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Metalocalypse: Season 2 (2008)

8.3/10
Starring: Mark Hamill, Voices Of, Brendon Small, Victor Brandt, Tommy Blacha

With a new rival band and the sinister advances of General Crozier, Dethklok, the world's biggest entertainment act, is left in a dark and precarious... Read more

Deathcheaters (1976)

Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith
Starring: John Hargreaves, Grant Page, Margaret Gerard

Ozploitation action specialist Brian Trenchard-Smith delivers non-stop thrills and death-defying stunt work in this tale of two adrenaline junkies (Gr... Read more

Classic Fighters: Marlborough 2007 (2007)

This three hour plus DVD contains: Nieuport 11, Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5a, de Havilland DHC-1 Chipmunks, Percival 'Piston' Provost, Miles Messenger... Read more

It Came from the Swamp (2008)

Director: Various

"It Came from the Swamp" is a compilation of short films giving a sample of the talent coming from the great unsung film melting pot of Hamilton. Som... Read more

Garbage Warrior (2007)

7.8/10
Director: Oliver Hodge
Starring: Michael Reynolds

Michael Reynolds is a revolutionary eco-architect whose buildings utilize the waste we humans produce and reduce the impact we have on the delicate en... Read more

Dead Bodies (2003)

6.3/10
Director: Robert Quinn
Starring: Kelly Reilly, Andrew Scott

Tommy is a young man in no hurry. He's equally easy-going in his work and social life until one day the bane of his existence returns - his ex-girlfri... Read more

Burn After Reading (2008)

7/10
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Starring: George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Brad Pitt, Ric...

The Coen Brothers return to black comedy territory, spinning a yarn of espionage and intrigue populated chiefly by the functioning clueless. John Malk... Read more

Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)

6.5/10
Director: Morgan Spurlock
Starring: Morgan Spurlock

Documentary-maker Morgan Spurlock ('Super Size Me') learns his wife is pregnant and decides to hunt down the world's most dangerous man in this entert... Read more

Loaded (2008)

4.7/10
Director: Alan Pao
Starring: Jesse Metcalfe, Corey Large, Monica Keena, Nathalie Kelley, Chace Crawford, John...

Tristan (Jesse Metcalfe) has it all - good job, beautiful girl, loving family, a privileged life - but he wants more. Feeling the need for some danger... Read more

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Season 1 (1993)

7.9/10
Starring: Avery Brooks, Colm Meaney, Rene Auberjonois, Cirroc Lofton, Alexander Siddig, Na...

Following on from "Star Trek: The Next Generation", the next incarnation of the popular franchise finds a Federation space station orbiting the libera... Read more

Three Times (2005)

7/10
Director: Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Starring: Chang Chen, Shu Qi

Three different time periods, 1966, 1911 and 2005. Three different stories and two amazing performances as Shu Qi and Chang Chen play out three enrap... Read more

Burn After Reading ( Blu-ray ) (2008)

7/10
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Starring: Brad Pitt, David Rasche, Frances McDormand, George Clooney, John Malkovich, Olek...

The Coen Brothers return to black comedy territory, spinning a yarn of espionage and intrigue populated chiefly by the functioning clueless. John Malk... Read more

American Psycho ( Blu-ray ) (2000)

7.6/10
Director: Mary Harron
Starring: Bill Sage, Chloe Sevigny, Christian Bale, Guinevere Turner, Jared Leto, Reese Wi...

Bret Easton Ellis' infamous 1991 novel is turned into a darkly humourous horror show that slyly skewers 1980s values. Director Mary Harron ('I Shot An... Read more

MirrorMask ( Blu-ray ) (2005)

6.9/10
Director: Dave McKean
Starring: Gina McKee, Jason Barry, Stephanie Leonidas, Rob Brydon

This is the wondrous story of Helena, who works for the family circus, and wishes, ironically, that she could run away and join real life. But such is... Read more

Shooter ( Blu-ray ) (2007)

7.2/10
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Danny Glover, Elias Koteas, Mark Wahlberg, Ned Beatty, Rade Serbedzija, Michael...

Ex-army super-sniper, Mark Walhberg, is pressured back into active duty to help prevent a top-level assassination, only to find his government have pu... Read more

Henry Poole is Here (2008)

6.5/10
Director: Mark Pellington
Starring: Luke Wilson, Radha Mitchell, Adriana Barraza, George Lopez, Cheryl Hines, Richar...

Henry Poole (Luke Wilson) has a great life, a beautiful fiancee and he's just found out he's going to die. Hoping to drop out and live his final days... Read more

Another Gay Movie (2006)

5/10
Director: Todd Stephens
Starring: Michael Carbonaro, Jonah Blechman, Jonathan Chase, Mitch Morris, Ashlie Atkinson...

A twist on the well-worn conceit of four horny friends each trying to get their cherries popped before college - these four teen virgins are gay. Jaro... Read more

Tenacious D: The Complete Master Works 2 (2008)

6.8/10
Director: Wayne Isham, Jeremy Konner
Starring: Jack Black, Kyle Gass

Jack Black and Kyle Gass return as comic rockers Tenacious D for another round of music and laughs. First up, it's a raucous live show that features t... Read more

Wiseguy: Season 1 (1987)

7.9/10
Starring: Annette Bening, Ken Wahl, Kevin Spacey, Ray Sharkey, Elsa Raven, Jim Byrnes, Jon...

