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Babe: Pig in the City (1998)

Friday, November 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Australia
Actors: Magda Szubanski | James Cromwell | Mary Stein | Mickey Rooney | Elizabeth Daily | Danny Mann | Glenne Headly | Steven Wright | James Cosmo | Nathan Kress | Myles Jeffrey | Stanley Ralph Ross | Russi Taylor | Adam Goldberg | Eddie Barth
Directors: George Miller
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After Babe’s great victory in the shepherding contest, Farmer Arthur Hoggett turns down all offers to make money with his pig’s talents. But when he gets hurt severely in the well, his wife has to take up farming. She does her best but cannot meet the bank’s requirements, which results in the necessity of getting back to Babe. Soon, Esme Hoggett is sitting in a plane headed for “the” city. There, Babe unwillingly causes deep trouble. He has to stay with Mrs. Hoggett in the only hotel in town that accepts pets. Friendly neighbours send officials who catch all animals from the hotel: Cats, dogs, chimpanzees and many others. Babe, who managed to stay free, decides to help his new friends and gets unexpected help - not only by Ferdinand, who flew all the way to the city.

Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953)

Friday, November 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Bud Abbott | Lou Costello | Mari Blanchard | Robert Paige | Horace McMahon | Martha Hyer | Jack Kruschen | Joe Kirk | Jean Willes | Anita Ekberg | James Flavin | Jackie Loughery | Ruth Hampton | Valerie Jackson | Renate Hoy
Directors: Charles Lamont
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Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars. Instead it goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. They are then forced by bank robber Mugsy and his pal Harry to fly to Venus where they find a civilization made up entirely of women, men having been banished.

The Art of War (2000)

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Wesley Snipes | Donald Sutherland | Maury Chaykin | Anne Archer | Marie Matiko | Michael Biehn | Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa | Liliana Komorowska | James Hong | Paul Hopkins | Glen Chin | Ron Yuan | Bonnie Mak | Uni Park | Erin Selby
Directors: Christian Duguay
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Shaw is an operative for the United Nations’ covert dirty-tricks squad, using espionage and quasi-ethical tactics to secure peace and cooperation. When a shipping container full of dead Vietnamese refugees turns up on the docks and China’s ambassador is gunned down at a dinner celebrating a new trade agreement with China and the US, Shaw is framed for the murder and must evade the FBI and Triad gangsters to find out what is really going on.

Frida (2002)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: Canada | Mexico | USA
Actors: Salma Hayek | Mía Maestro | Amelia Zapata | Alejandro Usigli | Diego Luna | Alfred Molina | Lucia Bravo | Valeria Golino | Patricia Reyes Spíndola | Loló Navarro | Roger Rees | Fermín Martínez | Roberto Medina | Ashley Judd | Antonio Banderas
Directors: Julie Taymor
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“Frida” chronicles the life Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary.

The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Hanks | Bruce Willis | Saul Rubinek | Morgan Freeman | John Hancock | Kevin Dunn | Clifton James | Louis Giambalvo | Barton Heyman | Norman Parker | Donald Moffat | Alan King | Kurt Fuller | Adam LeFevre | Richard Libertini
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Financial “Master of the Universe” Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car. When yellow journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. Abe Weiss.

Species II (1998)

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Madsen | Justin Lazard | Baxter Harris | Mykelti Williamson | Marg Helgenberger | George Dzundza | James Cromwell | Sarah Wynter | Natasha Henstridge | Myriam Cyr
Directors: Peter Medak
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Mykelti Williamson and Justin Lazard are a pair of astronauts who make the first successful manned mission to Mars. Lazard’s character gets infected by an alien and slowly begins to mutate. When they get back to Earth all he has on his mind is to have sex with Henstridge!

Kate & Leopold (2001)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Meg Ryan | Hugh Jackman | Liev Schreiber | Breckin Meyer | Natasha Lyonne | Bradley Whitford | Paxton Whitehead | Spalding Gray | Josh Stamberg | Matthew Sussman | Charlotte Ayanna | Philip Bosco | Andrew Jack | Stan Tracy | Kristen Schaal
Directors: James Mangold
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Kate and her actor brother live in N.Y. in the 21st Century. Her ex-boy friend, Stuart, lives above her apartment and finds this space near the Brooklyn Bridge where there is a gap in time. He goes back to the eighteen hundreds and takes pictures of the place. Leopold, a man living in the 1870’s, was puzzled by Stuart’s tiny camera and decides to follow him and they both ended up in this century. Leopold is clueless about his new surroundings. He gets help and insights from Charlie who thinks that Leopold is an actor who is always in character. Leopold is a highly intelligent man and tries his best to learn and even improve the modern conveniences that he encounters.

The Mouse That Roared (1959)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | War
Countries: UK
Actors: Peter Sellers | Jean Seberg | William Hartnell | David Kossoff | Leo McKern | MacDonald Parke | Austin Willis | Timothy Bateson | Monte Landis | Alan Gifford | Colin Gordon | Harold Kasket | Wally Brown | Jacques Cey | Charles Clay
Directors: Jack Arnold
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The best laid plans of mice and men … A cold war satire emphasising the new emerged American Superpower’s use of foreign aid to buy friends and keep then away from the USSR’s influence. Peter Sellers, as the scheming Prime Minister of Grand Fenwick, plots with Peter Sellers, as the scheming Grand Duchess, to declare war on the USA, lose and get that foreign aid. Unfortunately, they forget to tell Peter Sellers, as Tully Bascombe, commander of their mediaeval army. This honourable man does his best for his country and through a series of unbelievable circumstances (well, this is a comedy) to win. Now, who has to give aid to whom?

The Siege (1998)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Denzel Washington | Annette Bening | Bruce Willis | Tony Shalhoub | Sami Bouajila | Ahmed Ben Larby | Mosleh Mohamed | Lianna Pai | Mark Valley | Jack Gwaltney | David Proval | Lance Reddick | Jeremy Knaster | William Hill | Aasif Mandvi
Directors: Edward Zwick
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After the abduction by the US military of an Islamic religious leader, New York City becomes the target of escalating terrorist attacks. Anthony Hubbard, the head of the FBI’s Counter-Intelligence Task Force in New York, teams up with CIA operative Elise Kraft to hunt down the terrorist cells responsible for the attacks. As the bombings continue, the US government responds by declaring martial law, sending US troops, led by Gen. Devereaux, into the streets of New York City.

The Opportunists (2000)

Sunday, August 19th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Christopher Walken | Peter MacDonald | Anne Pitoniak | Kate Burton | Jim Mayzik | Vera Farmiga | Donal Logue | Cyndi Lauper | Paul D'Amato | Wally Dunn | Olek Krupa | Chuck Cooper | John Ortiz | José Zúñiga | Brandon Vega
Directors: Myles Connell
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Vic is a struggling auto mechanic with a safe-cracking past and a lot of debt. His girlfriend runs a bar and offers to loan him the money she’s saved for remodeling, but Vic is reluctant to take it. When a long-lost cousin from Ireland shows up on his doorstep, the two team up for one last heist.