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Birdy (1984)

7.3/10
Director: Alan Parker
Starring: Matthew Modine, Nicolas Cage, John Harkins

A spellbinding, captivating movie about a Vietnam vet who has come to believe he is a bird, and the efforts of his best friend to break him out of his... Read more

Big (1988)

7.3/10
Director: Penny Marshall
Starring: Elizabeth Perkins, John Heard, Jon Lovitz, Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks stars in this fantasy/comedy directed by Penny Marshall about a young boy who makes a magic wish and wakes up looking like Tom Hanks. Be car... Read more

Natural Selection (2011)

6.4/10
Director: Robbie Pickering
Starring: Matt O'Leary, Jon Gries, John Diehl, Rachael Harris

Linda White, a barren Christian housewife, leads a sheltered existence in suburban Texas. Her world is turned upside-down when she discovers that her... Read more

Audrey Rose (1977)

5.8/10
Director: Robert Wise
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Marsha Mason, John Beck

Anthony Hopkins, Marsha Mason and John Beck star in this terrifying tale of soul possession and reincarnation, directed by Robert Wise. A stranger tel... Read more

Crimes of Passion (1984)

6.4/10
Director: Ken Russell
Starring: Kathleen Turner, Anthony Perkins, John Laughlin

A highly charged erotic thriller from Ken Russell that features some of the hottest love scenes ever for a Hollywood film. Kathleen Turner is an enigm... Read more

Super Mario Bros. (1993)

4/10
Director: Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton
Starring: Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper

The video game is turned into a special effects-filled fantasy about Brooklyn plumber brothers Mario and Luigi, who enter a strange world to save a be... Read more

Audrey Rose (Blu-ray) (1977)

5.8/10
Director: Robert Wise
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Marsha Mason, John Beck

Anthony Hopkins, Marsha Mason and John Beck star in this terrifying tale of soul possession and reincarnation, directed by Robert Wise. A stranger tel... Read more

Universe (1999)

8/10
Director: Alice Harper, Martin Gorst
Starring: Narrated by, Stephen Hawking, John Hurt

Breathtaking imagery and extraordinary graphics highlight this wonderful offering. Featuring interviews with leading cosmological astronomers and worl... Read more

Freaky Friday (1977)

6.2/10
Director: Gary Nelson
Starring: Barbara Harris, Jodie Foster, John Astin

One of Disney's better comedies from the 1970's, this perceptive fantasy allows Mum Barbara Harris and daughter Jodie Foster to share a role reversing... Read more

Sea of Love (1989)

6.8/10
Director: Harold Becker
Starring: Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman

Al Pacino bounced back from oblivion in this thriller about the investigation by two New York detectives involving a series of killings. Ellen Barkin... Read more

Psycho ( Blu-ray ) (1960)

8.5/10
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, John McIntire, Martin Balsam, Vera Miles, John Gav...

Hitchcock's most famous movie, the shocker that still keeps people away from showers. Janet Leigh is a woman on the run who befriends mother's boy mot... Read more

Guns at Batasi (1964)

7.1/10
Director: John Guillermin
Starring: Flora Robson, Jack Hawkins, Mia Farrow, Richard Attenborough, John Leyton

Richard Attenborough won a BAFTA for his portrayal of Regimental Sergeant-Major Lauderdale, a martinet of the worst type, stuck out in a remote coloni... Read more

A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (Blu-ray) (2011)

6.3/10
Director: Todd Strauss-Schulson
Starring: Kal Penn, John Cho, Neil Patrick Harris

Six years after their Guantanamo Bay adventure, stoner buds Harold Lee and Kumar Patel cause a holiday fracas by inadvertently burning down Harold's f... Read more

Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected: 1.2 (1979)

Director: Alastair Reid, Claude Whatham, Herbert Wise, Michael Tuchner, Simon Langton
Starring: John Alderton, Joan Collins, Joseph Cotten, Jose Ferrer, Michael Gambon, Susan G...

Like his children's books, Roald Dahl's adult stories never fail to suprise. Each stand alone, playfully macabre story in this acclaimed series is a b... Read more

Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected: 1.4 (1979)

Director: Claude Whatham, Giles Foster, Herbert Wise, John Gorrie
Starring: John Alderton, Joan Collins, Joseph Cotten, Jose Ferrer, Michael Gambon, Susan G...