One of the best series of the 1980s, Ken Wahl brought charisma, credibility, and chutzpah to his role as Vincent Terranova, a handsome, streetwise 30-... Read more

The Rebel (2006)

7.1/10
Director: Truc Charlie Nguyen
Starring: Johnny Nguyen, Thanh Van Ngo, Dustin Nguyen, Stephane Gauger

Vietnam's most expensive movie to date is an historical martial arts drama set during the French occupation of the 1920s. Johnny Ngyuen is part of an... Read more

The Last Days of Frank & Jesse James (1986)

Director: William A Graham
Starring: Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, June Carter Cash, Marcia Cross

From 1866 to 1882, Missouri's Frank and Jesse James led a gang that robbed banks, held up trains and became the most famous outlaws in American histor... Read more

Le Nozze di Figaro ( The Marriage of Figaro ) (2003)

7.5/10
Director: Enrico Castiglione
Starring: Rossana Potenza, Marco Grimaldi, Madelyn Renee Monti

Based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, "Le Nozze di Figaro" ("The Marriage of Figaro") was composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Altho... Read more

Show of Hands (2008)

6.5/10
Director: Anthony McCarten
Starring: Melanie Lynskey, Craig Hall, Stephen Lovatt, Kyle Dyhrberg, Chelsie Preston Cray...

Melanie Lynskey came back to NZ to make this light-hearted romantic drama about a competition (famously held in Lower Hutt back in the '80s) where fol... Read more

Rentadick (1972)

4.4/10
Director: Jim Clark
Starring: Donald Sinden, Julie Ege, Richard Briers, Ronald Fraser, Spike Milligan, Richard...

Scripted by John Cleese and Graham Chapman, this bawdy British farce sees long-suffering Mr. Armitage (Donald Sinden) calling in a band of private det... Read more

Four Friends (1981)

7.1/10
Director: Arthur Penn
Starring: Jim Metzler, Reed Birney, Lois Smith, Michael Huddleston, Craig Wasson, Jodi The...

Set during the tumultuous 1960s, an era when everyone's values were turned inside out, shaken around, and reassembled. This story of four working-clas... Read more

The Aviator (1985)

5.5/10
Director: George Miller (II)
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Jack Warden, Rosanna Arquette, Sam Wanamaker, Scott Wilson, T...

Christopher Reeve is flying again in this turn-of-the-century drama, but he's doing it with an airplane. He's a rugged barnstormer whose plane crashes... Read more

Chasing China's Chariots of Fire (2008)

Starring: John Agnew

John Agnew is a crazy New Zealander who has been hunting down the last steam trains in the world. We join John as he tracks down the last Chariots of... Read more

The Return of Captain Invincible (1982)

5.7/10
Director: Philippe Mora
Starring: Alan Arkin, Arthur Dignam, Bill Hunter, Christopher Lee, David Argue, John Bluth...

During World War II, superhero Captain Invincible (Alan Arkin) helped us fight the cause and was called a hero. But soon after, he was labeled a commu... Read more

Love and Rage (1998)

6.3/10
Director: Cathal Black
Starring: Daniel Craig, Greta Scacchi, Stephen Dillane

In the 19th century, a strong-willed Englishwoman hires an equally independent Irishman to work as manager of her estate on a remote Irish island. The... Read more

Star Trek: Voyager - Season 2 (1995)

7.7/10
Starring: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Robert Picardo, Garrett Wang, Roxann Dawson, Tim R...

Pulled to the far side of the Galaxy, where the Federation is 75 years away at maximum warp speed, the Starfleet ship USS Voyager must cooperate with... Read more

Stargate ( Blu-ray ) (1994)

7.1/10
Director: Roland Emmerich
Starring: James Spader, Jaye Davidson, Kurt Russell, Viveca Lindfors

In Egypt, archeologists uncover a gigantic stone ring that, decades later, is found to be an interplanetary nexus. Scientist James Spader and Air Forc... Read more

Interview with the Vampire ( Blu-ray ) (1994)

7.6/10
Director: Neil Jordan
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Brad Pitt, Christian Slater, Kirsten Dunst, Stephen Rea, Tom C...

Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas, Stephen Rea and Christian Slater are all featured in this spellbinding adaptation of Anne Rice's runaway best... Read more

Taxi: Season 2 (1979)

6.3/10
Starring: Carol Kane, Christopher Lloyd, Danny DeVito, Jeff Conaway, Judd Hirsch, Marilu H...

The rag-tag group of New York taxi drivers keep on trucking through Louie's first romance with a 'non-professional', Latka finding himself in the midd... Read more

The Closer: Season 3 (2007)

7.6/10
Starring: G W Bailey, Jon Tenney, Kyra Sedgwick, J K Simmons, Corey Reynolds, Robert Gosse...

Kyra Sedgwick is back as the LAPD's spirited Deputy Chief, Brenda Johnson. The season starts with a bang as a slaughtered family's sole survivor is br... Read more

The Line (2007)

7.5/10
Director: Michael Adante
Starring: Peter Phelps, Andy McPhee, David Barry, Christopher Elliott

The lines between good and bad, right and wrong, and cop and criminal are blurred in this violent Australian thriller. A hardened undercover cop is te... Read more

Mirrors (2008)

6.2/10
Director: Alexandre Aja
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Cameron Boyce, Erica Gluck, Amy Smart, John Shr...

