Gryphon Entertainment

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• Arranged
• DVD / Arthouse / Drama / PG / $19.95
• Arranged centers on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year they learn they share much in common - not least of which is that they are both going through the process of arranged marriages.… more

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• Beauty In Trouble
• DVD / Drama / MA / $19.95
• Left homeless by a flood, and all out of passion for her tightly-wound petty criminal husband, the alluring Marcela (Aña Geislerová) takes her two kids and moves in with her mother. The mother's boyfriend is a monster, and the kids are unhappy, but Marcela can't afford to relocate - until a prosperous older man becomes besotted by her, and offers to help. Can Marcela distinguish love from gratit… more

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• Best of Show Me Shorts, The
• DVD / Short Films / MA / $29.95
• The Show Me Shorts Film Festival was founded in 2006 to feature the best short films produced from across Australia and New Zealand. This DVD showcases the best films from the first two years of the Festival. It's a meets all needs show with sex, drama, frights, action and violence. … more

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• Chair, The
• DVD / Suspense / Thriller / MA / $19.95
• After a recent psychotic episode, Danielle tries to rebuild her life when she sublets a century-old Victorian house. Unknowingly, she awakens an evil spectre lurking in the dark recesses of her new home. To prove to her sister, Anna, that she isn’t delusional again, Danielle begins to document the haunting with horrifying results. She unleashes the soul of Edgar Crowe, a vicious child killer, wh… more

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• Choking Man
• DVD / Arthouse / Drama / M / $19.95
• Choking Man is an intense blend of psychological drama and magical realism that encapsulates the contemporary immigrant experience in America. Jorge (Octovio Gomez Berrios) is a shy Ecuadorian dishwasher toiling away in a shabby New York diner run by Rick (Mandy Patinkin). He works all day long in the shadow of the ever-present Heimlich Maneuver poster which hangs in the diner kitchen and pines fo… more

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• Delicate Art Of Parking, The
• DVD / Comedy / M / $19.95
• An absurd comedy about a Parking Enforcement Officer, who - despite constant abuse from the public - finds truth, honour and serenity in the act of ticketing. His religious devotion to the work is challenged however, when his best friend and personal mentor is run down by an irate motorist and knocked into a deep coma. With the help of an angry young filmmaker, a Russian sound recordist hoping to … more

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• Entrance, The
• DVD / Supernatural Thrille / MA / $19.95
• A police detective is swept into a web of deception and, in search of the truth, finds herself in a contest with forces of the occult. In the early 1600’s, renowned exorcist Father Sebastien Michaelis wrote about a possessed nun, Sister Madeleine, in Aix-en-Provence, France. The demon possessing Madeleine revealed itself as a fallen angel, a punisher of sinners and tempter of the innocent. Four … more

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• Fallacy
• DVD / Doco / Thriller / M / $19.95
• Fallacy is the doco/thriller film which was created from a documentary which became more than expected. Detective Steven Harvings was the head detective in the 1999 missing persons case that held a nation as an audience for two weeks. Josh Coplins (who was at the centre of the investigation), along with his partner Rachel Levin and her nephew Cole Levin went missing in 1999 and were never found…… more

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• Five
• DVD / Horror / MA / $19.95
• It's morning as five former flatmates and old friends wake up in a remote tramping hut nestled deep in the woods. This weekend is a celebration of their friendship - it will be the last time they will go out on their annual 'tradition' of an adventure trip. Old behaviours, dynamics and rivalries surface as they discover a secret no one was supposed to find out. Sometimes your friends aren't the pe… more

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• I'll Make You Happy
• DVD / Comedy / MA / $19.95
• Teenage bad girl, Siggy (Jodie Rimmer), has big plans. Motivated by love, greed and anger, she comes up with a plan to highjack her sleazy pimp Lou’s (Michael Hurst) money-making scheme. I'll Make You Happy is a comedy heist in which Siggy (Jodie Rimmer) inspires her friends to break out of their mundane lives. With an unlikely team including agoraphobic Lester (Carl Bland), mild-mannered Dre… more