Like his children's books, Roald Dahl's adult stories never fail to suprise. Each stand alone, playfully macabre story in this acclaimed series is a b... Read more

Midnight Express (1978)

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

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

Don Quixote (2000)

6.2/10
Director: Peter Yates
Starring: John Lithgow, Bob Hoskins, Isabella Rossellini, Vanessa Williams

In this fanciful version of Cervantes' classic story, John Lithgow is the middle-aged Spaniard who retreats into a world of fantasy while searching fo... Read more

Midnight Express ( Blu-ray ) (1978)

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

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

Cross Of Fire (1989)

6.9/10
Director: Paul Wendkos
Starring: John Heard, Mel Harris, David Morse, Donald Moffat

Based on a true story, this searing historical drama well written by Robert Crais is about the rise and fall of David Stephenson, the frighteningly c... Read more

The Big Easy (1986)

6.6/10
Director: Jim McBride
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin, Ned Beatty, John Goodman

This scintillating thriller stars Dennis Quaid as a New Orleans detective who becomes involved with sexy district attorney Ellen Barkin, who is invest... Read more

The Field (1990)

7.4/10
Director: Jim Sheridan
Starring: Richard Harris, John Hurt, Tom Berenger, Sean Bean

An Irish tenant farmer faces the loss of the land his family has worked for years when it is put upfor auction, and bid on by an American (Tom Berenge... 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

The Field (Blu-ray) (1990)

7.3/10
Director: Jim Sheridan
Starring: Richard Harris, John Hurt, Tom Berenger, Sean Bean

An Irish tenant farmer faces the loss of the land his family has worked for years when it is put upfor auction, and bid on by an American (Tom Berenge... Read more

The Next of Kin (1945)

6.9/10
Director: Carol Reed, Roy Ward Baker
Starring: Mervyn Johns, Jack Hawkins, Basil Radford, Thora Hird, David Niven

Features rare and fascinating original films preserved in the British War Museum's vaults. Many have never been released to the public before and are... Read more

No Highway in the Sky (1951)

7.3/10
Director: Henry Koster
Starring: Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins, James Stewart, Janette Scott, Marlene Dietrich

Theodore Honey (James Stewart) is a mathematician charged with discovering what caused the crash of a "Reindeer" airliner. As he travels to investigat... Read more

Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)

Director: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
Starring: John Cho, Kal Penn, Rob Corddry, Roger Bart, Neil Patrick Harris, Danneel Harris...

The cannabis-craving twosome return in this high-flying sequel that finds them labelled as terrorists after their pot-smoking paraphernalia is mistake... Read more

Wild In The Country (1961)

6.5/10
Director: Philip Dunne
Starring: John Ireland, Hope Lange, Elvis Presley, Tuesday Weld, Millie Perkins

A red-neck youth (Elvis) is desperate to become a respected writer! A real curiosity with good performances by Tuesday Weld and Hope Lange. Read more

Tarzan the Ape Man (1981)

3.3/10
Director: John Derek
Starring: Bo Derek, Richard Harris, John Phillip Law, Miles O'Keeffe

Experience the Tarzan story from Jane's point of view as Tarzan defends her against a beachcombing King of the Beasts, untangles her from a python's s... Read more

Argo ( Blu-ray ) (2012)

7.7/10
Director: Ben Affleck
Starring: Alan Arkin, Ben Affleck, John Goodman, Bryan Cranston

Ben Affleck directs and stars in this gripping political thriller based on real events that took place during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. In Novembe... Read more

Psycho (1960)

8.5/10
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Martin Balsam, Vera Miles, John Gavin

Hitchcock's most famous movie, the shocker that still keeps people away from showers. Janet Leigh is a woman on the run who befriends mother's boy mot... Read more

Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)

7.4/10
Director: George Armitage
Starring: John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd, Alan Arkin

A professional hitman (John Cusack) combines business with pleasure when he attends his high school reunion while on assignment... but the girl he dum... Read more

Argo (2012)

7.7/10
Director: Ben Affleck
Starring: Alan Arkin, Ben Affleck, John Goodman, Bryan Cranston

Ben Affleck directs and stars in this gripping political thriller based on real events that took place during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. In Novembe... Read more

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension (1984)

Director: W D Richter
Starring: Christopher Lloyd, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum, John Lithgow, Peter Weller

Buckaroo Banzai is a skilled neurosurgeon and physicist who becomes bored with his scientific and medical work and embarks on a career as a rock star... Read more

Down By Law (1986)

7.8/10
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Ellen Barkin, Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, John Lurie, Tom Waits

Jim Jarmusch's follow-up to his immensely successful "Stranger Than Paradise" stars Tom Waits, John Lurie - and in a treasure of a performance, Robert... Read more

Toy Story 3 (2010)

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

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

Overlord (1975)

7.2/10
Director: Stuart Cooper
Starring: Brian Stirner, Davyd Harries, Nicholas Ball, Julie Neesam, John Franklyn-Robbins

An under-appreciated masterpiece of filmmaking focusing on 18-year-old Tom, who enters the British Army in 1944. The film follows him through his rigo... Read more

State of Grace (1990)

7.3/10
Director: Phil Joanou
Starring: Ed Harris, Gary Oldman, John Turturro, Robin Wright, Sean Penn

Gripping, powerfully acted account of Irish gangs in New York's Hell's Kitchen. Sean Penn plays a neighbourhood kid who returns home only to find litt... Read more

The Elephant Man (1980)

8.2/10
Director: David Lynch
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Freddie J...