Kiefer Sutherland is ex-NYPD cop Ben Carson, dumped by his wife, just quit drinking, and working the nightshift as security in an old burned-out depar... Read more

88 Minutes (2007)

5.9/10
Director: Jon Avnet
Starring: Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski, Amy Brenneman, William Forsythe, Debora...

Al Pacino is a university professor and renowned forensic psychiatrist who occasionally assists the police, and his latest testimony has earned him a... Read more

Young at Heart (2007)

6.9/10
Director: Stephen Walker

Aka "Young@Heart". An international film festival favourite, spending time with the Young@Heart Chorus as they rehearse for their annual Northampton c... Read more

The Halo Effect (2004)

5.8/10
Director: Lance Daly
Starring: Stephen Rea, Grattan Smith, Kerry Condon, Simon Delaney, Fiona O'Shaughnessy, Ge...

Stephen Rea plays Fatso, owner of one of the worst takeaways in Dublin. His heart is in the right place, but a gambling addiction means keeping his he... Read more

The Genius of Charles Darwin (2008)

8.6/10
Director: Russell Barnes
Starring: Richard Dawkins

Author, evolutionary biologist, and committed Darwinist, Richard Dawkins shares his perspective on his scientific hero and begins in simple terms with... Read more

The Last Woman on Earth (1960)

6.1/10
Director: Roger Corman
Starring: Antony Carbone, Betsy Jones-Moreland

On a boat in the Caribbean following WWIII, a gangster and lawyer fight to decide who'll get to repopulate the planet with the titular female, the mob... Read more

The Shirley Temple Collection: Volume 1 (1932)

Starring: Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple's career started when she was just a toddler with these films from the 'Baby Burlesques' series. The short films satirized popular movi... Read more

New Zealand Disasters: Tangiwai and Wahine (2009)

Contains two programmes: 'The Truth About the Tangiwai Disaster' and 'Wahine - the Untold Story'. In NZ, the main trunk railway line and two state hig... Read more

Light Sleeper (1991)

6.9/10
Director: Paul Schrader
Starring: Mary Beth Hurt, Susan Sarandon, Willem Dafoe, Dana Delany, David Clennon

Paul Schrader's powerful, haunting story focuses on a delivery man (Willem Dafoe) for a classy New York drug dealer (Susan Sarandon) who realizes that... Read more

White Comanche (1968)

4.1/10
Director: Jose Britz
Starring: Joseph Cotten, Rosanna Yanni, William Shatner

AKA: "Hour of Vengeance," "Rio Hondo." Filmed in Spain during a hiatus on "Star Trek," this campy Western melodrama stars William Shatner as twin brot... Read more

Under Heavy Fire (2001)

Director: Sidney J Furie
Starring: Carre Otis, Casper Van Dien

AKA: "Going Back." A Vietnam War officer (Casper Van Dien) is forced to relive a harrowing combat experience when soldiers under his command are accid... Read more

Dollar for the Dead (1998)

5.4/10
Director: Gene Quintano
Starring: Ed Lauter, Emilio Estevez, Joaquim de Almeida, William Forsythe, Howie Long

In this tribute to the old-time spaghetti westerns, with a liberal dose of modern Hong Kong film-making thrown in, Emilio Estevez assumes Clint Eastwo... Read more

Of Mice and Men (1939)

7.8/10
Director: Lewis Milestone
Starring: Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney Jr, Betty Field

John Steinbeck's classic novel is brought to the silver screen for the very first time. Set in the bucolic Salinas Valley of California in the 1930's,... Read more

Land Mines: A Love Story (2004)

5/10
Director: Dennis O'Rourke

Controversial filmmaker Dennis O'Rourke ('Cunnamulla', 'The Good Woman of Bangkok') presents another narrative documentary that finds the heart and hu... Read more

A Touch of Frost: Series 2 (1994)

7.8/10
Starring: David Jason, Lennie James, Sara Stewart

The unconventional adventures of Detective Inspector Frost (from the crime novels of R.D. Wingfield) continue in this second season. In 'A Minority of... Read more

Ruth Rendell Mysteries: Vanity Dies Hard (1995)

6.8/10
Director: Alan Grint
Starring: Eleanor David, Mark Frankel, Jane Gurnett

The internationally popular crime author Ruth Rendell presents another puzzler. Alice Whittaker goes to visit her old friend Nesta after her husband's... Read more

The Incredible Hulk ( Blu-ray ) (2008)

6.8/10
Director: Louis Leterrier
Starring: Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt, Tim Blake Nelson, Ty Burrell

Another reinvention of Marvel's flawed superhero, with Edward Norton assuming the mantle of Bruce Banner and his giant, angry alter-ego. Bruce has spe... Read more

Gandhi ( Blu-ray ) (1982)

8.1/10
Director: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, John Mills, Martin Sheen...

Richard Attenborough's Academy Award-winning epic follows the extraordinary life of Mahatma Gandhi (played by Ben Kingsley), from his beginnings as a... Read more

The i Inside (2003)

6.1/10
Director: Roland Suso Richter
Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Polley, Piper Perabo, Stephen Rea, Robert Sean Leonard, St...

A time-hopping, psychological thriller with Ryan Phillippe as Simon, who wakes up in hospital with no memory of the previous two years. When he discov... Read more

Earth (2007)

8/10
Director: Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield
Starring: Narrated by, Patrick Stewart

Compiling footage shot during the mammoth BBC production, 'Planet Earth', this feature-length documentary condenses that epic series into an hour and... Read more

13: Game of Death (2005)

6.8/10
Director: Chukiat Sakveerakul, Stewart St John
Starring: Krissada Terrence, Achita Wuthinounsurasit, Sarunyoo Wongkrachang, Nattapong Aru...

