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The Hired Hand (1971)

7/10
Director: Peter Fonda
Starring: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Verna Bloom, Robert Pratt, Severn Darden

Peter Fonda stars in and directed this underrated Western that subtly subverts the macho genre. Harry (Fonda) and his buddy Arch (Warren Oates) have... Read more

Journeys Across Latitude 45 Degrees South (1985)

Starring: Peter Hayden

Across Central Otago runs Latitude 45 degrees South - the midway point between the South Pole and the Equator. Twenty five years ago TVNZ presenter Pe... Read more

Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)

6.3/10
Director: Wes Ball
Starring: Kaya Scodelario, Dylan O'Brien, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Dexter Darden, Ki Hong L...

In the epic finale to The Maze Runner Saga, Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their fri... Read more

Hustle: Series 2 (2005)

7.4/10
Starring: Adrian Lester, Marc Warren

How would you plan a con? Cover all the angles and leave nothing to chance or rely on charm alone? Let the experts show you how it's done when the con... Read more

A Christmas Story (1983)

8/10
Director: Bob Clark
Starring: Darren McGavin, Melinda Dillon, Peter Billingsley

Christmas is approaching and 9 year-old Ralphie wants only one thing: a Red Ryder Range Shot 200 BB gun. When he mentions it at the dinner table, his... Read more

Kokoda Frontline (1942)

Starring: Damien Parer, Peter FitzSimons

This ground-breaking documentary released in 1942 became Australia's first Oscar-winning film - the first and only Oscar given for news footage. Reno... Read more

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)

6.3/10
Director: Wes Ball
Starring: Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Patricia Clarkson, Barry...

In this next chapter of the epic Maze Runner saga, Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for cl... Read more

East of Eden (1981)

7.6/10
Director: Harvey Hart
Starring: Anne Baxter, Bruce Boxleitner, Hart Bochner, Jane Seymour, Karen Allen, Lloyd Br...

This lush adaptation of the classic Steinbeck drama sweeps through three generations of familial conflict from the Civil War to World War I, with Timo... Read more

Race With The Devil (1975)

6.6/10
Director: Jack Starrett
Starring: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit

After two vacationing couples travelling from Texas to Colorado witness a satanic cult's human sacrifice they must flee in their RV, with the murderou... Read more

She Stoops to Conquer (2008)

7.6/10
Director: Tony Britten
Starring: Polly Hemingway, Miles Jupp, Roy Marsden, Ian Redford, Susannah Fielding, Mark D...

Oliver Goldsmith's classic comedy of manners, tells of the clever schemes and comic ruses that unfold one night at a country house. An ambitious step-... Read more

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)

7.7/10
Director: Tony Richardson
Starring: James Bolam, Michael Redgrave, Peter Madden, Tom Courtenay

The engrossing story of a rebellious young man chosen to represent his reform school in a track race. A superbly acted film, it also confronts the rig... Read more

King Kong: Peter Jackson Production Diaries (2005)

7.2/10
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Peter Jackson, Adrien Brody, Naomi Watts, Jack Black

An unprecedented look behind-the-scenes at the making of an epic: King Kong. Peter Jackson takes us on his personal journey, tracking the 8-month pro... Read more

The Brink's Job (1978)

6.5/10
Director: William Friedkin
Starring: Peter Falk, Peter Boyle, Allen Goorwitz, Warren Oates, Gena Rowlands, Paul Sorvi...

From director William Friedkin ('The French Connection') comes this brilliant portrayal of one of the most famous and daring armed robberies in United... Read more

Being There (1979)

8/10
Director: Hal Ashby
Starring: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden, Melvyn Douglas, Richard Dysart, Ri...

Peter Sellers gives the performance of his career as Chance, a middle-aged gardener who's led a sheltered life and whose thoughts and behaviour are to... Read more

Magicians (2007)

6/10
Director: Andrew O'Connor
Starring: Robert Webb, David Mitchell, Jessica Stevenson, Darren Boyd, Andrea Riseborough,...

Robert Webb and David Mitchell are well-known on British television as the inspired comedy duo that created 'Peep Show'. In their feature film debut... Read more

Northern Exposure: Season 5 (1994)

8.3/10
Director: Randall Miller, Mark Horowitz
Starring: Rob Morrow, Janine Turner, Cynthia Geary, Darren E Burrows, John Cullum, Peter B...

The penultimate season of this well-loved show is full of its usual whimsical charm. Shelley is set to have her baby, though a bit of freaking out is... Read more

Hustle: Series 1 (2004)

7.8/10
Starring: Adrian Lester, Robert Vaughn, Philip Glenister, Jaime Murray, Marc Warren

Fresh out of prison, Mickey has an ambitious plan: create a team of con-artists to make a few bob before retiring - but only target the greedy and cor... Read more

The Great Muppet Caper (1981)

7.2/10
Director: Jim Henson
Starring: John Cleese, Muppets, Diana Rigg, Peter Ustinov, Charles Grodin, Robert Morley,...

