Posts Tagged ‘animal’

Turner & Hooch (1989)

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Hanks | Mare Winningham | Craig T. Nelson | Reginald VelJohnson | Scott Paulin | J.C. Quinn | John McIntire | David Knell | Ebbe Roe Smith | Kevin Scannell | Joel Bailey | Mary McCusker | Ernie Lively | Clyde Kusatsu | Elaine Renee Bush
Directors: Roger Spottiswoode
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Scott Turner has 3 days left in the local police department before he moves to a bigger city to get some “real” cases, not just misdemeanors. Then Amos Reed is murdered, and Scott Turner sets himself on the case. The closest thing to a witness in the case is Amos Reed’s dog, Hooch, which Scott Turner has to take care of if it’s going to avoid being “put to sleep”.

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 | Damián Alcázar | 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?

Kung Fu Panda (2008)

Friday, November 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Animation | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Jack Black | Jackie Chan | Dustin Hoffman | Lucy Liu | Ian McShane | David Cross | Michael Clarke Duncan | Dan Fogler | James Hong | Randall Duk Kim | Wayne Knight | Seth Rogen | Angelina Jolie
Directors: Mark Osborne
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A CG-animated comedy about a lazy, irreverent slacker panda, Po, who must somehow become a Kung Fu Master in order to save the Valley of Peace from a villainous snow leopard, Tai Lung. Set in the legendary world of ancient China, this is the story of Po, our unlikely hero, who enters the rigid world of Kung Fu and turning it upside down. Po ultimately becomes a Kung Fu hero by learning that if he believes in himself, he can do anything

Shrek the Third (2007)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Mike Myers | Eddie Murphy | Cameron Diaz | Antonio Banderas | Julie Andrews | John Cleese | Rupert Everett | Eric Idle | Justin Timberlake | Susan Blakeslee | Cody Cameron | Larry King | Christopher Knights | John Krasinski | Ian McShane
Directors: Raman Hui
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When Fiona’s father and King of Far Far Away passes away, the clumsy Shrek becomes the immediate successor of the throne. However, Shrek decides to find the legitimate heir Artie in a distant kingdom with his friends Donkey and Puss in Boots to be able return to his beloved house in the swamp with the pregnant Fiona. Meanwhile, the envious and ambitious Prince Charming joins the villains of the fairytales plotting a coup d’état to become the new king.

The Jungle Book (1994)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jason Scott Lee | Cary Elwes | Lena Headey | Sam Neill | John Cleese | Jason Flemyng | Stefan Kalipha | Ron Donachie | Anirudh Agarwal | Faran Tahir | Sean Naegeli | Joanna Wolff | Liza Walker | Rachel Robertson | Natalie Morse
Directors: Stephen Sommers
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A faithful adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s classic tale of Mowgoli the jungle boy who is raised by wolves after being lost when a tiger attacked an encampment and killed his father. Years later he finds himself re-united with his childhood love Kitty and back in the “civilization” of Colonial India which he finds far less civilized then his jungle haunts. The search for a lost treasure shows who the truly civilized members of society are.

Congo (1995)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Laura Linney | Dylan Walsh | Ernie Hudson | Tim Curry | Grant Heslov | Joe Don Baker | Lorene Noh | Mary Ellen Trainor | Misty Rosas | Stuart Pankin | Carolyn Seymour | Romy Rosemont | James Karen | Bill Pugin | Lawrence T. Wrentz
Directors: Frank Marshall
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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.

The Witches (1990)

Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Genres: Family | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: UK
Actors: Anjelica Huston | Mai Zetterling | Jasen Fisher | Jane Horrocks | Anne Lambton | Rowan Atkinson | Bill Paterson | Brenda Blethyn | Charlie Potter | Sukie Smith | Rose English | Jenny Runacre | Annabel Brooks | Emma Relph | Nora Connolly
Directors: Nicolas Roeg
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A young boy, recently orphaned, is taken to England by his grandmother. At a hotel in which they are staying, a group of witches have gathered to prepare a plot to rid the world of all children.

Oxygen (1999)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Maura Tierney | Adrien Brody | James Naughton | Laila Robins | Terry Kinney | Paul Calderon | Dylan Baker | Olek Krupa | Frankie Faison | Slavko Stimac | Michael Henderson | Robert Shepard | Eddie Perez | Gene Canfield | Christopher J. Quinn
Directors: Richard Shepard
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A masochistic cop (Maura Tierney), who hides her predilection from her cop husband (Terry Kinney), gets involved in pursuing a kidnapper nicknamed Harry for Harry Houdini (Adrien Brody), who has kidnapped a rich woman (Laila Robins) and has buried her somewhere in Manhattan while demanding a ransom from her tycoon husband (James Naughton). Failure to pay the ransom within 24 hours will lead the kidnapper to abandoning the woman. Dylan Baker also appears as the fed that is assigned to the case.

Miss Potter (2006)

Monday, April 7th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Renée Zellweger | Ewan McGregor | Emily Watson | Barbara Flynn | Bill Paterson | Matyelok Gibbs | Lloyd Owen | Anton Lesser | David Bamber | Patricia Kerrigan | Judith Barker | Chris Middleton | Lucy Boynton | Oliver Jenkins | Richard Mulholland
Directors: Chris Noonan
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Thirty years old and single, Beatrix Potter lives in London with her social-climbing parents, who are exasperated that she has turned down any number of eligible young men. Her only real friends are the animals which since childhood she has lovingly drawn and made up stories about. She finally succeeds in selling a book of the stories, and it becomes Norman Warne’s first project. He quickly falls in love with both the book and Beatrix and together they carefully arrange publication. This proves the first of many successes, offering her the possibility of escaping from both her parents’ way of life and London.

Ratatouille (2007)

Saturday, December 1st, 2007
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Patton Oswalt | Ian Holm | Lou Romano | Brian Dennehy | Peter O'Toole | Brad Garrett | Janeane Garofalo | Will Arnett | Julius Callahan | James Remar | John Ratzenberger | Teddy Newton | Tony Fucile | Jake Steinfeld
Directors: Brad Bird
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Remy is a rat, constantly risking life in an expensive French restaurant because of his love of good food, as well as a desire to become a chef. Yet, obviously, this is a rather tough dream for a rat. But opportunity knocks when a young boy, who desperately needs to keep his job at the restaurant, despite his lack of cooking abilities, discovers and partners the young Remy. Its up to the two of them to avoid the insane head chef, bring the rest of Remy’s family up to his standards, win his partner a girl, and, of course, produce the finest Ratatouille in all of France.