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Ka Whawhai Tonu
[ ViaVision / DVD - due 12/Jun/2025 ] Set in Aotearoa New Zealand in 1864, Ka Whawhai Tonu tells the story of a pivotal battle in the first New Zealand land wars in the Waikato region. A battle fought with impossible odds between Māori and the Colonial forces. This heroic conflict is... |
Annabel Langbein - The Free Range Cook
[ FME / 2 DVD - released 1/Dec/2010 ] Against the breathtaking backdrop of the southern mountains of New Zealand, and surrounded by abundant fresh produce, artisan foods and world-class wines, Annabel Langbein (The Free Range Cook) reveals the pleasures of her free range cooking... |
The Chills: The Triumph & Tragedy Of Martin Phillipps
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 8/Aug/2019 ] Martin Phillipps came tantalizingly close to conquering the international musical world with his band The Chills, but instead fell into decades of debt and addiction in his hometown of Dunedin, New Zealand. At 54, he's been given a dire medical... |
The Convert
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 22/Aug/2024 ] New Zealand in the 1830s is a Māori world, dominated by tribal wars. Seeking redemption from a dark past, lay preacher Thomas Munro (GUY PEARCE) is on board a trading vessel heading to the newly established town of Epworth, a British settlement in... |
The Dark Horse
[ Sony Pictures DVD / DVD - released 10/Dec/2014 ] Genesis Potini is a wildly charismatic, bi-polar suffering former chess champion, at a crossroads in his life. Gen is released from a psych ward and given a last chance at life in society. With nowhere else to go, he moves into his... |
Hunt For The Wilderpeople (Blu-Ray)
[ Madman Entertainment Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 14/Sep/2016 ] Two rebels. One million hectares of untamed wilderness. The hunt is on. Ricky (Julian Dennison) is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his grumpy foster uncle (Sam Neill) in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt... |
Outrageous Fortune - Series Six
[ South Pacific Pictures DVD / 4 DVD Box Set - released 17/Nov/2010 ] The Wests are a one-family crime wave with a proud tradition in thievery, larceny and petty crime. Or at least they used to be. At the beginning of Series One, family matriarch Cheryl West decided enough was enough - the family must clean up their... |
The Piano
[ Icon DVD / DVD - released 21/Apr/2022 ] Ada (Holly Hunter), mute since birth, her nine year old daughter (Anna Paquin), and her piano arrive to an arranged marriage in the remote bush of nineteenth century New Zealand. Of all her belongings her husband refuses to transport the piano and it... |
Poppy
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 20/Jan/2022 ] Poppy's ambition is to become a motor mechanic starting with the apprenticeship promised by her late father is stalled by her super protective brother who has reluctantly inherited the family workshop/garage business. And it's not until she teams up... |
The World's Fastest Indian
[ ICON DVD / DVD - released 11/Nov/2009 ] Anthony Hopkins stars as Burt Munro, a man who never let the dreams of youth fade. Set in the late 1960's, after a lifetime of perfecting his classic Indian Motorcycle, Burt sets of from the bottom of the world, Invercargill, New Zealand, to clock... |
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Butterfly Lovers: A Music and Dance Film Takako Nishizaki (violin) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / James Judd / Dou Dou / Ding Yue Hong (dancers) [ Marco Polo / DVD - released 9/Feb/2006 ] Butterfly Lovers is a music and dance film by director Marikki Hakola. A synthesis of the ever-popular Chinese violin concerto 'Butterfly Lovers' and choreography inspired by Chinese martial arts and modern dance, the film is an imaginative... |
The Laughing Samoans
The Laughing Samoans: Choka-Block [ Double E Productions / DVD - released 1/Dec/2010 ] Choka-Block features all of The Laughing Samoans popular characters - Tala & Fai, Sam & Tony, Jonathan & Bryan, Paul & Victor and more. Choka-Block includes Room Eleven Boys, Extreme Sports, Chief Concern, Doing Homework, Buying A Car, Leaver's Ball,... |
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The Laughing Samoans: Crack Me Off [ Double Productions / DVD - released 3/Dec/2008 ] Comedy sensations, The Laughing Samoans (aka Eteuati Ete and Tofiga Fepulea'i) have come a long way since their debut gig at the Fringe Festival in Wellington in 2003. In addition to commanding such major NZ venues as The Aotea Centre and The... |
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The Laughing Samoans: Fink About It [ Double E Productions / DVD - released 11/Dec/2015 ] The Laughing Samoans take their Island Time antics to the Hamer Hall Arts Centre in Melbourne, on 14 August 2015. Featuring all of your favourite characters incl. Aunty Tala, Uncle Sam, Paul and Victor, the father and son and the Samoan married to... |
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The Laughing Samoans: Fobulous [ Double E Productions / DVD - released 6/Dec/2013 ] A fresh fabulous show! Eteuati Ete and Tofiga Fepulea'I are the Laughing Samoans. This is their tenth DVD, and finds them once again in fine funny form. Fobulous was recorded at the Arts Centre, Gold Coast, Queensland in September 2013, and reprises... |
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The Laughing Samoans: Fresh Off Da Blane [ Double E Productions / DVD - released 19/Dec/2014 ] This DVD was recorded at the Gold Coast Arts Centre, Queensland on 3rd October 2014. Extras feature fresh TV and the WOWS Kids Fiji Walkathon. Scene 1: Island TV News Report Scene 2: Sunday School Scene 3: Hardware Store Scene 4: Don't Forget... |
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The Laughing Samoans: Funny Chokers [ Laughing Samoans / DVD - released 7/Dec/2012 ] Funny Chokers is another great DVD release from the Pacific's favourite comedy duo, The Laughing Samoans (Eteuati Ete and Tofiga Fepuleai). From the producers of such hits as A Small Samoan Wedding, Off Work, Prettyfull Woman and Choka... |
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The Laughing Samoans: Greatest Hits [ The Laughing Samoans / DVD - released 5/Dec/2011 ] In Feb 2003 Eteuati Ete & Tofiga Fepulea'I performed as individuals on the same comedy bill titled 'Laughing With Samoans' at the New Zealand Fringe Festival in Wellington. Combining forces a year later 'The Laughing Samoans' was born and... |
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The Laughing Samoans: Island Time! [ Double E Productions / DVD - released 28/Nov/2016 ] The latest in the hilarious best-selling series of DVDs from the Laughing Samoans is a live show recorded at the ASB Theatre, Aotea Centre, Auckland in July of this year. Also included is a feature on the Laughing Samoans from Fresh TV. |
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The Laughing Samoans: Off Work [ Double E Productions / DVD - released 5/Dec/2007 ] The Laughing Samoans first hit the stage at the 2003 NZ Fringe Festival and performed to a few hundred people. Today The Laughing Samoans play to audiences in sizes up to 5000 and tour as far afield as the USA, Australia and the Pacific Islands. Last... |
