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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

Bacon's Arena (2009)

7.9/10
Director: Adam Low

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century and for the first time we have a film biogra... Read more

Miss Austen Regrets (2008)

7.1/10
Director: Jeremy Lovering
Starring: Adrian Edmondson, Greta Scacchi, Imogen Poots, Olivier Williams

Approaching her fortieth birthday, Jane Austen (Olivia Williams) appears happily unmarried. When asked by her young niece Fanny (Imogen Poots) to help... Read more

The Shark Net (2003)

8.1/10
Director: Graeme Burfoot
Starring: Angie Milliken, Warren Mitchell, Dan Wyllie, Leeanna Walsman, Tim Draxl, William...

When Robert Drewe, aged six, moves with his family to Perth, he has every reason to expect a life of playful adventure. But divisions between his pare... Read more

Howards' Way: Series 1 (1985)

6.7/10
Director: Various
Starring: Tracey Childs, Edward Highmore, Dulcie Gray, Jan Harvey, Maurice Colbourne

Drama on the high seas! In a way. The Howards are an affluent English family with expensive hobbies and high aspirations, so when father Tom loses his... Read more

Le trou ( The Hole ) (1960)

8.5/10
Director: Jacques Becker
Starring: Marc Michel

Marc Michel plays a man awaiting trial for the attempted murder of his wife. He is transferred to another cell where his fellow prisoners are planning... Read more

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 3 (1989)

8.6/10
Starring: Brent Spiner, Denise Crosby, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Patrick Stewart, Mic...

Set in the 24th century and decades after the adventures of the original crew of the starship Enterprise, this series is the successor to the original... Read more

Changeling ( Blu-ray ) (2008)

7.8/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Colm Feore, John Malkovich, Michael Kelly, Amy Ryan

Based on a shocking true story, director Clint Eastwood's riveting drama stars Angelina Jolie as a single mother in 1928 Los Angeles whose son goes mi... Read more

Twister ( Blu-ray ) (1996)

6.3/10
Director: Jan De Bont
Starring: Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, Helen Hunt, Jami Gertz, Philip Seymour Hoffman

In this adventure swirling with cliffhanging excitement and awesome special effects, Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton play scientists pursuing the most dest... Read more

Doubt (2008)

7.5/10
Director: John Patrick Shanley
Starring: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis

Outstanding performances highlight John Patrick Shanley's adaptation of his award-winning stage play. At a Bronx Catholic school, scandal and speculat... Read more

Bedtime Stories (2008)

6.1/10
Director: Adam Shankman
Starring: Adam Sandler, Courteney Cox, Guy Pearce, Jonathan Pryce, Keri Russell, Lucy Lawl...

Handyman Skeeter Bronson's life is changed forever when the bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to mysteriously come true. He attempts... Read more

Fun at the Funeral Parlour: The Complete Series (2001)

7.7/10
Director: Christine Gernon, Peter Boyd MacLean
Starring: Paul Whitehouse, Tony Way, Alex Lowe, Rhys Thomas

Aiming to do for Welsh undertakers what 'Father Ted' did for Irish priests, this series follows a family who try to get their business of the ground,... Read more

Whose Line Is It Anyway?: Season 1 (1998)

8.5/10
Starring: Wayne Brady, Brad Sherwood, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles, Drew Carey, Greg Proops

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it just might be 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' - the series where gifted comics devise sketches, imperson... Read more

South Park: Season 6 (2002)

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

In this season, Professor Chaos is back, Stan meets his future self, Cartman makes a memorable appearance on daytime televison, Bebe's newfound womanh... Read more

The Amazing Mrs Pritchard (2006)

7.4/10
Director: Simon Curtis, Declan Lowney, Catherine Morshead
Starring: Jane Horrocks, Steven Mackintosh, Jodhi May, Janet McTeer, Jemma McKenzie-Brown,...

Jane Horrocks is Ros Pritchard; housewife, supermarket manager, and now, through a fortuitous confluence of events, Prime Minister of Britain. She bri... Read more

Mystery Science Theater 3000: 20th Anniversary Edition (2008)

8.5/10
Starring: Trace Beaulieu, Kevin Murphy, Michael J Nelson, Jim Mallon, Joel Hodgson

Running for eleven seasons, this cult TV comedy took an inspired idea - taking the mick out of old films - and made it a hit. A man and his robot side... Read more

Amadeus ( Blu-ray ) (1984)

8.3/10
Director: Milos Forman
Starring: Elizabeth Berridge, F Murray Abraham, Jeffrey Jones, Simon Callow, Tom Hulce, Ch...

Winner of eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Actor and Director, this soaring, engrossing story of genius, jealousy and passion stars Tom H... Read more

Batman Beyond: Season 1 (1999)

8.1/10
Director: Bruce W Timm, Various
Starring: Voices Of, Will Friedle, Kevin Conroy, Lauren Tom, Stockard Channing

AKA 'Batman of the Future' in its original New Zealand release. The futuristic follow-up to the acclaimed 'Batman: The Animated Series' sees Bruce Way... Read more

Buzzy Bee and Friends (2009)

For more than 70 years, Buzzy Bee has held number one place as New Zealand's favourite toy - now Buzzy comes to life in this TVNZ series. Thirteen epi... Read more

Monty Python's Flying Circus: Michael Palin's Personal Best (2005)

8.9/10
Starring: Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jone...

