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The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2007)

5.1/10
Director: Paul Auster
Starring: David Thewlis, Irene Jacob, Michael Imperioli, Sophie Auster

A successful American novelist meets a most mysterious muse in this psychological drama. Could this woman who possesses an uncanny knowledge of Martin... Read more

Wild South: Volume 1 (2008)

7.8/10

A selection of documentaries by NHNZ on the wild wonders of nature in the deep south. 'Island of Strange Noises' (1980) takes us to the Antipodes Isla... Read more

Rome: Season 2 (2006)

8.8/10
Starring: Kevin McKidd, Ray Stevenson, Polly Walker, Lindsay Duncan, Tobias Menzies, Kerry...

The year is 44 B.C. Julius Caesar has been assassinated and civil war threatens to destroy the Republic. In the void left by Caesar's demise, egos cla... Read more

Veronica Mars: Season 2 (2005)

8.4/10
Starring: Kristen Bell, Percy Daggs III, Teddy Dunn, Jason Dohring, Francis Capra, Ryan Ha...

Season 2 of this cult favourite begins when Veronica misses the bus - a school bus that minutes later plunges off a cliff into the Pacific. It may be... Read more

Champagne Charlie (1944)

6.8/10
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
Starring: Tommy Trinder, Stanley Holloway, Jean Kent

This classic from Ealing Studios follows George Leybourne (Tommy Trinder) as he rises from pub singer to famous entertainer, and his rivalry with The... Read more

The Criminal (1960)

5.8/10
Director: Joseph Losey
Starring: Stanley Baker, Margit Saad, Sam Wanamaker

Originally released in the U.S. as 'The Concrete Jungle', this hard-hitting drama from Joseph Losey stars Stanley Baker as a criminal jailed for a dar... Read more

Farewell, Friend (1968)

7.1/10
Director: Jean Herman
Starring: Alain Delon, Charles Bronson, Olga Georges-Picot, Bernard Fresson

Aka 'Honor Among Thieves'. Years after serving together in the French Foreign Legion, American soldier of fortune Franz Propp (Charles Bronson) and Fr... Read more

Endless Night (1972)

6/10
Director: Sidney Gilliat
Starring: Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Britt Ekland, George Sanders, Per Oscarsson

This mystery, adapted from an Agatha Christie story, tells the tale of an ambitious British chauffeur who marries his American employer, one of the ri... Read more

Wild China (2008)

8.5/10
Starring: Narrated by, Bernard Hill

China is one of the oldest civilizations on Earth, and for the first time in almost a century, it is opening up to the world. This landmark series gai... Read more

The Mighty Boosh: Series 3 (2007)

8.4/10
Director: Paul King
Starring: Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt

Vince Noir and Howard Moon return for a third series of the cult comedy hit featuring another fantabulous mix of surreal humour, musical interludes, s... Read more

That Mitchell and Webb Look: Series 1 (2006)

8/10
Director: David Kerr
Starring: David Mitchell, Robert Webb

Following on from the massive success of 'Peep Show', David Mitchell and Robert Webb return in a more traditional comedy show in the form of 'That Mit... Read more

Magnum Force ( Blu-ray ) (1973)

7.2/10
Director: Ted Post
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Mitchell Ryan, David Soul, Felton Perry, Robert Ur...

Clint Eastwood returns in this second Dirty Harry film, trying to uncover a conspiracy within the San Francisco police department involving a group of... Read more

Superhero Movie (2008)

4.5/10
Director: Craig Mazin
Starring: Drake Bell, Sara Paxton, Christopher McDonald, Kevin Hart, Brent Spiner, Jeffrey...

After spoofing disaster films in 'Airplane!', police shows in 'The Naked Gun', and Hollywood horrors in 'Scary Movie' 3 and 4, producer David Zucker s... Read more

The IT Crowd: Version 2.0 (2007)

8.5/10
Director: Graham Linehan
Starring: Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Noel Fielding

'The IT Crowd' strikes back in the second series of the Bafta-nominated comedy from Graham Linehan ('Father Ted', 'Black Books'). Hook up with geeks R... Read more

Shine a Light (2008)

7.2/10
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood, Christina Aguilera, Bud...

It's the Rolling Stones - as you've never seen or heard them before. Over the course of two nights at New York's Beacon Theatre, director Martin Scors... Read more

The Black Balloon (2007)

7.3/10
Director: Elissa Down
Starring: Toni Collette, Luke Ford, Rhys Wakefield, Erik Thomson, Gemma Ward

Toni Collette stars in this gentle yet unflinching look at a family strained by the pressures of caring for an autistic teenager. Told with humour and... Read more

American Dad!: Volume 3 (2006)

7.4/10
Starring: (Voices of) , Seth MacFarlane, Rachael MacFarlane, Seth Green, Scott Grimes, Wen...

C.I.A. weapons expert Stan Smith is back, keeping the homeland secure while alienating his family and terrorising his neighbours in the process. Wheth... Read more

Mad Money (2007)

5.8/10
Director: Callie Khouri
Starring: Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, Katie Holmes, Ted Danson, Stephen Root, Christopher...

