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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

It reignites the fun of pirate flicks and still manages to feel fresh and invigorating. The package comes stuffed with many interesting and informative supplements. It's one of the year’s most fun movies and best DVDs to date.

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The Last Horror Movie

It is both gruesome and unsettling, but also entertaining and unavoidably draws the viewer’s attention and has a final twist that is enough, at the very least, to have you checking your locks.

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The Adventures Of Barry McKenzie (2 Disc Chunderama Edition)

Barry Humphries, Barry Crocker, Spike Milligan and Peter Cook star in this groundbreaking film and it finally comes in a two-disc package, completely uncensored and in widescreen for the first time in thirty-five years.

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Cosmos

If you are were to choose one science program to watch then go no further than Cosmos. It is fun as well as brainy.

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Fight Night Vol 2: Boxing’s Best Part 1


The James Bond Story

“The James Bond Story” documents the impact and legacy of the remarkable series of films, with film clips and interviews from the first film in 1962 , “Dr. No”, until “The World Is Not Enough” in 2000.

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Mamma Roma

The least known of Pier Paolo Pasolini's features also happens to be one of his best. It stars Anna Magnani at her most volcanic, hyperbolic, and magnificent as a Roman prostitute.

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Toy Story 2

The follow-up to the original box-office smash. This enormous box office smash garnered worldwide critical reviews…

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The Tunnel

The tunnel is both a political thriller and historical drama with an authentic documentary feel. Apart from some questionable sub-titles, the film is packaged well on DVD.

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Gone Troppo

This documentary takes a look back at the Tropfest years 1993-2000, and focuses on the judging process. It's quite humorous and tells things candidly.

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Get Smart - The Complete Five Seasons

Overall, the Get Smart DVD collection of Seasons 1 to 5 is undeniably one of the finest television releases I've ever seen. The shows look and sound as they should and included with them are many hours of extras.

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Toy Story

This is one of the best animated features ever made.

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Golden Door

Emanuele Crialese's “The Golden Door,” the story of an Italian family emigrating to America circa 1900, contains long, contemplative silences and immerses us in the images and sounds of its world: the arduous and the tedious testing that immigrants undergo before being granted even temporary citizenship.

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Lion King 3: Hakuna Mutata

”Lion King 3” is more of an alternate angle to the original film. The story follows the events of the original, mixed in with jokes, events and characters that we didn’t get to see before.

The young ones will be suitably impressed but, for older viewers, who wish to rekindle the love for the original, they should probably just stick to that.

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Get Smart - Seasons 1 & 2

There has been a great deal of time that has gone into the releases. The original episodes are shown - uncut and beautifully re-mastered. It's a release no fan of Maxwell Smart can miss!

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Housewife, 49

Nella Last discovered her own innate strengths and abilities as she tried to keep some kind of home life going for the benefit of her husband and sons… and herself. This DVD presents a moving and well written story into the life of the women of the home front.

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Standing in the Shadows of Motown

The Motown sound started in Detroit during the 1950s and the foundation came from a group of musicians known as The Funk Brothers.

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A Bug's Life

…the visual sight of this world in computer animation is very good, making the film a real delight. This is a film that grabs the viewer with its imaginative world,…

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Taken Volume 1 - Roswell: The Landing

It's an amazing chronicle of mankind’s relationship to the extraterrestrial in our midst and shows Spielberg's vision in bringing a treat for sci-fi fans.

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The Chatterley Affair

“The Chatterley Affair” is a very smart BBC drama that takes us back to 1960's landmark trial regarding D.H. Lawrence's “Lady Chatterley's Lover.”

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Aladdin 2-Disc Special Edition

There is a vast amount of extra content not seen at the cinematic release and young ones will have a ball with all the extras. Watch for the two-hour documentary “A Diamond In The Rough” which gives a good perspective into the making of the film. There is something for everyone to enjoy, however, and the games and trailers are well recommended.

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American Gangster (Extended Edition)

In 1970s America, a detective works to bring down the drug empire of Frank Lucas, a heroin kingpin from Manhattan, who is smuggling the drug into the country in the coffins of soldiers returning from the Vietnam War.

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Finding Nemo

As the biggest animated feature of all time and highest grossing animated film ever released in Australia, the Disney/Pixar film Finding Nemo is now released on DVD and video.

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The Walker

The Walker is a story of a high society male escort who unsuspectingly becomes involved in a murder case.

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Alice In Wonderland

Another gorgeous Disney release comes to life on DVD. Disney's animators bring the classic Alice In Wonderland to DVD fruition with magical brilliance.

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Furnace

Unexplained deaths and eerie sounds makes Furnace your classic 21st century horror with over-the-top acting, gory effects and good old fashioned scares.

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Peter Pan: 2-Disc Special Edition

The DVD package bursts with fantasy, adventure, and memorable characters amd wil all-new digital restoration.

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Boy Meets Girl

’Boy Meets Girl’ sometimes looks and feels like a documentary, that is as frightening as it is shocking. It creates a very dark tapestry of images of abuse.

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I Love Your Work

An interesting film, but one that may leave you a little ‘dazed and confused.’

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A Decade Under The Influence

A fireball documentary about the 1970s, when filmmakers were stoked by sex, drugs, rock, and social conscience.

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Great Aussie Icons: Barry Humphries

The “Great Aussie Icons: Barry Humphries” DVD collection contains two quintessential Australian films starring the well known and loved comedian, satirist, and character actor Barry Humphries.