Michael Palin's personal selection of the best sketches from the entire run of 'Monty Python's Flying Circus', including a never-seen-before retrospec... Read more

2012 - The Odyssey (2006)

4.9/10

In this thought provoking feature documentary, Sharron Rose travels across the United States speaking to the many experts on this fast approaching pro... Read more

Ghost Town (2008)

6.7/10
Director: David Koepp
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Tea Leoni, Ricky Gervais, Billy Campbell, Dana Ivey, Kristen Wiig

In the wake of a near-death experience, self-absorbed dentist Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais) acquires the annoying ability to see the dead - turns out... Read more

JCVD (2008)

7.2/10
Director: Mabrouk El Mechri
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Francois Damiens, Zinedine Soualem

Jean-Claude Van Damme plays himself in this unique, existential heist thriller with a dark comic streak. Down and out, with only straight-to-DVD title... Read more

Against a Crooked Sky (1975)

5.4/10
Director: Earl Bellamy
Starring: Henry Wilcoxon, Richard Boone

A remake of John Ford's landmark western 'The Searchers'. Richard Boone appears in the John Wayne role, playing an ageing trapper obsessed with rescui... Read more

Cimarron Strip: The Beast That Walks Like a Man (1967)

7.5/10
Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Stuart Whitman

The Houstan clan wants to cross the river at the edge of the Cimarron Strip and establish their claim to Mocane Valley in land that hasn't been settle... Read more

The Premature Burial (1961)

Director: Roger Corman
Starring: Hazel Court, Heather Angel, Ray Milland, Richard Ney

Talk about a tortured artist! Oscar-winner Ray Milland is Guy, a medical student and painter whose obsessive fear of being buried alive compels him to... Read more

The Secret Life of Bees (2008)

7.3/10
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys, Sophie Okonedo, Pau...

Southern Carolina, 1964. 14-year-old Lily (Dakota Fanning), haunted by the death of her mother, and unable to bear living with her emotionally distant... Read more

Charlie Bartlett (2007)

7/10
Director: Jon Poll
Starring: Anton Yelchin, Robert Downey Jr, Hope Davis, Kat Dennings, Mark Rendall, Dylan T...

High school hijinks as perpetually expelled private schoolboy, Charlie Bartlett, tries his luck in public school. At first he seems an easy target for... Read more

Appaloosa (2008)

6.7/10
Director: Ed Harris
Starring: Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renee Zellweger, Jeremy Irons, Timothy Spall, Lance...

After drifting into a troubled Western outpost and discovering the helpless locals are being terrorised by a ruthless rancher and his hired thugs, two... Read more

Pinocchio (2008)

5.8/10
Director: Alberto Sironi
Starring: Robbie Kay, Alessandro Gassman, Violante Placido, Margherita Buy, Thomas Sangste...

A mini-series adaptation of Carlo Collodi's beloved children's story about a little wooden toy who became a real boy. Pinocchio is lovingly crafted by... Read more

Murder Party (2007)

6.1/10
Director: Jeremy Saulnier
Starring: Chris Sharp, Sandy Barnett, Macon Blair, Paul Goldblatt, Beryl Guceri

Social misfit Christopher figures he'll be home alone on Halloween when he finds an invitation to a 'murder party'. He slaps together a cardboard cost... Read more

How Kevin Bacon Cured Cancer (2008)

Director: Annamaria Talas
Starring: Kevin Bacon

'How Kevin Bacon Cured Cancer' brings us a new view of the world, as we unfold the science behind the popular trivia game 'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon'... Read more

The Tale of Despereaux (2008)

6.1/10
Director: Sam Fell, Robert Stevenhagen
Starring: Voices Of, Matthew Broderick, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Watson, Tracey Ullman, Kevin...

Adapted from Kate DiCamillo's award-winning children's book, about a kingdom that lost all its magic and laughter, and the little mouse who made a big... Read more

Bolt (2008)

6.9/10
Director: Byron Howard, Chris Williams
Starring: John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Malcolm McDowell, James Lipton

Thanks to his starring role on a hit television show, Bolt (John Travolta) the pooch has become a household name. But he has bought into his own heroi... Read more

Twin Rivers (2007)

6.4/10
Director: Matthew Holmes
Starring: Matthew Holmes, Darren Holmes, Edwin Hodgeman, Robyn Dickinson

Set in 1939 Australia, two brothers embark on a 500 mile journey on foot across New South Wales following a dream. A chance encounter with a fellow tr... Read more

Vacas (1992)

7.2/10
Director: Julio Medem
Starring: Ana Torrent, Emma Suarez, Carmelo Gomez, Txema Blasco

Director Julio Medem presents a saga spanning over half a century of the twisted goings on between two families in Northern Spain. Carmelo Gomez and K... Read more

Peter Greenaway Collection: The Draughtsman's Contract / A Zed & Two Noughts / Peter Greenaway - A Documentary (1982)

Director: Peter Greenaway
Starring: Andrea Ferreol, Anne Louise Lambert, Anthony Higgins, Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon,...

