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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

Andre Rieu in Wonderland (2007)

Director: Pit Weyrich
Starring: Andre Rieu

"Once upon a time - as a child I had only to hear these magical words and I would find myself transported to the land of fairy-tales. I would dream o... Read more

Big Fish ( Blu-ray ) (2003)

8/10
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter,...

An adventure as big as life itself, Tim Burton's imaginative fable stars Albert Finney as Edward Bloom, a dying eccentric known for spinning larger-th... Read more

Death Note: Volume 2 (2006)

9/10

The net begins to tighten around Light when the enigmatic detective L brings in FBI agents to assist on the case. Light becomes rattled when he meets... Read more

All Gas and Gaiters (1971)

7.9/10
Starring: John Barron, William Mervyn, Derek Nimmo, Robertson Hare

Between 1966 and 1971 the ecclesiastical rivalries at St. Oggs Cathedral entranced a generation of viewers. Now available for the first time are all e... Read more

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Volume 2, Part 2 (1993)

7.4/10
Starring: Sean Patrick Flanery, Corey Carrier, George Hall, Ronny Coutteure

The award-winning adventures of the young Indiana Jones continue with 'The War Years'. This time, Jones (Sean Patrick Flanery) is serving in the infan... Read more

Melissa (1974)

7.4/10
Director: Peter Moffatt
Starring: Peter Barkworth, Ronald Fraser

BBC drama from 1974, adapted from the classic Francis Durbridge novel. Journalist Guy Foster (Peter Barkworth) returns home to find that his wife has... Read more

The Worst Week of My Life: Series 1 (2004)

8/10
Director: Dan Zeff
Starring: Sarah Alexander, Janine Duvitski, Ben Miller, Emma Pierson, Alison Steadman, Geo...

This entertaining comedy series from the BBC follows the bumbling Howard as he lurches from one appallingly embarrassing disaster to the next in the w... Read more

The Pallisers: Volume 3, Episodes 14-20 (1974)

8.3/10
Director: Hugh David
Starring: Philip Latham, Susan Hampshire, Anna Massey, Barbara Murray, Roland Culver

Based on six political novels by Anthony Trollope and set in the palatial country houses and grand Mayfair salons of mid-Victorian England, this is a... Read more

In Love with Adolf Hitler (2007)

Director: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle
Starring: Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler

A unique, compelling and thoroughly fascinating documentary drawing on the vast personal film and photo archives of Eva Braun along with exclusive sho... Read more

24: Season 6 (2006)

8.6/10
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Jayne Atkinson, Regina King, Peter MacNico...

After 20 months in a Chinese prison, Jack Bauer is suddenly returned to the United States. But instead of being free, Jack's release is part of a secr... Read more

Les Vampires (1915)

6.9/10
Director: Louis Feuillade
Starring: Musidora , Edouard Mathe

Ten-part silent serial from French pioneer Louis Feuillade. Made at a time when France was in the grip of fear and suspicion due to WWI, this hugely p... Read more

Babylon 5: Season 3 - Point of No Return (1995)

8.3/10
Starring: Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, Richard Biggs, Bi...

The year is 2260 and the space station that was the last, best hope for peace is now the only hope for victory. Sheridan and the rest of the Babylon 5... Read more

Babylon 5: Season 4 - No Surrender, No Retreat (1996)

8.3/10
Starring: Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan

The future begins - or ends - here and now. "Here" is the huge space station Babylon 5. "Now" is the fateful year 2261. Commander John Sheridan has al... Read more

Apocalypto ( Blu-ray ) (2006)

7.8/10
Director: Mel Gibson
Starring: Rudy Youngblood, Dalia Hernandez, Jonathan Brewer, Morris Birdyellowhead

Mel Gibson's Mayan epic was overshadowed by the director's personal antics, but this hugely-scaled mythological tale is a vivid and ferocious window o... Read more

Saawariya (2007)

5.4/10
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Starring: Sonam Kapoor, Salman Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Ranbir Kapoor

In this Bollywood offering - can Gulab (Rani Mukherjee) win the heart of Raj (Ranbir Kapoor), the musician who yearns for Sakina (Sonam Kapoor), who i... Read more

Hostel Part II (2007)

5.5/10
Director: Eli Roth
Starring: Lauren German, Heather Matarazzo, Bijou Phillips, Roger Bart, Richard Burgi, Jay...

Director Eli Roth's blood-soaked follow-up to his sleeper horror hit focuses on a trio of American college girls whose tour of Eastern Europe lands th... Read more

Directed by Douglas Sirk: Volume 2 - Written on the Wind / The Tarnished Angels / Imitation of Life (1959)

Director: Douglas Sirk
Starring: Lauren Bacall, Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone, Robert Stack, Lana Turner, John Gavi...

