VOLUME 1, 2007

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VOLUME 1, 2007
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Important note for all customers
The films featured below are expected to become available to Roadshow during July 2014. Dates vary
according to each title, and bookings are subject to availability and certain terms and conditions may prevail
depending on the nature of the intended screening. To that extent some films may not be available; however
Roadshow will endeavour to make the best films available to suit your purpose. Please discuss your individual
requirements with your Roadshow representative. These film lists were correct at the time of printing but may
be subject to change. Bookings are based on availability. Outdoor screenings, or any screening that requires an
admittance fee (i.e. a commercial screening) or any screening that will be advertised to the general public are
strictly prohibited unless Roadshow provides prior written authorisation.
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300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE
Action, Rated MA15+, 102 Minutes, Film Code 90834
Starring: Sullivan Stapleton, Rodrigo Santoro, Eva Green, Lena Heady
Greek general Themistocles leads the charge against invading Persian forces ruled by mortalturned-god Xerxes and led by Artemisia, vengeful commander of the Persian navy.
DVD available 16 July 2014.
ALL IS LOST
Action/Drama, Rated M, 106 Minutes, Film Code 27911
Starring: Robert Redford
After a collision with a shipping container at sea, a resourceful sailor finds himself, despite all
efforts to the contrary, staring his mortality in the face. DVD available 17 July 2014.
APOCALYPSE POMPEII
Action, Rated M, 88 Minutes, Film Code TBC
Starring: Jhey Castles, John Rhys-Davies, Adrian Paul
When a former Special Ops commando visits Pompeii, his wife and daughter are trapped as Mt.
Vesuvius erupts with massive force. While his family fights to survive the deadly onslaught of heat
and lava, he enlists his former teammates in a daring operation beneath the ruins of the city of
Pompeii. DVD available 23 July 2014.
AROUND THE BLOCK
Drama, Rated M, 103 Minutes, Film Code TBC
Starring: Hunter Page-Lochard, Jack Thompson, Matt Nable, Christina Ricci
*** Australian ***
AROUND THE BLOCK is the story of American Dino Chalmers, an edgy and charismatic drama
teacher with a passion for Shakespeare. When the opportunity arises for her to work at a school in
inner city Sydney, she embraces the chance to introduce the magic of the theatre to her students,
opening their eyes to a world of opportunity far removed from the troubles of the inner city
streets they’ve grown up around. The story centres on the developing relationship between
Chalmers and Liam, a sixteen year old Aboriginal boy who despite his family and past, wants to
embrace this chance to live his truth. Around the Block gives us an intimate insight into how a 16
year old Aboriginal boy can teach as much to his teachers and elders as he can learn from those
who believe in him an emotional and inspirational journey of hope, triumph and believing in
yourself against the odds. DVD available 16 July 2014.
CUBAN FURY
Comedy, Rated M, 98 Minutes, Film Code 27991
Starring: Nick Frost, Rashida Jones, Chris O'Dowd
22 years after a horrific bullying experience when he was 13, Bruce Garrett finds himself out-ofshape and unloved - trapped in a downward spiral of self-pity, repression and Nando's takeaways. Only Julia, his smart, funny, gorgeous, new American boss, gives him reason to live. But
she's out of his league, he imagines. His alpha male colleague Drew swoops in to fight for her
attention. Luckily for Bruce, she shares a secret passion... the salsa! Bruce is once again brought
face-to-face with the darkest and most powerful of his inner demons. Somehow, someway, and
with a lot of hand holding from loyal sister Sam Bruce must learn how to unshackle his dancing
beast, regain his long lost fury and claim the love of his life...and he's going to do it all on the
dance floor... DVD available 31 July 2014.
DALLAS BUYERS CLUB *WINNER OF 3 ACADEMY AWARDS*
Biography/Drama, Rated MA15+, 117 Minutes, Film Code 28109
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto
The story of Texas electrician Ron Woodroof and his battle with the medical establishment and
pharmaceutical companies after being diagnosed as HIV-positive in 1986, and his search for
alternative treatments that helped established a way in which fellow HIV-positive people could join
a 'club' to access his supplies. Based on a true story. DVD available 9 July 2014.