Peter Greenaway has crafted a string of visually extravagant films that are experimental, erudite, and have won him an ardent cult audience. This excl... Read more

Sports Night: Season 2 (1999)

8.3/10
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

X-Men: Volume 1, Episodes 9-16 (1992)

7.4/10
Director: Various

In a world that hates and fears them, several mutants (humans who are born with unique powers and abilities) have banded together to fight the hatred,... Read more

Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Season 1, Vol 2 (2008)

8.6/10
Director: Dave Filoni
Starring: Voices Of, Tom Kane, Matt Lanter, Ashley Eckstein, James Arnold Taylor

Episodes 6-10. Created by George Lucas, this animated series is set during the same time-frame as Genndy Tartakovsky's 2003 series - between 'Episode... Read more

Breaking Bad: Season 1 (2008)

9.5/10
Starring: Anna Gunn, Dean Norris, Bryan Cranston, Betsy Brandt, RJ Mitte, Aaron Paul

Emmy Award winner Bryan Cranston stars as Walter White, a down-on-his-luck chemistry teacher struggling to make ends meet for his wife (Anna Gunn) and... Read more

Doctor Who: Image of the Fendahl (1977)

8.7/10
Director: George Spenton-Foster
Starring: Tom Baker, Louise Jameson

A sonic time scan draws the TARDIS to the Fetch Priory on Earth. There, the Doctor and Leela discover an impossibly old human skull that is the key to... Read more

The Boat That Rocked (2009)

Director: Richard Curtis
Starring: Bill Nighy, Kenneth Branagh, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Nick Frost, Tom Sturridge,...

Aka "Pirate Radio". In 1966, a rusty fishing trawler christened Radio Rock floats just outside British territorial waters, broadcasting illicit rock '... Read more

Michael Jackson: Number Ones (2003)

8.6/10
Starring: Michael Jackson

Witness the 'King of Pop' in all of his glory in this compilation of his greatest music videos. Included are innovative and exciting videos for such s... Read more

The Spectacular Spider-Man: Volume 1 (2008)

8.1/10
Starring: Spider-Man

This all-new, action-packed series starts at the beginning, telling the awesome story of Peter Parker and his alter-ego Spider-Man, as he discovers hi... Read more

Chicago 10 (2007)

7.4/10
Director: Brett Morgen
Starring: Hank Azaria, Mark Ruffalo, Nick Nolte, Roy Scheider, Jeffrey Wright, Liev Schrei...

See contemporary history with a forced perspective, mixing bold animation with extraordinary archival footage that explores the build-up to and unrave... Read more

Those Were the Days - Britain in the Sixties (2004)

Tells the story of a decade of massive change in Britain. From Beatlemania to the violent anti-war protests in Grosvenor Square, the major news storie... Read more

Pocoyo: The Messy Guest (2005)

7.9/10
Starring: Narrated by, Stephen Fry

Pocoyo is a fun-loving little boy with an insatiable curiosity, living in a world of limitless opportunities. Featuring a cast of colourful, loveable... Read more

Son of Samson / Son of Cleopatra (1961)

Director: Carlo Campogalliani
Starring: Mark Forrest, Mark Damon

Heeding an inner voice, the 'Son of Samson,' a loner from an outlying borough scourges the capital, using his high-caliber muscles to break up the Que... Read more

A Lion in the House (2006)

8.9/10
Director: Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert

How does a family with a cancer-stricken child persevere in the face of the heart-wrenching challenges that emerge every day? Five such families are p... Read more

2012 - Science or Superstition (2008)

5.2/10

Armageddon enthusiasts... Add the year 2012 to the long list of dates tagged as the critical time humanity faces either an apocalyptic "end of days" o... Read more

Cool Hand Luke ( Blu-ray ) (1967)

8.1/10
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Starring: Dennis Hopper, George Kennedy, Harry Dean Stanton, Jo Van Fleet, Paul Newman, Ro...

A taut honest drama greatly aided by Stuart Rosenberg's direction and a marvellously controlled and artful performance by Paul Newman as a gutsy priso... Read more

Blindness (2008)

6.6/10
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Julianne Moore, Alice Braga, Yusuke Iseya, Yoshino Kimura, Don McK...

