Movies: James Ashcroft

A former U.S. soldier returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prompts him to clean house....

Liquidated after discovering a corporate conspiracy, mild-mannered graphic artist Patience Phillips washes up on an island, where she's resurrected and endowed with the prowess of a cat — and she's eager to use her new skills... as a vigilante. Befor...

A genetic engineering experiment gone horribly awry turns a large flock of docile sheep into unrelenting killing machines....

In Seattle, detective Quentin Conners is unfairly suspended and his partner Jason York leaves the police force after a tragic shooting on Pearl Street Bridge, when the hostage and the criminal die. During a bank heist with a hostage situation, Conner...

A school teacher is forced to confront a brutal act from his past when a pair of ruthless drifters takes him and his family on a nightmare road-trip....

Confined to a secluded rest home and trapped within his stroke-ridden body, a former Judge must stop an elderly psychotic who employs a child's puppet to abuse the homes residents with deadly consequences....

A dysfunctional gang of criminals takes a middle class Maori family hostage and discovers too late that they are cannibals....

Fish Out of Water manages to unfurl its light-hearted tale of young man and the sea, without a word of dialogue. Avoiding the morning traffic jams, our man (Nick Dunbar) finds peace by rowing each day to work in the city. But when a seductive blonde ...

Over the course of one week in a shadowy Wellington flat, four flatmates gradually aggravate and menace each other as pressure builds over unpaid bills, a mysterious disappearance, infidelity, and unrequited sexual desire. The physical and psychologi...

A multi-storyline film which follows the aftermath of a stalled movie project in Wellington. As the various members of the cast and crew resume their everyday lives, the intricacies of their relationships with one another become increasingly difficul...