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....
Tetro (VF) (2009)
6.8/10
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Vincent Gallo, Alden Ehrenreich, Maribel Verdu, Rodrigo De La Serna
Bennie travels to Buenos Aires to find his long-missing older brother, a once-promising writer who is now a remnant of his former self. Bennie's disco... Read more
Prayers for Bobby (2009)
8.1/10
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Starring: Henry Czerny, Sigourney Weaver, Carly Schroeder, Ryan Kelley, Austin Nichols
Sigourney Weaver stars in the amazing true story of Mary Griffith, a mother torn between her loyalties, challenged by her faith, and moved by a traged... Read more
Afterschool (2008)
6/10
Starring: Ezra Miller, Jeremy Allen White, Emory Cohen, Michael Stuhlbarg, Addison Timlin,...
An Internet-addicted prep-school student captures on video camera the drug overdose of two girls. Read more
The Tender Hook (2008)
5.2/10
Director: Jonathan Ogilvie
Starring: Rose Byrne, Hugo Weaving, Matthew Le Nevez
The story is about Iris' rise to the apex of a love/power triangle that includes her roguish English lover McHeath and Art, an earnest young boxer. Wi... Read more
A Risk Worth Taking & Starting Over (Double Feature) (2008)
6.3/10
Director: Paul Seed, Giles Foster
Starring: James Wilby, Iain Glen, Rutger Hauer
Muriel Baumeister, James Wilby and Tim Dutton star in this drama based on the novel by Robin Pilcher. When Katie Trenchard (Baumeister) receives devas... Read more
Lemon Tree (2008)
7.4/10
Director: Eran Riklis
Starring: Hiam Abbass, Doron Tavory, Ali Suliman, Rona Lipaz-Michael, Tarik Kopty
Widow Salma Zidane lives on the Palestinian West Bank, in a small house surrounded by lemon trees that her great grandparents planted. Unfortunately,... Read more
Martyrs (2008)
7.1/10
Director: Pascal Laugier
Starring: Morjana Alaoui, Mylene Jampanoi, Catherine Begin, Robert Toupin, Patricia Tulasn...
The relentlessly brutal tale of a girl who, having suffered horrific abuse as a young child, is virtually catatonic after she makes a daring escape. H... Read more
Napoleon (Heroes and Villains) (2007)
8.2/10
Director: Nick Murphy
Starring: Rob Brydon, Richard McCabe, Alice Krige, Kenneth Cranham, Gina Bellman, Anthony...
The little known story of how Napoleon Bonaparte first emerged from obscurity and entered the national consciousness. A life and death struggle both o... Read more
The Whistleblowers (2007)
6.4/10
Director: Richard Clark, John McKay
Starring: Richard Coyle, Indira Varma, Paul Freeman
Ben Graham and Alisha Cole are two lawyers are about to witness something that will take them into a world of few moral certainties. Read more
Summer Heights High (2007)
8.4/10
Director: Stuart McDonald
Starring: Chris Lilley
In this hilarious mockumentary series, created and written by Chris Lilley ('We Can Be Heroes'), Chris plays three characters whose lives are document... Read more