Pusit is deep in debt, he's just lost his job, his girlfriend and his car, so when a mysterious cell phone caller offers him $100 million to feature i... Read more

Les Cousins (1959)

7.4/10
Director: Claude Chabrol
Starring: Gerard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Juliette Mayniel, Guy Decomble, Michele Meritz

Charles (Gerard Blain) is a naive provincial with bourgeois aspirations. He moves to Paris and stays with his urbane and decadent cousin (Jean-Claude... Read more

Blitzkrieg - Germany's Global Invasion (2008)

By early 1940 the Second World War is well under way, the might of the German Army has crushed and is occupying Poland, Denmark, Norway, and the Low C... Read more

Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008)

7.1/10
Director: Nick Park
Starring: Peter Sallis

Wallace and Gromit have started a new bread baking business, 'Top Bun'. Although business is booming, Gromit is concerned by the news that a dozen loc... Read more

Faerie Tale Theatre: Sleeping Beauty (1983)

8.4/10
Director: Jeremy Kagan
Starring: Bernadette Peters, Beverly D'Angelo, Christopher Reeve

Based on the beloved fairy tale, this installment of Shelley Duvall's "Faerie Tale Theatre" tells the well-known tale of a beautiful princess who is e... Read more

Australia ( Blu-ray ) (2008)

6.6/10
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Starring: Bryan Brown, David Gulpilil, David Wenham, Hugh Jackman, Jack Thompson, Nicole K...

Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman join forces with visionary director Baz Luhrmann in "Australia", an epic and romantic action adventure set on the brink... Read more

The Robert Epstein Collection: The Celluloid Closet / Common Threads / Paragraph 175 / The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)

Director: Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein

A collection of four documentaries from queer filmmaker Robert Epstein. "The Celluloid Closet" (1995) - This entertaining and often hilarious look at... Read more

Touching Evil: The Complete Series (1997)

8/10
Director: Various
Starring: James Nesbitt, Nicola Walker, Tony Curran, John Duttine, Robson Green

Robson Green stars as the smart, sexy, brash, and slightly mysterious Detective Inspector Dave Creegan in these three gripping and gritty mysteries th... Read more

Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious Universe (1994)

Starring: Arthur C Clarke

Arthur C Clarke and his team of highly respected scientific experts travel the globe seeking the truth behind mythical creatures, ancient legends and... Read more

Fighting Caravans (1931)

5.9/10
Director: Otto Brower
Starring: Gary Cooper

Based on a classic Western novel by Zane Grey, this early starring role for Gary Cooper has Coop as a wagon scout charged with delivering his people t... Read more

Frost / Nixon: The Original Watergate Interviews (1977)

7.7/10
Director: Jorn Winther
Starring: Richard Nixon, David Frost

Cut from over 28 hours of interview footage between Sir David Frost and Richard Nixon, this was originally broadcast in May of 1977. Never before (or... Read more

South Park: Season 5 (2001)

8.7/10
Director: Matt Stone, Trey Parker
Starring: Matt Stone, Trey Parker

Join Stan, Kyle, Cartman and the about-to-be permanently departed Kenny as they take on the supernatural, the extraordinary and the insane. Season Fiv... Read more

Chihwaseon ( aka Painted Fire ) (2002)

Director: Im Kwon Taek
Starring: Sung-kee Ahn, Min-sik Choi

AKA 'Painted Fire'. In a time of political and social unrest in 19th century Korea, an uncouth, self-taught painter explores his natural talent amidst... Read more

There's Always Tomorrow (1956)

7.7/10
Director: Douglas Sirk
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett, Gigi Perreau, William Reynolds

Toy manufacturer Clifford Groves (Fred MacMurray) is in full control at the factory, but feels left out and taken for granted by his wife and children... Read more

And When Did You Last See Your Father? (2007)

Director: Anand Tucker
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Colin Firth, Juliet Stevenson, Gina McKee, Elaine Cassidy, Sarah...

Colin Firth and Jim Broadbent star in this adaptation of poet Blake Morrison's best-selling memoir that explores the complex relationship between fath... Read more

Oliver Twist (BBC) (2007)

6.9/10
Director: Coky Giedroyc
Starring: Anna Massey, Edward Fox, John Sessions, Timothy Spall, Tom Hardy, Gregor Fisher,...

This gripping take on Charles Dickens' classic remains faithful to the spirit of the novel whilst delivering a modern, thrilling, tragic and occasiona... Read more

Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: Collection 2 ( A Pocketful of Rye / The Murder at the Vicarage / Sleeping Murder ) (1985)

7.8/10
Director: John Howard Davies, Julian Amyes, Guy Slater
Starring: Cheryl Campbell, Paul Eddington, Peter Davison, Polly Adams, Tom Wilkinson, Joan...

Agatha Christie's beloved character, Miss Jane Marple, is a prim, somewhat dour but good-hearted old bird with a knack for solving complicated mysteri... Read more

MiG-29 (1994)

Director: Colin T Webb

Arguably the most advanced strike aircraft of its day, the MiG-29's maneuverability and stability at high angles of attack make it a formidable weapon... Read more

Upstairs Downstairs: Series 3 (1973)

7.4/10
Director: Cyril Coke, Lionel Harris, Christopher Hodson, Derek Bennett, Bill Blain
Starring: Gordon Jackson, Jean Marsh, Nicola Pagett, Pauline Collins, Simon Williams, Davi...