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A Day And A Notte with John Barresi

His work depicts real people in real situations, something that most Italian families, in particular, will recognise easily.

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Brother Bear

The film lacks some oomph and it's surprising that the writers couldn't come up with a better-developed story and fully realised characters. The film does have a fan base, however, and those who are Disney devotees should enjoy this DVD edition, which provides satisfactory audio/video presentation and very good additional features.

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Ginga - The Soul of Brasilian Football

“Ginga: The Soul of Brazilian Football”, is a documentary which explores this rich influence from the roots of seven real young boys, trying to make it in the world of football, most of them wanting to reach far beyond the restraints of their poverty-stricken neighbourhoods.

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Essential World Cinema: ITALY

The overall package is fabulous because you won't be able to pick a set of three better Italian films that give that “essential” quality.

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Brothers (Brodre)

A beautiful film of twists and turns, many you don’t expect. The simplicity of the script, yet the impeccable acting and the blunt and imposing texture of the filming, together create an atmosphere of unshakeable emotion.

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Francois Truffaut Collection: The Adventures of Antoine Doinel

“The Adventures of Antoine Doinel” is a collection of movies written and directed by legendary French filmmaker Francois Truffaut, a former film critic who helped usher in the New Wave of French Cinema which inspired the likes of Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and many others.

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A Dance To The Music Of Time (4-DVD set)

The production is excellent, and the acting is extremely good. Once you become familiar with the casting arrangements, it comes across as a worthy adaptation, and is well recommended.

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Carmen Electra’s Naked Women’s Wrestling League Volume 1

…the headline on the DVD cover – BUSH vs HUSSEIN. It sets up a tantalising prospect in this first volume of the titillating series of the Naked Women’s Wrestling League.

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Untraceable

However, in this movie the problems are noticeable, to the contrived and inexcusably ordinary script. Hoblit's direction saves the film from being one of total lowlights.

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Dead Man - 10th anniversary edition

In true Jim Jarmusch style this film has plenty of clever moments that will make you smile. It's also devastatingly stylish, and offers a serious criticism to the historical treatment of native Americans.

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The Fellini Collection Vol.1

One of the great visionaries of Italian cinema was Federico Fellini. He became a worldly figure through such classics as La Dolce Vita, I Vitelloni, 8 ½, and many other films.

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Lust, Caution

Ang Lee is a director who concentrates on forbidden love and the consequences of stifling our passion or swallowing emotions. This is a story about a beautiful spy who seduces and falls for her target in the lush espionage tale Lust, Caution. Like most Lee movies it is a beautifully photographed and one that earned an R rating.

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Disturbia

Suspense suggests that the viewer anxiously awaits what will happen next. Disturbia does something more. It manages to engross the audience with a rarely reached level of attentive responsiveness.

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The Bridge of San Luis Rey

The greatest thing about this film is the costuming and set design. It is very often a beautiful film to watch, and your senses are sometimes overcome with a silly romantic longing to be eighteenth century Peru.

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La Notte

La Notte is one of the great films made by Italian director Michaelangelo Antonioni. It is a stand-out in the new wave genre of the early 1960s.

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Saludos Amigos

Made in 1943 Saludos Amigos was the first of the so-called “anthology films”. This is a mixture of musical, comical animation and a cultural documentary of South America.

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The short films of Francois Ozon

Ozon offers impressive tapas here, with concise, impeccably structured short films. Plot twists are reminiscent of Roald Dahl, while the sensual undercurrents approach Anais Nin’s erotica, without being nearly as explicit.

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The Woodsman

The story can be seen as one where you look into the life of someone that society would like to see put away forever. It’s an unnerving portrait of hard-won redemption.

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Bambi

Bambi is one of Walt Disney's greatest triumphs and one of the all-time most requested Disney classics. It is widely believed that Bambi has had the greatest impact on viewers of any Disney film. Originally theatrically released in 1942, it has been re-released many times since for millions of fans.

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Amazing Grace

Released in Britain to mark the 200th anniversary of the bill by William Wilberforce that outlawed slavery in Britain, “Amazing Grace” tells the story of this fight to end the slave trade through the central character of William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffudd), the great English social reformer who fought it for twenty years.

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Behind Enemy Lines 2

This film could easily have been its own film. Axis of Evil is surprisingly suspenseful and somewhat of a guilty pleasure. Great credit should go to the filmmakers when it has the ability to “get you in” from the start.

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Death At A Funeral

These sort of absurdities often run the risk of going terribly wrong if not handled properly, but director Frank Oz benefits from a solid cast that sells the material well.

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The Mighty Peking Man

It‘s the Shaw Brothers’ spin on the King Kong theme and might be thought of as cheapening the past classic with cliches and shameless antics. But the film is inviting to watch because of its oddball charm.

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The Godfather

The Godfather is, in my opinion, the best film ever made. This is epic filmmaking at its best.

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Miracle In Milan

…this is another award-winning masterpiece from De Sica and is considered one of the watershed films of the Italian cinema renaissance.

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The Eye

Although stylish, this film wasn't as horrifying as I was hoping for. The ghosts weren't threatening and the scares weren't long enough.

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Two-Lane Blacktop

Two-Lane Blacktop was largely ignored in its day.

Two-Lane Blacktop remains mysterious and compelling, thanks to its sparse dialogue and enigmatic characters.

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The Body Beneath

The Body Beneath is a cult flick that is, despite its age, bone chilling and extremely violent and is bound to move even the most frequent horror viewers.