Well-to-do housewife Diane Keaton faces economic catastrophe when husband Ted Danson finds himself jobless. Shortly after taking a janitorial post at... Read more

Candid Camera: Best of Today (2004)

6.8/10

'Candid Camera', America's longest-running entertainment series, has been making people smile since 1948. Included here are classic sequences of unsus... Read more

The Nines (2007)

6.4/10
Director: John August
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Melissa McCarthy, Hope Davis, Elle Fanning

A metaphysical mind-bender following the lives of three artists (all played by Ryan Reynolds) in three short films that intertwine, exploring the noti... Read more

Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)

7.6/10
Director: Alex Gibney

A perpetually shocking documentary exposing the Bush administration's use of torture when dealing with political prisoners, focusing in particular on... Read more

One More Night (2006)

6.9/10
Director: Sarah Kelly
Starring: Connie Britton, Tate Donovan, Ione Skye, Eric Stoltz, Sarah Clarke, Peter Facine...

AKA 'The Lather Effect'. While helping her parents clear out her childhood home, a nostalgia-gripped Valinda decides to throw an '80s-themed party for... Read more

Dr Quinn Medicine Woman: Season 1 (1993)

6.7/10
Starring: Jane Seymour, Joe Lando

From the moment that Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn (Jane Seymour) first stepped from the stagecoach into the mud of Colorado Springs, TV audiences had a n... Read more

Who Do You Think You Are?: Series 1 (2004)

8/10
Starring: David Baddiel, Jeremy Clarkson, Lesley Garrett, Ian Hislop, Sue Johnston, Bill O...

This documentary TV series follows the journeys of 10 British celebrities as they explore their family trees, uncover their family history and discove... Read more

The Cats of Mirikitani (2006)

8.3/10
Director: Linda Hattendorf
Starring: Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani

Eighty-year-old Jimmy Mirikitani survived the trauma of WWII internment camps, Hiroshima, and homelessness by creating art. But when 9/11 threatens hi... Read more

Shark (1968)

7.1/10
Director: Samuel Fuller
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Barry Sullivan, Arthur Kennedy, Silvia Pinal

Aka 'Man-eater'. Burt Reynolds plays a tough American smuggler in the Mediterranean hired by what he thinks a scientific expedition. The voyage turns... Read more

Skins: Series 2 (2008)

7.6/10
Starring: Charles Martin Smith, Harry Enfield, Nicholas Hoult, Dev Patel, Larissa Wilson,...

The critically acclaimed drama that follows the chaotic lives and lusts of a group of spliff-toting, hard partying British teenagers. It's been six mo... Read more

Bamako (2006)

6.8/10
Director: Abderrahmane Sissako
Starring: Danny Glover, Aissa Maiga, Tiecoura Traore

An audacious blend of documentary and dramatic segments from filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako, this indictment of global economic policy towards Africa... Read more

The Death of Mister Lazarescu (2005)

Director: Cristi Puiu
Starring: Ion Fiscuteanu, Luminita Gheorghiu

Plagued with a terrible headache that will not go away, elderly Mr. Lazarescu (Ion Fiscuteanu) calls an ambulance. As he makes his frustrating journey... Read more

The Holocaust: The Liberation of Auschwitz (2004)

7.5/10

Recorded from January - February 1945 by a Soviet film crew attached to the 1st Ukrainian Front, the programme tells the story of the liberation of th... Read more

Victoria Wood - Live (1997)

7.6/10
Director: Geoff Posner
Starring: Victoria Wood

Over half a million people packed into over 200 venues throughout the U.K. during 1997 to see her best ever show. This tour included an unprecedented... Read more

RoboCop ( Blu-ray ) (1987)

7.5/10
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, Miguel Ferr...

The sci-fi action movie of 1987 stars Peter Weller as a Detroit cop gunned down and used as a guinea pig to create a cyborg police officer. All goes w... Read more

M*A*S*H: Season 7 (1978)

8.4/10
Starring: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, David Ogden Stiers, Gary Bu...

The war in Korea wages on with no end in sight, but the medical corps at the 4077th valiantly battle on against soulless military bureaucracy, tedium,... Read more

Burnside: The Complete Series (2000)

7/10
Starring: Christopher Ellison, Zoe Eeles, Justin Pierre

Leveraging the long-term success of the hit series "The Bill", the inimitable Frank Burnside (Christopher Ellison) has been promoted to Detective Chie... Read more

The Don is Dead (1973)

6.4/10
Director: Richard Fleischer
Starring: Charles Cioffi, Frederic Forrest, Robert Forster, Al Lettieri, Anthony Quinn, An...

Released one year after 'The Godfather', this mafia family epic stars Anthony Quinn as Don Angelo, a notorious crime czar set to take over the Syndica... Read more

The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)

5.8/10
Director: John Sherwood
Starring: Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason, Leigh Snowden

This is the final installment in Universal's 'Gill Man trilogy,' which began with 'Creature From the Black Lagoon' and was followed by 'Revenge of the... Read more

Mind the Gap (2007)

5.1/10
Director: Helena Bergstrom
Starring: Rakel Warmlander, Nina Zanjani, Dan Ekborg, Birgitte Sondergaard, Korhan Abay, Z...

AKA 'Se Upp For Dararna'. Veteran Swedish actress Helena Bergstrom ('House of Angels') makes an assured directorial debut with this comic drama about... Read more

Stalking Santa (2006)

5.7/10
Director: Greg Kiefer
Starring: Chris Clark, Daryn Tufts, Lisa Clark, Narrated by, William Shatner

A devoted 'Santaologist' in search of the world's greatest living mystery attempts to cut through government conspiracy, big business hush-ups, and co... Read more

Oswald's Ghost (2007)

6.6/10
Director: Robert Stone

This Emmy-nominated documentary from Robert Stone ('Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst') draws upon rarely seen archival footage and interviews key... Read more

Freedom (1981)

8.5/10
Director: Scott Hicks
Starring: Jon Blake, Candy Raymond, Jad Capelja, Charles Tingwell, Max Cullen, Chris Haywo...