The dramatic story of the aristocratic Bellamy family and their loyal servants accurately portrays life as it was from Edwardian England, through Worl... Read more

Ip Man (2008)

8/10
Director: Wilson Yip
Starring: Donnie Yen, Simon Yam, Fan Siu-Wong, Ka Tung Lam

The life of Wing Chun legend (and mentor to Bruce Lee) Ip Man provides a career-defining role for martial arts leading man Donnie Yen, who not only br... Read more

Twilight (2008)

5.2/10
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Starring: Peter Facinelli, Billy Burke, Kristen Stewart, Nikki Reed, Jackson Rathbone, Ash...

When Bella moves to a new high school in a backwater town in Washington State, she finds herself to be inexplicably popular amongst the male populatio... Read more

Escape From New York ( Blu-ray ) (1981)

7.2/10
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Adrienne Barbeau, Donald Pleasence, Ernest Borgnine, Harry Dean Stanton, Kurt Ru...

1997. New York City is a maximum security prison. When the President's plane crash lands within it's walls, he is taken prisoner by criminals demandin... Read more

Hamlet 2 (2008)

6.4/10
Director: Andrew Fleming
Starring: Steve Coogan, Catherine Keener, David Arquette, Elisabeth Shue, Amy Poehler, Jos...

Steve Coogan stars as a failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama-teacher who, in an effort to save his newly acquired drama department, conceives a... Read more

Rough Diamond: The Complete Series (2005)

7.5/10
Director: Simon Langton, Paul Harrison
Starring: David Jason, George Cole, Roy Marsden, Gary Whelan

AKA 'Diamond Geezers'. Award-winning actor David Jason stars as cheeky diamond thief Des Parker in this hugely successful comedy drama. He's a master... Read more

A Touch of Frost: Series 5 (1997)

7.8/10
Director: Various
Starring: David Jason, Isla Blair, Bruce Alexander

This refreshingly realistic British cop show stars David Jason as Detective Inspector William George "Jack" Frost of Denton, whose seeming indifferenc... Read more

Eyewitness: Collection 1 (2007)

7.8/10

Based on the revolutionary Dorling Kindersley book series, 'Eyewitness' is the ultimate guide to nature and science. The Emmy Award-winning series tak... Read more

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor (2008 Christmas Special) (2008)

8.7/10
Director: Andy Goddard
Starring: David Tennant, David Morrissey, Dervla Kirwan, Velile Tshabalala

The 10th Doctor (David Tennant), arrives in London on Christmas Eve, 1851. There he encounters a man (David Morrissey) whom he believes to be the next... Read more

Tokyo Zombie (2005)

6.1/10
Director: Sakichi Sato
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Sho Aikawa, Erika Okuda, Arata Furuta, Hina Matsuoka

Tokyo's future is overshadowed by a looming mountain of garbage, a stinking blot on the landscape where everything from toasters to cars to corpses ar... Read more

Skyland: Season 1 - Part 2 (2005)

7.3/10
Director: Emmanuel Gorinstein

In the concluding part of this captivating series, 12-year-old Lena, a seijin who has not let her powers be corrupted by greed, continues on her missi... Read more

The Forgotten (2003)

6.6/10
Director: Vincente Stasolla
Starring: Malcolm Barrett, Randy Ryan, David McMahan

During the Korean War, an idealistic corporal (Randy Ryan) finds the burden of command thrust upon him after the suicide of a superior officer. As unp... Read more

Battleline: The Definitive Collection (2008)

8.1/10

There are two sides in every war and millions of different stories to share from each battle fought. This collection weaves together unique stories of... Read more

Waiting For God: Series 3 (1992)

7.8/10
Starring: Graham Crowden, Stephanie Cole

At the Bayview Retirement Village the elderly are expected to grow old gracefully, enjoying their final years in peace, quiet and comfort...but not if... Read more

Tetsujin 28 (2005)

5.1/10
Director: Shin Togashi
Starring: Ayako Kawahara, Hiroshi Abe, Masato Ibu, Sosuke Ikematsu, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yu Ao...

A throwback to a time when families stuck together, and giant fighting robots didn't need any super-weapons, just their own two fists and a heart of g... Read more

The Silence of the Lambs ( Blu-ray ) (1990)

8.6/10
Director: Jonathan Demme
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine

Young FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman to save her from a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice... Read more

Grumpy Old Women: Live (2008)

7.3/10
Director: Peter Orton
Starring: Jenny Eclair, Dillie Keane, Linda Robson

Four sell out UK tours and a hugely popular run in Australia proved beyond any doubt that the Grumpy Old Women is a global phenomenon! Have you reache... Read more

Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)

7/10
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Starring: Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla, Lou Castel, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margar...