A big city falls prey to a mysterious plague of blindness in Fernando Meirelles' ('City of God'; 'The Constant Gardener') adaptation of Jose Saramago'... Read more

12 Rounds (2009)

5.6/10
Director: Renny Harlin
Starring: John Cena, Steve Harris, Ashley Scott, Aidan Gillen

WWE star John Cena is Danny Fisher, a New Orleans cop who put away a big-time jewel thief; and now a year later, finds himself on the receiving end of... Read more

Second Skin (2008)

6.7/10
Director: Juan Carlos Pineiro-Escoriaza

Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs), are online video games where literally millions of people can assume characters and interact... Read more

Choking Man (2006)

6/10
Director: Steve Barron
Starring: Octavio Gomez Berrios, Eugenia Yuan, Mandy Patinkin, Aaron Paul, Kate Buddeke

Jorge (Octavio Gomez Berrios) is a shy young Ecuadorian dish washer living in Jamaica - not as in the Caribbean, but as in, Queens, New York City. He... Read more

The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Memories (2008)

7.3/10
Director: David Lambert
Starring: Neil Innes, Spencer Davis, Mike McCartney

This upbeat rockumentary (narrated by Victor Spinetti) features the vivid memories of those who witnessed the making of the cult 1967 Beatles movie, '... Read more

Woodstock ( Blu-ray ) (1970)

8.1/10
Director: Michael Wadleigh
Starring: Arlo Guthrie, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, Joe Cocker, Richie Havens,...

It was an event destined to become the definitive document on the freaked out craziness of the peace-and-love era. In August, 1969, half a million hip... Read more

Wiseguy: Season 3 (1989)

7.9/10
Starring: Chazz Palminteri, Ken Wahl, Michael Chiklis, Patti D'arbanville, Robert Davi, Ji...

Undercover operative, Vincent Terranova (Ken Wahl) returns to his mafia roots, exploiting his reputation as Sonny Steelgrave's right-hand man to fini... Read more

Joseph Campbell: The Hero's Journey (1987)

8.8/10
Starring: Joseph Campbell

One of the greatest storytellers of our time, and arguably the greatest mythologist, Joseph Campbell spent most of his long, rich career explaining ho... Read more

Courage Under Fire ( Blu-ray ) (1996)

6.6/10
Director: Edward Zwick
Starring: Bronson Pinchot, Denzel Washington, Lou Diamond Phillips, Matt Damon, Meg Ryan,...

Denzel Washington plays a guilt-ridden army officer investigating pilot Meg Ryan, a candidate for a posthumous Medal of Honor for heroism during the P... Read more

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ( Blu-ray ) (2003)

5.8/10
Director: Stephen Norrington
Starring: Jason Flemyng, Richard Roxburgh, Sean Connery, Stuart Townsend, Shane West, Nase...

A hunter, a scientist, a vampire, an invisible man, an immortal, a spy, a beast... When a masked madman known as "The Fantom" threatens to launch glob... Read more

Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic (2008)

7.6/10
Director: Jake S Hughes
Starring: Narrated by, Tom Stechschulte

Experience Alan Moore's groundbreaking comic as never before in this series that puts the original artwork on-screen, adding voiceover and an original... Read more

Poirot: The Third Girl (2008)

8.6/10
Director: Dan Reed
Starring: David Suchet, Zoe Wanamaker, Jemima Rooper

Celebrated Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) is joined by crime novelist Ariadne Oliver (Zoe Wanamaker) as he attempts to prove the inno... Read more

A Complete History of My Sexual Failures (2008)

6.3/10
Director: Chris Waitt

Freshly dumped and deeply despondent over an endless string of disastrous relationships, lovelorn filmmaker Chris Waitt picks up his camera and attemp... Read more

Send a Bullet ( Manda Bala ) (2007)

7.3/10
Director: Jason Kohn

Brazil is rife with crime and corruption at all levels of society; Jason Kohn's award-winning documentary examines several of the more imaginative way... Read more

Phone Booth ( Blu-ray ) (2002)

7.1/10
Director: Joel Schumacher
Starring: Forest Whitaker, Katie Holmes, Kiefer Sutherland, Radha Mitchell, Colin Farrell

A single phone call can change a man's life...or possibly end it. Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell) is a self-centered New York City publicist who suddenly... Read more

Rocky ( Blu-ray ) (1976)

8.1/10
Director: John G Avildsen
Starring: Burgess Meredith, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire

The first and the best! Writer and star Sylvester Stallone is the Philadelphia club fighter who gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity at fighting the... Read more

The New Statesman: Series 1 & 2 (1987)

7.9/10
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Starring: Rik Mayall, Marsha Fitzalan, Michael Troughton

Witty political satire stars Rik Mayall as ruthless former Conservative MP Alan B'Stard - the newly appointed European Commissioner of Internal Affair... Read more

Kuffs (1992)

5.9/10
Director: Bruce A Evans
Starring: Bruce Boxleitner, Christian Slater, Milla Jovovich, Tony Goldwyn

After his brother is killed by art thieves, an irresponsible Christian Slater inherits a private security business and teams up with a veteran officer... Read more

Zack and Miri Make a Porno ( Blu-ray ) (2008)

6.6/10
Director: Kevin Smith
Starring: Jeff Anderson, Traci Lords, Jason Mewes, Elizabeth Banks, Craig Robinson, Seth R...

Kevin Smith's raunchy romantic comedy caused a furore in Bible Belt America with entire cities refusing the movie, its poster and its title. Teaming u... Read more

A History of Violence ( Blu-ray ) (2005)

7.5/10
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Ed Harris, Maria Bello, Viggo Mortensen, William Hurt, Stephen McHattie, Ashton...