The first film from Australian director Scott Hicks ('Shine') is the tale of a no-hoper with a big dream - driving down the road in a Porsche, with a... Read more

K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend (1981)

6.3/10
Director: John Black
Starring: Elisabeth Sladen, John Leeson

The first bona fide TV spin-off from 'Doctor Who'. In this one-off special, Sarah Jane Smith pays a Christmas visit to her Aunt Lavania in the village... Read more

A Night With Lou Reed (1982)

7.6/10
Director: Clark Santee
Starring: Lou Reed

Pioneer of punk Lou Reed is "on" in this electrifying concert, captured live at the Bottom Line in New York. "Rock 'n' Roll," "Women," "Sweet Jane," "... Read more

Doomsday ( Blu-ray ) (2008)

6/10
Director: Neil Marshall
Starring: Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Adrian Lester, Alexander Siddig, David O'Hara, Malcolm...

30 years after an entire country was quarantined to stop the spread of a deadly virus, it has resurfaced in a major city, forcing a group of highly-tr... Read more

CJ7 ( Blu-ray ) (2007)

6.5/10
Director: Stephen Chow
Starring: Stephen Chow, Xu Jiao, Kitty Zhang

Hong Kong comedy king Stephen Chow directs and stars in this sci-fi family comedy as a struggling single father whose quest to find his son the perfec... Read more

Fantastic Mr Fox ( Blu-ray ) (2009)

7.8/10
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Adrien Brody, Bill Murray, Brian Cox, George Clooney, Jason Schwartzman, Meryl S...

The visually ravishing animated movie 'The Fantastic Mr. Fox' follows a fox, voiced by George Clooney and dressed in a natty brown corduroy suit, as h... Read more

Bronson (2008)

7.1/10
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Starring: Tom Hardy, Matt King

In 1974, a hot-headed 19 year old named Michael Peterson decided he wanted to make a name for himself and so, with a homemade sawn-off shotgun and a h... 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

Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire (2009)

7.3/10
Director: Lee Daniels
Starring: Lenny Kravitz, Gabourey Sidibe, Mariah Carey, Paula Patton, Mo'Nique

Set in Harlem in 1987, this acclaimed drama chronicles the difficult life of Precious (Gabourey Sidibe) - an obese, abused, and illiterate 16-year-old... Read more

Invictus (2009)

7.4/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman

He was imprisoned 27 years for his heroic fight against apartheid. So what does Nelson Mandela do after he is elected president of South Africa? He re... Read more

Little Ashes (2008)

6.6/10
Director: Paul Morrison
Starring: Javier Beltran, Arly Jover, Marina Gatell, Matthew McNulty, Esther Nubiola, Robe...

In 1922, Madrid wavers on the edge of social change as traditional values are challenged by the new influences of Jazz, Freud and the avant-garde. The... Read more

The Admiral (2008)

7.2/10
Director: Andrey Kravchuk
Starring: Richard Bohringer, Sergei Bezrukov, Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Konstantin Khabensky,...

A lavish romantic drama and historical fiction centered on Admiral Kolchak (Konstantin Khabensky), a WWI war hero and naval commander who played an im... Read more

Walk the Proud Land (1956)

6.8/10
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Audie Murphy, Charles Drake, Jay Silverheels

Tells the true story of Indian agent John Philip Clum, as set down on paper by Clum's son. The film begins in 1874, as Clum, an Eastern government rep... Read more

Snatch ( Blu-ray ) (2000)

8.3/10
Director: Guy Ritchie
Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Brad Pitt, Dennis Farina, Rade Serbedzija, Vinnie Jones, Jason...

Following 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels', Guy Ritchie revisits that film's territory of London's criminal-ridden underbelly, with this labyrint... Read more

Anything for Her (2008)

7.2/10
Director: Fred Cavaye
Starring: Vincent Lindon, Diane Kruger

Lisa (Diane Kruger) and Julien (Vincent Lindon) are a happily married couple, still passionately in love, who lead a normal life together with their y... Read more

Cimarron Strip: Battleground (1967)

7.5/10
Director: Don Medford
Starring: Stuart Whitman, Telly Savalas, Warren Oates

A Classic Action Adventure of the Old West on Cimarron Strip. US Marshal Jim Crown (Stuart Whitman) gets the drop on his old buddy, Bear (Telly Savala... Read more

Where Eagles Dare ( Blu-ray ) (1968)

7.7/10
Director: Brian G Hutton
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure, Richard Burton

The mission is clear. Get in. Get the general. Get out. Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should also be told to t... Read more

Planet Hulk (2010)

6.8/10
Director: Sam Liu
Starring: Rick D Wasserman

A secret group of superhero leaders, the Illuminati, consider the Hulk an unacceptable potential risk to Earth, and rocket him into space to live a pe... Read more

The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)

5.4/10
Director: Joel Schumacher
Starring: Charles Grodin, Henry Gibson, Lily Tomlin, Ned Beatty

The loveable and laughable Lily Tomlin stars in this high-spirited sci-fi comedy satire. Exposed to a bizarre mix of household chemicals, ordinary hou... Read more