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Starsky And Hutch

The film features a number of in-jokes and cameos from the original series, and the homoerotica that underlies so many cop shows and action movies is played very effectively for laughs.

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Slaughterhouse-Five

Writer Stephen Geller has done an excellent job in adapting Vonnegut Jr.’s story, and director George Roy Hill succeeds in bringing to life what I am sure was deemed by many to be an un-filmable novel.

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Creature Comforts - Series 2 Part 2

Creature Comforts is a very funny claymation series about the lives of animals as told by the animals themselves. Unscripted and unashamedly funny, the British public once again speaks through the mouths of their plasticine counterparts.

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The Quiet American

“The Quiet American” takes place in Vietnam during 1951-52. The central character is aging British journalist Thomas Fowler, who is covering the French Indo-China War (1946-54) for a London newspaper.

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The Machinist

Only a short way into The Machinist, styles, imagery, themes and characters from a collection of films and director’s work, begin to percolate through the viewer’s mind.

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The Camomile Lawn - 2 DVD set

This is a highly regarded British series with some excellent acting performances. It came to Australia with great expectations in the early 1990s and it didn't let anyone down as a quality drama.

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Nacho Libre

It's terribly predictable but bizarre, outrageous, entertaining and requires absolutely no concentration.

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Spider-Man: The Venom Saga

The Spider-Man legend contimues with an epic battle against one of Spiderman’s greatest foes. When an alien element falls into the wrong hands, a lethal new criminal is unleashed.

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My Summer Of Love

…the filming is handled with such integrity that we view the protagonists through the filter of their passion for each other, rather than through, smutty, external voyeurism. That said, it’s gorgeously decadent and very, very sexy.

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The Interpreter

Director Sydney Pollack demonstrates his cleverness and gifted filmmaking ability. He creates important messages behind the action.

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John Pilger's Australia

But in a time where politicians are riding on a wave of nationalism and xenophobia with the aid of an implicit media, the voice of the loan maverick John Pilger is not only welcome but a necessity.

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Danny Bhoy - Live At The Sydney Opera House

Danny Bhoy is a Scottish comedian who has endeared himself to Australian audiences through various comedy festivals around Australia over the past few years.

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Live Forever

This is a fascinating and honest look at the rise and fall of British pop music through the mid-1990s.

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It's Me Or The Dog feat. Victoria Stilwell

With the new hit series, ‘It’s Me or The Dog’, enjoy a barrel of laughs and shake your head at the outlandish lengths some owners will go to in order to spoil their pets.

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Carlito's Way: Rise To Power

The film isn’t a patch on the original film. The production values are lesser, the performers aren’t as entrancing, and the storyline’s not really there. But, as a direct to video effort, it’s rather good.

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The Godfather Part II

With a brilliant film structure and exciting acting and cinematography, The Godfather Part 2 ranks, in my opinion, alongside The Godfather, as in the best two films ever made.

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The Godfather Part III

There isn’t the force and dynamics of the previous two films, but it is still worthy. The opera scenes are superb and Al Pacino’s performance towards the end of the film, particularly his display of emotions, is brilliant.

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Princesses

Director Fernando León de Aranoa's account of Spanish prostitution is almost all surface, concentrating so heavily on the personal and professional ordeals of its characters that it barely exhibits any bigger interest in the external forces that conspire to place women in such circumstances.

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Tree Of Wooden Clogs

Italian filmmaker Ermanno Olmi won the Palme D'Or at the 1978 Cannes International Film Festival for this lengthy, detailed and quietly profound portrayal of daily life among a group of Lombardy peasants at the turn of the last century.

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Sunshine

The film Sunshine is available to rent on DVD in Australia. It is directed by the acclaimed director of films such as Trainspotting and 28 Days Later, Danny Boyle, and is a visually stunning film with state of the art special effects.

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The Home Song Stories

The remarkable Joan Chen creates a complex character in Rose, who manipulates the sympathies and frustrations of her audience through a performance that is simply electric in its transformation.

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Making Venus

An interesting documentary, “Making Venus” tells the story of Jason and Julian, two friends who want to be the new ‘superstars of the film world’. Documentary maker Gary Doust was on set to chronicle this dynamic duo producing “The Venus Factory”, a low budget Australian film about an actor with high hopes who is drawn into the world of porn.

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The Cat Returns

The Cat Returns is not just a story for children, but a film that can inspire and delight people of all ages. The issues of fate and the necessity to believe in oneself in life are conveyed throughout the film, causing any viewer to reflect on their own life.

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Dark Days

Dark Days is a documentary from the US released in 2000, but shot over a number of years before that, by first time filmmaker and British expatriate Marc Singer. It chronicles the daily lives of a community of homeless people who have made their home in the subway tunnels beneath Penn station in New York.

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Essential World Cinema: UK

An excellent and diverse collection of British films comprise the latest in the Essential World Cinema DVD sets.

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Bombon El Perro

Bombón El Perro is a wonderful story of hope out of despair.

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Melody Time

This film was made in 1948. It’s a collection of 7 shorts and is considered the last of the anthology features of little-known features produced during World War II.

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Princess Mononoke

Writer/director Hayao Miyazaki has made a very good film. The story is compelling and the characters interesting. The animation is beautiful, the music is superb, and the visuals are spectacular. What is really impressive, however, is the intelligence and empathy behind the story.