Adapted from a graphic novel, Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) is a quiet man living a quiet life in Indiana. A quiet shattered when a pair of fugitives wa... Read more

The Longest Day ( Blu-ray ) (1962)

7.8/10
Director: Andrew Marton, Ken Annakin, Bernhard Wicki
Starring: Curt Jurgens, Eddie Albert, Gert Frobe, Henry Fonda, Jeffrey Hunter, John Wayne,...

Acclaimed as one of Hollywood's greatest epics, producer Darryl F. Zanuck's brilliant re-creation of the Allied landing at Normandy on June 6, 1944 fo... Read more

Last Goodbye (2004)

5.2/10
Director: Jacob Gentry
Starring: David Carradine, Faye Dunaway, Maggie Blye, Clementine Ford, Chris Rydell

Rich, character-driven drama finds the lives of six people converging over the course of a sweltering summer day. A successful TV actress (Clementine... Read more

Late Spring (1949)

8.3/10
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Starring: Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, Yumeji Tsukioka

One of the most powerful of Yasujiro Ozu's family portraits, "Late Spring" tells the story of a widowed father who feels compelled to marry off his be... Read more

The Miracle Rider (1935)

7.2/10
Director: Armand Schaefer, B Reeves Eason
Starring: Charles Middleton, Tom Mix, Joan Gale

In 1930s Texas, Tom Morgan (Tom Mix) joins the Texas Rangers following the murder of his father to avenge his death and follow in his path as an advoc... Read more

The Pirate Movie (1982)

5.1/10
Director: Ken Annakin
Starring: Christopher Atkins, Kristy McNichol

A parody pastiche of Hollywood's finest films, this musical comedy puts a pop music spin on Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance." When pla... Read more

Poirot: Series 3 - Volume 1 (1991)

8.6/10
Starring: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser

Dame Agatha Christie's incomparable Hercule Poirot is brought to life in these five stories, set in the art deco elegance of 1930's England. "How Does... Read more

The Rockford Files: Season 1 - Part 2 (1974)

8.1/10
Director: Various
Starring: James Garner, James Woods, Ned Beatty, Abe Vigoda, Lindsay Wagner, Suzanne Somer...

The world's most unlikely detective, offbeat ex-con Rockford solves the cases others can't. James Garner stars as the P.I. who would rather fish than... Read more

The Rockford Files: Season 2 - Part 2 (1975)

8.1/10
Starring: James Garner, Linda Evans, Louis Gossett Jr, Rob Reiner, Isaac Hayes, Noah Beery...

The world's most unlikely detective returns with the final 11 episodes from Season Two. James Garner stars as the offbeat Jim Rockford, an ex-con-turn... Read more

The Bed Sitting Room (1969)

6.4/10
Director: Richard Lester
Starring: Arthur Lowe, Dudley Moore, Harry Secombe, Marty Feldman, Michael Hordern, Peter...

In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' (which lasted two minutes and twenty eight seconds, including th... Read more

The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)

6.6/10
Director: Anthony Asquith
Starring: Alain Delon, George C Scott, Ingrid Bergman, Jeanne Moreau, Omar Sharif, Rex Har...

An all-star cast highlights this Terrence Rattigan ("The Browning Version") drama that follows a Phantom II Rolls Royce on a series of adventures thro... Read more

Fat Head (2008)

7.2/10
Director: Tom Naughton

Comedian and former health writer Tom Naughton dispenses with the false truths perpetuated in such documentaries as 'Super Size Me' by demonstrating w... Read more

Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: Collection 4 ( A Caribbean Mystery / They Do It with Mirrors / The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side ) (1989)

7.8/10
Director: Christopher Petit, Norman Stone
Starring: Barry Newman, Claire Bloom, Donald Pleasence, Frank Middlemass, Jean Simmons, Jo...

"A Caribbean Mystery" - Miss Marple (Joan Hickson) is finding her luxury holiday in Barbados sadly dull. Then Major Palgrave is found dead and once mo... Read more

The Class ( Entre Les Murs ) (2008)

7.5/10
Director: Laurent Cantet
Starring: Francois Begaudeau, Franck Keita, Nassim Amrabt, Esmerelda Ouertani

French director Laurent Cantet does something miraculous with the well-worn conceit of a teacher and his underprivileged students in this fresh and op... Read more

Race to Witch Mountain (2009)

5.7/10
Director: Andy Fickman
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, AnnaSophia Robb, Alexander Ludwig, Carla Gugino, Ciaran Hinds, T...

A rebooted reimagining of Alexander Key's sci-fi family adventure with Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson as a cab driver who gets tangled up with two aliens (... Read more

Underworld: Extended Edition ( Blu-ray ) (2003)

7/10
Director: Len Wiseman
Starring: Erwin Leder, Kate Beckinsale, Bill Nighy, Scott Speedman, Michael Sheen, Shane B...

In the Underworld, Vampires are a secret clan of modern aristocratic sophisticates whose mortal enemies are the Lycans (Werewolves), a shrewd gang of... Read more

Borderland (2007)

5.6/10
Director: Zev Berman
Starring: Brian Presley, Martha Higareda, Jake Muxworthy, Rider Strong, Damian Alcazar, Se...