The Muppets investigate the robbery of the fabulous Baseball Diamond, owned by fashion queen Lady Holiday (Diana Rigg) - and Miss Piggy is the prime s... Read more

Illustrious Energy (1987)

7.9/10
Director: Leon Narbey
Starring: Heather Bolton, Peter Hayden, Shaun Bao, Peter Chin, Desmond Kelly, Harry Ip, Ge...

Two Chinese gold miners in a remote valley in Central Otago struggle to improve their lot. The goldrush is over. Their life is tough. When they make a... Read more

Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage (2008)

6.5/10
Director: Michael Campus
Starring: Jared Padalecki, Marcia Gay Harden, Peter O'Toole, Geoffrey Lewis, Chris Elliott...

Returning home from college one Christmas, young artist Thomas Kinkade (Jared Padalecki) is dismayed to learn that his mother (Marcia Gay Harden) is d... Read more

Shattered Glass (2003)

7.2/10
Director: Billy Ray
Starring: Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard, Chloe Sevigny, Steve Zahn, Melanie Lynskey,...

Gripping true story centres on Stephen Glass (Hayden Christensen), a young journalist for The New Republic magazine who quickly wins over colleagues w... Read more

The Limey (1999)

7.1/10
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Terence Stamp, Lesley Ann Warren, Luis Guzman, Peter Fonda, Barry Newman

A riveting performance by Terence Stamp as an aging British crook newly released from prison who comes to Los Angeles looking for revenge on the recor... Read more

The Idealist (2015)

7.6/10
Director: Christina Rosendahl
Starring: Jens Albinus, Arly Jover, Soren Malling, Thomas Bo Larsen, Peter Plaugborg

In the vein of a classic investigative journalism thriller, Christina Rosendahls gripping drama The Idealist unravels the deeply compromised relation... Read more

Easy Rider (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 wa... 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

Deep Water (2005)

7.8/10
Director: David S Marfield
Starring: Lucas Black, Peter Coyote, Mia Maestro, Lesley Ann Warren, Xander Berkeley, Mich...

Nat Banyon (Lucas Black) has just got out of hospital and is heading for Wyoming to take up ostrich farming when along the way he picks up a man named... Read more

Lilith (1964)

7/10
Director: Robert Rossen
Starring: Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg, Peter Fonda, Kim Hunter, Gene Hackman, Jessica Walte...

A haunting psychological drama, adapted from J.R. Salamanca's controversial novel, about a young trainee therapist (Warren Beatty) whose love for a be... Read more

Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)

8.4/10
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: George C Scott, James Earl Jones, Keenan Wynn, Peter Bull, Peter Sellers, Slim P...

A commie-hating, paranoid American general launches a flight of B-52 bombers at the Soviet Union with nuclear annihilation in mind. Since he is the on... Read more

Robot and Frank (2012)

Director: Jake Schreier
Starring: Frank Langella, Liv Tyler, Susan Sarandon, James Marsden, Peter Sarsgaard, Jerem...

Set in the near future, Frank (Frank Langella), a retired cat burglar, has two grown kids who are concerned he can no longer live alone. They are temp... Read more

Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ( Blu-ray ) (1963)

8.4/10
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: George C Scott, James Earl Jones, Keenan Wynn, Peter Bull, Peter Sellers, Slim P...

A commie-hating, paranoid American general launches a flight of B-52 bombers at the Soviet Union with nuclear annihilation in mind. Since he is the on... Read more

The Gunman (2015)

5.8/10
Director: Pierre Morel
Starring: Sean Penn, Idris Elba, Ray Winstone, Mark Rylance, Jasmine Trinca, Peter Franzen...

From the director of Taken comes The Gunman, a pulse-pounding action thriller starring two-time Academy Award winner Sean Penn. Its been eight yea... Read more

The House of Eliott: Series 2 (1992)

8.1/10
Director: Graeme Harper
Starring: Stella Gonet, Louise Lombard, Barbara Jefford, Peter Birch, Aden Gillet

Following the success of their first collection, sisters Beatrice and Evangeline have established their place in London fashion. It's now 1924 and The... Read more

The House of Eliott: Series 1 (1991)

8.1/10
Director: Alex Kirby, Rodney Bennett, Richard Standeven, Jeremy Silberston, Nicholas Prosser
Starring: Stella Gonet, Louise Lombard, Barbara Jefford, Peter Birch, Aden Gillet

London, 1920. As England recovers from The Great War, thirty-year-old Beatrice and her eighteen-year-old sister Evangeline are left penniless after th... Read more

Passed Away (1992)

5.9/10
Director: Charlie Peters
Starring: Bob Hoskins, William Petersen, Jack Warden, Blair Brown, Tim Curry, Frances McDo...