Douglas Sirk's body of work collected for posterity. The man is a Hollywood icon to actors and producers that have followed in his footsteps. His infl... Read more

Ultimate Avengers: The Movie (2006)

6.8/10
Director: Bob Richardson
Starring: Voices Of, Michael Massee, Olivia D'abo, Justin Cross, Grey DeLisle, Marc Worden

When the world is in crisis and age-old enemies are on the verge of attack, six of Earth's mightiest heroes - Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Giant-M... Read more

Hollow Man ( Blu-ray ) (2000)

5.7/10
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Josh Brolin, William Devane, Elisabeth Shue, Kim Dickens

Paul Verhoeven's nasty, high-tech variation on "The Invisible Man" stars Kevin Bacon as a self-absorbed scientist working on a government invisibility... Read more

State of the Union (1948)

7.4/10
Director: Frank Capra
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Van Johnson, Angela Lansbury, Adolphe Menjou

Based on a hit Broadway play, this insightful Frank Capra film stars Spencer Tracy as a would-be presidential candidate and Katharine Hepburn as his e... Read more

Sweet Land (2005)

7.3/10
Director: Ali Selim
Starring: Alan Cumming, John Heard, Ned Beatty, Paul Sand, Tim Guinee, Alex Kingston, Lois...

Inge is a feisty German mail-order bride who has come to Minnesota to marry Olaf, a young Norwegian immigrant farmer of few words. But in a post-WWI,... Read more

Hellzapoppin' (1941)

7.6/10
Director: H C Potter
Starring: Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson

Absolutely mad, frame-busting comedy starring the infamous duo of Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson. Ole and Chic are a couple of stagehands who try to help... Read more

The War Bride (2001)

Director: Lyndon Chubbuck
Starring: Anna Friel, Brenda Fricker, Aden Young, Loren Dean, Julie Cox, Molly Parker

This endearing World War II drama stars Anna Friel as Lily, a vivacious girl in war-torn London. She falls in love with Charlie (Aden Young), a Canadi... Read more

The Devil Came on Horseback (2007)

7.8/10
Director: Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg

In 2004, former U.S. marine Brian Steidle was assigned to Darfur as an 'unarmed monitor' and became a key witness to the region's unfolding genocide,... Read more

Dororo (2007)

6.4/10
Director: Akihiko Shiota
Starring: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Kou Shibasaki, Eita , Mieko Harada, Yoshio Harada, Nakai Kiic...

Based on a manga by anime grandmaster Osamu Tezuka ('Astroboy'), this fantasy actioner features a powerful samurai who makes a deal with 48 demons who... Read more

Alien Apocalypse (2005)

4.5/10
Director: Josh Becker
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Renee O'Connor

An astronaut doctor, Ivan Hood (Bruce Campbell), and his fellow astronaut Kelly return from their mission in space, to find the world has been taken o... Read more

Shaurya (2008)

7.4/10
Director: Samar Khan
Starring: Rahul Bose, Kay Kay Menon, Seema Biswas, Deepak Dobriyal, Javed Jaffrey

Captain Javed Khan has been charged with mutiny, treason and killing a fellow officer. Old friends Akash and Sid are assigned as defense and prosecuti... Read more

Paris When it Sizzles (1963)

6.4/10
Director: Richard Quine
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Noel Coward, William Holden

Audrey Hepburn and William Holden sizzle, too, in this breezy romantic bon bon, as a screenwriter and his secretary act out film situations in an atte... Read more

Son of Paleface (1952)

7/10
Director: Frank Tashlin
Starring: Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Roy Rogers

Bob Hope and Jane Russell reprise their roles as the lead characters of 'The Paleface'. Hope plays Junior Potter, an Ivy League student who returns to... Read more

The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961)

6.5/10
Director: Leslie Norman
Starring: Richard Harris, Laurence Harvey, Richard Todd, David McCallum, Ronald Fraser

A film based on the successful play by Willis Hall about a British patrol in Burma who are determined to kill an innocent Japanese prisoner in a mad r... Read more

Weirdsville (2006)

6.5/10
Director: Allan Moyle
Starring: Scott Speedman, Taryn Manning, Wes Bentley

Set in the, well, weird town of Weedsville, Ontario, this inventive comedy follows a slacker as he tries to dispose of his girlfriend's body after she... Read more

Bernard Shaw Collection: Vol. 1 (1989)

Director: David Jones, Desmond Davis, Herbert Wise, James Cellan Jones
Starring: Coral Browne, Penelope Wilton, James Grout, Derek Godfrey, Robert Powell, Helena...