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• Jinx Sister
• DVD / Drama / M / $19.95
• Laura (Sara Wiseman) thinks she is a jinx. People who get close to her have a habit of dying. She thought fleeing to the other side of the world would help. Instead, she developed a serious drink problem. Finding her life unraveling, Laura returns to New Zealand where she discovers that you have to let go of your past in order to embrace your future. Jinx Sister is a 'growing of age' story, a med… more

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• Journey From The Fall
• DVD / Drama / M / $19.95
• Inspired by the true stories of Vietnamese refugees who fled their land after the fall of Saigon—and those who were forced to stay behind, Journey From The Fall follows one family’s struggle for freedom. April 30, 1975 marked the end of Vietnam's two-decade-old civil war and the start of the exodus of hundreds of thousands of refugees. Despite his allegiance to the toppled South Vietnamese gov… more

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• KungFu Cyborg: Metallic Attraction
• DVD / Sci-Fi/Action/Comedy / M / $24.95
• This highly anticipated romance actioner with a sci-fi background is helmed by “A Chinese Odyssey” Jeff Lau. With a $US10 million budget the film delivers massive CGI impact through two action packed 15 minute sequences between the cyborgs. The story is about de Ming – a national secret; it is the first cybornetic organism, programmed with a sophisticated social conscience created by the Chi… more

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• Last Magic Show, The
• DVD / Romantic Comedy / M / $19.95
• The only thing darker than illusionist Ronny Roman's past is the "mystical power" he believes he possesses. Never having recovered from the shock of finding his assistant/girlfriend Charlotte in a compromising position with another magician, his career now consists of childrens' birthday parties and his volunteer job serving alcohol to terminal patients at a Hospice. But when he's offered one more… more

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• Love Live Long
• DVD / Erotic Drama / M / $19.95
• When Oscar-nominated director Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas) was invited to film the Gumball Rally, the famous high-speed race in Istanbul, he decided instead to craft a raw and intimate film that exposes the effects of an unexpected sexual encounter and the high stakes of the race on two strangers. For seven days, Figgis shot in his signature run-and-gun style—the result is a courageous new wo… more

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• Map Reader, The
• DVD / Drama / M / $29.95
• Sixteen-year-old Michael escapes the realities of his small-town life by immersing himself within a world of maps. Yet his seemingly-happy isolation is broken by the serendipitous arrival of two young women into his life. Mary is twenty and blind from birth, on the verge of voyaging into the world on her own. Alison is Michael’s peer, whose grace betrays darker secrets. Suspended beside it all i… more

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• Mirror Mirror Season 1
• 2DVD / TV Series / Family / PG / $24.95
• In “Mirror Mirror” two 14 year old girls discover they can see through identical mirrors 100 years apart and that they can travel to each other’s times. At first this is a source of wonder and delight but the two girls, Jo and Louisa, quickly discover they must solve an enormous problem. A canister of toxic gas threatens Jo’s friends. The girls must somehow find a way to alter the past so … more

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• Only
• DVD / Drama / PG / $19.95
• Daniel lives in a motel, managed by his parents, in northern Ontario. People come, people go, Daniel hardly notices. Until one day a girl arrives and changes his world. ONLY is a glimpse into the heightened impressions and dreams of two unlikely 12-year-olds. Over the course of a single day, they venture on a journey, exploring deep secrets, dark fears, and first love in a pure and powerful meetin… more

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• Popcorn
• DVD / Teen Comedy / MA / $19.95
• Danny has found the girl if his dreams, but he's too insecure to make a move. When he lands a job at a local movie theater where she works, he finds out that his first day is her last. After failing miserably at getting her attention, he enlists the help of the chief projectionist, who has watched one too many movies, and no longer sees the difference between film fiction and real life. It's cinem… more

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• Puppy (Standard DVD)
• DVD / Romantic Thriller / MA / $29.95
• Everyone knows someone like Liz. She's quick with a lie. Nothing is ever her fault. What's yours is hers; doesn't matter if it's your necklace or your husband. For most people these personal traits would spell disaster. But when her sister kicks her out and Liz is rescued from the streets by Aiden, a delusional tow-truck driver, she's equipped with the kind of quick wit and survival skills to get … more

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• Quiet Night In
• DVD / Comedy / M / $19.95
• Follow would-be novelist Jess Bartlett as she embarks on a creative binge for an evening to finish her new book, fuelled by lashings of red wine and the boardgame "Cluedo"!… more