Inspired by true events that took place in 1989, in the bordertown of Matamoros, Mexico, this unnerving, ruthless thriller features three college stud... Read more

The Century of Flight - Vol. 2 (2004)

Starring: Narrated by, Robert Powell

Volume 2 of 2. Using impressive archive film and photography, this 26-part series describes the breathtaking development of flying from the early days... Read more

Guy X (2005)

5.1/10
Director: Saul Metzstein
Starring: Jason Biggs, Natascha McElhone, Jeremy Northam, Hilmir Snaer Gudnason, Michael I...

It's 1979. Jason Biggs is Corporal Rudy Spruance who joined the army to avoid jail-time and now finds himself on the receiving end of a small but sign... Read more

The Last House on the Left (2009)

6.6/10
Director: Dennis Iliadis
Starring: Garret Dillahunt, Michael Bowen, Joshua Cox, Riki Lindhome, Aaron Paul, Sara Pax...

A grim remake of Wes Craven's provocative 1972 film. Four criminals on the lam encounter a pair of teenage girls in a small mountain town. After murde... Read more

Classic Albums: Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley (2005)

8.3/10
Director: Jeremy Marre
Starring: Elvis Presley, Keith Richards, B B King

This film tells the unusual story that lies behind the making of Elvis Presley's first album for RCA Records, in 1956, and his meteoric rise to supers... Read more

My Favourite Season ( Ma Saison Preferee ) (1993)

Director: Andre Techine
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Marthe Villalonga, Jean-Pierre Bouvier, Carme...

When their aging mother is faced with encroaching infirmity, middle-aged brother and sister Emilie (Catherine Deneuve) and Antoine (Daniel Auteuil) ar... Read more

Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II (2008)

8.2/10
Director: Seth Green
Starring: Voices Of, Rachael Leigh Cook, Donald Faison, Carrie Fisher, Seth Green, Seth Ma...

Seth Green's second feature length parody of some of the most iconic moments from the 'Star Wars' franchise - and it pulls no punches, taking some of... Read more

Lady of Burlesque (1943)

6.4/10
Director: William A Wellman
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck

A mystery novel by stripper Gypsy Rose Lee served as the basis for this entertaining whodunit, with Barbara Stanwyck as the star of a burlesque house... Read more

Wallander (2008)

8/10
Director: Philip Martin, Niall MacCormick
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Jeany Spark, Richard McCabe, Sarah Smart, Tom Beard, Tom Hiddle...

Kenneth Branagh plays Swedish detective Kurt Wallander in three feature-length detective dramas based on the best-selling books by Henning Mankell. 'S... Read more

Michael Palin: Around the World in 20 Years (2009)

8.4/10
Director: Roger Mills
Starring: Michael Palin

Michael Palin owns what must be the most-used passport in Britain. Now it has been taken out of the drawer once again for 'Around the World in 20 Year... Read more

Poirot: Series 1 (Volume 1) (1989)

8.6/10
Starring: David Suchet, Philip Jackson, Hugh Fraser

A literary legend became a TV phenomenon when David Suchet took on the role of Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie's most famous sleuth. Using his "little... Read more

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( Blu-ray ) (1937)

7.6/10
Director: David Hand
Starring: Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell

Walt Disney's first full-length animated feature features a magical story, memorable music and unforgettable characters. The beautiful and kindhearted... Read more

Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen (1987)

8.7/10
Director: Chris Clough
Starring: Sylvester McCoy, Bonnie Langford

The time: 1959. The place: the Shangri-La Holiday Camp, South Wales. The Doctor and Mel want time out. The hedonistic alien Navarinos wants to catch s... Read more

Speed ( IMAX ) (1984)

7.2/10
Director: Greg MacGillivray

From the dawn of man to the distant future, see how the need to go faster has shaped our lives and motivated our progress in this dynamic visual and e... Read more

Tom and Jerry's Greatest Chases: Volume 2 (2009)

8/10

That wily mouse outsmarts the lumbering cat every time, but by jove the feline keeps trying! Contains 14 of the greatest Tom and Jerry shorts ever, in... Read more

She Stoops to Conquer (2003)

7.8/10
Director: Max Stafford-Clark, Robin Lough
Starring: Nigel Cooke, Fritha Goodey, Bella Merlin, Stephen Beresford, Matthew Sim, Jane W...

Recorded live at The Theatre Royal in Bath, Oliver Goldsmith's classic comedy of manners tells of the clever schemes and comic ruses that unfold one n... Read more

Roman Polanski Collection: Knife in the Water / Repulsion / Cul-de-Sac (1962)

Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Donald Pleasence, Francoise Dorleac, Ian Hendry, Jolanta Umec...