This collection of BBC adaptations brings to life the memorable characterizations, brilliant command of language, and dazzling wit of Bernard Shaw's c... Read more

Down Argentine Way (1940)

6.6/10
Director: Irving Cummings
Starring: Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda, Charlotte Greenwood, J Carrol Naish

Classic comedy in which Don Ameche stars as Ricardo Quintana, the charming son of a less charming Argentine horse breeder. Betty Grable is vacationing... Read more

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ( Blu-ray ) (2004)

7.9/10
Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Gambon, Ri...

Alfonso Cuaron ('A Little Princess') takes over the directing reigns for this terrific third instalment (of a projected seven) in the beloved fantasy... Read more

Australian Atomic Confessions (2006)

Director: Kathy Aigner

In this disturbing documentary, Australian servicemen and nomadic aboriginals reveal the devastating effects of British atomic testing carried out in... Read more

Justice League: The New Frontier (2008)

7/10
Director: Dave Bullock
Starring: Voices Of, Kyle MacLachlan, Lucy Lawless, Jeremy Sisto, David Boreanaz, Miguel F...

Inspired by the best-selling graphic novel by Darwyn Cooke and produced by the multiple Emmy Award-winning animation legend, Bruce Timm, this is the e... Read more

Housewife, 49 (2006)

7.7/10
Director: Gavin Miller
Starring: Stephanie Cole, Victoria Wood, David Threlfall

The 1940s are caringly recreated for this offering with Victoria Wood, who also wrote the drama, playing it straight as a Lancashire housewife struggl... Read more

10 Questions for the Dalai Lama (2006)

7.6/10
Director: Rick Ray
Starring: H H Dalai Lama

If you could meet one person in the world, who would it be and why? Director Rick Ray's answer is 'the Dalai Lama'. Filmed during a private visit to h... Read more

The Chaser's War On Everything: Season 1, Episodes 1-13 (2006)

8.6/10
Starring: Julian Morrow, Chas Licciardello, Chris Taylor, Craig Reucassel, Andrew Hansen

The first series of ABC's Logie Award-winning series featuring Julian Morrow, Chas Licciardello, Chris Taylor, Craig Reucassel and Andrew Hansen doing... Read more

Rogue (2007)

6.2/10
Director: Greg McLean
Starring: Radha Mitchell, Michael Vartan, Sam Worthington, Barry Otto

An idyllic wildlife outback cruise disintegrates into terror when a party of tourists, stranded on a tidal mud island, are stalked by a massive man-ea... Read more

People of the Wind (1976)

8/10
Director: Anthony Howarth
Starring: (Voice of) , James Mason

This feature-length documentary captures the migratory lifestyle of nomadic peoples and remains gripping throughout. The Babadi clan of the same Bakht... Read more

Bionicle: Mask of Light (2003)

5.7/10
Director: Terry Shakespeare, David Molina
Starring: Jason Michas, Andrew Francis, Scott McNeil, Kathleen Barr

Robotic island tribe the Matorans are protected by six powerful guardians known as Toa. Two small Matorans - the potentially heroic 'herald' and a his... Read more

The Transformation of the World into Music (1996)

7.1/10
Director: Werner Herzog

This elegant and adroitly executed Werner Herzog documentary captures the annual excitement surrounding the Bayreuth Festival. Celebrating the operati... Read more

Return To Waterloo / Come Dancing With The Kinks (1985)

Director: Julien Temple, Ray Davies
Starring: Kenneth Colley, Ray Davies

Ray Davies of the Kinks, well-respected as one of rock's best storytellers, makes his filmmaking debut in 'Return to Waterloo' starring Kenneth Colley... Read more

New Orleans - Music in Exile (2006)

6.9/10
Director: Robert Mugge

On August 29th, 2005, hurricane winds, torrential rains and a series of failed levees decimated The Big Easy and virtually destroyed one of the most u... Read more

Penn and Teller: Bullshit! - Season 1 (2003)

Starring: Penn Jillette, Teller

Using undercover operatives, intensive research and heaps of skepticism, world-famous magicians Penn Jillette and Teller expose the truth of modern sc... Read more

Bustin' Loose (1981)

6.1/10
Director: Oz Scott
Starring: Richard Pryor, Cicely Tyson, George Coe, Robert Christian

Starring comic genius Richard Pryor, this raucous, light-hearted comedy is the entertaining tale of shifty ex-con Joe Braxton who after finding himsel... Read more

