Posts Tagged ‘statue’

Return to Oz (1985)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Balk, Fairuza | Williamson, Nicol | Jean Marsh | Laurie, Piper | Clark, Matt | Sundin, Michael | Rose, Timothy M. | Barrett, Sean | Wilson, Mak | Bryer, Denise | Henson, Brian | Larange, Stewart | Conway, Lyle | Norrington, Stephen | Case, Justin
Directors: Murch, Walter
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It has been six months since Dorothy has returned to Kansas from Oz and she still can not sleep. She has been going on about imaginary places and people so much that Aunt Em takes her to see a doctor. Dorothy promptly escapes from the mental hospital and wakes up in Oz where her favorite chichen can now talk. There she meets a whole new bunch of friends and they set off to rescue the Scarecrow from an evil Nome King who has found her Ruby Slippers and has used them to lay waste to the Emerald city and take over Oz.

Underdog (2007)

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Lee, Jason | Dinklage, Peter | Belushi, James | Warburton, Patrick | Neuberger, Alex | Momsen, Taylor | Slattery, John | Adams, Amy | Garrett, Brad | Bee, Samantha | Crowe, Timothy | Vigus, Larry | Mariani, Mario | Wilder, Bates | Garde, Alexander
Directors: Du Chau, Frederik
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A lab accident gives a hound named Shoeshine some serious superpowers — a secret that the dog eventually shares with the young boy who becomes his owner and friend.

Cronos (1993)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror
Countries: Mexico
Actors: Luppi, Federico | Perlman, Ron | Brook, Claudio | Isabel, Margarita | Shanath, Tamara | Giménez Cacho, Daniel | Martínez, Mario Iván | de Bernal, Farnesio | Colombo, Juan Carlos | Martínez de Hoyos, Jorge | Rodríguez, Luis | Álvarez, Javier | Moscoso, Gerardo | Lobo, Eugenio | Olivera, Adriana
Directors: Toro, Guillermo del
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An aging antique dealer, Jesus Gris, happens upon an elegant mechanized scarab. When opened, it painfully stabs whomever is holding it, but the wound brings youthful vigor and a vampire’s need for blood. The device is relentlessly pursued by a dying tycoon, Dieter de la Guardia, whose nephew Angel, reluctant to see his uncle live a moment longer, must still do the old man’s bidding. Meanwhile, Gris’s desires endanger his own granddaughter, Aurora.

Night at the Museum (2006)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Stiller, Ben | Gugino, Carla | Van Dyke, Dick | Rooney, Mickey | Cobbs, Bill | Cherry, Jake | Gervais, Ricky | Williams, Robin | Raver, Kim | Gallagher, Patrick | Malek, Rami | Favino, Pierfrancesco | Murphy, Charles Q. | Coogan, Steve | Peck, Mizuo
Directors: Levy, Shawn
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In New York, the unemployed divorced Larry Daley is a complete loser. His son Nick is very disappointed with his father that is gong to be evicted, and Larry accepts the job of night watchman in the Museum of Natural History as the substituted for three old security guards that have just retired to raise some money and pay his bills. In his first nightshift, Larry realizes that everything at the museum comes to life at night. The Museum transforms in a complete chaos with the inexperienced Larry, and he learns that since an old Egyptian stone came to the Museum in 1950, the was statues comes to life until dawn. When Larry brings his son to spend a night with him, the three old guards break in the Museum to stole the magic stone. Larry organizes the historic characters to help him to arrest the criminals and save the museum.

Cars (2006)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Wilson, Owen | Newman, Paul | Hunt, Bonnie | The Cable Guy, Larry | Marin, Cheech | Shalhoub, Tony | Quaroni, Guido | Lewis, Jenifer | Dooley, Paul | Wallis, Michael | Carlin, George | Helmond, Katherine | Ratzenberger, John | Ranft, Joe | Keaton, Michael
Directors: Lasseter, John
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Lightning McQueen is a cocky, rookie race car. Speeding on his way to a big race, he crashes into Radiator Springs, destroying lots of the inhabitants belongings. In order to make up for what he did, the cocky roadster is sentenced to community service. Though he will do anything to get away from the work, McQueen must learn to respect and bond with the Radiator Springs inhabitants in order to get out of the town and back on the racetracks.