'Knife in the Water' (90 mins): An absorbing drama that grows out of the tensions created when a couple off for a sailing weekend pick up a student hi... Read more

Halloween ( Blu-ray ) (1978)

7.8/10
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P J Soles

One of the most successful independent films ever, it spawned a host of imitators - but this is the real thing. The then-young director John Carpenter... Read more

One Step Beyond: Vol. 1 (1959)

7.9/10
Director: John Newland
Starring: Dennis Patrick, Mickey Shaughnessy, Suzanne Pleshette, Yvette Mimieux, Harry Tow...

This ground-breaking anthology series debuted on U.S. television one year before 'The Twilight Zone' and ran for a total of 96 half-hour episodes. Joh... Read more

New Town Killers (2008)

5.7/10
Director: Richard Jobson
Starring: Dougray Scott, Alastair MacKenzie, James Anthony Pearson, Liz White, Charles Mne...

Alistair (Dougray Scott) is a cold-hearted hedge fund banker who gets his kicks hunting down human prey on the streets of Edinburgh. Enlisting a naive... Read more

Diagnosis: Death (2009)

4.9/10
Director: Jason Stutter
Starring: Raybon Kan, Jessica Grace Smith, Suze Tye, Bret McKenzie, Rhys Darby, Jemaine Cl...

Raybon Kan is an unethical high school teacher who has fallen for one of his students in this horror spoof. As fate would have it, both of them are di... Read more

One Eyed Monster (2008)

4.2/10
Director: Adam Fields
Starring: Ron Jeremy, Veronica Hart, Carmen Hart, Amber Benson, Charles Napier

Ron Jeremy plays himself (though not for long) in this way over-the-top horror spoof in which his tadger is possessed by a homicidal alien and starts... Read more

Shall We Kiss? (2007)

6.8/10
Director: Emmanuel Mouret
Starring: Virginie Ledoyen, Emmanuel Mouret, Julie Gayet, Michael Cohen, Stefano Accorsi

A wryly observant and very contemporary meditation on the many implications of a simple kiss. Gabriel and Emilie meet by chance, they spend the evenin... Read more

Gomorrah (2008)

7/10
Director: Matteo Garrone
Starring: Toni Servillo, Gianfelice Imparato, Salvatore Cantalupo, Maria Nazionale, Marco...

Matteo Garrone's stark, shocking vision of contemporary gangsterdom, is one of cinema's most authentic depictions of organized crime. A tour de force... Read more

Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Season 1, Vol 4 (2009)

8.6/10

Episodes 17-22. Created by George Lucas, this animated series is set during the same time-frame as Genndy Tartakovsky's 2003 series - between 'Episode... Read more

Chocolate (2008)

7/10
Director: Prachya Pinkaew
Starring: Jeeja Yanin Vismitananda, Hiroshi Abe, Pongpat Wachirabunjong, Taphon Phopwandee...

From the director of 'Ong Bak' comes another martial arts extravaganza, and this time the ass-kicker is an autistic girl, the product of an illicit re... Read more

Let George Do It! (1940)

Director: Marcel Varnel
Starring: George Formby, Phyllis Calvert, Garry Marsh, Romney Brent, Bernard Lee, Coral Br...

One of British comedian George Formby's most successful films, in this war-time musical he plays ukelele-ist George Hepplewhite who gets on a boat thi... Read more

The High Life: Series 1 (1994)

8.1/10
Director: Angela deChastelai Smith
Starring: Alan Cumming, Forbes Masson, Siobhan Redmond, Patrick Ryecart

Hilariously over-the-top and camp Scottish sit-com written by and starring Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson, friends from their days at the Royal Scotti... Read more

An American Werewolf in London ( Blu-ray ) (1981)

7.6/10
Director: John Landis
Starring: David Naughton, Griffin Dunne, Jenny Agutter, John Woodvine

David Naughton and Jenny Agutter star in writer/director John Landis' classic cult black comedy. American backpackers David (David Naughton) and Jack... Read more

The Naked City (1948)

7.6/10
Director: Jules Dassin
Starring: Barry Fitzgerald, Don Taylor, Frank Conroy, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart

When a beautiful young model is found dead in her apartment, the police initially suspect it was suicide. But after the coroner discovers it was murde... Read more

By Brakhage: An Anthology (2003)

Director: Stan Brakhage

Artist and filmmaker Stan Brakhage has made nearly 400 films over the past 50 years, never mainstream and always fascinating. Brakhage turns his camer... Read more

Outrageous Fortune: Series 5 (2009)

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

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

Louis Theroux: The Collection (2007)

8.5/10
Starring: Louis Theroux

Louis Theroux's witty and non-judgemental approach to documentary-making has earned him a reputation for making some of the most entertaining films of... Read more

The Glory Guys (1965)

6.2/10
Director: Arnold Laven
Starring: Andrew Duggan, Harve Presnell, James Caan, Peter Breck, Senta Berger, Slim Picke...