Karas: Part 2 - The Revelation (2005)

7/10
Starring: Matthew Lillard, Jay Hernandez, Cree Summer

From legendary anime studio Tatsunoko Productions ('Speed Racer') comes the second installment in the 'Karas' story. Picking up exactly where the firs... Read more

Warlords of Atlantis (1978)

Director: Kevin Connor
Starring: Doug McClure, Peter Gilmore, Cyd Charisse, Donald Boisset, Lea Brodie

AKA 'Seven Cities to Atlantis', this family-aimed fantasy sees the ever-heroic Doug McClure leading an expedition to the lost city of Atlantis. He dis... Read more

The Tarnished Angels (1957)

7.3/10
Director: Douglas Sirk
Starring: Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson

Based on the celebrated novel by author William Faulkner and set during the early 1930s this classic romance stars Robert Stack as Roger Schumann, a d... Read more

George Washington (2000)

7.4/10
Director: David Gordon Green
Starring: Candace Evanofshi, Donald Holden, Curtis Cotton III, Damian Jewan Lee, Rachel Ha...

The impressive debut from filmmaker David Gordon Green ('Undertow') is a lyrical, highly-praised drama set in a small, rundown North Carolina town aro... Read more

Heidi: Part Two (1980)

7.3/10
Director: Tony Flaadt

Part Two of the 1978 TV adaptation of Johanna Spyri's novel. The charming tale of a young orphan called Heidi who is taken to live with her Grandfathe... Read more

Follyfoot: Series 1 (1971)

8.3/10
Director: Michael Apted, Stephen Frears, Vic Hughes
Starring: Gillian Blake, Steve Hodson, Arthur English, Christian Rodska, Desmond Llewelyn

Based on Monica Dickens' 1963 novel 'Cobbler's Dream', the series was set in a horse sanctuary and often dealt with the way horses were poorly treated... Read more

Highlander: The Search For Vengeance (2006)

6.8/10
Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri

In this distant and animated sequel to the 1986 film, lone warrior Colin travels with wise-cracking ghost Amergan across a desolate landscape, searchi... Read more

Desert Fury (1947)

6.7/10
Director: Lewis Allen
Starring: Lizabeth Scott, John Hodiak, Burt Lancaster, Mary Astor, Wendell Corey

In the sweltering heat of the Nevada desert lies the small gambling oasis Purple Sage, run by the tough talking Fritzi Haller who stubbornly controls... Read more

The Bucket List (2007)

7.4/10
Director: Rob Reiner
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Jack Nicholson, Sean Hayes, Beverly Todd, Rob Morrow, Alfonso Fr...

Rob Reiner's seriocomic road movie stars Jack Nicholson as a terminally ill corporate billionaire sharing a hospital room with cancer-stricken mechani... Read more

Helvetica (2007)

7.2/10
Director: Gary Hustwit

An engaging and funny investigation into the world's most ubiquitous typeface. Are you partial to Times New Roman? How do you feel about Arial Narrow,... Read more

Civic Duty (2006)

6.3/10
Director: Jeff Renfroe
Starring: Peter Krause, Kari Matchett, Richard Schiff, Khaled Abol Naga

With the stress of losing his job finally getting to him, Terry (Peter Krause), an unemployed accountant, begins to suspect his new neighbour, a Middl... Read more

Ancient Egypt: The Rosetta Stone (2007)

6.6/10

For hundreds of years the glorious history of Ancient Egypt remained a mystery to the world, its secrets locked away in the baffling language of the h... Read more

Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst (2005)

6.9/10
Director: Gillian Armstrong

Florence Broadhurst lived an amazing life. Not content with reality, she invented and reinvented her past to be even more interesting. Before her brut... Read more

Crusades: Volume 2 (1995)

8.3/10
Starring: Narrated by, Terry Jones

For 200 years the armies of Europe battled Muslim forces for control of the Holy Land (and its riches). Now the full story is told in exciting fashion... Read more

Batman: The Animated Series - Volume 3 (1994)

8.9/10
Starring: Voices Of, Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill

Gotham City crime czars Scarface and Rupert Thorne battle evil masterminds like The Joker and The Penguin for money, power and respect, and just when... Read more

Bella (2006)

7.3/10
Director: Alejandro Monteverde
Starring: Tammy Blanchard, Manny Perez, Eduardo Verastegui, Ali Landry

After an accident puts an end to his career as a professional athlete, an international soccer star is forced to take work at his brother's Mexican re... Read more

Crime Wave / Decoy (1954)

