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Leunig Animated (2 disc set)
(2002) [G]

No-one looks at the world quite like whimsical Australian cartoonist Michael Leunig. His poignant, often controversial cartoons never fail to touch a chord. Michael Leunig is cartoonist, artist, philosopher, poet and social commentator. "Leunig" is an animated series produced by Australian actor...  More

Cecil B.Demented
(2000) [MA]

In his never-ending quest to subvert Hollywood, young lunatic filmmaker Cecil B. Demented (Stephen Dorff) and his gang of film fanatics the 'Sprocket Holes' kidnap A-list Hollywood movie goddess Honey Whitlock (Melanie Griffith) at the premiere of her latest film. Honey is given an alarming...  More

Ghost World
(2001) [M]

Thora Birch (American Beauty) and Scarlett Johansson (The Man Who Wasn't There) "sneak into your heart and stay there" (Rolling Stone) in this "eerie, masterful movie" (Movieline) from the acclaimed director of Crumb. Co-starring Brad Renfro (Deuces Wild), Illeana Douglas (Stir Of Echoes) and...  More

The Business Of Strangers
(2001) [MA]

Julie Styron, a world-weary newly named CEO (Stockard Channing) and her brash young assistant Paula Murphy (Julia Stiles) spend an alcohol-fueled night at an airport hotel exchanging confidences, lies and playing power games centering on a slick corporate head-hunter. Their games take a dark turn...  More

World Traveller
(2001) [MA]

An extremely handsome man in his early 30s, Cal has all of the outward trappings of success: a good career, a beautiful wife, a young son who adores him. But on the morning of his son's third birthday, something snaps inside Cal and he packs his bag and hits the road. On the road, Cal has a...  More

Lovely And Amazing
(2001) [M]

From acclaimed director Nicole Holofcener (Walking and Talking, Lovely and Amazing is an intimate family portrait of four hapless but resilient women and the bitter sweet lessons they learn in keeping up with the hectic demands of their individual neuroses. Starring Academy Award nominee...  More

Adaptation
(2002) [MA]

Director Spike Jonze delivers a stunningly original comedy that seamlessly blends fictional characters and situations with the lives of real people: obsessive orchid hunter John Laroche (Oscar winner Chris Cooper), New Yorker journalist Susan Orlean (Meryl Streep), neurotic Hollywood screenwriter...  More

Tape
(2002) [MA]

After 10 years apart, three people come together at a motel to play out the unresolved drama of their final days in high school. Anxious, edgy and fuelled up on drugs and drink, Vince (Ethan Hawke), a volunteer firefighter and dealer from the West Coast paces around his motel room awaiting the...  More

Power And Terror Noam Chomsky In Our Times
(2002) [G]

Whether Noam Chomsky, the MIT linguist and political philosopher, is the most important intellectual alive, as the New York Times once famously called him, is open for debate. But without a doubt, Chomsky, now 73, is one of the most straight-talking and committed dissidents of our time. A...  More

In Shifting Sands
(2007) [PG]

Ritter does not narrate the documentary but his interview footage appears extensively. "In Shifting Sands" was made before the 2003 Iraq invasion, but it illustrates and fills in the background of how the war came about, even if this was not it's intention. Another thing highlighted is how the UN...  More