ENDLESS LOVE
Drama/Romance, Rated M, 105 Minutes, Film Code 28159
Starring: Gabriella Wilde, Alex Pettyfer, Bruce Greenwood
The story of a privileged girl and a charismatic boy whose instant desire sparks a love affair made
only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart. DVD available 3 July 2014.
GEOGRAPHY CLUB
Comedy, Rated M, 80 Minutes, Film Code TBC
Starring: Ana Gasteyer, Justin Deeley, Meaghan Martin, Cameron Deane Stewart
Based on Brent Hartinger’s bestselling critically acclaimed novel, Geography Club is a smart, fast,
and funny account of contemporary teenagers as they discover their own sexual identities, dreams,
and values. 16 year old Russell is still going on dates with girls while having a secret relationship
with football quarterback Kevin, who will do anything to prevent his football teammates from
finding out. Min and Terese tell everyone that they’re just really good friends. And then there’s Ike
who can’t figure out who he is or who he wants to be. Finding the truth too hard to hide, they all
decide to form the Geography Club, thinking nobody else in their right mind would ever want to
join. However, their secrets may soon be discovered and they could have to face the choice of
revealing who they really are. DVD available 23 July 2014.
I, FRANKENSTEIN
Action/Fantasy/Sci-Fi, Rated M, 92 Minutes, Film Code 28167
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Bill Nighy, Miranda Otto
Set in a dystopic present where vigilant gargoyles and ferocious demons rage in a battle for
ultimate power, Victor Frankenstein's creation Adam finds himself caught in the middle as both
sides race to discover the secret to his immortality. DVD available 23 July 2014.
LEGO MOVIE, THE
Family/Animated/Adventure, Rated PG, 101 Minutes, Film Code 48200
Featuring Voices of: Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Morgan Freeman, Elizabeth Banks
An ordinary LEGO minifigure, Emmett, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, is
recruited to join a quest to stop an evil LEGO tyrant Mr President Business from gluing the universe
together. “EVERYTHING IS AWESOME” WITH THIS FUN & ACTION FILLED FAMILY ADVENTURE!
DVD available 3 July 2014.
LONE SURVIVOR
Biography/Drama/Action, Rated MA15+, 121 Minutes, Film Code 28162
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch
In June 2005, four Navy SEALs - Marcus Luttrell, Mike Murphy, Matt Axelson and Danny Dietz - on
a covert mission to kill Taliban leader Ahmed Shahd are ambushed by the enemy in the mountains
of Afghanistan. Faced with an impossible moral decision, the small band is isolated from help and
surrounded by a much larger force of Taliban ready for war. As they confront unthinkable odds
together, the four men find reserves of strength and resilience as they stay in the fight to the
finish. Based on a true story. DVD available 9 July 2014.
LOVE BITE
Comedy, Rated MA15+, 91 Minutes, Film Code TBC
Starring: Timothy Spall, Luke Pasqualino, Ed Speelers, Jessica Szohr
Love bites over a long, hot, boring summer at the dead end seaside town of Rainmouth. Jamie is
desperate to be anywhere but the sleepy town, working at his pothead mums B&B. Yet when the
beautiful, smart and mysterious American traveller Julianna blows into his life, he’s instantly
smitten. But upon Julianna’s arrival strange things start happening, and a number of teens suddenly
disappear. Warned by the unhinged Sid that Julianna is not who she seems, but a lycanthrope
praying on virgin flesh, it seems the only way to be safe is to pop his cherry, as fast as possible.
Pretty soon, everyone is dying to get laid. DVD available 16 July 2014.
MOTEL LIFE, THE
Drama, Rated MA15+, 85 Minutes, Film Code TBC
Starring: Kris Kristofferson, Dakota Fanning, Stephen Dorff
Frank and Jerry Lee Flannigan work odd jobs, drink hard, and drift from motel to motel. Their only
escape is through Frank’s fantastic stories and Jerry Lees rich illustrations. Everything changes
when Jerry Lee is involved in a hit and run accident, which forces the brothers to travel across the
state to the home of Franks old flame, Annie.While the two seem safe from the law, Jerry Lee’s
insatiability and all consuming guilt render their future increasingly uncertain.THE MOTEL LIFE is a
searing and profound story of brotherhood, shared dreams and the redemptive power of hope..