Director: Andre De Toth, Jack Bernhard
Starring: Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Edward Norris, Jean Gillie, Charles Bronson

Film noir double feature features the underrated noir thriller 'Crime Wave' (1954), about a hardboiled LA cop out to get a 'reformed' ex-con who was l... Read more

They Live By Night / Side Street (1949)

Director: Anthony Mann, Nicholas Ray
Starring: Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger

This double feature includes Nicholas Ray's lyrical story of romantic fatalism, 'They Live by Night' (1948), about a young outlaw couple on the run fo... Read more

Goodbye Bafana (2007)

Director: Bille August
Starring: Joseph Fiennes, Diane Kruger, Dennis Haysbert

The surprising relationship that developed between Nelson Mandela and South African prison guard James Gregory is explored in this riveting biodrama.... Read more

The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)

6.7/10
Director: Justin Chadwick
Starring: Eric Bana, Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman, Kristin Scott Thomas, David Morr...

Outstanding performances highlight this lavish romantic drama chronicling the rivalry between Boleyn sisters Mary (Scarlett Johansson) and Anne (Natal... Read more

The Secret Life of Words (2005)

7.5/10
Director: Isabel Coixet
Starring: Julie Christie, Sarah Polley, Tim Robbins, Javier Camara, Sverre Ousdal, Eddie M...

A remarkable, thoughtful drama staring Sarah Polley as a deaf factory girl who is persuaded by her boss to take a vacation. After travelling to the co... Read more

Frisky Dingo: Season 1 (2006)

8.2/10

Being a supervillain isn't what it used to be in this mind-melting show from the folks at [adult swim]. Killface is a criminal overlord whose devious... Read more

The Riverman (2004)

6/10
Director: Bill Eagles
Starring: Bruce Greenwood, Sam Jaeger, Cary Elwes, Kathleen Quinlan

Based on the book co-written by Robert Keppel, formerly chief criminal investigator for the attorney general of Washington State, the film recounts Ke... Read more

Boxing Day (2007)

7.1/10
Director: Kriv Stenders
Starring: Richard Green, Tammy Anderson, Syd Brisbane, Stuart Clark

Living alone on home detention, recovering alcoholic, Chris, is preparing Christmas lunch for his family when an old friend turns up at his doorstep a... Read more

Red Dwarf: The Bodysnatcher Collection (2008)

9.9/10
Director: Ed Bye
Starring: Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules, Robert Llewellyn, Norman Lovett,...

Originally inspired by the 'Star Wars' classic re-releases, this collection features the 1997 series re-mastered editions of Series I to III with enha... Read more

The Two Ronnies: Series 2 (1972)

7.8/10
Starring: Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett

'The Two Ronnies: Series Two' features all eight side-splitting episodes from this season, continuing the adventures of recurring private detectives C... Read more

Morecambe and Wise: Series 3 (1970)

Starring: Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise

By the time Morecambe and Wise had started their third series in 1970, they were already becoming the nation's favourite light entertainment double-ac... Read more

The Big Clock (1948)

7.7/10
Director: John Farrow
Starring: Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Rita Johnson, George Macready, Elsa Lanchester

This striking film noir classic stars Ray Milland as a crime magazine editor who has a liaison with a beautiful woman who turns out to be the mistress... Read more

Magnificent Obsession: Frank Lloyd Wright's Buildings and Legacy in Japan (2005)

7/10
Director: Karen Severns, Koichi Mori
Starring: Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the greatest architects of the 20th century, was deeply indebted to Japan for aesthetic inspiration - this is the story of... Read more

30 Days of Night ( Blu-ray ) (2007)

6.6/10
Director: David Slade
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Danny Huston, Ben Foster, Mark Boone Junior

For 30 days every winter the isolated town of Barrow, Alaska is plunged into complete darkness. It's a bitter time when most of the inhabitants head s... Read more

Purple Rain ( Blu-ray ) (1984)

6.5/10
Director: Albert Magnoli
Starring: Prince, Apollonia Kotero, Morris Day, Olga Karlatos, Clarence Williams III

Risque rocker Prince stars as "The Kid", a talented, withdrawn singer in this sizzling musical/drama that combines romance, comedy and dazzling on-sta... Read more

Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut ( Blu-ray ) (2004)

Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer, Anthony Hopkins

This two disc set is apparently the final cut (the third thus far) and is arguably the best, with a more thorough - and therefore easier to follow - l... Read more

Troy: Director's Cut ( Blu-ray ) (2004)

7.2/10
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Starring: Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Diane Kruger, Brian Cox, Sean Bean, Brendan...