Barefoot Contessa, The (1954)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Bogart, Humphrey | Gardner, Ava | O'Brien, Edmond | Goring, Marius | Cortese, Valentina | Brazzi, Rossano | Sellars, Elizabeth | Stevens, Warren | Interlenghi, Franco | Aldon, Mari | Love, Bessie | Decker, Diana | Fraser, Bill | Rabagliati, Alberto | Staiola, Enzo
Directors: Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
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While in the burial of Countess Torlato-Favrini, her friend Harry Dawes and her acquaintance Oscar Muldoon recalls parts of her past. When the wealthy Kirk Edwards hires director and screenplay writer Harry Dawes, they travel to Spain with the public relations Oscar Muldoon to see the dancer of a nightclub Maria Vargas and invite her for an audition, since they need a new face for their next movie. Maria, a naive woman with simple origins, is convinced by Harry to go to Hollywood and becomes a famous star and a close friend of Harry and his girlfriend Jerry. Along her successful career, Maria lives personal dramas including lack of adaptation for her new lifestyle, is unable to love and is disputed by the powerful millionaires Kirk Edwards and Alberto Bravano. When she meets the noble and handsome Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini in the French Riviera, she believes that she found her prince charming and her life becomes a fairy tale. But after the wedding, she sees that her Cinderella’s castle of dreams has become a pumpkin.

It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Tracy, Spencer | Berle, Milton | Caesar, Sid | Hackett, Buddy | Merman, Ethel | Rooney, Mickey | Shawn, Dick | Silvers, Phil | Terry-Thomas | Winters, Jonathan | Adams, Edie | Provine, Dorothy | Anderson, Eddie 'Rochester' | Backus, Jim | Blue, Ben
Directors: Kramer, Stanley
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After a long prison sentence Smiler Grogan is heading at high speed to a California park where he hid $350,000 from a job 15 years previously. He accidentally careers over a cliff in view of four cars whose occupants go down to help. The dying Grogan gives details of where the money is buried and when the witnesses fail to agree on sharing the cash, a crazy chase develops across the state.

English Patient, The (1996)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Fiennes, Ralph | Binoche, Juliette | Dafoe, Willem | Scott Thomas, Kristin | Andrews, Naveen | Firth, Colin | Wadham, Julian | Prochnow, Jürgen | Whately, Kevin | Merrison, Clive | Castelnuovo, Nino | Rostom, Hichem | Rühring, Peter | Johnson, Geordie | Higginson, Torri
Directors: Minghella, Anthony
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Beginning in the 1930’s, “The English Patient” tells the story of Count Almasy who is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almasy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics that is later revealed in a series of flashbacks while Almasy is on his death bed after being horribly burned in a plane crash.

Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The (1988)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: UK | West Germany
Actors: Neville, John | Idle, Eric | Polley, Sarah | Reed, Oliver | McKeown, Charles | Dennis, Winston | Purvis, Jack | Cortese, Valentina | Pryce, Jonathan | Paterson, Bill | Jeffrey, Peter | Thurman, Uma | Steadman, Alison | Cooper, Ray | Henderson, Don
Directors: Gilliam, Terry
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Baron Munchausen is a character of European myth that might be considered the predecessor of American tales of Pecos Bill or Paul Bunyan. The Baron’s stories are taken to be outrageous and fanciful lies. This is the origin of the name of the psychiatric diagnosis of “Munchausen’s Syndrome”, a particularly bizzare form of hypochondria.

Haunting, The (1999)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Taylor, Lili | Zeta-Jones, Catherine | Wilson, Owen | Dern, Bruce | Seldes, Marian | Koromzay, Alix | Field, Todd | Madsen, Virginia | Cavanaugh, Michael | Irwin, Tom | Gunning, Charles | Priever, Saul | Gainey, M.C. | Eure, Hadley
Directors: Bont, Jan de
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A remake of the classic 1963 movie “The Haunting” about a team of paranormal experts who look into strange occurrences in an ill-fated house. Through the course of the night some will unravel, some will question, and all will fight for their lives as the house fights back.