new zealand
Director: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Diane Ladd, Iain Rea
For 25 years in Invercargill at the south end of New Zealand Burt Munro 1899-1978 has been working on increasing the speed of his motorcycle a 1920 Indian. He dreams of taking it to the Bonneville Salt Flats to see how fast it will go. By the early 1960s heart disease threatens his life so he mortgages his house and takes a boat to Los Angeles buys an old car builds a makeshift trailer...
Director: Sam Peacocke
Stars: Karl Kippenberger, Phil Knight, Tom Larkin
For over 20 years Shihad has defined New Zealand rock music. From their roots in Wellingtons furious 90s punk metal scene to the wild Berlin days the tragic overdose of their manager the international explosion of The General Electric and the infamous American name-change Shihad: Beautiful Machine asks- what went wrong?...
Director: Murray Ball
Stars: John Clarke, Peter Rowley, Rawiri Paratene
Featuring the characters from Murray Balls Footrot Flats New Zealands most beloved local cartoon strip . Questions to be answered include: Will Wal Footrot win the affections of Cheeky Hobson over the sleazy Spit Murphy? Will the Dog win the affections of the lovely Jess? Will Wal make a good impression on the All Black selectors at Saturdays rugby match? Can Rangi and Pongo save Wals...
Director: Tim Boxell
Stars: Pamela Gidley, Simon Bossell, Valeriy Nikolaev
A nature field researcher is investigating the strange extinction of small animals and insects in the area which indicates that something is wrong. His suspicions are soon to be proven right when he meets May who lives in a cabin in the forest nearby. May says that her house is infested by small creatures that she thinks are mice or rats. When the couple search the house further they notice...
Director: Stewart Main, Peter Wells
Stars: Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Kevin Smith, Lisa Chappell
In a town called Hope on the edge of Britains empire desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose from the clutches of Fraser a fortune hunter. A local politician William Poyner is desperate for cash and thinks marriage to Dorothea will save him. Dorothea hires Lawrence Hayes a rough but handsome Argonaut to bribe Fraser with jewels and to...
Director: Sngmoo Lee
Stars: Dong-gun Jang, Kate Bosworth, Geoffrey Rush
Yang the worlds finest swordsman packs it in and leaves Japan to find an old friend in the Wild West rather than kill the infant queen of a rival clan. He carries the baby to his friends desolate broken-down town; the friend has died so Yang reopens a laundry and settles down hanging wet clothes growing flowers raising the infant and finding himself attracted to Lynne a red-haired...
Director: Peter Jackson
Stars: Danny Mulheron, Donna Akersten, Stuart Devenie
Heidi the star of the Meet The Feebles Variety Hour discovers her lover Bletch The Walrus is cheating on her and with all the world waiting for the show the assorted co-stars must contend with their own problems. These include drug addiction extortion robbery disease Drug dealing and even murder. While this is happening the love between two of the stars is threatened by the devious...
Director: Peter Hyams
Stars: Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt, James Whitmore, Clayton Rohner, Chi Muoi Lo, Thomas Ryan, Robert Lesser, Diane Robin, Lewis Van Bergen
Storyline: A researcher at Chicagos Natural History Museum returns from South America with some crates containing his findings. When the crates arrive at the museum without the owner there appears to be very little inside. However police discover gruesome murders on the cargo ship that brought the crates to the US and then another murder in the museum itself. Investigating the murders is Lt....
Director: Paul Campion
Stars: Craig Hall, Matthew Sunderland, Gina Varela, Karlos Drinkwater, Geraldine Brophy, Luke Hawker, Jessica Grace Smith, Jonathan King, Nick Dunbar, Hadyn Green
Storyline: Set in the Channel Islands on the eve of D Daytwo Kiwi commandos sent to destroy German gun emplacements to distract Hitlers forces away from Normandy discover a Nazi occult plot to unleash demonic forces to win the...
Director: Peter Jackson
Stars: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Ken Stott, Graham McTavish, William Kircher, James Nesbitt, Stephen Hunter, Dean O'Gorman, Aidan Turner, John Callen, Peter Hambleton, Jed Brophy, Mark Hadlow, Adam Brown
Storyline: Bilbo Baggins is swept into a quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior Thorin Oakenshield. Their journey will take them into the Wild; through treacherous lands swarming with Goblins and Orcs deadly...
Director: Peter Jackson
Stars: Terry Potter, Pete O'Herne, Craig Smith, Mike Minett, Peter Jackson, Doug Wren, Dean Lawrie, Peter Vere-Jones, Ken Hammon, Robin Griggs, Michael Gooch, Peter Gooch, Laurie Yarrall, Shane Yarrall, Philip Lamey
Storyline: Derek and his friends must investigate the missing people in a small village. Then they find out its human formed aliens that are really big headed monsters that used all the people in the small village into their snack burgers. Now Derek must save the day and the world with his chainsaw before the meat eaters strikes the whole planet. Will Derek kill all the...
Director: Peter Jackson
Stars: Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, John Astin, Jeffrey Combs, Dee Wallace, Jake Busey, Chi McBride, Jim Fyfe, Troy Evans, Julianna McCarthy, R. Lee Ermey, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Angela Bloomfield, Desmond Kelly
Storyline: After a car accident in which his wife Debra was killed and he was injured Frank Bannister develops psychic abilities allowing him to see hear and communicate with ghosts. After losing his wife he then gave up his job as an architect letting his unfinished dream house sit incomplete for years and put these skills to use by befriending a few ghosts and getting them to haunt...