"Beware Of A Holy Whore" is Fassbinder's most autobiographical film, examining the tangled relationships which exist between a group of artists who ar... Read more

Doctor Who: Warriors' Gate (The E-Space Trilogy Part 3) (1981)

8.7/10
Director: Paul Joyce
Starring: Tom Baker, John Leeson, Matthew Waterhouse, Lalla Ward

A strange creature forces its way into the TARDIS steering them to a white void occupied only by the ruins of an old building and a spaceship. This em... Read more

King Solomon's Mines (1985)

5.2/10
Director: J Lee Thompson
Starring: Herbert Lom, Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone

Based on H. Rider Haggard's celebrated novel, this fast moving action safari stars Richard Chamberlain as daredevil soldier of fortune Allan Quatermai... Read more

Wiseguy: Season 2 (1988)

7.9/10
Starring: Deborah Harry, Jerry Lewis, Joan Chen, Ken Wahl, Patti D'arbanville, Ron Silver,...

Ken Wahl is back as the charismatic Vinnie Terranova for a second season of the edgy crime series 'Wiseguy'. Attempting to put his life as an Organize... Read more

Earth: The Power of the Planet (2008)

8.8/10

Earth is an incredible, exceptional planet with an amazing life story full of cataclysmic disasters, eleventh hour coincidences that save it from exti... Read more

The Truth About Climate Change (2006)

Starring: David Attenborough

Sir David Attenborough undertakes a personal journey to discover how global warming is changing the planet he knows so well. Examining the evidence fo... Read more

Welcome to the Sticks (2008)

7.1/10
Director: Dany Boon
Starring: Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Zoe Felix, Lorenzo Ausilia-Foret, Anne Marivin

A huge hit in its native France, this 'city slicker meets the yokels' comedy stars Kad Merad as a postal worker whose attempts to orchestrate a transf... Read more

Hollywood Romance Classics (2007)

Director: Various
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Bette Davis, Carole Lombard, David Niven, Gary Cooper, George...

Relive Old Hollywood glamour, style and romance with this 5-disc celebration of some of the most tender and heartwarming movies of the 1930s and '40s.... Read more

Les Patterson Saves the World (1987)

4.9/10
Director: George Miller (II)
Starring: Barry Humphries, Dame Edna Everage, Henri Szeps, Pamela Stephenson, Sir Les Patt...

The one-time Australian Minister for the Yarts, Sir Leslie Colin Patterson KBE (Barry Humphries), is a lecherous, drunken, chain-smoking slob and vaun... Read more

Lonely Planet Natural Born Traveller: The Great Divide (2008)

Starring: Steve Crombie

Steve Crombie is a 29 year old Australian thrill-seeker who's travelled half way round the world in search of adventure, but has never looked in his o... Read more

Fallen Angel (1945)

7.2/10
Director: Otto Preminger
Starring: Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Charles Bickford, Bruce Cabot, John Car...

Otto Preminger and Dana Andrews followed their successful partnership in the making of 'Laura' with this lesser-known noir. Andrews plays a down-on-hi... Read more

The Island of Dr Moreau (1977)

5.9/10
Director: Don Taylor
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport, Richard Basehart, Barbara Carrera

Burt Lancaster stars in the title role as the deranged scientist, who uses his remote island as a base for experiments in creating half-human, half-an... Read more

Missing in Action (1984)

5.4/10
Director: Joseph Zito
Starring: Chuck Norris, M Emmet Walsh

One of a string of Rambo-esque films dashed off in the '80s. Action ace Chuck Norris stars as a former Vietnam War P.O.W. who returns to Southeast Asi... Read more

Shirley Temple: Little Darling Pack (1934)

6.2/10
Director: Alexander Hall, Henry Hathaway
Starring: Carole Lombard, Gary Cooper, Shirley Temple

This double bill of early Shirley faves opens with the first film version of Damon Runyon's "Little Miss Marker" (1934), with Temple as the adorable t... Read more

The Very Best of Ronnie Barker (2008)

Starring: Bernard Cribbins, Eric Sykes, Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett

In this hilarious programme we revisit some of Ronnie Barker's funniest moments from an illustrious career that has made him one of Britain's best lov... Read more

Autumn Hearts (2007)

Director: Paolo Barzman
Starring: Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer, Susan Sarandon, Gabriel Byrne, Roy Dupuis

Thirty-five years after their internment at the hands of the Nazis, three friends reunite. Melanie (Susan Sarandon) is in an unsatisfying marriage to... Read more

Peep and the Big Wide World: The Windy Day (2004)

7.4/10
Starring: Joan Cusack

Join Peep, Chirp and Quack - three wonderfully inquisitive friends who explore their world. They live in a park (they are of course a chick, a duck an... Read more

Midsomer Murders: Series 5 (2002)

7.8/10
Director: Sarah Hellings, David Tucker, Peter Smith
Starring: Angela Thorne, Anton Rogers, Graham Crowden, Wendy Craig, John Nettles, Gwen Tay...

Barnaby and Troy investigate five more cases in their fifth season as the long arm of the law in the 'deadliest county in England'. 'Tainted Fruit': T... Read more

The Ambulance (1990)

5.9/10
Director: Larry Cohen
Starring: Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, Megan Gallagher, Red Buttons, Janine Turner, Eri...

This paranoid thriller begins as Eric Roberts' girlfriend (Janine Turner) is taken away in an ambulance and he can't find her. She's been taken prison... Read more

Shootout! (2005)

7.9/10

Experience the danger of gun battle up close in this riveting, innovative documentary series from The History Channel. Using 3-D animation, aerial map... Read more

Body / Antibody (2007)

5.9/10
Director: Kerry Douglas Dye, Jordan Hoffman
Starring: Robert Gomes, Leslie Kendall Dye, Frank Deal, Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Antony Hago...