From the director of 'Eraserhead' and 'Dune', based on the true story of John Merrick, who suffered from a rare, physically distorting disease and was... Read more

The Elephant Man (Blu-ray) (1980)

8.2/10
Director: David Lynch
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Freddie J...

From the director of 'Eraserhead' and 'Dune', based on the true story of John Merrick, who suffered from a rare, physically distorting disease and was... Read more

St Ives (1976)

6.4/10
Director: J Lee Thompson
Starring: Charles Bronson, John Houseman, Harry Guardino, Harris Yulin, Dana Elcar

Ex-crime reporter Raymond St. Ives (Charles Bronson) has elegant taste, a yen for gambling and an unfinished novel in his typewriter. Hired to locate... Read more

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension (Blu-ray) (1984)

7.6/10
Director: W D Richter
Starring: Christopher Lloyd, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum, John Lithgow, Peter Weller

Buckaroo Banzai is a skilled neurosurgeon and physicist who becomes bored with his scientific and medical work and embarks on a career as a rock star... Read more

Toy Story 3 ( Blu-ray ) (2010)

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

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

Nixon (1995)

7.1/10
Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe, Bob Hoskins, David Paymer, David Hyd...

A potent portrait of the controversial US politician and president persuasively played by Anthony Hopkins. Director-cowriter Oliver Stone gives a vivi... Read more

No One Here Gets Out Alive: The Doors' Tribute to Jim Morrison (1981)

7.8/10
Director: Gordon Forbes
Starring: Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Danny Sugerman, Jerry...

"No One Here Gets Out Alive: The Doors' Tribute to Jim Morrison" is a full exploration of the controversial and quixotic singer, delving into his fasc... Read more

Sparkle (2007)

6.1/10
Director: Tom Hunsinger, Neil Hunter
Starring: Stockard Channing, Shaun Evans, Anthony Head, Bob Hoskins, Lesley Manville, John...

An appealing British comedy with a fun concept, a witty script and an uplifting ending, from the writers of 'Lawless Heart'. Sam is a Northerner who d... Read more

The Anton Chekhov Collection (2008)

Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Bill Paterson, David Warner, Eileen Atkins, Ian Holm, Janet Suz...

This collection includes productions of Chekhov's greatest plays. The one-act "The Proposal" (1959) finds rich families building wealth through marria... Read more

Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001)

7.1/10
Director: Jill Sprecher
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, John Turturro, Clea DuVall, Amy Irving, Alan Arkin

Engrossing, mosaic-like, philosophical drama follows a hot-shot attorney, a nebbish professor, an insurance company middle manager and a cheery maid w... Read more

Gold Cinema Collection: The League of Gentlemen / The Million Pound Note / Genevieve (1960)

Director: Basil Dearden, Henry Cornelius, Ronald Neame
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Richard Attenborough, Gregory Peck, Joyce Grenfell,...

'The League of Gentlemen' (1960) After a forcible 'retirement', Colonel Hyde is bitter about his country's ingratitude. He steals classified informat... Read more

Golden Rendezvous (1977)

5.7/10
Director: Ashley Lazarus
Starring: Burgess Meredith, David Janssen, Gordon Jackson, John Vernon, Richard Harris, An...

A cargo vessel converted into a luxury cruise ship is hijacked by a mercenary. Following the orders of an unknown mastermind, he and his men hold the... Read more

Shihad: Beautiful Machine (2012)

7.8/10
Director: Sam Peacocke
Starring: Jon Toogood, Tom Larkin, Phil Knight, Karl Kippenberger

For over 20 years, Shihad has defined New Zealand rock music. From their roots in Wellington's furious 90's punk metal scene, to the wild Berlin days,... Read more

The Fan (1996)

5.8/10
Director: Tony Scott
Starring: Robert De Niro, Wesley Snipes, John Leguizamo, Benicio Del Toro, Ellen Barkin

Robert De Niro and Wesley Snipes star in this gripping thriller about a baseball superstar who becomes the target of an obsessive fan and former knife... Read more

Waterhole #3 (1967)

6.4/10
Director: William Graham
Starring: James Coburn, Carroll O'Connor, Claude Akins, Joan Blondell

A trio of desperadoes hide a fortune in stolen gold in a desert waterhole. Years later, they return separately to double-cross each other and take it... Read more

Big Driver (2014)

5.6/10
Director: Mikael Salomon
Starring: Maria Bello, Ann Dowd, Will Harris, Joan Jett, Olympia Dukakis

Tess Thorne (Maria Bello), a famous writer, faces a long drive home following a book signing. On a lonely New England road her tire blows out, leaving... Read more

Tea With the Dames (Nothing Like a Dame) (2018)

7.6/10
Director: Roger Michell
Starring: Eileen Atkins, Joan Plowright, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Michael Williams

Together, they're 342 years old. They're in their seventh decade of cutting-edge, epoch-defining performances on stage and on screen. Funny, smart, sh... Read more

Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)

8.1/10
Director: Brandon Vietti
Starring: Bruce Greenwood, Jason Isaacs, Neil Patrick Harris, Jensen Ackles, Wade Williams...