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor (2008 Christmas Special) ( Blu-ray ) (2008)

8.7/10
Director: Andy Goddard
Starring: David Tennant, David Morrissey

Christmas Eve, 1851, and the Cybermen stalk the snow of Victorian London. When the Doctor arrives and starts to investigate a spate of mysterious deat... Read more

Doctor Who: The Chase (1965)

8.7/10
Director: Richard Martin
Starring: William Hartnell

" We must face the facts - the Daleks are closing in on us"..... The travellers are forced to flee in the TARDIS when they learn from the Time/Space... Read more

Huloo (2008)

Director: Robin Greenberg
Starring: Loo-Chi Hu

Robin Greenberg's documentary introduces us to the remarkable life of New Zealand's very own T'ai Chi master, Loo-Chi Hu, affectionately known to all... Read more

Mao's Last Dancer (2009)

7.3/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Bruce Greenwood, Joan Chen, Kyle MacLachlan, Amanda Schull, Wang Shuangbao, Chi...

Based on the extraordinary true story and best-selling autobiography of Li Cunxin, who, amidst the chaos of Mao's Cultural Revolution, was chosen at a... Read more

Sleep Dealer (2008)

5.9/10
Director: Alex Rivera
Starring: Jacob Vargas, Leonor Varela, Luis Fernando Pena

In a futuristic yet not unfamiliar world, the lives of three strangers connect in surprising ways amid a backdrop of militarization, closed borders an... Read more

Warren Miller's Children of Winter (2008)

Deep powder. Huge airs. World-class cinematography. It's all part of Warren Miller's 'Children of Winter', the world's largest action sports film. Chi... Read more

Samson and Delilah ( Blu-ray ) (2009)

6.8/10
Director: Warwick Thornton
Starring: Rowan McNamara, Scott Thornton, Marissa Gibson, Mitjili Napanangka Gibson

An inside look at a world rarely, if ever, depicted on the big screen - Screen International. Samson (Rowan McNamara) is 15 years old and lives in a... Read more

Supernatural: Season 4 (2008)

9.5/10
Starring: Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki

Resurrection. After enduring unspeakable torture, Dean escapes from Hell, rescued by an all-powerful creature he's never seen before: an Angel. This w... Read more

Toy Story ( Blu-ray ) (1995)

8.3/10
Director: John Lasseter
Starring: Annie Potts, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, John Ratzenberger, Tim Allen, Tom Hanks, W...

A very clever, incredible-looking computer animated feature film telling the tale of a boy's favourite toy, a cowboy doll named Woody who's feeling th... Read more

Robogeisha (2009)

5.3/10
Director: Noboru Iguchi
Starring: Aya Kiguchi, Takumi Saito, Hitomi Hasebe

Yoshie is the beautiful younger sister to the geisha Kikuyakko. Together, they are recruited by the handsome Hikaru to help overthrow the corrupt Japa... Read more

No Impact Man (2009)

6.7/10
Director: Laura Gabbert, Justin Schein

How easy would it be for you to live your life without leaving your "footprints" on the environment? No driving? No television? No toilet paper?!? Tha... Read more

Prince of Foxes (1949)

7.1/10
Director: Henry King
Starring: Everett Sloane, Orson Welles, Tyrone Power, Wanda Hendrix

Tyrone Power stars as Orsini, an ambassador to the despotic Cesare Borgia (Orson Welles) who grows weary of serving as a political pawn to the powerfu... Read more

Little Bear: First Adventure (1995)

7.2/10

From the classic children's books illustrated by Maurice Sendak and written by Else Holmelund Minarik here is the curious, imaginative and inventive L... Read more

The Big Blue ( Blu-ray ) (1988)

7.6/10
Director: Luc Besson
Starring: Jean Reno, Jean-Marc Barr, Rosanna Arquette

Luc Besson ('Nikita', 'Subway') delves into the watery mysteries of the deep in this salute to the legendary free diver Jacques Mayol who has plunged... Read more

South Park: The Hits - Volume 2 (2010)

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

"People always ask us, "What's your favourite episode?" And we'd say, "It's so hard. It's like choosing between your children." But we'd have no probl... Read more

Crazy Heart ( Blu-ray ) (2009)

7.3/10
Director: Scott Cooper
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Colin Farrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jack Nation

Jeff Bridges took home a Best Actor Academy Award for his superb performance as a down-and-out country music singer struggling to hang on to what litt... Read more

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010)

Director: Susanna White
Starring: Emma Thompson, Ewan McGregor, Maggie Smith, Ralph Fiennes, Rhys Ifans, Bill Bail...

