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....
Bedtime Story (Blu-ray) (1964)
6.7/10
Starring: Marlon Brando, David Niven, Shirley Jones, Marie Windsor
Two scam artists prey on women for their money. They clash in a Mediterranean hot spot. Will the cultured, high-class con artist come out on top, or w... Read more
David Holzman's Diary (1967)
6.5/10
Director: Jim McBride
This fake documentary which appears quite real on the surface is about a young man making a movie about his everyday life and discovering something im... Read more
The Nostradamus Kid (1993)
5.9/10
Director: Bob Ellis
Starring: Noah Taylor, Miranda Otto, Arthur Dignam, Lucy Bell, Alice Garner
Ken Elkin is a randy young man who is told that the world is about to end. In a race against time, there's only one goal he wants to accomplish: beddi... Read more
The Young Montalbano (Episodes 1-3) (2012)
7.9/10
The young "Commissario" detective Salvo Montalbano, based in the fictitious village of Vigata, solves mysterious crimes in Sicilia. Before Detectiv... Read more
The Magicians: Season 1 (2015)
7.5/10
Starring: Hale Appleman, Summer Bishil, Olivia Taylor Dudley
After being recruited to a secretive academy, a group of students discover that the magic they read about as children is very real-and more dangerous... Read more
Cobra Kai: Season 3 (2020)
7.5/10
Starring: Ralph Macchio, William Zabka
The third season of Cobra Kai was confirmed in May 2019, and it was released on January 1, 2021 on Netflix. It has a total of 10 episodes. The seri... Read more
Minette Walters: The Ice House (1997)
7.5/10
Director: Tim Fywell
Starring: Corin Redgrave, Kitty Aldridge, Frances Barber, Daniel Craig
The peaceful, secluded, country hideaway of three diverse, lonely, supposedly lesbian, women is suddenly shattered when their gardener discovers a par... Read more
Beecham House (2019)
6.8/10
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Starring: Tom Bateman, Lesley Nicol, Dakota Blue Richards, Gregory Fitoussi
Jane Eyre (1997)
7/10
Director: Robert Young
Starring: Deborah Findlay, Joanna Scanlan, Emily Joyce, Samantha Morton, Gemma Jones, Ciar...
After placing an ad for employment as a governess, Jane Eyre (Samantha Morton) journeys to Thornfield Hall to inquire about a possible position. She i... Read more
Hemingway (2021)
8.1/10
Director: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick examine the visionary work and the turbulent life of Ernest Hemingway, one of the greatest and most influential writers Amer... Read more