In this DC Universe Original Animated Movie, Batman faces his ultimate challenge as the mysterious Red Hood takes Gotham City by firestorm. One part v... Read more

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)

Director: Chris Columbus
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, John Cleese, Robbie Coltrane, Richa...

In this enchanting film adaptation of J. K. Rowling's delightful bestseller, Harry Potter learns on his 11th birthday that he is the orphaned son of t... Read more

Les Miserables (Jordan) (1978)

7.4/10
Director: Glenn Jordan
Starring: Richard Jordan, Anthony Perkins, Cyril Cusack, Claude Dauphin, John Gielgud, Ian...

Victor Hugo's classic story of an escaped convict and the detective who trails him for a lifetime. A lavish remake of the perennial favourite, starrin... Read more

Down From The Mountain (2000)

7.4/10
Director: Chris Hegedus, D A Pennebaker, Nick Doob
Starring: Emmylou Harris, John Hartford, Chris Thomas King, Alison Krauss, Ralph Stanley,...

Joel and Ethan Coen present one of the most extraordinary concerts in the history of traditional American music; 'Down From the Mountain' goes onstage... Read more

The Monster (1975)

5.4/10
Director: Peter Sasdy
Starring: Joan Collins, Eileen Atkins, Donald Pleasence, Ralph Bates, Caroline Munro

Joan Collins stars in this outrageous horror, as a stripper who spurns the advances of a lecherous dwarf and is subsequently cursed by a monstrous bab... Read more

Peter and Paul (1981)

7.8/10
Director: Robert Day
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Eddie Albert, Jon Finch, Raymond Burr, Robert Foxworth

This religious epic tells of the early days of Christianity and how Peter and Paul struggle to spread the word of the Gospel. Set over three decades,... Read more

Great Aussie Icons - Graham Kennedy in... The Club (1980) / Travelling North (1987)

Director: Bruce Beresford, Carl Schultz
Starring: Graham Kennedy, Jack Thompson, Henri Szeps, Frank Wilson, Harold Hopkins, John H...

Long hailed as the 'King of Australian Television' Graham Kennedy also had a stellar career in film including these David Williamson-scripted classics... Read more

The Fog (1980)

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

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 Flintstones (1994)

4.8/10
Director: Brian Levant
Starring: John Goodman, Rick Moranis, Elizabeth Perkins, Rosie O'Donnell, Kyle MacLachlan,...

This big budget live-action re-creation of the 1960's TV series owes much to the amazing efforts of Jim Henson's Creature Shop in creating this colour... Read more

Sophia Loren Collection: Heller In Pink Tights (1960) / Desire Under the Elms (1958) / A Breath of Scandal (1960)

Director: Delbert Mann, George Cukor, Michael Curtiz
Starring: Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, Burl Ives, Anthony Perkins, Maurice Chevalier, Ange...

This classic collection features three films from Italian screen beauty Sophia Loren. 'Heller In Pink Tights' - Based on the novel by Louis L'Amour, t... Read more

Speak (2004)

7.3/10
Director: Jessica Sharzer
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert John Burke, Eric Lively, Elizabeth Perkins, D B Sweeney,...

Based on the celebrated novel by Laurie Halse Anderson, this powerful drama follows high school freshman Melinda as she becomes traumatized following... Read more

The Punisher: Extended Edition (2004)

6.5/10
Director: Jonathan Hensleigh
Starring: John Travolta, Roy Scheider, Thomas Jane, Will Patton, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Be...

Based on the Marvel comics brutal anti-hero character and coming across like some down and dirty 70s revenge flick, "The Punisher" finds FBI agent Fra... Read more

The Bible (1966)

6.3/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Michael Parks, Richard Harris, John Huston, Stephen Boyd, Peter O'Toole, Franco...

An all-star cast, including George C Scott, Ava Gardner, Peter O'Toole and Richard Harris, heads this dramatic retelling of the first 22 Books of Gene... Read more

BlacKkKlansman (2018)

7.8/10
Director: Spike Lee
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Robert John Burke, Topher Grace, Ashlie Atkinson, Adam Driver, Rya...

From Spike Lee comes the incredible true story of an American hero. Its the early 1970s, and Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) is the first Afri... Read more

BlacKkKlansman (Blu-Ray) (2018)

7.8/10
Director: Spike Lee
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Robert John Burke, Topher Grace, Ashlie Atkinson, Adam Driver, Rya...

From Spike Lee comes the incredible true story of an American hero. Its the early 1970s, and Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) is the first Afri... Read more

24 Hour Party People (2002)

7.4/10
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: Paddy Considine, Steve Coogan, Danny Cunningham, Sean Harris, Shirley Henderson,...