Aka "Nanny McPhee Returns". Emma Thompson reprises her role as Nanny McPhee, the mysterious nanny with unsettling facial features, in this sequel. Thi... Read more

The Beauty Jungle (1964)

Director: Val Guest
Starring: Edmund Purdom, Ian Hendry, Janette Scott, Ronald Fraser

AKA 'Contest Girl'. Shirley (Janette Scott) - young, pretty and impressionable - finds herself the focal point of a human-interest story manufactured... Read more

Little House on the Prairie: Season 2, Part 2 (1975)

7.4/10
Starring: Melissa Gilbert, Michael Landon, Melissa Sue Anderson, Karen Grassle

This dramatic and gripping story of a young pioneer family's struggle to build a new life for themselves on the American frontier of the 1870s, captur... Read more

The Horde (2009)

5.9/10
Director: Yannick Dahan, Benjamin Rocher
Starring: Jean-Pierre Martins, Eriq Ebouaney, Aurelien Recoing, Claude Perron

When a group of vengeful cops descend on the hideout of a criminal gang, they get more than they expected when the building comes under siege from an... Read more

The Guardian (1990)

5.3/10
Director: William Friedkin
Starring: Brad Hall, Carey Lowell, Dwier Brown, Jenny Seagrove, Miguel Ferrer

William Friedkin, director of "The Exorcist", delivers a new kind of fairy tale for adults. When a wealthy young couple (Carey Lowell and Dwier Brown)... Read more

Romancing the Stone ( Blu-ray ) (1984)

6.9/10
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Danny DeVito, Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas, Alfonso Arau, Manuel Ojeda

Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner have the adventure of their lives in this hugely successful romantic caper co-starring Danny DeVito. When her sist... Read more

The Space Movie (1980)

7.5/10
Director: Tony Palmer

Made in 1979, at the request of NASA, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the historic 1969 moon landing, Tony Palmer's breathtaking documentary feat... Read more

The Magnificent Seven ( Blu-ray ) (1960)

7.8/10
Director: John Sturges
Starring: Brad Dexter, Charles Bronson, Eli Wallach, Horst Buchholz, James Coburn, Robert...

All-star cowboy classic based on the Japanese film "Seven Samurai." Gunslinger Yul Brynner, at the request of Mexican peasants, recruits a band of his... Read more

Riverworld (2010)

5/10
Director: Stuart Gillard
Starring: Alan Cumming, Laura Vandervoort, Tahmoh Penikett

After being killed in an explosion, Matt (Tahmoh Penikett) finds himself reawakened on an unusual planet where people from all eras of history have be... Read more

My Last Five Girlfriends (2009)

5.8/10
Director: Julian Kemp
Starring: Jane March, Naomie Harris, Cecile Cassel, Michael Sheen, Brendan Patricks

A British rom-com loosely based on the novel "Essays in Love" by Alain de Botton, "My Last Five Girlfriends" sees Duncan (Brendan Patricks), bruised a... Read more

Highlander II: Renegade Version (Special Edition) (1991)

4.1/10
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Starring: Christopher Lambert, John C McGinley, Michael Ironside, Sean Connery, Virginia M...

It's 2024 and MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) and Ramirez (Sean Connery) are back to save planet Earth. Ozone depletion, time travel and corporate greed... Read more

Legends of Comedy: Frankie Howerd, Rather You Than Me / The Curse of Steptoe / Hughie Green, Most Sincerely (2010)

Director: Daniel Percival, John Alexander, Michael Samuels
Starring: Jason Isaacs, Phil Davis, Trevor Eve, David Walliams, Rafe Spall

These three compelling dramas reveal the extraordinary and often turbulent off-camera lives of some of Britain's favourite comedians: Frankie Howerd,... Read more

Country Calendar Goes Green: Organic Farming in New Zealand (2010)

To some, organics has been labelled as "fringe farming". To others, organics is the farming method of the future. It wasn't until ten years after 'Cou... Read more

Boy (2010)

7.5/10
Director: Taika Waititi
Starring: James Rolleston, Te Aho Eketone-Whitu, Taika Waititi

Boy is a dreamer who loves Michael Jackson. He lives with his brother, Rocky, a tribe of deserted cousins and his Nan. Boy's other hero, his father, A... Read more

Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky (2009)

Director: Jan Kounen
Starring: Anna Mouglalis, Mads Mikkelsen, Elena Morozova, Grigori Manoukov, Natacha Lindin...

Aka "Coco & Igor". Paris 1913. At the Theatre Des Champs-Elysees, Igor Stravinsky premieres "The Rite of Spring." Coco Chanel is mesmerized... But the... Read more

Yuma (1970)

6.1/10
Director: Ted Post
Starring: Barry Sullivan, Clint Walker, Edgar Buchanan

A down-and-dirty town is forced to shape up when a new sheriff (Clint Walker) comes to town. However, when a scheme is launched to destroy the lawman'... Read more

Captain Apache (1971)

4.8/10
Director: Alexander Singer
Starring: Carroll Baker, Lee Van Cleef, Stuart Whitman

A Native American working for the government must investigate the Indian Commissioner's death. Soon he uncovers the schemes of a wealthy land owner an... Read more

The Holocaust: Majdanek (2006)

7.5/10

Discovered by Russian troops in July 1944 the Majdanek Nazi concentration and extermination camp near Lubin was the scene of some of Hitler's most dis... Read more

Auguste Rodin - Hands of Genius (2000)

"Auguste Rodin - Hands of Genius", captures both his greatest achievements as an artist, as well as his struggles with the critics and within his pers... Read more

Will Shakespeare (1978)

7.7/10
Director: Robert Knights, Mark Cullingham
Starring: Ian McShane, Nicholas Clay, Tim Curry, John McEnery

Tim Curry plays the Bard in this six-part dramatised account, written by John Mortimer, that follows the years Shakespeare spent in London. With each... Read more

Edgeplay: A Film About The Runaways (2004)

7/10
Director: Victory Tischler-Blue
Starring: Sandy West, Vicki Blue, Jackie Fox, Cherie Currie, Suzi Quatro, Lita Ford, Kari...