DVD available 23 July 2014.
NON-STOP
Action/Thriller, Rated M, 106 Minutes, Film Code 28120
Starring: Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Michelle Dockery
Bill Marks is a burned-out veteran of the Air Marshals service. He views the assignment not as a
life-saving duty, but as a desk job in the sky. However, today's flight will be no routine trip. Shortly
into the transatlantic journey from New York to London, he receives a series of mysterious text
messages ordering him to have the government transfer $150 million into a secret account, or a
passenger will die every 20 minutes. What follows is a nail-biting cat and mouse game played at
40,000 feet, with the lives of 200 passengers hanging in the balance. DVD available 3 July 2014.
POMPEII
Adventure/Drama, Rated M, 105 Minutes, Film Code 42586
Starring: Kit Harington, Emily Browning, Kiefer Sutherland
The proud Celt, Milo, captured in Brittania by Romans, now a slave turned gladiator in 79 A.D.,
Pompeii, finds himself in a race against time to save his true love, Cassia, who has been
unwillingly betrothed to corrupt Roman Senator Corvus. As Mount Vesuvius erupts in a torrent of
blazing lava and brimstone, Milo must fight his way out of the arena in order to save Cassia as the
once magnificent Pompeii crumbles around him. DVD available 23 July 2014.
RIDE ALONG
Action/Comedy, Rated M, 100 Minutes, Film Code 28174
Starring: Ice Cube, Kevin Hart
Fast-talking security guard Ben joins his cop brother-in-law James on a 24-hour patrol of Atlanta in
order to prove himself worthy of marrying Angela, James' sister. DVD available 17 July 2014.
SABOTAGE
Action/Crime/Drama, Rated MA15+, 109 Minutes, Film Code 28252
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington, Terrence Howard
In "Sabotage", Arnold Schwarzenegger leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's
deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe
house, they think their work is done - until, one-by-one, the team members mysteriously start to
be eliminated. As the body count rises, everyone is a suspect. DVD available 31 July 2014.
VAMPIRE ACADEMY
Fantasy/Action, Rated M, 105 Minutes, Film Code 28166
Starring: Zoey Deutch, Lucy Fry, Danila Kozlovsky, Gabriel Byrne
Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, half human/vampire, guardians of the Moroi, peaceful, mortal
vampires living discretely within our world. Her legacy is to protect the Moroi Princess Lissa
Dragomir from bloodthirsty, immortal Vampires, the Strigoi. This is her story. Based on the topselling “Vampire Academy” book series. DVD available 3 July 2014.
WADJDA
Drama, Rated PG, 98 Minutes, Film Code 27809
Starring: Waad Mohammed, Reem Abdullah, Abdullrahman Al Gohani
*** In Arabic with English subtitles ***
Wadjda is a 10-year-old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Although she
lives in a conservative world, Wadjda is fun loving, entrepreneurial and rebellious. She's
determined to fight for her dreams, which include saving enough money to buy a bicycle, so she
can race her friend Abdullah. Wadjda lives at home with her parents, who are loving if a little
distracted. Her father isn't around much, and her mother is convinced he's busy looking for a
second wife. DVD available 23 July 2014.
WAYLAND’S SONG
Drama, Rated MA15+, 96 Minutes, Film Code TBC
Starring: Orla Brady, Rob Collier-James, Michael Nardone
Wayland returns home from fighting in Afghanistan, mentally scarred and badly injured.
Compounding his troubled return is the discovery his daughter has vanished without a trace.
Determined to find her whereabouts, he is shocked to find that her world was a dark, menacing
place where nothing is what it seems to be. Drawn into a hostile drug fuelled maze, it is soon
obvious that her disappearance looks more and more sinister. Unless he finds her soon, Wayland’s
homecoming is rapidly turning into the killing fields he left behind! DVD available 9 July 2014.