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• Radiant City
• DVD / Documentary / E / $29.95
• Gary Burns, Canada's king of surreal comedy, joins journalist Jim Brown on an outing to the suburbs. Venturing into territory both familiar and foreign, they turn the documentary genre inside out, crafting a vivid account of life in The Late Suburban Age. Urban sprawl is eating the planet. Across the continent the landscape is being levelled - blasted clean of distinctive features and overlaid wit… more

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• Rubbings From A Live Man
• DVD / Documentary / MA / $29.95
• In Rubbings From a Live Man, director Florian Habicht (Woodenhead, Kaikohe Demolition) crafts together a flamboyant, tour-de-force exploration of the life and times of the incomparable Warwick Broadhead. Broadhead’s career as a performing artist and director has spanned four decades. (From marrying his house in Grey Lynn, to huge shows in Churches, abandoned buildings and gardens. Until now he�… more

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• Sex Galaxy
• DVD / Comedy / MA / $19.95
• The world's first GREEN film. 100% made from recycled footage. A hundred years into the future, the planet Earth has become a dried up dust bowl thanks to global warming and, as a result, sex has been outlawed to stop overpopulation. Three sex-starved scientists are shot into space to deal with a sewage problem on a space station, but after easily fixing the pipes there they then fly to a planet r… more

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• Silent One, The
• DVD / Family / G / $19.95
• On a beautiful Pacific island a boy's friendship with a magical turtle brings vengeance from the villagers. Somewhere between fact and fiction, superstition and the supernatural, lies the story of Jonasi, "The Silent One". It is a magical tale echoing the rhythms and legends of the Pacific, of village life, and of the sea; filmed in the Cook Islands, on an idyllic coral atoll representing a mythic… more

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• Stringer
• DVD / Thriller / M / $19.95
• Photojournalist Jake Stringer is gunned down while investigating a case of organ trafficking. He awakens with a scar on his chest on a flight home, arriving to find his world on the brink of a lethal epidemic. At the heart of the disaster, a deadly conspiracy. Stringer's search for answers leads him to secret research farms, government ministries -- and his own past.… more

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• Strip, The
• DVD / Comedy Drama / M / $19.95
• Melissa has now become an established part of 'The Strip' - the colourful red light district where her club is located. Having won over the locals she's no longer a 'fish out of water'; but the passionate relationship which developed with Adam (one of her strippers) looks to be turning nasty. But pretty soon there's a new guy on the block who's vying for her attention. Her daughter, Paige, has le… more

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• Studs
• DVD / Comedy/Drama / MA / $19.95
• It's another bleak mid-winter Sunday and Bubbles (David Wilmot) is still the captain of amateur football team Emmet Rovers who are getting hammered… again! This bunch of losers are playing the same dire football with no heart, no conviction and now, not even a manager. Bubbles, who once played in the big league, is threatening to quit altogether when a mysterious stranger, Walter Keegan (Brendan… more

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• Trouble With Sex
• DVD / Drama / MA / $19.95
• Dublin. The present. Michelle, an attractive twenty-something, is a hard working city-lawyer who has an on-going relationship with Ivan for three years. At a party one night, Ivan openly flirts with another woman in front of Michelle. They have a terrible row in which Michelle breaks up with Ivan and leaves the party in tears. Fleeing Ivan and the rain, Michelle stumbes into a bar close by, Flynn�… more

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• Violin, The
• DVD / Drama / R / $29.95
• Don Plutarco, his son Genaro and his grandson Lucio live a double life: on one hand they are musicians and humble farmers, on the other they support the campesina peasant guerilla movement's armed efforts against the oppressive government. When the military seizes the village, the rebels flee to the sierra hills, forced to leave behind their stock of ammunition. While the guerillas organize a coun… more

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• Wilby Wonderful
• DVD / Comedy/Drama / M / $29.95
• Wilby Wonderful is a bittersweet comedy about the difference a day makes. Over the course of twenty-four hours, the residents of the tiny island town of Wilby try to maintain business as a sex scandal threatens to rock the town to its core. The town’s video store owner, Dan Jarvis (James Allodi) – depressed over the pending revelations about his love life – decides to end it all, but keeps g… more