In 1975, a group of underage, teenaged girls, including then-unknown future rock stars Joan Jett and Lita Ford, got together to form the first ever al... Read more

Mike Leigh at the BBC: Part 1 (2009)

Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Alison Steadman, Roger Sloman, Tim Stern

Mike Leigh is one of Britain's most celebrated filmmakers and this terrific collection brings together all his work made for the BBC. Includes: "Hard... Read more

Priest of Love (1981)

6.6/10
Director: Christopher Miles
Starring: Ava Gardner, Ian McKellen, Janet Suzman, John Gielgud

This biographical film provides insight into the life of renowned British author D.H. Lawrence (Ian McKellen), best known for his sexually explicit no... Read more

Letters to Juliet (2010)

6.6/10
Director: Gary Winick
Starring: Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave, Gael Garcia Bernal, Amanda Seyfried, Christopher...

In Verona, Italy - the beautiful city where Romeo first met Juliet - there is a place where the heartbroken leave notes asking Juliet for her help. It... Read more

Last of the Living (2008)

4.7/10
Director: Logan McMillan
Starring: Ashleigh Southam, Emily Paddon-Brown, Morgan Williams, Robert Faith

A highly contagious virus is spreading throughout the land. With one bite, it's only hours before victims turn into zombies and hunt for human flesh.... Read more

Home by Christmas (2010)

7/10
Director: Gaylene Preston
Starring: Tony Barry, Martin Henderson, Chelsie Preston Crayford

A film memoir based on filmmaker Gaylene Preston's interviews with her father about his World War II experiences, reconstructed with actor Tony Barry... Read more

Survivors: Series 1 (2008)

7.6/10
Director: Various
Starring: Zoe Tapper, Phillip Rhys, Paterson Joseph, Max Beesley, Julie Graham

Based on the cult 1970s show of the same name (in turn based on Terry Nation's novel), this re-imagining of post-apocalyptic Britain is a more action-... Read more

A River Runs Through It ( Blu-ray ) (1992)

7.3/10
Director: Robert Redford
Starring: Brad Pitt, Brenda Blethyn, Craig Sheffer, Emily Lloyd, Tom Skerritt

Robert Redford's elegiac coming-of-age story is based on the memoir by Norman MacLean. Brad Pitt is the young man who finds peace and comradeship in f... Read more

Easy Rider ( Blu-ray ) (1969)

7.4/10
Director: Dennis Hopper
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Peter Fonda, Phil Spector

Counter-culture road movie with Dennis Hopper (also directing) and Peter Fonda getting out their choppers to travel across the Southwest. On their way... Read more

Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)

6.4/10
Director: Steve Pink
Starring: Chevy Chase, Crispin Glover, John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Clark Duke, Lizzy Caplan,...

A time-travel comedy in which recently divorced nice guy Adam (John Cusack), party animal Lou (Rob Corddry), unhappily married Nick (Craig Robinson) a... Read more

The Army of Crime (2009)

Director: Robert Guediguian
Starring: Virginie Ledoyen, Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Yann Tregouet, Lola N...

French World War II drama chronicling the famous 1944 'Red Poster' case, in which a group of foreign partisans defied French apathy to form their own... Read more

Midnight Express ( Blu-ray ) (1978)

7.6/10
Director: Alan Parker
Starring: Bo Hopkins, Brad Davis, John Hurt, Randy Quaid

From director Alan Parker ('Birdy', 'Mississippi Burning') and based on a true story, this hyper-violent and grim portrait of American student Billy H... Read more

The Good Wife: Season 1 (2009)

8.3/10
Starring: Christine Baranski, Josh Charles, Julianna Margulies, Matt Czuchry, Makenzie Veg...

In 'The Good Wife', Golden Globe winner Julianna Margulies plays Alicia Florrick, the resilient wife of a disgraced State's Attorney. After her high-p... Read more

Dear Zachary: A Letter to His Son About His Father (2008)

8.6/10
Director: Kurt Kuenne

The shocking 2001 murder of 28-year-old Pennsylvanian Dr. Andrew Bagby forms the basis of this deeply emotional documentary helmed by Kurt Kuenne, his... Read more

The Mafia - The Cold Blooded History of the Mob (2010)

Dive deep into the dark heart of the mob with this definitive 4-disc set from 'History'. A sweeping saga of bloodshed, betrayal and big business, The... Read more

Classic War: A Matter of Life and Death / The Purple Plain / The One That Got Away (1954)

Director: Michael Powell, Robert Parrish, Roy Ward Baker
Starring: David Niven, Gregory Peck, Hardy Kruger, Kim Hunter

Close the doors, dim the lights, take a seat and leave your troubles behind. The Classic Matinee Triple Bill is your exclusive gold pass to the Matine... Read more

New York, I Love You (2009)

6.3/10
Director: Allen Hughes, Brett Ratner, Mira Nair, Shekhar Kapur, Yvan Attal, Shunji Iwai, Joshua Marston, Fatih Akin, Jiang Wen, Natalie Portman, Randy Balsmeyer
Starring: Andy Garcia, Chris Cooper, Christina Ricci, Cloris Leachman, Eli Wallach, Ethan...

With extreme limits of shooting schedule and running time placed upon them, 11 different directors assemble an incredible variety of stories set in Ne... Read more

Iron Man 2 (2010)

7/10
Director: Jon Favreau
Starring: Don Cheadle, Gwyneth Paltrow, Mickey Rourke, Robert Downey Jr, Sam Rockwell, Sam...

