Here's our top picks from the New Zealand International Film Festival that was on earlier in the month. These will be releasing very soon so pre-order now to get release day delivery anywhere in NZ!

1. Frank – releasing on October 9
Frank is an offbeat comedy about Jon (Domhnall Gleeson), a wannabe musician who finds himself out of his depth when he joins an avant-garde pop band led by the enigmatic Frank (Michael Fassbender), a musical genius who hides himself inside a large fake head, and his terrifying bandmate Clara (Maggie Gyllenhaal). It tells the story of Jon’s struggle with Clara for control of Frank, his rise to power within the band, and how, ultimately, he comes close to destroying the thing he’s come to love.

2. The Double – releasing on October 9 on DVD and Blu-ray
Simon James (Jesse Eisenberg) is a timid young man, working for a mysterious government organization, scratching out an isolated existence in an indifferent world. He is overlooked at work, scorned by his mother, and ignored by the woman of his dreams, copy room girl Hannah (Mia Wasikowska). Undermined wherever he turns it appears his life couldn’t get worse – that is until the sudden arrival of a new co-worker, James Simon. James is both Simon's exact physical double and his opposite – confident, charismatic and good with women. To Simon's horror, James slowly starts taking over his life.

3. Joe – releasing on October 9
Academy Award® winner Nicolas Cage is in his best role in years as the hard-living, hot-tempered, ex-con Joe Ransom. Joe hires teenaged Gary Jones (Tye Sheridan; MUD) and his destitute father to help out his “tree-poisoning” crew. While Joe might be notoriously reckless with his pick-up, his dog and especially with women, he sees something in Gary that gets to him: a determination, a raw decency and a sense of resilience which draws them together in an unlikely friendship. When Gary finds himself facing a threat greater than he knows how to handle, he turns to Joe, setting off a chain of events that play out with the brutal inevitability of tragedy and the beauty of a last stab at salvation.

4. Enemy – releasing on September 11 on DVD and Blu-ray
Jake Gyllenhaal reunites with his PRISONERS director, Denis Villeneuve, in this sexy and hypnotically surreal psychological thriller that breathes new life into the doppleganger tradition. Adam Bell (Gyllenhaal) is a glum, disheveled history professor, who seems disinterested with even his beautiful girlfriend, Mary. While watching a movie, Adam spots his exact double – a bit-part actor named Anthony Clair – and decides to track him down. When the identical men meet, their lives become bizarrely and irrevocably intertwined.

5. Pulp: Go Home – releasing on September 24
Pulp found fame on the world stage in the 1990’s with anthems including ‘Common People’ and ‘Disco 2000’. 25 years (and 10 million album sales) later, they return to Sheffield for their last UK concert. Giving a career best performance exclusive to the film, the band share their thoughts on fame, love, mortality – & car maintenance. This is the perfect documentary for any Pulp fan!

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From the Movie Gorilla