New @ Alice
To try to do justice to the avalanche of interesting finds, documentaries, curios and plain old good and great films arriving daily, Alice has split new additions into Recent Arrivals (3 Day Hire), Featured Acquisitions (7 Day Hire) , New TV to DVD (7 Day Hire) . This is designed to spotlight these offerings before they find their final resting place among Alice's eclectic permanent collection.
We trust these features be some help in your quest to ferret out a gem or three - and ultimately guide you towards expansion of your cinematic horizons and filmic enlightenment....
Two Mules For Sister Sara (Blu-Ray) (1970)
7/10
Director: Don Siegel
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Shirley MacLaine, Manolo Fabregas
When gunslinger Hogan (Clint Eastwood) discovers a group of men attempting to rape a young nun, Sara (Shirley MacLaine), he shoots them dead and rescu... Read more
Coogan's Bluff (Blu-Ray) (1968)
6.5/10
Director: Don Siegel
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Susan Clark, Don Stroud, Lee J Cobb, Seymour Cassel
When gunslinger Hogan (Clint Eastwood) discovers a group of men attempting to rape a young nun, Sara (Shirley MacLaine), he shoots them dead and rescu... Read more
Joe Kidd (Blu-Ray) (1972)
6.5/10
Director: John Sturges
Starring: Robert Duvall, Clint Eastwood, John Saxon, Don Stroud
In New Mexico, one-time bounty hunter Joe Kidd (Clint Eastwood) owns a ranch where a nearby group of Mexican revolutionaries, led by Luis Chama (John... Read more
Play Misty For Me (Blu-Ray) (1971)
7/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Donna Mills, Jessica Walter, John Larch
Popular radio show host Dave Garver (Clint Eastwood) becomes restless in his relationship with his girlfriend (Donna Mills). Impulsively, he goes out... Read more
The Beguiled (Blu-Ray) (1970)
6.3/10
Director: Don Siegel
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman
Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war,... Read more
The Eiger Sanction (Blu-Ray) (1975)
6.4/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Vonetta McGee, Jack Cassidy
Former government assassin Jonathan Hemlock (Clint Eastwood) now devotes his time to teaching and collecting paintings, but his quiet life is interrup... Read more
The Big Combo (1955)
7.4/10
Director: Joseph Lewis
Starring: Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Brian Donlevy
A violent film Noir about the struggle between a crime syndicate and forces of law and order, in the shape of a persistent cop who is out to nail a cu... Read more
Jodorowsky's Dune (2013)
8.1/10
Director: Frank Pavich
Starring: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky
Among cineastes, filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky's ambitious - and failed - attempt to make a movie based on Frank Herbert's sci-fi novel "Dune" in the... Read more
Side Effects (Blu-ray) (2013)
7.1/10
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jude Law, Channing Tatum, Rooney Mara
Steven Soderbergh directs this psychological thriller following the effects of one woman's mental breakdown on those closest to her. In the hopes of t... Read more
Million Dollar Baby (Blu-Ray) (2004)
8.1/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman
Boxing trainer Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) has been unwilling to let himself get close to anyone for a very long time - then Maggie Fitzgerald (Hila... Read more