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Sex And Fury

…there is an real elegance to the film, especially the action sequences. It's the type of film that Quentin Tarantino often refers to as an inspiration behind the Kill Bill films.

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Thirteen Conversations About One Thing

It offers not only some excellent performances, but an interesting set of stories that illustrate life’s pursuit of happiness…

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Jaws - 30th Anniversary Edition

Based on Peter Benchley’s book, this was a ground-breaking and brilliantly made in its day. It brought Steven Spielberg to prominence.

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Cinderella - Special Edition

It is a timeless story that is just as good and relevant now as it was many years ago when it was created. Disney has made something that will be around forever…

There is a disc packed with extras, including deleted scenes, lots of music, documentaries, galleries and more.

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Demon Lover

From the beginning Demon Lover appears to be an unlikely take on the subject it portrays - illegal animated porn. Shot in luminescent light, the first third contains genuine character interaction and appears to be more than just a superficial take on skin flicks.

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Chasing Amy

There are some wonderful moments in “Chasing Amy”, both from the performances by Adams, Affleck and Jason Lee, as well as the dialogue from Smith, which is both very funny and very honest.

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Kill Bill Vol.1

Tarantino fills Kill Bill with fantastic moments. There are scenes and shots in this movie which are outstanding, with a fantastic and distinct style…

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Bande a part (Band Of Outsiders)

This is one of Jean-Luc Godard's most accessible and most enjoyable films. It is spirited early 60's New Wave in how he contravenes movie convention, and not so abstract like he became a few years later.

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Dreamgirls

The glitz of a Broadway musical is well transferred to the screen in this colourful story that follows the rise of girl group “The Dreamettes” and the struggles they encounter as they try to make their way to the top of the charts.

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Butterfly Kiss

‘Butterfly Kiss’ is a tender yet disturbing story of a relationship formed between two women, and takes the viewer deep into the psyche of a murderesses mind.

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Mulan 2

While the film's overall effort is not as sensational as the original, it offers solid family entertainment, healthy female role models, and a handful of catchy songs.

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Pooh's Heffalump Movie

As a welcome dose of old-fashioned animation for parents and a delightful, easy-to-follow experience for kids, this is a nostalgic cartoon feature for fans of the Pooh series.

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Picnic At Hanging Rock

A hauntingly beautiful film that helped put Australian films on the map in the mid-1970s.

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Trouble Every Day

Interesting to observe the little dialogue and visual manners by the protagonsists and how the slow piecing together of what is going on is a key factor in this controversial and somewhat disturbing film.

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La Strada

This 1953 Italian movie won Federico Fellini the first of his four Best Foreign Picture Academy Awards. It was well deserved - this is a wonderful piece of filmmaking. La Strada is brilliant and compelling viewing.

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The Incredibles

Being a leader in the animation game, Pixar would be ecstatic in its success over the past ten years. Now, The Incredibles sits high up amongst the pack. This film is extremely humorous in its look at family values and the quest for peace.

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Girls Of The Playboy Mansion Season 1

The lovely young ladies allow us into their unique daily lives as they laugh, love, play, and party hard, giving rise to why theirs is a prestigious position. One can only wonder how many other young women are in the queue behind them waiting to get into the inner sanctum.

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Fun and Fancy Free

It is Disney’s 9th full-length animated film and is the last time that Walt Disney was the voice of Mickey Mouse.

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Strange Planet

Strange Planet follows the lives of two groups of 20-somethings in Australia over the course of a year of their lives. They bounce from relationship to relationship and one emotional crisis after another, all the while searching for love and meaning.

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Fight Night - Boxing's Best Part 1

This is a very special DVD for fight fans as it covers the careers of three legendary heavyweight fighters of the 20th century – Rocky Marciano, Jack Dempsey, and Joe Louis.

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Ichi The Killer

It's not a stand-alone piece and lacks the charisma of a lasting anime. The plot is cliched but could have worked well if the film weren't so clearly engineered to maximise bloodshed and sexual titillation.

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Reds: Special Edition

The film encounters the social and cultural changes in Russia - greater expression of politics and art and sex.

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Ong Bak

Like most other great martial arts film, the story isn’t as important as the action you see on screen. Tony Jaa and his physical abilities provide the impact that makes good viewing.

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Hollywoodland

This is director Allen Coulter’s debut film, and it takes a unique look at the famous Superman through the tragic life of one of the many actors who donned the cape.

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Cry Wolf

This is classic Wes Craven-style horror: the pervasive eeriness, the cat-and-mouse murder scenes, the predictable twists.

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Lion King 2: Simba's Pride

From the hilarious humour of Timon And Pumbaa to the magnificent, adventure world of the Serengeti, an all-new story is created.

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Pirates Of The Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest

It's a swashbuckling ride of devilish humour. Admittedly, the plot is a thin one, but who really cares when a movie is this much fun to watch.

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Deja Vu

Visually, this is a very enjoyable and compelling film. It has solid action credentials with director Tony Scott at the helm and Jerry Bruckheimer in the producer's chair.

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Wings Of Nature

It's a French documentary and the filmmakers take viewers on a bird's journey.

It complements the excellent “Travelling Birds” documentary from the same filmmakers.

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Caro Diario (Dear Diary)

This is another of those quirky films made by Italian director Nanni Moretti. It's very warm and idiosyncratic,…

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In Enemy Hands

It’s an interesting premise that is handled with absolutely no subtlety by director Tony Giglio, who seems much more at home directing scenes of sweaty panic than anything containing real emotional resonance.