Cavalry captain Demas Harrod (Tom Tryon) and his faithful scout, Sol Rogers (Harve Presnell), are placed under the command of xenophobic general Frede... Read more

Sherlock Holmes: The Master Blackmailer (1992)

7.6/10
Director: Peter Hammond
Starring: Jeremy Brett, Robert Hardy, Edward Hardwicke, Rosalie Williams

Charles Augustus Milverton is intent on destroying the society wedding of the year unless his blackmail demands are met. A man who preys upon weakness... Read more

Sherlock Holmes: The Illustrious Client / The Creeping Man (1991)

7.6/10
Director: Tim Sullivan
Starring: Jeremy Brett, Charles Kay, Anthony Valentine, Edward Hardwicke, Rosalie Williams

'The Adventure of The Illustrious Client' - Sir James Damery asks Holmes for help in persuading Violet Merville to end her association with Baron Grun... Read more

Sherlock Holmes: Shoscombe Old Place / The Boscombe Valley Mystery (1991)

7.6/10
Director: Patrick Lau, June Howson
Starring: Jeremy Brett, Jude Law, Peter Vaughan, Robin Ellis, Edward Hardwicke, James Pure...

'The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place' - Sir Robert Norberton has gambled all on the success of a horse in the Champion Stakes. Meanwhile, John Mason... Read more

Independence Day ( Blu-ray ) (1996)

7/10
Director: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Will Smith, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Margaret C...

Who will save the Earth after huge alien spacecraft demolish the Empire State Building, the White House, downtown Los Angeles and most of the world's... Read more

Screen Legends: Starring Bing Crosby (1936)

5.6/10
Director: Leo McCarey, Mark Sandrich, Norman Z McLeod, Victor Schertzinger
Starring: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Barry Fitzgerald, Frank McHugh, Fred Asta...

A collection of four Bing Crosby classics. "Pennies From Heaven" (1936) - Legendary crooner Bing Crosby sings and dances his way through this charming... Read more

Sleeping Beauty (Disney) ( Blu-ray ) (1959)

7.3/10
Director: Clyde Geronimi

The timeless story tells of Princess Aurora, cursed by the evil sorceress Maleficent to die on her 16th birthday after pricking her finger on a poison... Read more

Casino ( Blu-ray ) (1995)

8.2/10
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Alan King, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Sharon Stone, James Woods, Don Rickles, Ke...

A dazzling, richly layered record of a criminal dynasty during the transformation of Las Vegas from a sin-laden mecca to a family-oriented Disneyland,... Read more

The Fog ( Blu-ray ) (1980)

6.8/10
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, John Houseman, Hal Holbrook

A small coastal town in California is attacked by the ghosts of mariners, who take a grisly revenge on the descendants of the six people who lured the... Read more

The Grand (2007)

6/10
Director: Zak Penn
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Cheryl Hines, David Cross, Dennis Farina, Richard Kind, Ray Rom...

A largely improvised mockumentary with Woody Harrelson as a playboy actor who enters a poker tournament in order to save his grandfather's hotel from... Read more

Buddha Wild: The Monk in a Hut (2006)

8/10
Director: Anna Wilding

Buddhist monks aren't usually described as wild (at least not in our urban dictionary), but director Anna Wilding's intriguing feature documentary deb... Read more

Lucky Luke: The Ballad of the Daltons (1978)

4.8/10
Director: Henri Gruel, Rene Goscinny

The villainous Dalton brothers are a few days into their 2,400 year-long prison sentence when they learn of the death of their Uncle Henry. Before he... Read more

Blue Fin (1978)

6.1/10
Director: Carl Schultz
Starring: Hardy Kruger, Greg Rowe, John Jarratt, Hugh Keays-Byrne

Based on the children's novel by celebrated South Australian author Colin Thiele, this is an emotional father and son story about catching the Souther... Read more

Babel ( Blu-ray ) (2006)

7.5/10
Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Starring: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Mohamed Akhzam, Peter Wight, Harriet Walter, Trevor M...

The director of '21 Grams' has loosley weaved together four stories from three conitinents in this powerful drama about cultural barriers. Brad Pitt a... Read more

Punishment Park (1971)

7.9/10
Director: Peter Watkins
Starring: Patrick Boland, Kent Foreman, Jim Bohan, Catherine Quittner

Set in a detention camp in an America of the near-future, Punishment Park's pseudo-documentary style places a British film crew amongst a group of you... Read more

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford ( Blu-ray ) (2007)

7.5/10
Director: Andrew Dominik
Starring: Casey Affleck, Zooey Deschanel, Mary-Louise Parker, Brad Pitt, Sam Rockwell, Sam...

A realistic view of the overly romanticised Jesse James, casting Brad Pitt as the psychopathic outlaw and Casey Affleck as the infatuated and volatile... Read more

Letters From Iwo Jima ( Blu-ray ) (2006)

7.9/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Ken Watanabe, Hiroshi Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Shi...

Clint Eastwood's companion-piece to 'Flags of Our Fathers' recounts the same battle, only from the perspective of the Japanese. Iconic actor Ken Watan... Read more

Exodus (2007)

6.4/10
Director: Ho-Cheung Pang
Starring: Simon Yam, Nick Cheung, Annie Liu, Irene Wan, Maggie Siu, Candice Yu On-on

Simon Yam is an average cop on the beat; his wife is disinterested in him, his mother-in-law is disappointed and he doesn't have any real friends to s... Read more