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Bless the Beasts & Children (1971)

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Bill Mumy | Barry Robins | Miles Chapin | Darel Glaser | Bob Kramer | Marc Vahanian | Jesse White | Ken Swofford | David Ketchum | Elaine Devry | Wayne Sutherlin | Vanessa Brown | William Bramley | Frank Farmer | Charles H. Gray
Directors: Stanley Kramer
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A group of adolescent boys, placed in a summer camp by their otherwise too busy parents, find themselves unable to fit in and are soon branded as bedwetters by their fellow campers and unsympathetic counselor. After their counselor exposes them to what they perceive as a cruel slaughter of corralled bison, these misfits are soon drawn to a common purpose to break free of their camp and free the bison. On their way to free the bison, individual flashbacks reveal the relationships each has with his own family and give insight to their reasons behind wanting to set the bison free. Karen and Richard Carpenter’s singing of the title song occurs now and again throughout the movie to underscore the the drama.

Babe (1995)

Friday, November 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Christine Cavanaugh | Miriam Margolyes | Danny Mann | Hugo Weaving | Miriam Flynn | Russi Taylor | Evelyn Krape | Michael Edward-Stevens | Charles Bartlett | Paul Livingston | Roscoe Lee Browne | James Cromwell | Magda Szubanski | Zoe Burton | Paul Goddard
Directors: Chris Noonan
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Farmer Hoggett wins a runt piglet at a local fair and young Babe, as the piglet decides to call himself, befriends and learns about all the other creatures on the farm. He becomes special friends with one of the sheepdogs, Fly. With Fly’s help, and Farmer Hoggett’s intuition, Babe embarks on a career in sheepherding with some surprising and spectacular results.

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Ben Barnes | Georgie Henley | Skandar Keynes | William Moseley | Anna Popplewell | Sergio Castellitto | Peter Dinklage | Warwick Davis | Vincent Grass | Pierfrancesco Favino | Cornell John | Dami?n Alc?zar | Alicia Borrachero | Simón Andreu | Predrag Bjelac
Directors: Andrew Adamson
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A year after their first adventure in Narnia, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are pulled back in by Susan’s magic horn. They find that hundreds of years have passed, and Narnia is now ruled by the bloodthirsty General Miraz, uncle to the true heir, Prince Caspian, now in exile. Now the children must find Caspian and help him depose Miraz…but how will they get home after it’s done?

Troy (2004)

Saturday, September 27th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | History | Romance
Countries: Malta | UK | USA
Actors: Julian Glover | Brian Cox | Nathan Jones | Adoni Maropis | Jacob Smith | Brad Pitt | John Shrapnel | Brendan Gleeson | Diane Kruger | Eric Bana | Orlando Bloom | Siri Svegler | Lucie Barat | Ken Bones | Manuel Cauchi
Directors: Wolfgang Petersen
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It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations begin to clash after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnom to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the never before defeated Trojans. But they come to a stop by Hector, Prince of Troy. The whole movie shows their battle struggles, and the foreshadowing of fate in this remake by Wolfgang Petersen of Homer’s “The Iliad.”

D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Genres: Family | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Mary Beth Hurt | Michael McKean | Kathryn Walker | Colleen Camp | Josef Sommer | Ron Frazier | Steve Ryan | David Wohl | Danny Corkill | Amy Linker | Barret Oliver | Ed Grady | Tucker McGuire | Richard Hammatt | Charlie Gudger
Directors: Simon Wincer
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A young boy is found wandering without any memory of who he is. A family takes him in and begin to look for clues to help him find his way home. In the meantime, they notice that the boy seems to have certain special abilities, not usually found in kids his age, or even fully-grown adults.

The Beguiled (1971)

Friday, March 28th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller | War | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Clint Eastwood | Geraldine Page | Elizabeth Hartman | Jo Ann Harris | Darleen Carr | Mae Mercer | Pamelyn Ferdin | Melody Thomas Scott | Peggy Drier | Patricia Mattick | Charlie Briggs | George Dunn | Charles Martin | Matt Clark | Patrick Culliton
Directors: Don Siegel
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During the civil war, injured Yankee soldier, John McBurney is rescued on the verge of death by a teenage girl from a southern boarding school. She manages to get him back to the school, and at first the all-female staff and pupils are scared. As he starts to recover, one by one he charms them and the atmosphere becomes filled with jealousy and deceit.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Countries: Germany | New Zealand | USA
Actors: Viggo Mortensen | Ian McKellen | Elijah Wood | Noel Appleby | Alexandra Astin | Sean Astin | David Aston | John Bach | Sean Bean | Cate Blanchett | Orlando Bloom | Billy Boyd | Sadwyn Brophy | Alistair Browning | Marton Csokas | Richard Edge | Jason Fitch | Bernard Hill
Directors: Peter Jackson
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While Frodo & Sam continue to approach Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring, unaware of the path Gollum is leading them, the former Fellowship aid Rohan & Gondor in a great battle in the Pelennor Fields, Minas Tirith and the Black Gates as Sauron wages his last war against Middle-Earth.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Countries: Germany | New Zealand | USA
Actors: Elijah Wood | Ian McKellen | Liv Tyler | Viggo Mortensen | Sean Astin | Cate Blanchett | John Rhys-Davies | Bernard Hill | Christopher Lee | Billy Boyd | Dominic Monaghan | Orlando Bloom | Hugo Weaving | Miranda Otto | David Wenham
Directors: Peter Jackson
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Sauron’s forces increase. His allies grow. The Ringwraiths return in an even more frightening form. Saruman’s army of Uruk Hai is ready to launch an assault against Aragorn and the people of Rohan. Yet, the Fellowship is broken and Boromir is dead. For the little hope that is left, Frodo and Sam march on into Mordor, unprotected. A number of new allies join with Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, Pippin and Merry. And they must defend Rohan and attack Isengard. Yet, while all this is going on, Sauron’s troops mass toward the City of Gondor, for the War of the Ring is about to begin.

The Last Emperor (1987)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Countries: China | France | Italy | UK
Actors: John Lone | Joan Chen | Peter O'Toole | Ruocheng Ying | | Dennis Dun | Ryuichi Sakamoto | Maggie Han | Ric Young | Vivian Wu | Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa | Jade Go | Fumihiko Ikeda | Richard Vuu | Tsou Tijger
Directors: Bernardo Bertolucci
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A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People’s Republic.

Robots (2005)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Dianne Wiest | Ewan McGregor | Stanley Tucci | Jamie Kennedy | Halle Berry | Paula Abdul | Lucille Bliss | Terry Bradshaw | Jim Broadbent | Mel Brooks | Amanda Bynes | Drew Carey | Jennifer Coolidge | Dylan Denton | Will Denton | Marshall Efron | Damien Fahey | Lowell Ganz | Paul Giamatti
Directors: Carlos Saldanha | Chris Wedge
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Even in a world populated entirely by mechanical beings Rodney Copperbottom (McGregor) is considered a genius inventor. Rodney dreams of two things, making the world a better place and meeting his idol, the master inventor Bigweld (Brooks). On his journey he encounters Cappy (Halle Berry), a beautiful executive ‘bot with whom Rodney is instantly smitten, the nefarious corporate tyrant Ratchet (Kinnear) who locks horns with Rodney, and a group of misfit ‘bots known as the Rusties, led by Fender (Williams) and Piper Pinwheeler (Bynes).