Kip Polyard suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder and hasn't left his apartment in 10 months; but now the seductive Celine has moved in next door... Read more

Match Point ( Blu-ray ) (2005)

7.6/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Brian Cox, Ewen Bremner, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Penelope Wilton, Scarlett Johanss...

In his first film set in the UK, Woody Allen's slick romantic thriller follows an opportunistic tennis coach (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) who ingratiates hi... Read more

Solstice (2008)

5.4/10
Director: Daniel Myrick
Starring: Elisabeth Harnois, Shawn Ashmore, Tyler Hoechlin, Amanda Seyfried, Matt O'Leary,...

A group of high school students come together for their final fling before college, celebrating the summer solstice at a lake house. It's not long be... Read more

The Shield: Season 5 (2006)

8.7/10
Director: D J Caruso, Guy Ferland, Stephen Kay, Phillip Atwell, Michael Chiklis, Dean White, Gwyneth Horder-Payton
Starring: Michael Chiklis, Catherine Dent, Walton Goggins, Michael Jace, Kenneth Johnson,...

The tension mounts with Vic and his crew squarely in the sights of Internal Affairs Officer Jon Kavanaugh (Forest Whitaker). Determined to the point o... Read more

Role Models (2009)

6.9/10
Director: David Wain
Starring: Paul Rudd, Seann William Scott, Jane Lynch, Elizabeth Banks, Christopher Mintz-P...

Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott star as two salesmen sentenced to community service at a big-brother mentorship centre. The pair of boys-in-men's cl... Read more

The Spirit ( Blu-ray ) (2008)

4.8/10
Director: Frank Miller
Starring: Samuel L Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Gabriel Macht, Jaime King, Eva Mendes, Sta...

A good-guy cop is killed in the line of duty and comes back to life as shadowy crimefighter 'The Spirit', now pitted against 'The Octopus' whose main... Read more

The Diary of Anne Frank (2008)

6.5/10
Director: Jon Jones
Starring: Iain Glen, Tamsin Greig, Ellie Kendrick, Kate Ashfield

This five-part BBC drama presents an intimate portrayal of the tragically short life of Anne Frank and her family. Anne's diary was first published ov... Read more

Beauty and the Beast: Season 1 (1987)

7.1/10
Starring: Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman, Edward Albert, Roy Dotrice

'Beauty and the Beast' features the adventures and romance between Vincent (Ron Perlman), a mythic, noble man-beast, and Catherine (Linda Hamilton), a... Read more

The Comedy of Terrors (1963)

6.8/10
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price, Joyce Jameson, Joe E...

Waldo Trumbull (Vincent Price) is running his father-in-law's (Boris Karloff) funeral home business...straight into the ground! Hounded by his landlor... Read more

Angel Face (1952)

7.3/10
Director: Otto Preminger
Starring: Barbara O'Neil, Herbert Marshall, Jean Simmons, Leon Ames, Robert Mitchum

This noir gem stars Robert Mitchum as an ambulance driver who catches the eye of a wealthy femme fatale (Jean Simmons). Hired as a chauffeur for Simmo... Read more

Night Court: Season 1 (1984)

7.7/10
Starring: Harry Anderson, John Larroquette, Richard Moll, Paula Kelly, Karen Austin

In the mid-eighties, a different kind of sitcom took audiences by surprise. 'Night Court' offered viewers a kooky, fun, and feel good approach to come... Read more

On Eagle's Wing (2006)

This joyous stage spectacular is a musical, a dance show and an oratorio all rolled into one. The power of the pipes, drums and explosive dance routin... Read more

The Comedians of Comedy (2007)

7.3/10
Starring: Sarah Silverman, Doug Benson, Patton Oswalt, Andy Kindler, David Cross

14 of today's top comics get together at the infamous Troubadour club in L.A. for a night of comedic anarchy! See Patton Oswalt, Sarah Silverman, Davi... Read more

Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 1, Volume 1 (Remastered) (1966)

8/10
Starring: DeForest Kelley, Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner

Space. The final frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain... Read more

Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 2, Volume 1 (Remastered) (1967)

8/10
Starring: DeForest Kelley, Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner

Space. The final frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain... Read more

Salem's Lot (2004)

6.2/10
Director: Mikael Salomon
Starring: Andre Braugher, Donald Sutherland, James Cromwell, Rob Lowe, Rutger Hauer, Saman...

Welcome to Jerusalem's Lot - Salem's Lot, as locals call it. Population: 1319. And growing eerier by the moment. Because an ominous outsider has moved... Read more

Bride Wars (2009)

5.5/10
Director: Gary Winick
Starring: Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Bryan Greenberg, Candice Bergen, Chris Pratt, Steve...

Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway play best buds whose friendship is put to the test when a clerical error sees their dream weddings (both at New York's P... Read more

Pride and Glory (2008)

6.7/10
Director: Gavin O'Connor
Starring: Colin Farrell, Edward Norton, Jon Voight, Noah Emmerich, Jennifer Ehle, John Ort...

Edward Norton plays an honest cop, assigned to investigate the precinct run by his potentially corrupt older brother. Director Gavin O'Connor co-wrote... Read more

Gran Torino (2008)

8.1/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Ahney Her, Christopher Carley, Brian Haley, Geraldine...

