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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)

Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Cleese, John | Rickman, Alan | Grint, Rupert | Watson, Emma | Radcliffe, Daniel | Smith, Maggie | Coltrane, Robbie | Triplets, Saunders | Harris, Richard | Shaw, Fiona | Melling, Harry | Griffiths, Richard | Deadman, Derek | Hart, Ian | Borowiecki, Ben | Davis, Warwick | Troyer, Verne | Hurt, John | Bremmer, Richard
Directors: Columbus, Chris
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is the first film in the Harry Potter series based off the novels by J.K. Rowling. It is the tale of Harry Potter, an ordinary 11-year-old boy serving as a sort of slave for his aunt and uncle who learns that he is actually a wizard and has been invited to attend the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is snatched away from his mundane existence by Hagrid, the grounds keeper for Hogwarts, and quickly thrown into a world completely foreign to both him and the viewer. Famous for an incident that happened at his birth, Harry makes friends easily at his new school. He soon finds, however, that the wizarding world is far more dangerous for him than he would have imagined, and he quickly learns that not all wizards are ones to be trusted.

Spiderwick Chronicles, The (2008)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Highmore, Freddie | Nolte, Nick | Strathairn, David | Rogen, Seth | Short, Martin | McCarthy, Andrew | Fennell, Tod | Lavalley, Jeremy | Jones, Tyler Patrick | Switzer, Kyle
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Once upon a time, upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures. Unable to explain the strange disappearances and accidents that seem to be happening on a daily basis, the family blames it all on Jared. When he, Simon and Mallory investigate what’s really going on, they uncover the fantastic truth of the Spiderwick estate and of the creatures that inhabit it.

MirrorMask (2005)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Barry, Jason | Brydon, Rob | Fry, Stephen | Hamilton, Andy | Harvey, Simon | Henry, Lenny | Llewellyn, Robert | Robson, Nik | Allen, Rick | Schofield, Simon | Tate, Mark | Thompson, Richard | Thompson, Robin | Ballamy, Iain | Batchelor, Chris
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Helena, a 15-year-old girl in a family of circus entertainers, often wishes she could run off and join real life. After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her fault. On the eve of her mother’s major surgery, she dreams that she is in a strange world with two opposing queens, bizarre creatures, and masked inhabitants. All is not well in this new world - the white queen has fallen ill and can only be restored by the MirrorMask, and it’s up to Helena to find it. But as her adventures continue, she begins to wonder whether she’s in a dream, or something far more sinister.

Summer of Sam (1999)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Leguizamo, John | Brody, Adrien | Sorvino, Mira | Esposito, Jennifer | Rispoli, Michael | Guerra, Saverio | Tarantina, Brian | Palagonia, Al | Garito, Ken | Neuwirth, Bebe | LuPone, Patti | Starr, Mike | LaPaglia, Anthony | Smith, Roger Guenveur | Gazzara, Ben
Directors: Lee, Spike
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Spike Lee’s take on the “Son of Sam” murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.

Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The (2005)

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Henley, Georgie | Keynes, Skandar | Moseley, William | Popplewell, Anna | Swinton, Tilda | McAvoy, James | Broadbent, Jim | Shah, Kiran | Cosmo, James | McIntosh, Judy | Hawthorne, Elizabeth | Kake, Patrick | Rangi, Shane | Cook, Brandon | Cook, Cassie
Directors: Adamson, Andrew
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Based on the classic novel by ‘CS Lewis’ (qv). Four London children are sent to a professor’s country home in order for protection during World War II. There they find a magic wardrobe which leads to a mystical land called Narnia, which is being ruled by an evil witch. To defeat the witch, they must join forces with Aslan, the lion God of Narnia.

Congo (1995)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Linney, Laura | Walsh, Dylan | Hudson, Ernie | Curry, Tim | Heslov, Grant | Baker, Joe Don | Noh, Lorene | Trainor, Mary Ellen | Rosas, Misty | Pankin, Stuart | Seymour, Carolyn | Rosemont, Romy | Karen, James | Pugin, Bill | Wrentz, Lawrence T.
Directors: Marshall, Frank
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Greed is bad, this simple morality tale cautions. A megalomaniacal C.E.O. sends his son into the dangerous African Congo on a quest for a source of diamonds large enough and pure enough to function as powerful laser communications transmitters (or is it laser weapons?). When contact is lost with his son and the team, his sometime daughter- in-law is sent after them. She is a former CIA operative and, accompanied by gee-whiz gadgetry and a few eccentric characters (including a mercenary, a researcher with a talking gorilla, and a a nutty Indiana-Jones-type looking for King Solomon’s Mines), sets out to rescue her former fiance. What they all discover is that often what we most want turns out to be the source of our downfall.

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.

Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)

Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Lee, Jason | Cross, David | Richardson, Cameron | Long, Justin | Tiffany, Don | Gubler, Matthew Gray | McCartney, Jesse | Lynch, Jane | Green, Jordan | Karman, Allison | Parker, Tiara | Verrastro, Kira | Riesgraf, Beth | Muirhead, Oliver | Abernathy, Don
Directors: Hill, Tim
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In a tree farm, three musically inclined chipmunks, Alvin, Simon and Theodore, find their tree cut down and sent to Los Angeles. Once there, they meet the frustrated songwriter David Seville, and despite a poor house wrecking first impression, they impress him with their singing talent. Seeing the opportunity for success, both human and chipmunks make a pact for them to sing his songs. While that ambition proves a frustrating struggle with the difficult trio, the dream does come true after all. However, that success presents its own trials as their unscrupulous record executive, Ian Hawke, plans to break up this family to exploit the boys. Can Dave and the Chipmunks discover what they really value amid the superficial glamor around them?

Charlotte’s Web (2006)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Family
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Roberts, Julia | Buscemi, Steve | Cleese, John | Winfrey, Oprah | Cedric the Entertainer | Bates, Kathy | McEntire, Reba | Redford, Robert | Church, Thomas Haden | Benjamin, André | Kay, Dominic Scott | Shepard, Sam | Benrubi, Abraham | Fanning, Dakota | Anderson, Kevin
Directors: Winick, Gary
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Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.