Director Wolfgang Petersen finally has the luxury of time and editing control to provide the film he intended - more studied portraits of the characte... Read more

Viva Las Vegas ( Blu-ray ) (1963)

6.4/10
Director: George Sidney
Starring: Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret , Cesare Danova, William Demarest, Nicky Blair

In one of his biggest and best films, Elvis Presley is "just a devil with love to spare" as a race car driver looking to enter the Las Vegas Grand Pri... Read more

Desert Thunder (1998)

4/10
Director: Jim Wynorski
Starring: Daniel Baldwin, Richard Tyson

A group of Air Force flunkees, led by a retired Air Force pilot, try to defeat a Middle Eastern terrorist before he can act out his threats. Daniel Ba... Read more

D-Day in Colour (2004)

7.9/10

'D-Day in Color' features vintage footage of Allied forces storming the beaches of Normandy, the turning point of WWII. Actor John Hurt provides narra... Read more

The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years (1996)

6.4/10
Director: Kevin James Dobson
Starring: Richard Chamberlain, Amanda Donohoe, Maximilian Schell, Jack Thompson

This follow-up to the miniseries 'The Thorn Birds' (based on the best-selling novel by Colleen McCullough) tells the tale of a period during World War... Read more

Life Under Napoleon (2006)

Director: Georg Schiemann, Elmar Bartlmae, Steffen Schneider
Starring: Napoleon

In four episodes we examine what life was like in Europe from 1799 until 1815, from the end of the French Revolution until Napoleon's defeat at Leipzi... Read more

SpongeBob SquarePants: Where's Gary? (2005)

8.1/10

Featuring Season 4 Episodes! 6 Splashing Tales! Includes the 2-parter 'Have You Seen This Snail?' - While trying to beat a paddleball world record, Sp... Read more

Monkey: Journey to the West (1967)

8.7/10
Director: Ho Meng-hua
Starring: Angela Yu Chien, Cheng Pei-Pei, Chow Lung-Cheung

Born from an egg on a mountain top, the monkiest monkey there ever was... Brought to popularity by the 1970s television show 'Monkey', the story of th... Read more

Waterfront (1983)

5.2/10
Director: Chris Thompson
Starring: Jack Thompson, Greta Scacchi, Warren Mitchell, Noni Hazlehurst

Begins in one of the watershed years of this century, 1928. There is the spectre of the Great Depression, increasingly rancorous class divisions, indu... Read more

Rogue Assassin ( Blu-ray ) (2007)

6/10
Director: Phillip Atwell
Starring: Jet Li, Jason Statham, John Lone, Devon Aoki, Luis Guzman, Saul Rubinek

A.k.a. 'War'. After his partner is brutally murdered by the infamous assassin, Rogue (Jet Li), FBI agent Jack Crawford (Jason Statham) vows to find th... Read more

Desert Fox: Rommel (2008)

5.7/10

The story of much respected German General Erwin Rommel whose expert and ruthless manner on the battlefield earned him his posting as the head of the... Read more

Star Trek Enterprise: Season 4 - Disc 4/5 (2004)

7.5/10
Starring: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgom...

Set in the 22nd century, a hundred years before James T. Kirk helmed the famous starship of the same name, 'Enterprise' takes place in an era when int... Read more

Paranoid Park (2007)

6.7/10
Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Gabe Nevins, Taylor Momsen, Dan Liu

A vivid, compelling portrait of adolescence, 'Paranoid Park' follows a Portland teenager hiding a dark secret. Thanks to needy girlfriend Jennifer (Ta... Read more

Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)

7.2/10
Director: Susanne Bier
Starring: Halle Berry, Benicio Del Toro, Alison Lohman, David Duchovny

After her husband is killed by trying to prevent an assault, Audrey (Halle Berry) invites the close friend (Benicio Del Toro) he was visiting - an ex-... Read more

The Woody Woodpecker and Friends Classic Cartoon Collection: Volume 2 (1965)

Starring: Woody Woodpecker

Created by renowned cartoonist Walter Lantz, these original theatrical cartoons (1940 - 1972) have been digitally remastered and feature seven wacky a... Read more

Doctor Who: Black Orchid (1982)

8.7/10
Director: Ron Jones
Starring: Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton, Matthew Waterhouse

Peter Davison stars as the fifth Doctor alongside Janet Fielding, as his companion Tegan, and Sarah Sutton, as Nyssa, in this two-part historical them... Read more

The Reef (2006)

5.8/10
Director: Howard Baker, Kyung Ho Lee, John Fox
Starring: (Voices of) , Freddie Prinze Jr, Evan Rachel Wood, Donal Logue, Fran Drescher, J...