A darkly humorous account of how an offbeat family deals with the death and funeral of the clan patriarch. Bob Hoskins, William Petersen and Blair Bro... Read more

Raid on Entebbe (1976)

6.8/10
Director: Irvin Kershner
Starring: Charles Bronson, Eddie Constantine, Horst Buchholz, Jack Warden, John Saxon, Mar...

Mere months after the fact came the release of two rival "Entebbe" movies ("Victory at Entebbe" being the other, released a month earlier) which recou... Read more

The Red Riding Trilogy (2009)

Director: Anand Tucker, Julian Jarrold, James Marsh
Starring: Mark Addy, Rebecca Hall, Sean Bean, Warren Clarke, Peter Mullan, David Morrissey...

A neo-noir epic based on horrifying true events, adapted from David Peace's series of groundbreaking novels. The brutal Yorkshire Ripper is killing in... Read more

Hotel de Love (1996)

6.4/10
Director: Craig Rosenberg
Starring: Simon Bossell, Aden Young, Saffron Burrows, Ray Barrett, Pippa Grandison, Peter...

Saffron Burrows is the object of everyone's affection in this Australian rom-com. Stephen (Simon Bossell) and Rick (Aden Young) are fraternal twins w... Read more

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (2003)

7.5/10
Director: Kenneth Bowser
Starring: William H Macy, Karen Black, Peter Bogdanovich, Ellen Burstyn, Micky Dolenz, Ric...

Peter Biskind's best-selling book inspired this acclaimed documentary on the films and colourful filmmakers of the 1960s and '70s. See how the sex 'n'... Read more

Faerie Tale Theatre: Volume 2 (1982)

8.4/10
Director: Francis Ford Coppola, Nicholas Meyer, Peter Medak, Robert Iscove, Tim Burton, Mark Cullingham
Starring: Alan Arkin, Alfre Woodard, Barrie Ingham, Ben Vereen, Brian Dennehy, Brock Peter...

With lavish special effects, unique scripting and an outstanding cast of actors and directors, this terrific series, created and executive produced by... Read more

Death at a Funeral (2010)

5.7/10
Director: Neil LaBute
Starring: Chris Rock, Danny Glover, Keith David, Loretta Devine, Luke Wilson, Martin Lawre...

Funny remake of the 2007 Frank Oz comedy follows the offbeat members of an African-American family as they gather for the funeral of their patriarch.... Read more

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide (2013)

8.3/10
Starring: Colin Baker, Paul McGann, Peter Davison, Sylvester McCoy, David Tennant, Katy Ma...

Matt Smith and Jenna Coleman celebrate the 50th anniversary of the space-travelling Time Lord and take an in-depth look at of one of the most intrigui... Read more

Small Apartments (2012)

6.1/10
Director: Jonas Akerlund
Starring: Amanda Plummer, Billy Crystal, Dolph Lundgren, James Caan, Rosie Perez, Saffron...

Franklin Franklin (Matt Lucas) plays the alphorn and dreams of Switzerland. His crazy brother sends him fingernail clippings in the mail. One of his n... Read more

The Magnificent Seven Collection ( The Magnificent Seven / Return of the Magnificent Seven / Guns of the Magnificent Seven / The Magnificent Seven Ride! ) (1972)

Director: Burt Kennedy, John Sturges, Paul Wendkos, George McCowan
Starring: Yul Brynner, Charles Bronson, Horst Buchholz, James Coburn, Brad Dexter, Steve M...

A collection containing the four 'Magnificent Seven' features. "The Magnificent Seven" (1960) - In this western remake of "Seven Samurai," paid gunsli... Read more

The Magnificent Seven Collection ( The Magnificent Seven / Return of the Magnificent Seven / Guns of the Magnificent Seven / The Magnificent Seven Ride! ) (Blu-ray) (1972)

Director: Burt Kennedy, John Sturges, Paul Wendkos, George McCowan
Starring: Yul Brynner, Charles Bronson, Horst Buchholz, James Coburn, Brad Dexter, Steve M...

A collection containing the four 'Magnificent Seven' features. "The Magnificent Seven" (1960) - In this western remake of "Seven Samurai," paid gunsli... Read more

Ellery Queen: Adventures 5 - 12 (1975)

8.4/10
Starring: David Wayne, Dean Stockwell, Dina Merrill, Eva Gabor, Eve Arden, Jim Backus, Jim...

Long before "Murder, She Wrote", "Ellery Queen" was entertaining viewers with the exact same crime format: a mysterious murder, a long list of clues,... Read more

Avengers: Infinity War (Blu-ray) (2018)

8.7/10
Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Don Cheadle, Gwyneth Paltrow, Josh Brolin, Mark Ruffalo, Rober...

Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk and the rest of the Avengers unite to battle their most powerful enemy yet -- the evil Thanos. On a mission to collect all si... Read more

Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

8.7/10
Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Don Cheadle, Gwyneth Paltrow, Josh Brolin, Mark Ruffalo, Rober...

Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk and the rest of the Avengers unite to battle their most powerful enemy yet -- the evil Thanos. On a mission to collect all si... Read more