Robert Downey Jr. returns as billionaire Tony Stark in this thrilling sequel to the worldwide blockbuster. Now that his superhero identity has been re... Read more

Grand Designs: Series 7 (2008)

8.5/10
Starring: Kevin McCloud

The 7th series of Grand Designs features seven couples bravely embarking on the adventure of a lifetime - building their own homes. There are wrangles... Read more

Kevin McCloud's Grand Tour of Europe (2009)

8.6/10
Director: Michael Waldman
Starring: Kevin McCloud

This landmark series features Kevin McCloud ('Grand Designs') tracing the footsteps of the most notorious aristocrats, artists and architects of the '... Read more

The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)

4.4/10
Director: Tom Six
Starring: Akihiro Kitamura, Dieter Laser, Andreas Leupold, Ashley C Williams, Ashlynn Yenn...

Advertised as being 100% medically accurate, this outrageous horror film finds two stranded American tourists and a Japanese businessman held captive... Read more

World's Greenest Homes: Season 1 and 2 (2010)

8.3/10

A visually stunning, all access tour of some of the most extraordinary houses ever built. From temples of glass and steel, to palaces made from presse... Read more

Barquero (1970)

6.3/10
Director: Gordon Douglas
Starring: Forrest Tucker, Kerwin Mathews, Lee Van Cleef, Mariette Hartley, Warren Oates

Lee Van Cleef plays a fiercely independent river ferryman in the Old West. Bandit Warren Oates, fresh from decimating a local town, rides up with his... Read more

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time ( Blu-ray ) (2010)

6.6/10
Director: Mike Newell
Starring: Alfred Molina, Ben Kingsley, Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton

In the spirit of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' trilogy comes a thrilling fantasy adventure based on the popular video game series of the same name. R... Read more

The A-Team: Extended Cut ( Blu-ray ) (2010)

6.8/10
Director: Joe Carnahan
Starring: Jessica Biel, Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Sharlto Copley, Patrick Wilson, Quint...

Big screen action adventure spin-off from the popular 1980s TV series. Four Iraq war veterans, led by Col. John 'Hannibal' Smith (Liam Neeson), on the... Read more

The Bridge (Die Brucke) (1959)

8.6/10
Director: Bernhard Wicki
Starring: Fritz Wepper, Folker Bohnet, Michael Hinz, Frank Glaubrecht

Bernhard Wicki's Oscar-nominated directorial debut, this is an excellent little film with no known names on the roster. In the final days of World War... Read more

David Hockney: A Bigger Picture (2009)

7.9/10
Director: Bruno Wollheim
Starring: David Hockney

Filmed over three years with unprecedented access, this documentary follows David Hockney as he returns to England after 25 years in Hollywood. As Hoc... Read more

The Pacific: The Complete Miniseries (2010)

8.3/10
Director: Carl Franklin, David Nutter, Jeremy Podeswa, Tony To, Tim Van Patten, Graham Yost
Starring: Jon Seda, Joseph Mazzello, Ben Chisholm, James Badge Dale, Chris Milligan

From the team behind "Band of Brothers" comes an epic 10-part miniseries that tracks the intertwined odysseys of three U.S. Marines - Robert Leckie (J... Read more

Fashion in Film (2010)

5.7/10

From the catwalks of Paris to the red carpets and silver screens of Hollywood, discover the history of the costumes, couture and glamour icons that ha... Read more

The Hitcher (2007)

5.6/10
Director: Dave Meyers
Starring: Neal McDonough, Sean Bean, Sophia Bush, Zachary Knighton

The open road becomes a suspenseful, action-packed battleground of blood and metal as Grace Andrews (Sophia Bush) and Jim Halsey (Zachary Knighton), a... Read more

Beauty and the Beast (Disney) ( Blu-ray ) (1991)

8/10
Director: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
Starring: Paige O'Hara, Richard White, Robby Benson

The first animated feature to be nominated for Best Picture, Disney's enchanting romance follows the blossoming relationship between the beautiful, bo... Read more

Toy Story 3 ( Blu-ray ) (2010)

8.3/10
Director: Lee Unkrich
Starring: Don Rickles, Estelle Harris, Joan Cusack, John Ratzenberger, Michael Keaton, Ned...

Join these beloved toy-box residents for their third heart-warming and hilarious adventure. All your favourite characters return, along with some new... Read more

Greenberg (2010)

6.1/10
Director: Noah Baumbach
Starring: Ben Stiller, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rhys Ifans, Greta Gerwig

Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller) is single, fortyish and deliberately doing nothing. In search of a place to restart his life, he agrees to housesit for... Read more

Outrageous Fortune: Series 6 (2010)

6.1/10
Director: Various
Starring: Frank Whitten, Antonia Prebble, Robyn Malcolm, Antony Starr, Siobhan Marshall, K...

The Wests are a one-family crime wave with a proud tradition in thievery, larceny and petty crime. Or at least they used to be. At the beginning of Se... Read more

Rivers - with Craig Potton (2010)

Starring: Craig Potton

Internationally renowned photographer, conservationist and publisher Craig Potton has spent 40 years photographing New Zealand's wild landscapes. In t... Read more

Predators (2010)

6.4/10
Director: Nimrod Antal
Starring: Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne, Walton Goggins, Danny Trejo, Topher Grace, Mah...

