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Clash of the Titans (1981)

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Olivier, Laurence | Bloom, Claire | Smith, Maggie | Andress, Ursula | Gwillim, Jack | Fleetwood, Susan | Roach, Pat | Hamlin, Harry | Bowker, Judi | Burgess Meredith | Phillips, Siân | Robson, Flora | Manahan, Anna | Jackson, Freda | Pigott-Smith, Tim
Directors: Davis, Desmond
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By answering a seemingly impossible riddle, Perseus, the son of Zeus, wins the hand of the Princess Andromeda in marriage. Trouble appears in the shape of Calibos, the princess’s former love, and his mother, the Goddess Thetis. In order that the dreaded Kraken not be released, Andromeda has to be sacrificed and Perseus searches for the Medusa; her head is the only thing that can stop the Kraken.

Happy Feet (2006)

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Musical
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Alazraqui, Carlos | Boyar, Lombardo | Garcia, Jeffrey | Sanchez, Johnny A. | Williams, Robin | Wood, Elijah | Murphy, Brittany | Jackman, Hugh | Kidman, Nicole | Weaving, Hugo | Daily, Elizabeth | Szubanski, Magda | Margolyes, Miriam | Joe, Fat | Shafer, Alyssa
Directors: Coleman, Warren
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Set deep inside the icy land of Antarctica, two emperor penguins have a baby named Mumble. Hatched upon his feet, he has an amazing skill for tap-dancing. However, penguins are not supposed to tap dance. Even worse, he cannot sing. All emperor penguins are supposed to have a heart song, and he has a try at it – with awful results. Torn apart from his mom, dad, and best friend, Gloria, as a teenager who still has his adolescent feathers, his ventures off into the icy landscape. He is rescued from a leopard seal from a group of Adelie penguins, whom which the leader is Ramon. They take Mumble to their home and discover that all of their fish is being taken from an unknown ‘alien’ source. They ask Lovelace, an unwise and cocky leader of the Adelies, to help them. Unfortunately, he proves no help. Leading on an incredible adventure, they try to discover the threat of their food source and survival. Using courage and bravery, Mumble begins to teach everyone begins to learn that uniqueness isn’t a burden, but is a gift to be treasured.

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Pitt, Brad | Zeta-Jones, Catherine | Pfeiffer, Michelle | Fiennes, Joseph | Haysbert, Dennis | West, Timothy | Giannini, Adriano | Hui, Raman | Chan, Chung | Cummings, Jim | Vernon, Conrad | Birch, Andrew | Miller, Chris
Directors: Gilmore, Patrick
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Sinbad, the most daring and notorious rogue ever to sail the seven seas, has spent his life asking for trouble, and trouble has finally answered in a big way. Framed for stealing one of the world’s most priceless and powerful treasures—the Book of Peace—Sinbad has one chance to find and return the precious book, or his best friend Proteus will die. Sinbad decides not to take that chance and instead sets a course for the fun and sun of the Fiji Islands. However, Proteus’ beautiful betrothed, Marina, has stowed away on Sinbad’s ship, determined to make sure that Sinbad fulfills his mission and saves Proteus’ life. Now the man who put the “bad” in Sinbad is about to find out how bad bad can be.

Battlestar Galactica (2004)

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK | USA
Available seasons: 1, 2, 3, 4

The second war against the Cylons is over and The Twelve Colonies have been destroyed. Now Commander Adama of the Battlestar Galatica and President Laura Roslin lead a ragtag fleet of refugees in a supposed search for the fabled lost thirteenth colony, Earth. However, the dangers they face are many which compound an already difficult situation. In addition to the Cylons hunting and attacking the fleet in space, their infiltrator units carry out a more subtle plot even as their former unwitting pawn, Gaius Baltar, helps in the hunt for them while hiding both his own guilt and the strange presence that haunts his every thought. If that wasn’t enough, the fleet also faces internal political conflict in which the rabble-rousing figure, Tom Zarek, is merely the loudest dissenting voice. In the midst of these trials however, clues begin to appear that suggest that Adama’s simple bluff about Earth may be more truthful than anyone could have guessed.

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Family | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Rick Schroder | Fonda, Peter | Grayhm, Steven | Dopud, Mike | Brewer, Jonathan | Baker, Simon | Ken Kirzinger | Puckler, Damien | Side, Richard
Directors:
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Prof. Lindenbrook leads his intrepid party on an expedition to the centre of the earth, via a volcano in Iceland, encountering all manner of prehistoric monsters and life-threatening hazards on the way.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Chapman, Graham | Cleese, John | Idle, Eric | Jones, Terry | Palin, Michael | Booth, Connie | Cleveland, Carol | Innes, Neil | Duffell, Bee | Young, John | Davies, Rita | Stewart, Avril | Kinghorn, Sally | Zycon, Mark
Directors: Gilliam, Terry
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The movie starts out with Arthur, King of the Britons, looking for knights to sit with him at Camelot. He finds many knights including Sir Galahad the pure, Sir Lancelot the brave, the quiet Sir Bedevere, and Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Lancelot. They do not travel on horses, but pretend they do and have their servants bang coconuts to make the sound of horse’s hooves. Through satire of certain events in history (witch trials, the black plague) they find Camelot, but after literally a quick song and dance they decide that they do not want to go there. While walking away, God (who seems to be grumpy) come to them from a cloud and tells them to find the Holy Grail. They agree and begin their search…

Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Armstrong, Todd | Kovack, Nancy | Raymond, Gary | Naismith, Laurence | MacGinnis, Niall | Gwynn, Michael | Wilmer, Douglas | Gwillim, Jack | Blackman, Honor | Cairney, John | Troughton, Patrick | Faulds, Andrew | Green, Nigel | Antonelli, Ennio | Crawford, John
Directors: Chaffey, Don
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After a 20 year voyage, Jason (Armstrong) returns to the Kingdom of Thessaly to claim his throne. But it’s not quite easy for this. In order to gain the throne, he must find the magical Golden Fleece, which has amazing healing powers. He selects a crew, which included Polydeuces (Crawford) and Hercules (Green). Jason also gains the help of the Queen of the Gods, Hera (Blackman). Jason and his crew must now reach the fleece and survive the likes of a 100 foot bronze giant, a huge venomous creature with head full of seven snakes, and a terrifying army of skeletons.

Holy Mountain, The (1973)

Friday, December 12th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Countries: Mexico | USA
Actors: Salinas, Horácio | Saunders, Zamira | Ferrara, Juan | Page, Adriana | Kleiner, Burt | Jodorowsky, Valerie | Nichols, Nicky | Rutowski, Richard | Lomeli, Luis | De Sade, Ana | Chucho-Chucho | Robles, Letícia | De La Mora, Connie | Kapralik, David
Directors: Jodorowsky, Alejandro
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A Christlike figure wanders through bizarre, grotesque scenarios filled with religious and sacrilegious imagery. He meets a mystical guide who introduces him to seven wealthy and powerful individuals, each representing a planet in the solar system. These seven, along with the protagonist, the guide and the guide’s assistant, divest themselves of their worldly goods and form a group of nine who will seek out the Holy Mountain, in order to displace the gods who live there and become immortal.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Karloff, Boris | Ravenscroft, Thurl | Foray, June
Directors: Jones, Chuck
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Bitter and hateful, the Grinch is irritated at the thought of the nearby village having a happy time celebrating Christmas. So disguised as Santa Claus, with his dog made to look like a reindeer, he raids the village to steal all the Christmas things. The village is sure to have a sad Christmas this year.

Man Who Would Be King, The (1975)

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Connery, Sean | Caine, Michael | Plummer, Christopher | Jaffrey, Saeed | Larbi, Doghmi | May, Jack | Bouih, Karroom Ben | Shamsi, Mohammad | Moses, Albert | Antrim, Paul | Acres, Graham | Blue Dancers of Goulamine, The | Caine, Shakira | Singh, Gurmuks | Singh, Kimat
Directors: Huston, John
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” The Man Who Would Be King” is about two ambitious ex-soldiers stationed in India who set out to become the rulers of an entire country. After finishing their tour of duty in India, Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnehan have decided that India is “too small for the likes of them,” so they decide to bribe a local ruler and extort money from him, in order to buy twenty Martini rifles, which they will use to take over villages in Kafristan. They face many challenges and perils along the way, including difficult terrain, hostile natives, freezing temperatures, and an avalanche high in the mountains. They eventually come to a small village, Urheb, where they meet Ootah and Billy Fish, an Indian who speaks English; he then becomes their translator. They then train the natives of this village to use the rifles, and soon conquer village after village. During a battle, Daniel is struck by an arrow that seemingly sticks out of his chest. The ignorant natives believe that he must be a God for not having died, and fall down and begin worshiping him. Daniel and Peachy decide that it would be easier for a “God ” to take over the country, so they pretend that Daniel is a god, the son of Alexander the Great who has returned after 2200 years to again rule Kafristan. The entire country celebrated the return of their new ruler, the Son of Segunda (“Alexander”). As a token of their admiration, the holiest of holy men gives Daniel all of the gold and riches left by Alexander in 328 B.C. It is enough to make them the richest men in the world . . . All goes well until Daniel’s ego and greed gets the best of him. He asks Peachy to bow when he walks in front of him. He later tells Peachy that he has decided to stay, and now believes that he is the son of Alexander ( ‘in spirit, anyways”), and that to fulfill his destiny, he will marry Roxanne, like his “father” Alexander did before him. The Kafiri’s believe that a mortal cannot marry a God, but Daniel goes ahead anyway. Peachy was set to leave with his share of the treasure, but Daniel convinced him to stay ” for old time’s sake” for the wedding. At the ceremony, Roxanne, believing that she would soon die, bites Daniel, drawing blood. The entire crowd realizes that since Danny is bleeding, that he is a man, not a God, and that he has been deceiving them the entire time. Peachy grabs Daniel and they run off with their twenty soldiers, shooting at the crowd of monks who set out to kill them. They are eventually captured, and Daniel is forced to walk out on a rope bridge. The monks cut the ropes, and Daniel bravely falls to his death. Peachy is later crucified; when they come to see him the next day, he is still alive, and they say that it is a miracle that he lived and they cut him down. He eventually climbs down into the valley and retrieves Danny’s head, still wearing the crown. He brings it back to Rudyard Kipling, a writer for the Northern Star, as proof that Daniel accomplished his goal, and became the King of Kafristan. Themes developed in the story: 1. ambition 2. friendship 3. taking risks 4. perseverance (not giving up) 5. power 6. honor and dignity