Latest Staff Picks
The films listed below are Alice's Latest Staff Picks, finding their way into this category generally as a result of agreement between staff that they have real merit for one reason or another. Most titles represent a safe choice for those that find choosing a film difficult or are bewildered by Alice's depth and breadth...
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Leaving (2009)
6.3/10
Director: Catherine Corsini
Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Sergi Lopez, Yvan Attal, Bernard Blancan
Suzanne (Kristin Scott Thomas) is about forty years old, a doctor's wife and mother of two teenagers living in the south of France. Her idle bourgeois... Read more
Up in the Air ( Blu-ray ) (2009)
7.4/10
Director: Jason Reitman
Starring: George Clooney, Melanie Lynskey, Vera Farmiga, Danny McBride, J K Simmons, Jason...
George Clooney is a downsizing consultant who has spent his entire life in airport hotels, collecting air miles and browsing the departure lounge reta... Read more
Up in the Air (2009)
7.4/10
Director: Jason Reitman
Starring: George Clooney, Melanie Lynskey, Vera Farmiga, Danny McBride, J K Simmons, Jason...
George Clooney is a downsizing consultant who has spent his entire life in airport hotels, collecting air miles and browsing the departure lounge reta... 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
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
Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037 (2007)
7.9/10
Director: Ben Niles
Starring: Harry Connick Jr
Documentary filmmaker Ben Niles chronicles the creation of a Steinway concert grand, #L1037, from forest floor to concert hall, and the vanishing bree... Read more
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
7.7/10
Director: James Mangold
Starring: Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Peter Fonda, Logan Lerman, Gretchen Mol
In debt and facing the loss of his land, rancher Christian Bale volunteers to help escort notorious outlaw Russell Crowe to a railroad station where t... Read more
3:10 to Yuma ( Blu-ray ) (2007)
7.7/10
Director: James Mangold
Starring: Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Peter Fonda, Gretchen Mol, Ben Foster, Dallas Rob...
In debt and facing the loss of his land, rancher Christian Bale volunteers to help escort notorious outlaw Russell Crowe to a railroad station where t... Read more
Mad Detective (2007)
7.2/10
Director: Wai Ka-fai, Johnnie To
Starring: Lau Ching Wan, Ka Tung Lam, Andy On, Lee Kwok Lun, Kelly Lin
Back together again, directors Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai have set incendiary cinematic material ablaze to create a quirkry action-drama. Exposing the... Read more