Clint Eastwood directs himself as Walt Kowalski, a racist Korean War veteran living in a crime-ridden area of Detroit. When a troubled local teen atte... Read more

The Private Life of a Masterpiece: Impressionism and the Post-Impressionists (2003)

8.7/10

A lively dance, a vase of brilliant yellow flowers and an afternoon on the banks of the Seine provide the inspiration for these three masterpieces fro... Read more

Not Going Out: Series 1 (2006)

7.8/10
Director: Alex Hardcastle
Starring: Lee Mack, Tim Vine, Miranda Hart, Megan Dodds

Lee is an unmotivated, thirty-something flatting in London with Kate, an attractive and successful American on whom he has a crush. Unfortunately, not... Read more

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season 1 & 2 (2005)

8.8/10
Starring: Charlie Day, Kaitlin Olson, Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney, Danny DeVito

Four self-centred friends run an Irish pub together in the City of Brotherly Love. Dennis, self-described ladies' man and spoilt brat, believes in rem... Read more

Tales of the Riverbank (2008)

5.2/10
Director: John Henderson
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Stephen Fry, Steve Coogan, Ardal O'Hanlon, Peter Serafinowicz, Mi...

Hammy Hamster, Roderick Rat and GP Guinea Pig are caught in a violent storm and embark on an epic journey in search of their lost homes. Their journey... Read more

By the Sword Divided: Series 1 (1983)

7.6/10
Director: Henry Herbert, Michael Custance, Brian Farnham, Diarmuid Lawrence
Starring: Julian Glover, Andrew MacLachlan, Rob Edwards, Jeremy Clyde, Tim Bentinck, Lucy...

Produced by the BBC, this epic historical drama series is set during the English Civil War and follows the changing loyalties and wrenching conflict w... Read more

Wanda Sykes: Sick and Tired (2006)

7.3/10
Director: Michael Drumm
Starring: Wanda Sykes

Voted one of Entertainment Weekly's 25 Funniest People in America, the sardonic wit of Wanda Sykes will be familiar to viewers of 'Curb Your Enthusias... Read more

The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright (2008)

Director: Murray Grigor

A sumptuous and comprehensive survey of Frank Lloyd Wright's life and career, from his apprenticeship with Louis Sullivan in Chicago to his final days... Read more

The Story of India (2007)

8.6/10
Starring: Michael Wood

A six-part BBC series with engaging historian Michael Wood taking a fascinating look at the 10,000-year history of the Indian sub-continent. A colourf... Read more

Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness (2000)

8.3/10
Starring: Alain De Botton

Popular British philosopher Alain de Botton investigates the pursuit of happiness in this six-part series, with each episode exploring the ideas and t... Read more

Sports Night: Season 1 (1998)

8.3/10
Director: Various
Starring: Felicity Huffman, Josh Charles, Robert Guillaume, Peter Krause, Joshua Malina, S...

Finally available, the first ever series from Aaron Sorkin (creator of 'The West Wing' and 'Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip') sees his intelligent, fast... Read more

Woman on the Run (1950)

7.4/10
Director: Norman Foster
Starring: Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith, Ross Elliot

Top-notch crime story about an artist who goes into hiding after witnessing a mob murder. His seemingly uncaring wife decides to help police and an ad... Read more

A Taste of Honey (1961)

7.6/10
Director: Tony Richardson
Starring: Dora Bryan, Rita Tushingham, Robert Stephens, Murray Melvin

A lively tale of a pregnant Salford teenager, her mother, and her unlikely friendship with a gay man. Time has left its mark on many of the innovative... Read more

Slumdog Millionaire ( Blu-ray ) (2008)

8/10
Director: Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan
Starring: Irfan Khan, Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Madhur Mittal, Freida Pinto

Danny Boyle's quirky and suspenseful romantic drama is set in the slums of Mumbai and riffs on the multi-cultural icon that is 'Who Wants to Be a Mill... Read more

The Last Drop (2005)

4.6/10
Director: Colin Teague
Starring: Billy Zane, Michael Madsen

A skilled team of special operatives track a hidden cache of Nazi gold that could fund an Allied victory before Christmas. With 35,000 U.S. troops beh... Read more

Sword of Xanten (2004)

Director: Uli Edel
Starring: Alicia Witt, Benno Furmann, Kristanna Loken

In a time lost to history, when the Gods still walked among us, they sent a warrior to reclaim the mystic gold that has plunged the world into endless... Read more

The Ice Runner (1993)

5.6/10
Director: Barry Samson
Starring: Victor Wong, Edward Albert

A U.S. spy stationed in the Soviet Union is betrayed by the CIA and sent to a prison camp. After assuming the identity of a dead thief he's transferre... Read more

An Audience With Victoria Wood (1988)

8.2/10
Starring: Victoria Wood

The incomparable Victoria Wood is the star of this special show that won two 1989 British Academy Film and Television Arts Awards. Before a celebrity... Read more

Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)

8.7/10
Director: Morris Barry
Starring: Patrick Troughton, Deborah Watling, Frazer Hines

The terror of the Cybermen is finally over - or is it? An expedition heads to Telos (their home planet) to discover what has happened to the deadly si... Read more

Lexx: Season 2 (1998)

7.4/10
Director: Various
Starring: Michael McManus, Xenia Seeberg, Brian Downey

A crew of outcasts from an evil empire bounce around a parallel universe in a stolen, organic spacecraft - the awesomely powerful Lexx. With bold orig... Read more

Up the Yangtze (2007)

7.5/10
Director: Yung Chang

In China, it is simply known as 'The River'. But the Yangtze (and all of the life that surrounds it), is undergoing a truly astonishing transformation... Read more