Some titles will have graced Alice's shelves in a previous life on VHS Video, some are already on DVD but have now made their way to Blu-ray, while others have eluded capture in any format - until now. However, to be privy to the bigger picture, you will need to also check out 'Featured Acquisitions', 'Latest Alice Picks', 'Recent Arrivals',and 'New Releases'.
It's A Wonderful Life ( Blu-ray ) (1946)
8.6/10
Director: Frank Capra
Starring: Beulah Bondi, Donna Reed, Gloria Grahame, Henry Travers, James Stewart, Lionel B...
Classic bittersweet comedy/drama that is the quintessential Frank Capra film. James Stewart is a banker living in the typical American small town of B... Read more
The Ballad of Lefty Brown (2017)
6.2/10
Director: Jared Moshe
Starring: Bill Pullman, Jim Caviezel, Kathy Baker, Peter Fonda, Tommy Flanagan
Lefty Brown is a 63 year old sidekick. Loyal, crotchety and rarely taken seriously, hes ridden with Western legend Eddie Johnson for his entire adult... Read more
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( Blu-ray ) (1947)
8.3/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Bruce Bennett, Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt, Walter Huston
Pauline Kael calls this 'one of the strongest of all American movies'. Three Americans strike it rich and greed takes over. With Bogart, Walter Huston... Read more
Thief (1981)
7.4/10
Director: Michael Mann
Starring: James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Robert Prosky, Willie Nelson, James Belushi
Aka "Violent Streets". James Caan stars in this superb study of a jewel thief who desperately tries to create the life he visualised while in prison -... Read more
Cinema Paradiso ( Blu-ray ) (1988)
8.5/10
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Starring: Jacques Perrin, Leopoldo Trieste, Philippe Noiret, Salvatore Cascio
A charming, bittersweet tribute to the power of movies which won 1989's Best Foreign Film Academy Award. A filmmaker returns to his Sicilian hometown... Read more
Cowspiracy (2015)
8.3/10
Director: Kip Anderson
Follow the shocking, yet humorous, journey of an aspiring environmentalist, as he daringly seeks to find the real solution to the most pressing enviro... Read more
Metropolis (Reconstructed & Restored) ( Blu-ray ) (1927)
8.3/10
Director: Fritz Lang
Starring: Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gustav Frohlich
Fritz Lang's masterwork, set in a towering city of the future whose populace is divided between the idle ruling class and the dehumanized workers who... Read more
Point Break (Blu-ray) (1991)
7.2/10
Director: Kathryn Bigelow, Katherine Brooks
Starring: Gary Busey, John C McGinley, Keanu Reeves, Lori Petty, Patrick Swayze
Director Kathryn Bigelow's high-adrenaline action fave stars Keanu Reeves as rookie FBI agent Johnny Utah, investigating a string of SoCal bank robber... Read more
Bosch: Season 4 (2017)
8.4/10
Starring: Lance Reddick, Jamie Hector, Titus Welliver, Amy Aquino
Detective Harry Bosch returns for a new explosive season. He is assigned a new case that has the city of Los Angeles on a verge of a riot. Bosch finds... Read more
The Family (2016)
7.5/10
Director: Rosie Jones
Anne Hamilton-Byrne was beautiful, charismatic and delusional. She was also incredibly dangerous. Convinced she was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ,... Read more