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....
George Gently: Series 2 (2009)
7.5/10
Director: Euros Lyn, Ciaran Donnelly
Starring: Martin Shaw, Sean McGinley, Robert Glenister, Lee Ingleby, Pooky Quesnel, Tony R...
Gently (Martin Shaw) and Bacchus (Lee Ingleby) are investigating the murder of a young woman whose body is found in a local church. It transpires that... Read more
Moon ( Blu-ray ) (2009)
7.9/10
Director: Duncan Jones
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Sam Rockwell, Dominique McElligott, Benedict Wong, Matt Berry, Kay...
Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is nearing the end of a three-year tour as the lone inhabitant of a lunar outpost that harvests a clean fuel source to send ba... Read more
Moon (2009)
7.9/10
Director: Duncan Jones
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Sam Rockwell, Dominique McElligott, Benedict Wong, Matt Berry, Kay...
Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is nearing the end of a three-year tour as the lone inhabitant of a lunar outpost that harvests a clean fuel source to send ba... Read more
The Beautiful Person (La belle personne) (2008)
6.6/10
Director: Christophe Honore
Starring: Louis Garrel, Lea Seydoux, Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet
Cute Junie starts at her cousin Matthias' high school and class after her mom's death. She meets his friends. The boys want to date her - even her han... 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
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008)
7.7/10
Director: Mark Hartley
Starring: Barry Crocker, Barry Humphries, Dennis Hopper, George Lazenby, Gregory Harrison,...
Celebrating a time when Australian cinema got its gear off and showed the world a full-frontal explosion of sex, violence, horror and pedal-to-the-met... Read more
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee (2007)
7.1/10
Director: Yves Simoneau
Starring: Aidan Quinn, August Schellenberg, Anna Paquin, Colm Feore
A historic chronicle based on the book by Dee Brown explains how Native Americans were displaced as the United States expanded west. 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