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Indochine

Set in French Indochina in the 1930’s it tackles numerous social and political issues of the time.

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Don's Party

It is the night of the Australian election, 1969, and Don Henderson (John Hargreaves) throws a party and watches the results come in with all his friends.

His friends are a disparate bunch, with sex and politics being a big sticking point for some.

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A Mighty Heart

A Mighty Heart is a genuine and heartfelt account of tragedy. The excellent performances reflect a true sense of the frustration and suffering of all those involved.

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The Big Empty

…it is an imaginative independent film for people who like movies that walk on the weird side.

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Hong Kong Legends - Iceman Cometh, The Master, The Odd Couple

Universal Pictures releases three martial arts films under its Hong Kong Legends banner. More accurately, the films are re-releases, utilising the digital format to freshen up what traditionally well-worn prints. But despite their crisp looking transfer, the films have lost none of their B-movie appeal, evoking a time before the multiplex, when a trip to a rundown theatre to catch a chop-socky double feature was a guilty pleasure.

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King of Beggars

King of Beggars is a fast-paced and entertaining action-comedy film. Its depiction of imperial China is delightfully vibrant and colourful, …

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Time To Go John

Aside from the politics, the empathy of the filmmaking and the clean direction is a great showcase of filmmakers in Australia.

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L'Avventura

Watch for the stunning sets, lush locations, dexterous camera work, and sexy cast. It makes you forget about cinematic workings.

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Mayor Of Sunset Strip

This is a documentary about Rodney Bingenheimer, a Los Angeles radio DJ who has been a dedicated mover and shaker since the 1960s. To millions of Americans he was the voice of KROQ Radio. Propelled by a hit-packed soundtrack, the film offers a lively, funny look at the status of celebrity.

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Black And White

This is an inspirational story from Australia’s recent past and is about bigotry, social injustice, and a real-life murder trial that was headline news in the late 1950s.

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Oz - Complete First Season

The first series of Oz deals with controversial subjects and gives viewers a close eye into the taboo and unknown of prison with all its gory glory.

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Gladiator: Extended Special Edition

This new special extended edition of ‘Gladiator,’ personally overseen by Scott, delivers an additional seventeen minutes of action packed drama to the audience. The new scenes are not ground breaking or story altering; however they add a little more context and drama to the storyline for fans of the original.

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The Town is Quiet

This movie has underlying issues as well, ones that are not quite so confronting. Globalisation, war, politics and lack of parenting love, are all things that contribute to the eventual demise and destruction of Guediguian’s characters. It is these subtler messages that make his movie so intriguing and unpredictable.

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Eurotrip Uncut

Overall, “Eurotrip” is entertaining and had some very funny moments. There is a little more nudity and swearing in the DVD version.

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Europa Europa

Holland has taken a touching subject, aligned a magnificent cast and has successfully processed a movie that captures the realities of war.

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An Inconvenient Truth

It's amazing how a lecture becomes such compelling viewing. An Inconvenient Truth is little more than a series of graphs and charts,…

The documentary works well due to Gore's passion and thorough research…

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The Little Mermaid

The Little Mermaid is an important film in animation and has an entertainment value that supersedes age or gender.

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Hostel Part II

The sequel to the highly successful “Hostel”, writer/director Eli Roth returns with another shocking and brutal foray into the lives of three Americans…

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World Trade Centre

World Trade Centre is one of the most inspiring true stories made to film.

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Fight Night Vol 1: The Thrilla In Manilla / The Rumble In The Jungle

It remains one of the most compelling fights in the history of the sport and it was said that both men were never the same again, emotionally and physically.

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The Wrong Man

The Wrong Man is a comic thriller that twists and turns its way through an underworld of crime and revenge where nothing is as it seems.

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Les Murray's World Football Challenge (Interactive Trivia Game)

SBS Head of Sport, Les Murray, has been the mainstay since the broadcaster entered Australian households in 1980 and has been a champion for football throughout the years.

As the “face of football” Les has devised his World Football Challenge, an interactive trivia game where you can test your knowledge on world football in a multiple-choice competition.

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The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe

The script is reasonably tight, the actors have been aptly cast (especially the wonderful Tilda Swinton as the evil Queen of Narnia), while the music is strong and the cinematography is delightful.

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Treasure Planet

“Treasure Planet” may not be one of Disney's finest efforts in the past several years, but it's a brisk feature that offers some worthwhile visuals.

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Jersey Girl

There are a few nods to Smith’s past films here and there, and as usual, there are some familiar faces from his previous work. Smith’s recent experience of becoming a father obviously informed the film.

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Kill Bill Vol.2

“Kill Bill Vol. 1 isn't entirely successful as one film. It needs its second half.”
It’s clear from the start that Tarantino is going for a different tone in Vol. 2. The pace is more languid, and the dialogue is drawn out for effect.

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The Perfect Man

The rest of the movie however, is just plain ordinary. The plot is silly. The writing is poor, creating situations with no realism whatsoever, not to mention the transparent characters.

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Nick Broomfield – Adventures In The Sex Trade

Nick Broomfield has been making documentary films for over thirty years now, and this DVD set is a very interesting compilation marking his development over that time.

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The Dick Cavett Show - Hollywood Greats

Cavett was able to make each guest feel at ease. This, in turn, makes them feel comfortable enough to talk about their lives and careers.