A bold new chapter in the Predator universe. Adrien Brody stars as Royce, a mercenary who finds himself stranded on a jungle planet with a ragtag grou... Read more

First Earth: Uncompromising Ecological Architecture (2009)

7.6/10
Director: David Sheen

'First Earth' is a documentary about the movement towards a massive paradigm shift for shelter - building healthy houses in the old ways, out of the v... Read more

Back to the Future: Trilogy ( Blu-ray ) (1985)

6.4/10
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover, Lea Thompson, Mary Steenburgen, Michael J Fox...

Experience the time travel adventure of a lifetime with the 'Back to the Future' trilogy - 'Back to the Future' (1985, 116 mins), 'Back to the Future... Read more

Rocket Science (2007)

6.7/10
Director: Jeffrey Blitz
Starring: Nicholas D'Agosto, Reece Thompson, Denis O'Hare, Margo Martindale, Anna Kendrick

'Rocket Science' follows the life of fifteen year-old Hal, an awkward kid with a stutter who wants to rise from obscurity and become an unlikely hero... Read more

The Sound of Music ( Blu-ray ) (1965)

8/10
Director: Robert Wise
Starring: Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Julie Andrews

The hills are alive with the sound of the Von Trapp family in this beloved Rodgers-Hammerstein epic musical. Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer lea... Read more

Lost Gardens With Monty Don (2010)

Starring: Monty Don

Step back in time to discover forgotten and overgrown gardens, recreating them to resemble what they would've been in their heyday. Renowned British g... Read more

Eden is West (2008)

6.9/10
Director: Constantin Costa-Gavras
Starring: Riccardo Scamarcio

Legendary Greek director Costa-Gavras returns with perhaps his most personal film, a playful fairy tale about the hardships suffered by illegal immigr... Read more

Genova (2008)

Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: Catherine Keener, Colin Firth, Hope Davis, Perla Hanley-Jardine, Willa Holland

Acclaimed director Michael Winterbottom assembles a powerhouse cast in this haunting, suspenseful drama. After the sudden death of his wife (Hope Davi... Read more

Dexter: Season 4 (2009)

7.9/10
Starring: Adrienne Barbeau, James Remar, John Lithgow, Keith Carradine, Lauren Velez, Desm...

Dexter's back and now he's one killer dad! The Fourth Season brings not just one, but two new arrivals - a baby, and The Trinity Killer! America's fav... Read more

Californication: Season 3 (2009)

8.3/10
Starring: David Duchovny, Embeth Davidtz, Kathleen Turner, Natascha McElhone, Peter Gallag...

David Duchovny stars as novelist Hank Moody, who struggles to help raise his teenage daughter while still carrying a torch for his ex-girlfriend. His... Read more

The 5 Deadly Venoms (1978)

Director: Chang Cheh
Starring: Lung Wei Wang, Philip Kwok

One of the loopiest kung-fu movies ever made, a garish masterpiece of martial arts kitsch by the hard-boiled master of the genre, Chang Cheh. The five... Read more

Prince Valiant (1954)

6.3/10
Director: Henry Hathaway
Starring: Debra Paget, James Mason, Janet Leigh, Robert Wagner, Sterling Hayden

Young Prince Valiant (Robert Wagner), son of the exiled King of Scandia, journeys to Camelot to become a knight at King Arthur's Round Table. He hopes... Read more

Billy Connolly: Live in London 2010 (2010)

7.5/10
Director: Nick Morris
Starring: Billy Connolly

As funny, topical and downright brilliant as ever, 'Billy Connolly" Live in London 2010' shows the master at his very best. From raging about politica... Read more

Picture Me: A Model's Diary (2009)

6.3/10
Director: Ole Schell, Sara Ziff
Starring: Sara Ziff

A raw and personal video diary which charts model Sara Ziff's rise from fresh face to one that adorns billboards and magazines around the world. Ziff... Read more

Tower of London (1962)

6.4/10
Director: Roger Corman
Starring: Joan Freeman, Vincent Price, Robert Brown, Michael Pate

Horror superstar Vincent Price and schlock-master Roger Corman come together on this pseudo-Shakespearean tale, and make it their own! Price plays the... Read more

Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf (1985)

3.4/10
Director: Philippe Mora
Starring: Annie McEnroe, Christopher Lee, Sybil Danning, Reb Brown

A young man, convinced his sister was murdered by a cult of werewolves, joins a lycanthropy expert on a mission to Transylvania to stop the terror at... Read more

Billy T and Me (2010)

Director: Ian Mune, Peter Rowley
Starring: Billy T James, Peter Rowley

Go behind the camera with Peter Rowley as he looks back on his time spent writing and performing with his mate, Billy T James. 1985 and 1986 were undo... Read more

Kiwi Gold: Volume 1 (2010)

Starring: David McPhail, Jon Gadsby, Peter Rowley, Pio Terei

A nostalgic selection of your favourite Kiwi TV shows from the 70s, 80s and 90s. 'Kiwi Gold' re-introduces you to the golden years of Kiwi comedy with... Read more

Grey Gardens (2009)

7.5/10
Director: Michael Sucsy
Starring: Daniel Baldwin, Drew Barrymore, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Jessica Lange, Ken Howard, M...

Thirty-five years after the Maysles brothers' famed documentary of the same name, 'Grey Gardens' offers a wry, behind-the-scenes look at 'Big Edie'... Read more