This riveting film captures the meteoric real-life exploits of Tony Wilson (great performance by Steve Coogan), a savvy Manchester-based TV impresario... Read more

The High and the Mighty (1954)

6.9/10
Director: William A Wellman
Starring: John Wayne, Robert Stack, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day, Jan Sterling, Phil Harris,...

Unavailable since its original release half-a-century ago, this long-awaited movie finally gets a restored and remastered DVD release. When a commer... Read more

Classic Romance: The Astonished Heart / The Seekers / The Beachcomber (1954)

Director: Ken Annakin, Muriel Box, Terence Fisher
Starring: Celia Johnson, Donald Pleasence, Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins, Margaret Leighton,...

When it came to matters of the heart no one sizzled like Rank. Brilliant romantic tales of the joys and ordeals that come with our endless search for... Read more

Moonlight and Valentino (1995)

5.8/10
Director: David Anspaugh
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Gwyneth Paltrow, Elizabeth Perkins, Jon Bon Jovi, Kathleen Turn...

Following the death of her husband, college professor Elizabeth Perkins finds comfort, friendship and renewed interest in life from the company of you... Read more

Catch-22 (1970)

7.2/10
Director: Mike Nichols
Starring: Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, Jack Gilford, Buck H...

Joseph Heller's modern-classic novel about the absurdity of war for the common man draws heavily on his own experiences as a WWII bombadier. The titl... Read more

The Patsy (1964)

6.3/10
Director: Jerry Lewis
Starring: John Carradine, Phil Harris, Jerry Lewis, Peter Lorre, Everett Sloane, Keenan Wy...

When a popular entertainer meets with an untimely death, his shocked showbiz associates are desperate to find a quick replacement. That replacement is... Read more

The Lion in Winter (1968)

8.1/10
Director: Anthony Harvey
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, Peter O'Toole, John Castle, Nigel Terry, Tim...

Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn tear strips off one another in this grand historical drama about 12th Century King Henry II choosing an heir to th... Read more

Winter Kills (1979)

6.3/10
Director: William Richert
Starring: Richard Boone, Jeff Bridges, Sterling Hayden, John Huston, Anthony Perkins, Eliz...

A rare example of a film so wild, so utterly rambunctious and so bursting with invention that it defies description. Based on the novel by Richard Con... Read more

Beyond the Sea (2004)

6.7/10
Director: Kevin Spacey
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, John Goodman, Bob Hoskins, Brenda Blethyn, Greta Sc...

Kevin Spacey's unusual ode to crooner Bobby Darin is a stylised, though warts-and-all, portrayal of a man who simply wanted to be bigger than Sinatra.... Read more

Parting Shots (1998)

6.2/10
Director: Michael Winner
Starring: Chris Rea, Bob Hoskins, Ben Kingsley, Joanna Lumley, Diana Rigg, Oliver Reed, Fe...

Harry just found out he only has a short time to live - but for his enemies, their prognosis looks even worse. With nothing to lose, he embarks on a r... Read more

Beowulf ( Blu-ray ) (2007)

6.2/10
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Robin Wright, Brendan Gleeson, Cr...

Director Robert Zemeckis ('The Polar Express') again pushes the boundaries of film animation in this visually stunning take on the oldest of English t... Read more

Beowulf: The Director's Cut (2007)

7.7/10
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, Brendan Gleeson, Crispin Glover, John Malkovich...

Director Robert Zemeckis ('The Polar Express') again pushes the boundaries of film animation in this visually stunning take on the oldest of English t... Read more

Miami Vice (2006)

6/10
Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li, Naomie Harris, Ciaran Hinds, Justin Theroux,...

Leaving the pastels and synthesizers far behind Michael Mann reinvents his original series into a hard-boiled police drama. Unfortunately, also gone... Read more

The Notorious Bettie Page (2005)

6.6/10
Director: Mary Harron
Starring: Gretchen Mol, Chris Bauer, Jared Harris, Sarah Paulson, Cara Seymour, David Stra...

Gretchen Mol flashes her cheekiest grin (and more) as infamous 1950s pin-up and spanking sex kitten, Bettie Page. Writer/Director Mary Harron traces h... Read more

The Killers (Blu-Ray) (1964)

7.1/10
Director: Don Siegel
Starring: Angie Dickinson, Claude Akins, Clu Gulager, John Cassavetes, Lee Marvin, Norman...

Two hitmen kill an ex-getaway driver, then hunt for the money he purportedly stole in a previous robbery. They probe their victim's past, seeking clue... Read more

The Punisher (2004)

6.5/10
Director: Jonathan Hensleigh
Starring: Thomas Jane, John Travolta, Will Patton, Roy Scheider, Laura Harring, Ben Foster...