A.k.a. 'Shark Bait'. Computer-animated family film follows the adventures of a young fish named Pi (voiced by Freddie Prinze, Jr.), who loses his pare... Read more

The Gospel of John (2003)

7.7/10
Director: Philip Saville
Starring: Henry Ian Cusick, Stuart Bunce, Christopher Plummer

In the spirit of 'The Passion of the Christ' comes this uplifting dramatization of the life of Jesus as seen through the eyes of his disciple John. Th... Read more

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)

6/10
Director: Joseph Zito
Starring: Kimberly Beck, Corey Feldman, Crispin Glover, Barbara Howard

Revived in a morgue, Jason murders his way back to the lake to strike fear into the hearts of its residents yet again. This time he focuses on the Jar... Read more

Lars and the Real Girl (2007)

7.3/10
Director: Craig Gillespie
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider, Kelli Garner, Patricia Clarkson

A delightful, sweet-natured, Capra-esque story about the affection painfully shy Lars (Ryan Gosling) bestows on his new girlfriend. This still comes... Read more

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)

4.6/10
Director: Rob Hedden
Starring: Kane Hodder

It's the scariest thing to hit the Big Apple since Rosie O'Donnell appeared on Broadway! What will happen to the streets of New York when the unstoppa... Read more

Farscape: Peacekeeper War (2004)

8.3/10
Director: Brian Henson
Starring: Ben Browder, Claudia Black, Anthony Simcoe, Gigi Edgley, Wayne Pygram

When the evil Scarran Empire engages a full-scale war the Peacekeeper Alliance has only one hope: reassemble human astronaut John Crichton, once sucke... Read more

Sleeping Dogs Lie (2005)

6.3/10
Director: Bobcat Goldthwait
Starring: Melinda Page Hamilton, Bryce Johnson, Geoff Pierson

Daring his fiancee Amy (Melinda Page Hamilton) to confess her most unwholesome indiscretion, strait-laced John (Bryce Johnson) becomes shocked beyond... Read more

10,000 BC (2008)

5.1/10
Director: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis, Steven Strait

Partly filmed on location around Queenstown, this prehistoric epic focuses on D'Leh, a young hunter who's been branded an outcast by his tribe. But he... Read more

One Last Dance (2006)

5.8/10
Director: Max Makowskii
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Ti Lung, Francis Ng, Vivian Hsu

A professional hitman ponders another line of business but soon finds that there's a high price to pay for leaving behind a life of crime in director... Read more

The Delicate Art of Parking (2003)

6.4/10
Director: Trent Carlson
Starring: Dov Tiefenbach, Diana Pavlovska, Fred Ewanuick

An absurd comedy about a Parking Enforcement Officer, who - despite constant abuse from the public - finds truth, honour and serenity in the act of ti... Read more

Nip / Tuck: Season 4 (2006)

7.7/10
Starring: Dylan Walsh, Julian McMahon, Joely Richardson, John Hensley, Roma Maffia, Kelly...

Sex. Seduction. Liposuction. Dylan Walsh and Julian McMahon play plastic surgeons/best friends whose glamorous South Beach practice is a revolving doo... Read more

April's Shower (2003)

5/10
Director: Trish Doolan
Starring: Maria Cina, Frank Grillo, Zack Ward, Lara Harris, Trish Doolan

Writer/director Trish Doolan also stars in her debut feature as Alex, a chef giving her all to host the perfect bridal shower...because she's secretly... Read more

Liza with a Z (1972)

8.6/10
Starring: Liza Minnelli

See the legendary Liza Minnelli at the height of her powers in this dazzlingly entertaining musical special. After capturing Oscar gold for "Cabaret,"... Read more

The Goodies: The Final Episodes (1981)

7.9/10
Director: Bob Spiers
Starring: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor

Without any of the constraints of standard sitcoms, The Goodies (Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor) were free to indulge in an anarchic arr... Read more

Gold Cinema Collection: Carve Her Name With Pride / Cottage to Let / Sea of Sand (1958)

Director: Anthony Asquith, Guy Green, Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner, Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim, John M...

