Sales Gallery: Recent Releases
1 May 0001
Hello Dolly! (Hello, Dolly!) (1969)
- Barbra Streisand is the attraction of this Gene Kelly musical, as a meddling matchmaker.
- 1 May 0001
Long Hot Summer, The (1958)
- The steam rises in this William Faulkner adaptation about sex and sin in the small–town South. With a tyrannical Orson Welles, and Joanne…
- 1 May 0001
Cape Fear (1991)
- Excruciating but masterful telling of a convicted rapist (Robert De Niro) who calculates revenge on his former attorney by way of his family. Scores…
- 1 May 0001
Shane (1953)
- Former gunfighter Alan Ladd comes to the defence of homesteaders menaced by Jack Palance (satanically clad all in black). Classic Western is splendid…
- 1 May 0001
Kama Sutra (1996)
- The director of SALAAM BOMBAY returns to her native land for this enticing, beautifully photographed tale of love, jealousy and revenge among the…
- 1 May 0001
Lord of the Rings (1978)
- Likable animation of JRR Tolkien's fantasy classic, admirably captures the personalities of the novel's horde of eccentric characters and…
- 1 May 0001
Waking Ned Devine (1998)
- When national lottery winner Ned Devine carks it, a cunning old codger (Ian Bannen) assumes his identity to claim the loot, and finds no shortage of…
- 1 May 0001
Miss Julie (1999)
- The puritan 19th century Swedish setting of August Strindberg's one–act play yields dramatic dividends in its fraught affair between flighty…
- 1 May 0001
Reversal of Fortune (1990)
- In his best performance, Jeremy Irons won an Oscar for portraying Claus Von Bulow, a European émigré who was accused of trying to poison his wife…
- 1 May 0001
Flight of the Albatross (1995)
- Teenager Julia Brendler migrates from Germany to New Zealand to renuite with her mother, a scientist studying the albatross colony on a remote island.
- 1 May 0001
Leopard, The (Il Gattopardo) (1963)
- An Italian classic, concerning the decline of the 19th century Sicilian aristocracy – represented by Burt Lancaster– that fulfils its…
- 1 May 0001
Survivors (TV Series) (1975-1977)
- Memorable post–apocalyptic drama serial following a small group of survivors after 99.9% of Earth’s population has been wiped out by a deadly…
- 1 May 0001
Blerta - The Return Trip... (Blerta Revisited) (2001)
- Less a nostalgia 'trip' than a brilliant compendium of manic moments from New Zealand's 1970's travelling roadshow of anarchic performance –…
- 1 May 0001
American Film Theatre - In Celebration (1975)
- A tightly framed screen adaptation of David Storey's autobiographical play set around the reunion of a Nottinghamshire mining family, in which cast…
- 1 May 0001
Storm Over Asia (Potomok Chingis-Khana) (1928)
- An epic of silent Russian cinema to rival Eisenstein, this is set around a young Mongol fur–trapper who is swindled by traders and develops a…
- 1 May 0001
Battlestar Galactica (TV Series) (2004-2009)
- Following on from the 2003 miniseries, this has been hailed as Sci–Fi’s greatest TV series to date...
SEASON ONE: 13 episodes over 4 DVDs…
- 1 May 0001
River Queen (2005)
- Both underrated and overblown, dir. Vincent Ward's (VIGIL) ambitious historical drama depicts the journey across heart, soul and land–scapes of…
- 1 May 0001
Good Night, and Good Luck (2004)
- An astutely–judged freezeframe of an important symbolic moment in 20th century American history, when CBS television presenter Edward Murrow…
- 1 May 0001
Pulse (Kairo) (2001)
- A clandestine by–product of the post–RING phenomenon, this refined and wholly disconcerting tale of a supernatural internet pandemic…
- 1 May 0001
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
- Stark and compelling warning about the imminent effects of climate change – largely being stoked by carbon emissions from human activities…
- 1 May 0001
Boston Legal - Season 2 (TV Series) (2005-2006)
- Further episodes from the irreverent spinoff to THE PRACTICE, based around the cases and happenings of the civil law section of a renowned Boston…
- 1 May 0001
Big Man Japan (Dai-Nipponjin) (2007)
- A genuine inductee to the 'Incredibly Strange' hall of fame, this gonzo monster mash bounds between deadpan mock–u–mentary following the…
- 1 May 0001
Piece Of My Heart (2009)
- TVNZ–commissioned drama focused on the issue of adoption in New Zealand, told through the story of two women who must reconcile their past as…
- 1 May 0001
Home By Christmas (2010)
- The director of WAR STORIES returns to the subject for this deeply personal yet affecting docu–drama focusing this time on a single story…
- 1 May 0001
Coriolanus (2011)
- Ralph Fiennes directs this fierce adaptation of Shakespeare's second–longest play, transposing the Bard's text to modern day Rome, where…
- 1 May 0001
Shield of Straw (2013)
- The prolific Takashi Miike returns with a tale of a team of cops who must protect an accused killer with a billion–yen bounty on his head.
- 1 May 0001
Revenant, The (2015)
- A masterfully intense dramatization of the gruelling experience of frontiersman Hugh Glass and his fight for survival after being mauled by a bear,…
- 1 May 0001
Son of Saul (2015)
- Masterful, but deeply disturbing glimpse into the horror of Auschwitz seen through the perspective of a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his…
- 1 May 0001
Narcos (TV Series) (2015)
- Vivid, unflinching HBO drama chronicles the exploits of the notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
- 1 May 0001
heART of the matter, The (2016)
- A valuable historical documentary tracing the remarkable shifts in educational philosophy in New Zealand during the post WWII years, in which…
- 1 May 0001