Based on the Marvel comics brutal anti-hero character and coming across like some down and dirty 70s revenge flick, "The Punisher" finds FBI agent Fra... Read more

Top Gun: Maverick (4K Ultra HD) (2022)

8.4/10
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Starring: Val Kilmer, Tom Cruise, Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller, Jon Hamm, Ed Harris

After thirty years, Maverick is still pushing the envelope as a top naval aviator, but must confront ghosts of his past when he leads TOP GUN's elite... Read more

The Sessions (Blu-ray) (2012)

7.2/10
Director: Ben Lewin
Starring: Adam Arkin, Helen Hunt, William H Macy, John Hawkes, Rhea Perlman, Moon Bloodgoo...

Candid and sensitive drama about the sexual awakening of a life-long polio sufferer. John Hawkes stars as Mark O'Brien, a writer in his late thirties... Read more

Psycho Collection I-IV (1960)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock, Mick Garris, Richard Franklin, Anthony Perkins
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Janet Leigh, Martin Balsam, Meg Tilly,...

"Psycho" (1960) - Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece of the macabre stars Anthony Perkins as the troubled Norman Bates, whose "old dark house" and adjoin... Read more

Top Gun: Maverick (Blu-ray) (2022)

8.4/10
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Starring: Val Kilmer, Tom Cruise, Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller, Jon Hamm, Ed Harris

After thirty years, Maverick is still pushing the envelope as a top naval aviator, but must confront ghosts of his past when he leads TOP GUN's elite... Read more

The Wire: Season 2 (2003)

8.2/10
Starring: Idris Elba, Dominic West, Larry Gilliard Jr, Seth Gilliam, Sonja Sohn, Wood Harr...

From creator David Simon, this unvarnished, highly realistic series follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore. In the comp... Read more

The Sessions (2012)

7.2/10
Director: Ben Lewin
Starring: Adam Arkin, Helen Hunt, William H Macy, John Hawkes, Rhea Perlman, Moon Bloodgoo...

Candid and sensitive drama about the sexual awakening of a life-long polio sufferer. John Hawkes stars as Mark O'Brien, a writer in his late thirties... Read more

Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

6.9/10
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Starring: Val Kilmer, Tom Cruise, Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller, Jon Hamm, Ed Harris

After thirty years, Maverick is still pushing the envelope as a top naval aviator, but must confront ghosts of his past when he leads TOP GUN's elite... Read more

Black Death (2010)

6.4/10
Director: Christopher Smith
Starring: David Warner, John Lynch, Sean Bean, Tim McInnerny, Eddie Redmayne, Andy Nyman,...

In medieval England fallen under the shadow of the plague, a young monk called Osmund (Eddie Redmayne) is charged in leading a fearsome knight, Ulric... Read more

The Wire: Season 3 (2004)

9.3/10
Starring: Idris Elba, Wood Harris, Wendell Pierce, Lance Reddick, Sonja Sohn, Dominic West...

Everyone is feeling the heat in Baltimore. The drug war is losing campaign, bodies are piling up in the street and a desperate mayor demands to see so... Read more

Wild Bill (1995)

5.9/10
Director: Walter Hill
Starring: Ellen Barkin, Jeff Bridges, John Hurt, Diane Lane, Marjoe Gortner, David Arquett...

Jeff Bridges stars in this look at the life of Western legend Wild Bill Hickok. In the town of Deadwood, South Dakota, Wild Bill (Bridges) must face h... Read more

Slipstream (2007)

5.1/10
Director: Anthony Hopkins
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Christian Slater, John Turturro, Stella Arroyave, Michael Clark...

Anthony Hopkins directed, wrote and stars in this Lynch-ian, stream-of-consciousness drama about a screenwriter whose reality and imagination are abou... Read more

Pollock (2000)

7/10
Director: Ed Harris
Starring: Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Tom Bower, Jennifer Connelly, Bud Cort, John Heard...

Fellow artists and lovers Jackson Pollock (Ed Harris) and Lee Krasner (Marcia Gay Harden) are at the centre of New York's 1940s art scene, but as Kras... Read more

The Office (US): Season 3, Part 2 (2007)

Starring: Steve Carell, Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, BJ Novak, Melora Hard...

The second half of season three includes Michael and Jan's first official date as a Dunder Mifflin couple; Andy gets back from anger management traini... Read more

Million Dollar Arm (2014)

7/10
Director: Craig Gillespie
Starring: Alan Arkin, Bill Paxton, Lake Bell, Jon Hamm, Aasif Mandvi, Suraj Sharma

Jon Hamm stars as J.B. Bernstein, a down-on-his-luck sports agent who's just lost a hot prospect to a rival agency. In need of a Hail Mary  and inspi... 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

Red 2 (2013)

6.6/10
Director: Dean Parisot
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Brian Cox, Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Helen Mirren, Jo...

In "Red 2", retired black-ops CIA agent Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a m... Read more

The Outer Limits: Sex and Science Fiction Collection (1997)

7.8/10
Starring: Alyssa Milano, Jon Tenney, Natasha Henstridge, Nancy Allen, Fred Savage, Neil Pa...

