In-store Rental: New Releases

Cream of the Crop (All Genres)

Substance, The: Feat. Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley…; A body horror about toxic beauty standards from French film–maker Coralie Fargeat, who has done her horror homework in setting up a gnarly mad science premise that promises the keys to…
Problemista: Feat. Tilda Swinton, Julio Torres; Character comic Julio Torres directs and stars as an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador, struggling to break out in New York city. As time on his US visa runs out, his only hope to…
We Were Dangerous: Feat. Erana James, Nathalie Morris…; A striking Kiwi fable about three teenage girls who plot to escape an oppressive school for delinquents on an isolated island in the 1950s, it's the debut of director Josephine Stewart–Te…
Monster: Feat. Sakura Ando, Eita Nagayama…; Director Hirokazu Kore–eda returns home with his first Japanese film since the Palm d'Or–winning "Shoplifters" (2018) with this intricate, affecting childhood drama that unravels its…
Convert, The: Feat. Guy Pearce, Jacqueline McKenzie…; A British lay preacher finds himself caught in the middle of a bloody war between Maori tribes in this vivid colonialist epic from dir. Lee Tamahori.

La Chimera: Another delight from dir. Alice Rohrwacher that completes a trilogy (after The Wonders and Happy as Lazzaro) about Italy's relationship with its past. It's set in a 1980s Tuscan village…
Boy and the Heron, The: Feat. Robert Pattinson, Dave Bautista…; A 12–year–old boy, struggles to settle in a new town after his mother's death. However, when a sinister talking heron informs him that his mother is alive, he enters an abandoned tower in…
Kneecap: Feat. Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, Naoise Ó Cairealláin…; An adrenalized, dramatized version of the true story of 'Kneecap', a hip–hop trio from West Belfast. The lads do a terrific job of playing their brazen, hedonistic and hilarious selves, and…
The Teachers' Lounge: Feat. Leonie Benesch; A bracing drama about an idealistic maths teacher caught in the pressure–cooker environment of a contemporary German high school. Leonie Benesch plays a smart and compassionate woman…
Goodbye Julia: An outstanding drama from Sudan about two women – a retired Muslim singer and a Southern Sudanese widow – who forge an unusual friendship across the class divide after a devastating…

In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
Origin An ambitious docu–drama chronicles the efforts of Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson to investigate American racism and its connection to other hierarchies of human divisions.
Perfect Days Wim Wenders' poetic portrait of a quiet Tokyo janitor who finds contentment through routine and the simplest of pleasures.

One Life
Civil War An urgent and chillingly relevant dystopian thriller represents a solid return to form for writer–director Alex Garland.
Fallen Leaves Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki returns with a deadpan romantic crowd–pleaser about two lost souls in Helsinki on a bumpy road to finding each other.