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Breaking And Entering

A thought-provoking, and ultimately very satisfying, exploration of communication and yearning, Breaking and Entering is a quietly affecting movie, one that sneaks up on you and makes you care deeply about its players without knowing or expecting it.

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Intimate Confessions Of A Chinese Courtesan

…the elaborate sets, well-crafted story and exotic characters work wonderfully together to move the film forward. When the action moves up a notch, it's done with a vengeance.

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The Root of All Evil?

For a man who preaches the need for evidence, it is surprising to find that Dawkins has none to back his claims, only pseudo-science presented by a man with a respectable title, preaching religious hatred in the guise of free speech.

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Tarzan and Jane

Like most other Disney direct-to-video sequels, Tarzan & Jane isn’t up to the usual Disney standard. Unfortunately, it isn’t well animated and it lacks the spark to be seen as a great DVD package.

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Essential World Cinema: FRANCE

A very good set of French films, especially worthwhile for the acting performances, which are exquisite.

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Carmen Electra’s Naked Women’s Wrestling League Volume 2

The women's championship[ is on the line with the amazing Twin Peaks in combat aginst Wicca St.James for the title.

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Playboy 2007 Playmate Of The Year

…blonde beauty Sara Jean Underwood graduated to cover girl, centrefold (Miss July 2006), and then achieved the honour of becoming the Playboy Playmate of the Year 2007.

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Suite 16

This is an erotic thriller directed by Dominique Deruddere and set in the French Riviera. It tells of two men; Chris, an arrogant, good-looking young man, and Glover, a wealthy man confined to a wheelchair, sitting it out in a comfortable hotel.

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Crude: The Incredible Journey Of Oil

The gratifying thing is that Dr Smith doesn't paint the bleakest picture. It's a more balanced view covering the best and worst case scenarios.

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Diary Of A Mad Black Woman

Diary of a Mad Black Woman may be considered a little too ambitious and tonally schizophrenic for its own good, but it does demonstrate Perry's promise,…

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Lovewrecked

Bynes puts in an A effort, yet only receives C results. She's the reason the film gets the small handful of chuckles it can muster, and she's the feeble spark of electricity in the romantic comedy department.

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Winnie The Pooh: Springtime With Roo

A great kids flick with valuable lessons and great interactive features too.

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Mao Shan Jiang Shi Quan (The Shadow Boxing)

This is a very strange film, but also an interesting mix of genres and an original attempt at a vampire style film.

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Reno 911!: Miami

Based on the Comedy Channel's television series, it is difficult to translate into a full length feature film, but fans of the show will no doubt appreciate it.

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Joyeux Noel

Joyeux Noël is a heart-warming story about courage and dignity. Anchored by an excellent international cast this deeply moving and uplifting film features scenes of great bravery, simple decency and extraordinary humour.

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City Of Women

In City Of Women, great Italian director Federico Fellini makes no secret of his obsession with women.

This is the first of many allusions marking City Of Women as another great work from the master director

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Essential World Cinema: GERMANY

The overall set of films is good but perhaps one could be mislead into thinking that if these are indicative of the standard of “essential” German cinema, then it falls short compared with other nations.

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Joan Rivers - (Still a) live At The Palladium - Allegedly

This is Joan Rivers at her ultimate best. She doesn’t give an inch as she sets out to ridicule, indulge, and berate whoever needs the treatment. She does it in a terrific stand up routine - a high quality show.

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King Arthur - Director's Cut

This is a rollicking tale full of action and exciting, well orchestrated battles. Director Antoine Fuqua retains the essence of the legend.

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Hitler's Holocaust

There are six episodes and most of the interviewees claimed that they knew nothing of what was going on around them, until the overwhelming evidence of the genocide came to a devastating light.

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Beautiful Boxer

Beautiful Boxer is the antithesis of any Rocky movie. It substitutes Stallone’s brawn for self development, in one of the most gracefully done and touching foreign films of recent years.

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The Shadow Whip

Although a simplistic story, ‘The Shadow Whip’ boasts numerous kick-ass fighting scenes with more whip lashing than you’re likely to see anywhere else.

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The Barry Sheene Story

A double DVD Special Edition celebrating life of one of Britain’s greatest motorcycle champions. It comes twelve months after the tragic death of a much-loved sporting personality.

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Stargate SG-1 Series 10

STARGATE SG-1 fans can now rejoice in having the opportunity to purchase the final Season 10 of the long running series on DVD.

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Fudoh – the New Generation

Stemming from a long line of Japanese pop culture that revels in extremes; sex and violence are unashamedly given full frontal treatment and as such it would be a mistake to take Fudoh too seriously. It’s by no means artful filmmaking, with bad writing, cliched moments, stilted acting and some cheesy ideas posing as adroit.

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Aunty Jack's Wollongong The Brave

Popular characters from the ABC hit series The Aunty Jack Show are marked for recognition in this DVD. These are four stand-alone features from the team that brought Aunty Jack.

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Casino - Special Edition 2-DVD 10th Anniversary

Combining extreme brutality with dramatic tension that impacts upon the audience even more than the violence, Scorsese has made an art form of this type of film.
Casino is one of Scorsese's greatest films.

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Raising Helen

A fun-filled movie treat featuring several good acting performances, notably Joan Cusack, John Corbett, and Helen Mirren (Calendar Girls). Generally speaking though, the story is a good entertaining adventure filled with warmth, romance and laughter.

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Legacy: A Personal History Of Barry Sheene

This is the definitive account of the life and times of one of the UK’s best loved sporting icons.