The 1990s update of the original 60s cult classic again blurs the line between fact and fiction to reveal our greatest hopes… and our darkest fears!... Read more

The Return of Captain Invincible (1982)

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

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

The Rhinemann Exchange (1977)

6.5/10
Director: Burt Kennedy
Starring: Claude Akins, John Huston, Jose Ferrer, Larry Hagman, Lauren Hutton, Rene Auberj...

Based on Robert Ludlum's ("The Bourne Identity") gripping novel of wartime espionage and double-dealing, this TV mini-series follows U.S. intelligence... Read more

Snowpiercer (2013)

7/10
Director: Joon-ho Bong
Starring: Ed Harris, Ewen Bremner, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Chris Evans, Kang...

Adapted from a French graphic novel, the film is set in a dystopian near-future in which the entire Earth has succumbed to a new ice age and the last... Read more

Grudge Match (2013)

6.4/10
Director: Peter Segal
Starring: Alan Arkin, Kim Basinger, Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone, Kevin Hart, Jon Be...

Sports comedy casts Robert De Niro as Billy 'The Kid' McDonnen and Sylvester Stallone as Henry 'Razor' Sharp, two local Pittsburgh fighters whose fier... Read more

National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)

6.5/10
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Starring: Bruce Greenwood, Ed Harris, Harvey Keitel, Helen Mirren, Jon Voight, Nicolas Cag...

A long-missing page in John Wilkes Booth's diary implicates treasure-seeker Nicolas Cage's great-great-grandfather as a conspirator in the assassinati... Read more

The Office (US): Season 4, Part 1 (2007)

Starring: Steve Carell, Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, BJ Novak, Melora Hard...

Steve Carell returns as 'The World's Greatest Boss' although he does run over Meredith in the carpark; Jim and Pam bring a little romance to the workp... Read more

The Eric Sykes Collection: The Plank / Rhubarb Rhubarb! / It's Your Move / Mr H is Late / The Big Freeze (1993)

Director: Eric Sykes
Starring: Eric Sykes, Tommy Cooper, Roy Castle, Jimmy Tarbuck, Hattie Jacques, Jimmy Edwar...

In the tradition of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin comes Eric Sykes and his famous comedy players. These one-off specials are the pinnacle of Sykes... Read more

Oh! What A Lovely War (1969)

7.2/10
Director: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm, John Gielgud, Kenneth More, Jack H...

Based on a 1963 stage show by Charles Chilton, lampooning World War I and war in general, and focused on the Smith family who have five sons to send o... Read more

She Hate Me (2004)

5.3/10
Director: Spike Lee
Starring: Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Ellen Barkin, Monica Bellucci, Jim Brown, Bria...

Fired for blowing the whistle on his greedy bosses, Jack Armstrong is out of work and out of options when his bisexual ex-girlfriend comes up with the... Read more

Scarlett (1994)

6.5/10
Director: John Erman
Starring: Annabeth Gish, Ann-Margret , Colm Meaney, Jean Smart, Joanne Whalley, John Gielg...

The greatest love story ever told began with "Gone With the Wind" and continues in this sweeping epic sequel, as Scarlett, Rhett and a host of unforge... Read more

The Hours (2002)

7.6/10
Director: Stephen Daldry
Starring: Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels, Ed Harris, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, John C Rei...

Nicole Kidman delivers an Oscar-winning performance as author Virginia Woolf in this poignant tale that focuses on three women, living in different ti... Read more

Murder On The Orient Express (1974)

7.3/10
Director: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, Anthony Perkins, Joh...

Belgian Detective Hercule Poirot solves a murder on a train in this stylish movie based on the Agatha Christie mystery. Albert Finney is terrific as t... Read more

Carry On Doctor (1967)

6.5/10
Director: Gerald Thomas
Starring: Sid James, Frankie Howerd, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Jim Dale, Barbara...

Doctor Tinkle (Kenneth Williams) presides over the wards at Borough County Hospital, where patients, doctors and nurses alike all harbour hidden passi... Read more

Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)

7.3/10
Director: Franklin J Schaffner
Starring: Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Harry Andrews, Tom Baker, Michael Bryant, Maurice...

The epic, lavish, yet ultimately tragic true story of Tsar Nicholas II (Michael Jayston), a man who lost an empire because he couldn't say 'no' to his... Read more

The West Wing: Season 2 (2000)

8.7/10
Director: Jeremy Kagan, Ken Olin, Thomas Schlamme, Paris Barclay, Robert Berlinger, Jessica Yu, etc , Chris Misiano, Alex Graves
Starring: Stockard Channing, Melissa Fitzgerald, Dule Hill, Allison Janney, Rob Lowe, Jane...

As the President is rushed to hospital, we learn through flashbacks how his staff first joined him on the election campaign. Attacks come from all si... Read more

Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (2004)

5.4/10
Director: Vadim Jean
Starring: Martin Short, Linda Cardellini, Janeane Garofalo, John Michael Higgins, Elizabet...

