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October 2008 DVDs

Chalk
Morgan Spurlock

$19.95 (Digital video disc / )

This hilarious mockumentary follows four teachers muddling through another year in a typical American high school. Inexperienced Mr. Lowery is new to teaching and finds that the kids quickly learn how to push his buttons... More »

Ironman
Jon Favreau

$39.95 (Digital video disc / Paramount Pictures )

Paramount Pictures and Marvel Studios’ big screen adaptation of Marvel’s legendary Super Hero Iron Man will launch onto DVD October 9, 2008. Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr. stars as Tony Stark/Iron Man in the story of a ... More »


Spaced: The Complete Series
Edgar Wright

$49.95 (Digital video disc / )

Written and created by Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, this British comedy was one of the best in the late 90s, known for its fast-paced editing, loads of pop culture references and slip-streams of surrealism. Daisy, a... More »

Cannot Buy My Soul: Kev Carmody
Various

$24.95 (Digital video disc / Sbs Dvd )

Over two nights at Sydney's grand State Theatre, before a packed audience, many of Australia?s most acclaimed singer/songwriters and musicians came together to perform the songs of Kev Carmody.

Kev Carmody's work draws o... More »


The Counterfeiters
Stefan Ruzowitzky

$34.95 (Digital video disc / Madman )

Salomon ‘Sally’ Sorowitsch is the king of the counterfeiters, living the high life of cards, booze and women in Weimar Berlin. A criminal and a Jew, he is arrested into a Nazi concentration camp but his exceptional skill... More »

Happy Go Lucky
Mike Leigh

$29.95$24.95 (Digital video disc / )

After her bike is stolen, light-hearted Poppy decides it’s time to take driving lessons, though she and her stressed-out instructor clash. When Poppy starts to date another man, her instructor grows increasingly jealous.... More »


Paris
Cedric Klapish

$39.95 (Digital video disc / )

Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the people around him, from the bal... More »

Fantastic Planet
Rene Laloux

$29.95 (Digital video disc / Umbrella Entertainme )

The French animation classic by René Laloux is set in a distant world, the ‘Fantastic Planet’, where tiny humans are kept as pets by large alien creatures. One such pet, the hero of the story, commandeers his master’s le... More »


Blood Simple
Joel and Ethan Coen

$19.95 (Digital video disc / Universal Pict Vid )

Visser, an unscrupulous private eye, is hired by Texas bar owner Marty to murder his faithless wife and her paramour, one of Marty’s employees. But Visser makes some slight modifications to the original plan, with a surp... More »

Browning Version
Anthony Asquith

$34.95 (Digital video disc / Madman )

A film by Anthony Asquith

Adapted by Sir Terence Rattigan from his 1948 play, Anthony Asquith?s The Browning Version is a poignant examination of repression and redemption set in the English public school system. Classic... More »


My Dinner With Andre
Louis Malle

$29.95 (Digital video disc / Aztec Film )

French director Louis Malle made one of his most successful forays into the English language market with this classic from 1981. A stream-of-consciousness dialogue between playwright/actor Wallace Shawn and director/acto... More »

The David Lynch Collection (5 Disc Set)
David Lynch

$139.95 (Digital video disc / Umbrella Entertainme )

One of the greatest innovators in modern cinema, David Lynch’s career has generated some of the most surreal, suspenseful and bizarre moments in movie history. From the birth of the mutant baby in 1977’s Eraserhead, thro... More »


Love In The Time Of Cholera
Mike Newell

$29.95$24.95 (Digital video disc / )

Based on the book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, this is the story of two young lovers who bide their time for years while anxiously awaiting the day they can finally be together. Through marriages, affairs, careers, and dea... More »

13 Tzameti
Gela Babluani

$29.95 (Digital video disc / )

22 year-old Sébastien leads an impoverished life constantly struggling to support his immigrant family. While repairing the roof of a neighbours house, he overhears a conversation about a forthcoming package which promis... More »


Sleeping Beauty: Platinum Edition
Walt Disney

$39.95 (Digital video disc / Disney Press )

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Disney classic Sleeping Beauty.

The timeless story tells of Princess Aurora, cursed by the evil sorceress Maleficent to die on her 16th birthday after pricking her finger on a pois... More »

Ben 10: Race Against Time
Alex Winter

$24.95 (Digital video disc / Madman )

Average kid turned superhero Ben Tennyson (Graham Phillips) must use his secret powers to defend the planet from an extraterrestrial invader in this live action feature based on the hit animated Cartoon Network show by t... More »


Bad Education
Pedro Almodovar

$19.95$9.95 (Digital video disc / Reel Dvd )

This is a rare film from Almodovar in that he directs a cast filled with leading men rather than his usual gaggle of women. The result is a cool and stylish drama that confronts the issue of sexual misconduct in the Cath... More »

The Crossing Guard
Sean Penn

$9.95 (Digital video disc / Reel Dvd )

The death of their daughter by a drunk driver breaks up the marriage of Freddie and Mary Gale. Mary remarries attempting to put her life back together but Freddy becomes an embittered alcoholic, seething with directionle... More »


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