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Nora

…Nora’ is very much a period piece and provides an accurate representation of the era in which it is set, and comments significantly on the religious, cultural and moralistic issues of the time.

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Playboy 2008 Video Playmate Calendar

2008 Video Playmate Calendar follows a similar formula to the previous ventures, showing a short clip of the ladies in scantily clad lingerie and bouncing around happily…

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The Village

Staple M. Night Shyamalan with the almost too obvious Hitchcock homage, gets there (wherever the hell that is) in his own sweet time. However The Village isn’t so much about the final destination, which is a tad drawn out (yes, yes, we get that you’re clever), but more enjoyable is the journey and beautiful rich imagery and characters along the way.

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Varietease

Bettie Page was America's pin-up queen and Varietease shows how she ignited the world and gained cult popularity.

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The Navigator

The beautiful photography and haunting soundtrack are clear standouts to what is a sometimes confusing and overly ambitious story. One of the only clues lies within the shift from black and white to color.

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City Of The Living Dead

Lucio Fulci is the Italian director of this film. City of the Living Dead is a gory film that is designed to shock a multitude of fans and many people's stomachs.
He excelled at depicting gore and violence.

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Strassman Live

Dave invites you to sit back and enjoy his internationally acclaimed show - STRASSMAN LIVE – on this excellent DVD. It is live from the Opera House in Wellington.

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Whale Rider

Based on the novel written by acclaimed New Zealand writer Witi Ihimaera and written and directed by Niki Caro, Whale Rider is a powerful and poignant film that explores the themes of family and culture in a small coastal tribal village in New Zealand.

The DVD package is highly recommended for either renting or buying because the film itself is worth watching, and the extras provided on the DVD will enrich the experience.

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2000 Maniacs

It’s quite a watchable film, with increased production values allowing a coherent storyline and comes across as something that those, who feast themselves on gore and horror, would appreciate even more.

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X-Men: Wolverine's Story

A reasonable collection of X-Men episodes, on a well packaged DVD.
Although the animated series didn’t reveal much of Wolverine’s history, this collection of episodes show Wolverine as the main character as he battles a number of enemies.

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American Pie Presents - The Naked Mile

…sees students celebrate the end of exams by running through the college campus in nothing but their birthday suit.

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The Football Factory

The fast-cutting brutal footage, mixed with the slow-paced emotional scenes, makes the controversial film a fascinating account of hooliganism. The different stories about their experiences and lives is told to try and make viewers partially understand the frighteningly real reason behind their actions.

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36 Quai des Orfèvres

The whole movie explores constant splits between loyalty and avenging, family and work, moral and evil and of these, the latter is intertwined the most. This is a theme that has been heavily explored in Hollywood crime movies. Yet, this version, a classy French offering on it, is free of generic characteristics of American crime films.

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Monkey Vol.16

Volume 16 contains three episodes never before seen on Australian television, and provides the viewer with a healthy serving of Monkey at its best.

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Jag: The Complete First Season

This is an enjoyable first season for JAG, a show that developed a very solid audience foundation and kept making solid episodes for their broad niche audience for 10 years. That should be classified as a success.

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Degrassi High: School's Out

‘School’s Out’ is jam packed with issues of teenage sex, teenage pregnancy, abortions, drink driving, young marriage, monogamy and virginity.

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Unleashed

This film definitely has fast and furious action (and superb sequences of it as well). It is a drama, one that switches in tone twice before ending in a basic revenge tale.

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The Nest

There is little doubt that “The Nest” is a terrific action picture. There's no real characterisation to find, but that's no big mystery,

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Agatha Christie's Poirot (4-DVD set)

The drama is a charming and glamorous depiction of the middle and upper classes of the 1930s, through the elegant costumes, settings and locations.

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Wimbledon

The DVD quality is superb and the surround channels which deserve the most praise. The effects are just right and whenever Peter is on court there's plenty of effects in all of the channels…

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Walt Disney Treasures – Mickey In Living Colour

This celebrates Mickey Mouse’s career in colour cartoons with 26 original shorts released between 1935 and 1938. Therefore, fans will relish this priceless collection that chronicles Mickey’s first steps out of the world of black and white, ushering in a new era of animation.

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L'Innocente

This is one of the more beautiful films Italy had produced in the 1970s. It also marked Luchino Visconti's final film and showcased terrific acting performances. L'Innocente presents the grandeur of 18th century Italian aristocracy, with class structure and sexual double standards.

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Deadly Weapons

The direction is very average and the movie, as a whole, looks a mess… and so is Morgan. There is one scene when we get a close shot of her teeth… and they're black with decay.

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Get Smart Again

The greatest TV show in history has this overdue release. It is the only Get Smart title available on DVD at present…

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Raining Stones

Raining Stones is a film about the slow, grinding horror of poverty, the million petty humiliations and indignities of being poor.

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Dimboola - 2 Disc Collector's Edition

Set in a small country town of Dimboola, in Victoria, locals prepare for the weedding of Morrie (Bruce Spence) and Maureen (Natalie Bate).

Contrary to the famous Marriage Italian Style, this is Marriage Australian Style, in its very unique, country-spirited way

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Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

It's somewhat of a rags-to-riches story, yet it isn't overly endowed with 50 Cent's music. But it tells of the blossoming of the character; the rapper that grew to what he is today.