Martin Short is Jiminy Glick, a corpulent star-struck celebrity interviewer spawned as a character on Saturday Night Live, then given his own show on... Read more

Planes: Fire and Rescue (2014)

5.7/10
Director: Roberts Gannaway
Starring: Ed Harris, Hal Holbrook, Julie Bowen, Stacy Keach, Teri Hatcher, Wes Studi, Curt...

'Planes: Fire & Rescue' tells the tale of a dynamic crew of elite firefighting aircraft devoted to protecting the historic Piston Peak National Park f... Read more

Another Woman (1988)

7.4/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Betty Buckley, Blythe Danner, David Ogden Stiers, Gena Rowlands, Gene Hackman, H...

When an accomplished philosophy professor turns fifty, she feels compelled to take emotional stock of herself and embarks on a personal odyssey of sel... Read more

Anarchy ( aka Cymbeline ) (2014)

6.6/10
Director: Michael Almereyda
Starring: Penn Badgley, Kevin Corrigan, Peter Gerety, Ed Harris, Ethan Hawke, Dakota Johns...

Aka 'Cymbeline'. This gritty and intense crime drama is an adaptation of William Shakespeare's late tragic work of innocence lost and jealousy avenged... Read more

The New World (2005)

6.7/10
Director: Terrence Malick
Starring: Christian Bale, Colin Farrell, Q'orianka Kilcher, Ben Mendelsohn, Christopher Pl...

Terrence Malick's epic dramatization of the mythical story of Pocahantas and John Smith (Colin Farrell) is just his fourth feature, coming more than 3... Read more

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School (2005)

7.1/10
Director: Randall Miller
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Marisa Tomei, Mary Steenburgen, John Goodman, Sean Astin, Donnie...

An all-star cast turn out for this bittersweet comedy about starting over. Frank (Robert Carlyle) is in a deep depression after the death of his wife... Read more

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ( Blu-ray ) (2002)

7.4/10
Director: Chris Columbus
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Kenneth Branagh, John Cleese, Robbi...

The boy wizard is up to his old tricks in this wondrous adaptation of the second J.K. Rowling book. Despite warnings from an impish 'house elf', Harry... Read more

The New World: The Extended Cut ( Blu-ray ) (2005)

6.7/10
Director: Terrence Malick
Starring: August Schellenberg, Ben Mendelsohn, Brian O'Byrne, Christian Bale, Christopher...

Terrence Malick's epic dramatization of the mythical story of Pocahantas and John Smith (Colin Farrell) is just his fourth feature, coming more than 3... Read more

Chaplin (1992)

7.6/10
Director: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Dan Aykroyd, Geraldine Chaplin, Kevin Dunn, Anthony Hopkins, M...

This biopic of the silent cinema stars life from chirpy cockney to embalmed snob is played well by Robert Downey Jr. Dan Aykroyd is Mack Sennett, Gera... Read more

The West Wing: Season 3 (2001)

8.7/10
Starring: Martin Sheen, Allison Janney, Bradley Whitford, Richard Schiff, Janel Moloney, J...

Despite having MS, President Bartlett decides to run for re-election, creating somewhat of a scandal, and a bit of hard selling for his staff. The fi... Read more

The New Twilight Zone: Season 1 (1985)

Director: Martha Coolidge, Peter Medak, Rick Friedberg, Robert Downey, Tommy Lee Wallace, Wes Craven, William Friedkin, etc
Starring: Bruce Willis, Terry O'Quinn, Annie Potts, Arliss Howard, Dee Wallace, James Crom...

Making its television debut in 1989, the New Twilight Zone followed the same format as its ground-breaking predecessor (minus Rod Serling), with stori... Read more

The West Wing: Season 4 (2002)

8.1/10
Starring: Alan Arkin, Stockard Channing, Melissa Fitzgerald, Mark Harmon, Dule Hill, Allis...

The fourth season of this multiple Emmy-winning show sees the departure of Sam Seaborn (Rob Lowe), as he pursues a new career. Meanwhile the presiden... Read more

The Living Room: Series 3 (2006)

5.6/10
Director: Simon Baumfield, Mark Albiston, Nathan Morris, James Anderson, Makerita Urale
Starring: Steve Abel, Tusiata Avia, Rod Bridgeman, Ed Davis, Caitlin Devoy, Grenell Family...

From Sticky Pictures comes the award-winning third season of the show that showcases Aotearoa's creative culture. With inspirational and creative 'ho... Read more

Mission: Impossible - 5 Movie Collection (1996)

7.4/10
Director: Brian De Palma, John Woo, J J Abrams, Brad Bird, Christopher McQuarrie
Starring: Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Alec Baldwin, Jon Voight,...

The first five films from the spy franchise starring Tom Cruise as a special agent. In 'Mission Impossible' (1996) Ethan Hunt (Cruise), an IMF (Imp... Read more