'Carve Her Name With Pride' (1958) Violette Bushell is a young woman living in London in World War 2. She meets a young French soldier whom she falls... Read more

Dick Turpin: Series 1 (1978)

7.6/10
Starring: Richard O'Sullivan, Christopher Benjamin, David Daker, Michael Deeks

The eighteenth century, swashbuckling adventures of Britain's legendary highwayman. Upon returning from military service in Flanders, Dick Turpin (Ric... Read more

Mister Lonely (2007)

6.4/10
Director: Harmony Korine
Starring: Diego Luna, Samantha Morton, Werner Herzog

In Paris, a sweet, shy Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) is befriended by a Marilyn Monroe lookalike (Samantha Morton), who quickly convinces... Read more

Dan in Real Life (2007)

6.8/10
Director: Peter Hedges
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Steve Carell, Dane Cook, John Mahoney, Dianne Wiest, Emily Blu...

Steve Carell shines in this romantic comedy as a widowed advice columnist struggling to raise three young girls on his own. While travelling to Rhode... Read more

I'm Not There (2007)

7/10
Director: Todd Haynes
Starring: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger...

From co-writer/director Todd Haynes comes this sublime and surreal examination of the life of Bob Dylan. As such diverse actors as Christian Bale, Cat... Read more

The Invaders: Season 2, Volume 1 (1967)

8.1/10
Starring: Roy Thinnes

This groundbreaking series stars Roy Thinnes as architect David Vincent, who witnesses an alien spaceship landing and criss-crosses the country trying... Read more

Hogan's Heroes: Season 1 (1965)

7.9/10
Starring: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson, Ivan Dix...

Colonel Hogan (Bob Crane) leads a ragtag band of POW's caught behind German lines in this popular television comedy. The bumbling Germans give Hogan a... Read more

Out of the Blue (2004)

7.2/10
Starring: Narrated by, Peter Coyote

This award-winning feature-length documentary reveals through exclusive interviews with high-ranking military and government personnel, that some Unid... Read more

The Hollow Men (2008)

7.4/10
Director: Alister Barry

The most explosive book in New Zealand political history is now a film. Don Brash stepped down as leader of the National Party in November 2006, the d... Read more

The Lost City (2005)

6.7/10
Director: Andy Garcia
Starring: Andy Garcia, Dustin Hoffman, Ines Sastre, Bill Murray, Steven Bauer, Elizabeth P...

In 1958 Havana, nightclub owner Fico Fellove (Andy Garcia, who also directed) watches as political upheaval grips Batista-ruled Cuba. While his brothe... Read more

Made of Honour (2008)

Director: Paul Weiland
Starring: Patrick Dempsey, Michelle Monaghan, Kevin McKidd, Kathleen Quinlan, Sydney Polla...

Patrick Dempsey is a womanizer who has everything - a different girl every night and a trusted platonic best friend (Michelle Monaghan). He realizes h... Read more

Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned (2007 Christmas Special) (2007)

8.7/10
Director: James Strong
Starring: David Tennant, Kylie Minogue

A spacecraft set on an apocalyptic collision course with Earth, a host of killer robot angels and an evil severed-headed mastermind - it's just anothe... Read more

Smallville: Season 6 (2006)

7.7/10
Starring: Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk, Michael Rosenbaum, Erica Durance, Allison Mack, John...

They tried to be friends. But their chosen paths set them on a collision course. The Clark Kent - Lex Luthor rivalry explodes into the fierce good-ver... Read more

Tintin and I (2003)

7.7/10
Director: Anders Ostergaard

Explores the world of Tintin creator Herge and his experiences and mental state leading up to the writing of 'Tintin in Tibet', often heralded as his... Read more

Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs (2008)

7.3/10

In Futurama's latest and most tentacle-packed epic, space itself rips open, revealing a gateway to another universe. But what lies beyond? Horror? Lov... Read more

Personal Services (1987)

6.4/10
Director: Terry Jones
Starring: Julie Walters, Alec McCowen

Julie Walters stars as suburban brothel Madame, Christine Painter, with some highly unusual clients. Inspired by the real experiences of the legendary... Read more

Vampyr (1932)

7.6/10
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Starring: Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel

With 'Vampyr', Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer's brilliance at achieving mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, profoundly unsettling imagery ('The... Read more

Status Anxiety (2004)

8/10
Director: Neil Crombie
Starring: Alain De Botton

Philosopher and author Alain de Botton believes there's something the vast majority of people desire even more than money. Whatever their background o... Read more

Fallen Angel (2006)

8.1/10
Director: David Drury
Starring: Charles Dance, Emilia Fox

Emilia Fox stars as Rosemary, the beautiful but disturbed daughter of an English vicar (Charles Dance). Part family saga, part crime drama, 'Fallen An... Read more

The War of the World: A New History of the 20th Century (2006)

7.5/10
Starring: Niall Ferguson

Acclaimed historian Professor Niall Ferguson presents this six-part documentary proposing an explosive challenge to common assumptions about the 20th... Read more