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11.6
Thriller, Rated M, 102 Minutes, Film Code TBC
Starring: Corinne Masiero, Bouli Janners, Francois Cluzet
*** In French with English subtitles ***
A heart stopping thriller from Philippe Godeau, 11.6 is based on the real life story of the security
guard who in 2009, made international headlines with a daring bank robbery. Not because it
landed him a fortune 11.6 million Euros in banknotes but because he did it quietly, rationally and
without once resorting to violence, part of a long term plan that puzzles the French authorities to
this day.. DVD available 25 June 2014.
A TOUCH OF SIN
Drama, Rated MA15+, 130 Minutes, Film Code TBC
Starring: Li Meng, Lanshan Luo, Wu Jiang
*** In Mandarin & Cantonese with English subtitles ***
An angry miner revolts against the corruption of his village leaders. A migrant worker at home for
the New Year discovers the infinite possibilities a firearm can offer. A pretty receptionist at a sauna
is pushed to the limit when a rich client assaults her. A young factory worker goes from job to job
trying to improve his lot in life. Four people, four different provinces. Winner of the Best
Screenplay award at the Cannes Film Festival ,Jia Zhang-Ke’s A TOUCH OF SIN is a reflection on
contemporary China that of an economic giant slowly being eroded by violence.
DVD available 23 July 2014.
COMBUSTION
Action, Rated MA15+, 100 Minutes, Film Code TBC
Starring: Alberto Ammann, Adriana Ugarte, Alex Gonzalez
*** In Spanish with English subtitles ***
Just as he’s become engaged to his girlfriend Julia, Mikel meets Ari at a party. Ari is fascinating,
beautiful, passionate and up to her neck in illegal car racing. But that’s not the only curveball she
introduces when Ari’s boyfriend cooks up a plan to rob Julia’s business, Mikel has to choose
between an exciting new life with Ari and his love for Julia. DVD available 23 July 2014.
GLORIA
Comedy/Drama, Rated MA15+, 109 Minutes, Film Code 28163
Starring: Paulina García, Sergio Hernández, Diego Fontecilla
*** In Spanish and English with English subtitles ***
Gloria is, divorced, 58 years old but still feels young. She lives a lonely life, but remains hopeful in
her search for love and spends time at dance clubs for older singles. When she meets the gentle
Rodolfo, Gloria embarks on the new relationship with zeal, but Rodolfo's deep ties to his adult
children and ex-wife pose an obstacle. DVD available 9 July 2014.
HANNAH ARENDT
Drama/Biography, Rated PG, 114 Minutes, Film Code TBC
Starring: Janet McTeer, Axel Milberg, Barbara Sukowa
*** In German with English subtitles ***
HANNAH ARENDT is a portrait of the genius that shook the world with her discovery of the
banality of evil. After she attends the Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem, Arendt dares to
write about the Holocaust in terms no one had ever heard before. Her work instantly provokes a
scandal, and Arendt stands strong as she is attacked by friends and foes alike. But as the German
Jewish émigré struggles to suppress her own painful associations with the past, the film exposes
her beguiling blend of arrogance and vulnerability revealing a soul defined and derailed by exile.
DVD available 25 June 2014.
JUST A SIGH
Drama, Rated M, 101 Minutes, Film Code TBC
Starring: Emmanuelle Devos, Gabriel Byrne
*** In French & English with English subtitles ***
The always brilliant Emmanuelle Devos stars as Alix, a forty three year old actress en route to Paris
for an audition. With a broken mobile phone and a maxed out credit card, Alix is momentarily
loosened from the moorings that anchor her to modern life and to her boyfriend. A brief train
conversation with an enigmatic stranger, Douglas,sets her on a path of spontaneous decisions with
both the promise and the risk of new beginnings. Just a Sigh shows two charismatic stars in top
form as they pursue an attraction in glances and tentative gestures. Their flirtation unfolds in real
time against a backdrop of vibrant Paris locations on World Music Day. DVD available 9 July 2014.
