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... |
Wind River
[ Icon DVD / DVD - released 13/Dec/2017 ] WIND RIVER is a chilling thriller that follows a rookie FBI agent (Elizabeth Olsen) who teams up with a local game tracker with deep community ties and a haunted past (Jeremy Renner) to investigate the murder of a local girl on a remote Native... |
Boyhood (DVD & UV)
[ Universal Pictures DVD / DVD - released 25/Feb/2015 ] We cannot recommend this highly enough. Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, Richard Linklater's Boyhood is a ground-breaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a kid called Mason (a stellar performance by Ellar Coltrane), who grows... |
Chronesthesia
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 1/Jun/2017 ] When emotionally isolated barista Dan Duncombe starts receiving strange messages on the inside of his bedroom window, he is forced to become involved with the lives of the people around him … and by changing their lives, he changes his... |
Cold In July
[ Umbrella Entertainment / DVD - released 19/Nov/2014 ] While investigating noises in his house one balmy Texas night in 1989, Richard Dane (Michael C. Hall), puts a bullet in the brain of a lowlife burglar. Although he's hailed as a small-town hero, Dane soon finds himself fearing for his family's safety... |
Dirty Wars
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 8/May/2014 ] Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill journeys into the hidden world of America's covert wars, from Afghanistan to Yemen, Somalia, and beyond. As Scahill digs deeper into the clandestine activities, he is pulled into a world of covert operations... |
Living Is Easy (With Eyes Closed)
[ Palace Films / DVD - released 8/Oct/2015 ] It's 1966: dedicated schoolteacher Antonio is an obsessive Beatles fan. When he learns that John Lennon is filming a movie on the other side of the country, Antonio drops everything and sets out in his tiny Fiat to find the production's... |
Locke
[ Madman / DVD - released 27/Nov/2014 ] Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) has worked diligently to craft the life he has envisioned, dedicating himself to his job and family, both of which he loves. On the eve of the biggest challenge of his career, Ivan receives a phone call that sets in motion a... |
Love Story
[ Rialto Distribution Ltd DVD / DVD - released 9/May/2013 ] M:Contains sexual themes. A beautiful stranger on the Coney Island train becomes both lead actress and real life object of desire in this choose your own adventure documentary about writing a fictional love story on the streets of New York... |
The Loved Ones
[ Asylum DVD / DVD - released 14/Apr/2011 ] After high-schooler Brent Mitchell wraps his car around a tree, killing his father, he escapes into a marijuana-fuelled world of heavy metal music to block the pain and guilt. He is kept grounded by his beautiful and caring girlfriend Holly, whom is... |
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 15/Jan/2015 ] Malice of Clipse called it "flawless". DJ Semtex called it "perfection". Lupe Fiasco said, "It changed my life forever." Time is Illmatic cemented Nas' unassailable skills. It was his debut. He was 17. Witnessing peers succumb to drugs, prison and... |
UTU (Redux)
[ Aromedia DVD / DVD - released 4/Dec/2015 ] "Hands down, the best New Zealand movie of our time" - Quentin Tarantino. In 1870s New Zealand, Te Wheke (Anzac Wallace), a Maori scout for the colonial troops, finds his tribe massacred by the army... |
Waru
[ Vendetta Films DVD / DVD - released 31/Jan/2018 ] Eight female Māori directors have each contributed a ten minute vignette, presented as a continuous shot in real time, that unfolds around the tangi (funeral) of a small boy (Waru) who died at the hands of his caregiver. The vignettes are all subtly... |
Winter Sleep
[ Madman / DVD - released 9/Apr/2015 ] A film by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Winner of the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes, the new film from Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan (ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA) is an immersive and provocative drama. Set in the picturesque and striking landscape of... |
The Young And Prodigious T.S Spivet
[ Madman / DVD - released 9/Apr/2015 ] From the imagination of Jean-Pierre Jeunet (AMELIE). T.S. Spivet is a curious child, fascinated by maps and science, who lives on a ranch with his whimsical mother, stoic father and ambitious sister. After receiving a letter from the Smithsonian... |
Your Sister's Sister
[ Blu-ray Disc - released 14/Feb/2013 ] One year after his brother's death, Jack (Mark Duplass, SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED) hasn't recovered. His best friend, Iris (Emily Blunt, THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT), prescribes solitary reflection and sends him to her father's empty cabin. But she... |
Boyhood
[ Universal Pictures / DVD - released 25/Feb/2015 ] We cannot recommend this highly enough. Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, Richard Linklater's Boyhood is a ground-breaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a kid called Mason (a stellar performance by Ellar Coltrane), who grows... |
45 Years
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 14/Jul/2016 ] Kate Mercer is planning a party to celebrate her 45th wedding anniversary. One week before the celebration a letter arrives for her husband, Geoff, containing news that the body of his first love has been discovered,frozen and preserved in the icy... |
All Governments Lie
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 9/Nov/2017 ] All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Legacy of I.F. Stone is a theatrical documentary created by a team of Emmy Award-winning filmmakers, who subscribed to I. F. Stone's newsletter in their teens. "I. F. Stone's Weekly" inspired us then,... |
Arrietty (Special Edition) (Studio Ghibli Collection)
[ Studio Ghibli / Madman Entertainment DVD / 2 DVD - released 6/Dec/2012 ] This is a story of a family of "little" people. ARRIETTY is a visually stunning animated film created by world-renowned Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli (SPIRITED AWAY, HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE, PONYO) and based on the much-loved children's book... |