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Van Wilder: The Rise Of Taj

Well, if you liked the first Van Wilder with crazy personalities and laughs, then I suggest you watch Van Wilder “ The Rise of Taj”.

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Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media

This over-long 1992 documentary is quite a slog, but it is definitely of interest. It is essentially a biography of the famous US linguist-cum-dissident Noam Chomsky, with a focus on his activism and ideas on social control, the media, militarism, and related issues.

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Minder Series 5

It is hard to say whether it is the catchy theme tune, cockney humour or brilliant acting abilities and hilarious shenanigans of Dennis Waterman and George Cole that make the classic British television show Minder one of the most successful shows ever.

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Napoleon Dynamite

The movie's director and co-writer, Jared Hess, has done a fantastic job of giving this film a serious tone while webbing hilarious skits together with bizarre characters.

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Double Agent 73

Double Agent 73 is pretty bad filmmaking and worth watching just to see how bad it is.

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Fight Night Vol. 14 - Roberto Duran vs Sugar Ray Leonard

These are two classic boxing bouts by two of the greatest boxers in history.

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Soundtrack To War

The Iraqi people themselves are not well represented in this film, it almost exclusively deals with the US forces in Iraq. There are only a couple of segments dealing with Iraqi musicians, and the odd shot of traumatised civilians. It would have been good to see a bit more of the Iraqi reaction to these foreign troops who have invaded and occupied their country, and whose tanks, humvees and roadblocks are the most obvious signs of the fact Iraq is not a sovereign nation.

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Pokemon Heroes

There are some pieces to this movie that might be difficult to understand or digest. You probably need to think like a child. It was at least a story and didn’t just lead-up to a Pokémon grudge match in an arena.

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Hyper Street Racing Type-B

It doesn’t try to investigate the culture of street racing in any serious way, focusing instead on short-lived snippets of car after car crashing and smoking like a drunken bookie.

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Teaserama

Bettie Page was the top pin-up Queen of the 50's, with her image now even more popular than ever. She was known for her distinctive hair style and figure when she became the most photographed pin up of her generation.
Teaserama was considered as the holy grail of girlie flicks.

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The Battle of Algiers

The Battle Of Algiers is a remarkable and powerful movie. It was filmed in 1965 and described the tumultuous events of only a few years earlier which led to the French quitting their colony of Algeria.

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Kangaroo Palace

It tells the story of everyday Australians, in the 1960’s, looking for more in life and they break out from their constrictions by heading to London to find their place in the big wide world.

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Blood Feast

It is part of the Blood trilogy of films from director Herschell Gordon Lewis. It set the scene for many others to follow in these bloody footsteps.

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Tim Minchin So Live

So Live, recorded in 2006 at the Sydney Opera House, is an amusing and eccentric showcase of Minchin’s wares.

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The Three Caballeros

Those with a liking for Disney and a fondness for musicals, in particular, will enjoy this DVD.

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George W. Bushisms

Hosted by the annoyingly sarcastic and lacklustre Brian Unger, Bushisms presents itself as a children’s program complete with translators, dictionary meanings, theatre pieces, animations and music segments. Derived from a series of novels, at barely sixty minutes, it becomes apparent that there is a shortage of content…

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The Bill: Seasons 1-3

As one of the longest longing and most-successful police shows ever made, it is not hard to see why this is so. It was unique and ground-breaking in its approach to crime drama.

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Team America, World Police

There is a lot of tasteless humour here. It's okay in moderation but in this case it's so repetitive that it starts to lose its effect.

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Walt Disney Treasures - Silly Symphonies

This historic musical animation series compiles 31 uncensored cartoons released between 1929 and 1939, including 6 Academy Award winners.
Each boasts a unique cast of characters, these musical shorts served as Walt Disney’s testing ground for the growing use of this technology.

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Space-Thing

Friedman is well-known in the field of exploitation cinema and this movie is a perfect example of his skills, as Space-Thing contains all the elements we expect from such a style.

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Monkey Volume 17

It was great to turn on the DVD and see some Monkey Magic for the first time in about 15 years. The great theme song! The stone egg! The lightning! Monkey bursts out! Sandy! Pigsy! Tripitaka! Monkey whistling up his magic cloud! It had been far too long.

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The 400 Blows

The 400 Blows explores the mind of this young man through personal introspection amid the harsh realities of the real world.

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Bitter & Twisted

A sombre film, Bitter & Twisted is not Friday night entertainment, but rather a poignant look at grief and its ramifications.

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Babylon A.D.

Thank goodness that Vin Diesel has turned his back on family films and returned back to what he knows best; a hard edged action thriller with a storyline that actually keeps its audience interested.

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My Blueberry Nights

It is the characters that makes ‘My Blueberry Nights’ a joy to watch. The audience is given enough insight into the lives of Elizabeth and Jeremy that you actually care what happens to them. Even the peripheral characters like Arnie, Sue Lynne and Leslie are set up as three-dimensional realistic characters…

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In Bruges

In Bruges is as violent, sharp and silly as something the Coens can do, just not the right shade of black.

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Movie Trailer - Quantum Of Solace

QUANTUM OF SOLACE continues the high octane adventures of James Bond (DANIEL CRAIG) in CASINO ROYALE.

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8th Annual Bondi Short Film Festival

The 8th Annual BONDI SHORT FILM FESTIVAL occurs at BONDI PAVILION, BONDI BEACH on Saturday, November 29, 2008.

Filmmakers can submit their short films for entry, with a closing date of November 7, 2008

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