PARADISE TRILOGY:
*** In German with English subtitles ***
Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise Trilogy about three women in one family who take separate vacations one as a sex tourist (Paradise
Love), another as a Catholic missionary (Paradise Faith) and the third at a diet camp for teenagers (Paradise Hope).Three
films, three women, three stories of the longing to find happiness today. DVD’s available 9 July 2014.
FILM #1. PARADISE LOVE
Drama, Rated R18+, 120 Minutes, Film Code TBC
Starring: Inge Maux, Peter Kazungu, Margarete Tiesel
On the beaches of Kenya they’re known as Sugar Mamas European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a
living. Teresa, a 50 year old Austrian and mother of a daughter entering puberty, travels to this vacation paradise. She goes
from one Beach Boy to the next, from one disappointment to the next and finally she must recognize on the beaches of
Kenya love is a business.
FILM #2. PARADISE FAITH
Drama, Rated R18+, 113 Minutes, Film Code TBC
Starring: Natalya Baranova, Nabil Saleh, Maria Hofstatter
For Anna Maria, a single woman in her 50s, paradise lies with Jesus. She devotes her summer vacation to doing missionary
work, so that Austria may be brought back to the path of virtue. On her daily pilgrimage through Vienna, she goes from door
to door, carrying a foot high stature of the Virgin Mary. One day, when after years of absence, her husband, an Egyptian
Muslim confine to a wheelchair, comes home, her life goes off the rails. Hymns and prayers are now joined by fighting.
FILM #3. PARADISE HOPE
Drama, Rated MA15+, 91 Minutes, Film Code TBC
Starring: Joseph Lorenz, Verena Lehbauer, Melaine Lenze
The third film in Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise Trilogy tells the story of Melanie, an overweight 13 year old, and her first love. While
her mother, Teresa travels to Kenya, and her aunt does missionary work for Jesus Christ, the teenager spends her summer
vacation with other adolescents in a strictly run diet camp in the Austrian countryside. Between sports activities and
nutritional counselling, pillow fights and her first cigarettes, she falls in love with the camp director, a doctor 40 years her
senior. She loves him with the unconditionally of first love, and tries in total innocence to seduce him. The doctor struggles
against the guilt of this love, aware of its impossibility .Melanie had imagined her paradise differently.
TAPED
Thriller, Rated M, 81 Minutes, Film Code TBC
Starring: Dario Levy, Susan Visser, Barry Atsma
*** In Dutch with English subtitles ***
In TAPED, Johan and Saar make a last attempt to save their marriage by going on a vacation
together to Buenos Aires. They promise their daughter they will film the holiday using a video
camera. But when they accidentally record a brutal murder, they are forced to flee in fear of their
lives. DVD available 23 July 2014.
WRESTLING QUEENS
Comedy, Rated M, 93 Minutes, Film Code TBC
Starring: Isabelle Nanty, Corinne Masiero, Audrey Fleurot
*** In French with English subtitles ***
More than anything, 30 year old Rose longs to be reunited with Mickael, her estranged 11 year old
son who has been placed with a foster family and blames his mother for their long separation.
When she discovers that Mickael is crazy about wrestling, Rose thinks she’s found a way to melt
the ice: shell put together a tag team with three girlfriends from the store where all four work as
checkout girls. DVD available 25 June 2014.
YOUNG DETECTIVE DEE: RISE OF THE SEA DRAGON
Action, Rated M, 128 Minutes, Film Code TBC
Starring: Kun Chen, Mark Chao, Angela Yeung Wing
*** In Mandarin with English subtitles ***
Empress Wu, who rules with her husband Emperor Gaozong, orders the Navy’s warships to Baekje
Kingdom. They are to aid its old ally who is in the midst of an invasion by aggressive Buyeo forces
that may target China next. Before they can leave port, however, the commanding warships are
sunk by a mysterious black shadow that rises to the surface of the water. This is the action packed
and captivating tale of the legendary Detective Dees beginnings in the Imperial police force. In his
very first case, he must investigate reports of a sea monster terrorizing the city, and reveal a
sinister conspiracy of treachery and betrayal, leading to the highest reaches of the Imperial family.
DVD available 16 July 2014.