Director: Jonathan King
Stars: Nathan Meister, Peter Feeney, Danielle Mason, Tammy Davis, Oliver Driver, Tandi Wright, Glenis Levestam, Nick Blake, Matthew Chamberlain, Nick Fenton, Eli Kent, Sam Clarke, Richard Chapman, Louis Sutherland, Ian Harcourt
Storyline: Growing up on the family sheep farm was idyllic for smart sensitive Harry Olfield except for some knavish mischief from cocky brother Angus until their dad has a fatal accident. Fifteen years later Harry has finished sheep-phobia therapy and his ICT schooling and returns. Angus buys him out all ready to present the genetically engineered Oldfield sheep he bred with a ruthless...
Director: Geoff Murphy
Stars: Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge, Pete Smith, Anzac Wallace, Norman Fletcher, Tom Hyde
Storyline: A man wakes up to find himself literally alone in the world and goes about trying to find other survivors as well as to find out what happened. He suspects that a government research project he was involved in had something to do with the disappearance of everyone. Eventually he finds several other people and once they begin to trust each other they try to figure out why they were...
Director: Glenn Standring
Stars: Dougray Scott, Saffron Burrows, Leo Gregory, Scott Wills, Stuart Wilson, Craig Hall, Robbie Magasiva, Lauren Jackson, Peter McCauley, Glen Drake, Stephen Ure, John Sumner, Roi Taimana, Aaron Murphy, Scott Morrison
Storyline: Set during the 1960s in an alternate New Zealand known as Nuovo Zelandia PERFECT CREATURE imagines a world where vampires and humans peacefully co-exist with the bloodsuckers the next step in human evolution. This delicate balance looks to be destroyed when an influenza epidemic begins to sweep the human population and one vampire turns to preying on humans. The church sends out...
Director: Patrick Tatopoulos
Stars: Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy, Rhona Mitra, Steven Mackintosh, Kevin Grevioux, David Aston, Geraldine Brophy, Leighton Cardno, Alex Carroll, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Jason Hood, Mark Mitchinson, Tania Nolan, Craig Parker, Timothy Raby
Storyline: The prequel story traces the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires and their onetime slaves the Lycans. In the Dark Ages a young Lycan named Lucian emerges as a powerful leader who rallies the werewolves to rise up against Viktor the cruel vampire king who has enslaved them. Lucian is joined by his secret lover Sonja in his battle against the...
Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, Daniel Mays, Gad Elmaleh, Toby Jones
Storyline: Having bought a model ship the Unicorn for a pound off a market stall Tintin is initially puzzled that the sinister Mr. Sakharine should be so eager to buy it from him resorting to murder and kidnapping Tintin - accompanied by his marvellous dog Snowy - to join him and his gang as they sail to Morocco on an old cargo ship. Sakharine has bribed the crew to revolt against the ships...
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Stars: Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, Nathalie Boltt, Sylvaine Strike, Elizabeth Mkandawie, John Sumner, William Allen Young, Greg Melvill-Smith, Nick Blake, Morena Busa Sesatsa
Storyline: In 1982 a massive star ship bearing a bedraggled alien population nicknamed The Prawns appeared over Johannesburg South Africa. Twenty-eight years later the initial welcome by the human population has faded. The refugee camp where the aliens were located has deteriorated into a militarized ghetto called District 9 where they are confined and exploited in squalor. In 2010 the...
Director: Peter Jackson
Stars: Noel Appleby, Alexandra Astin, Sean Astin, David Aston, John Bach, Sean Bean, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Sadwyn Brophy, Alistair Browning
Storyline: While Frodo & Sam continue to approach Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring unaware of the path Gollum is leading them the former Fellowship aid Rohan & Gondor in a great battle in the Pelennor Fields Minas Tirith and the Black Gates as Sauron wages his last war against...
Director: Peter Jackson
Stars: Bruce Allpress, Sean Astin, John Bach, Sala Baker, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Jed Brophy, Sam Comery
Storyline: Saurons forces increase. His allies grow. The Ringwraiths return in an even more frightening form. Sarumans army of Uruk Hai is ready to launch an assault against Aragorn and the people of Rohan. Yet the Fellowship is broken and Boromir is dead. For the little hope that is left Frodo and Sam march on into Mordor unprotected. A number of new allies join with Aragorn Gimli...
Director: Peter Jackson
Stars: Alan Howard, Elijah Wood, Noel Appleby, Sean Astin, Sala Baker, Sean Bean, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Marton Csokas, Megan Edwards
Storyline: An ancient Ring thought lost for centuries has been found and through a strange twist in fate has been given to a small Hobbit named Frodo. When Gandalf discovers the Ring is in fact the One Ring of the Dark Lord Sauron Frodo must make an epic quest to the Cracks of Doom in order to destroy it! However he does not go alone. He is joined by Gandalf Legolas the elf Gimli the Dwarf...
Director: Peter Jackson
Stars: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks, Andy Serkis, Evan Parke, Jamie Bell, Lobo Chan, John Sumner, Craig Hall
Storyline: Carl Denham needs to finish his movie and has the perfect location; Skull Island. But he still needs to find a leading lady. This soon-to-be-unfortunate soul is Ann Darrow. No one knows what they will encounter on this island and why it is so mysterious but once they reach it they will soon find out. Living on this hidden island is a giant gorilla and this beast now has Ann is its...