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....
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (Blu-ray) (1972)
7.4/10
Director: Paul Newman
Starring: Joanne Woodward, Roberta Wallach, Richard Venture
A middle-aged misfit struggles to raise her daughters, one popular and the other a promising science student. Read more
The Automatic Hate (2015)
6.3/10
Starring: Deborah Ann Woll, Joseph Cross, Adelaide Clemens, Richard Schiff, Ricky Jay, Cat...
Davis meets a cute young woman claiming to be his cousin. After confirming that his dad has a secret brother, he visits her and her two sisters. What... Read more
A Rage To Live (Blu-ray) (1965)
6.2/10
Director: Walter Grauman
Starring: Suzanne Pleshette, Bradford Dillman, Ben Gazzara, Peter Graves, Bethel Leslie
Grace Caldwell, a young Pennsylvania newspaper heiress living with her widowed mother, has trouble restraining herself when it comes to the amorous at... Read more
To Whom It May Concern: Ka Shen's Journey (2010)
7.3/10
Director: Brian Jamieson
Starring: Joan Chen, Nancy Kwan, Vivian Wu
The definitive and true-life story of Nancy Kwan who as a young Eurasian girl from Hong Kong captured the hearts and minds of cinemagoers around the w... Read more
Absolutely Anything (2015)
6/10
Director: Terry Jones
Starring: Simon Pegg, Kate Beckinsale, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Rob Riggle, Robert Bathurst, Joann...
A group of eccentric aliens confers a human being with the power to do absolutely anything, as an experiment. Read more
The Other Side of Midnight (Blu-ray) (1977)
6.1/10
Director: Charles Jarrott
Starring: Marie-France Pisier, John Beck, Susan Sarandon, Raf Vallone, Clu Gulager, Christ...
During WWII, beautiful Noelle meets dashing American pilot Larry in France and falls in love. She expects him to marry her, but instead he abandons he... Read more
Detective Montalbano (Episodes 21-22) (1999)
7.6/10
Director: Alberto Sironi
Starring: Luca Zingaretti, Peppino Mazzotta
Murder, betrayal, office politics, temptation... it's all in a day's work for Detective Salvo Montalbano. Filmed in the ancient, sun-washed Sicilian c... Read more
Detective Montalbano (Episodes 7-9) (1999)
7.6/10
Director: Alberto Sironi
Starring: Luca Zingaretti, Peppino Mazzotta
Murder, betrayal, office politics, temptation... it's all in a day's work for Detective Salvo Montalbano. Filmed in the ancient, sun-washed Sicilian c... Read more
My Brilliant Friend: Series 2 (2020)
8.6/10
Director: Saverio Costanzo
Based on Elena Ferrante's second book of her four-part series, Season 2 begins with Lila (Gaia Girace) newly--and unhappily--married to upper crust gr... Read more
Monte Carlo (1986)
5.5/10
Director: Anthony Page
Starring: Joan Collins, George Hamilton, Lisa Eilbacher, Lauren Hutton, Robert Carradine,...
A two-part mini-series set on the eve of World War II in Monte Carlo and focusing on the adventures and love-life of Katrina Petrovna (Dame Joan Colli... Read more