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ARTEMIS FOUL (Dir: Kenneth Branagh, 2020).
ARTEMIS FOUL (Dir: Kenneth Branagh, 2020).
Sci-fi actioner based upon the best selling series of YA books by Eoin Colfer.
When his criminal mastermind father is kidnapped, 12 year old Artemis Foul (Ferdia Shaw) must secure the Aculos, a magical fairy device of immense power, in order to buy his father's freedom. Along for the ride are butler Dom (Nonso Anozie), fairy cop (Lara McDonnell) and giant dwarf Mulch Diggums (Josh Gad) who has the downright freaky ability of unhinging his jaw, digging with his mouth and shooting the dirt from his backside. Big names in small roles include Colin Farrell as Fowl Sr and Judi Dench as some kind of ancient elf commander in chief.
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NIAGARA (Dir: Henry Hathaway, 1953).
Marilyn Monroe's breakthrough performance in an unusual film noir, distinguished by its use of eye-popping three strip Technicolor.
Arriving at Niagara Falls for a delayed honeymoon, the affable Polly Cutler (Jean Peters) and her husband Ray (Max Showalter, billed here as Casey Adams) encounter the altogether odder married couple Rose (Monroe) and George (Joseph Cotton) Loomis, visiting the Falls six years after their own honeymoon in an attempt to rekindle their relationship. Recently discharged from a mental institution, the troubled George is scarred by his experiences in the Korean War and seemingly an ill match for the voluptuous Rose. Darker motives are apparent as Polly spies Rose in the embrace of another man. When George mysteriously disappears Polly suspects murder, but has a hard time convincing her husband and the authorities until George reappears and the fatalities begin to mount.
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HERBIE RIDES AGAIN (Dir: Robert Stevenson, 1974).
Released 5 years after Walt Disney Productions' blockbuster The Love Bug (Robert Stevenson, 1969), this first sequel of the Herbie franchise reunited most of the creative team of the original movie. Disney Studios’ star director Robert Stevenson is once again at the helm, with production and screenwriting duties handled by Bill Walsh, from a story by Gordon Buford.
Following the events of The Love Bug, anthropomorphic VW Bug Herbie is now in the care of elderly Mrs Steinmetz (Helen Hayes). Her nephew, mechanic Tennessee Steinmetz, has left the car in his aunt's care while he visits Tibet. Former owner race driver Jim Douglas, meanwhile, is now competing on the European circuit. Sharing Steinmetz's ancient firehouse home is airline flight attendant Nicole (Stephanie Powers) and together with fledgling lawyer Willoughby Whitfield (Ken Berry) they must fight to stop the firehouse from falling into the hands of evil property tycoon Alonzo Hawk (Keenan Wynn). Hawk will stop at nothing, legal or otherwise, to procure the land for his planned skyscraper Hawk Plaza, but meets his match when he comes up against Herbie.
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THE CASTLE OF CAGLIOSTRO (Dir: Hayao Miyazaki, 1979).
Originally titled ルパン三世 カリオストロの城, The Castle of Cagliostro is an animated action adventure, the feature film debut for director Hayao Miyazaki.
Master thief Arsene Lupin III and his cohort Jigen stumble upon an international counterfeit operation after a daring raid on a swanky Monte Carlo casino results in a haul of fake cash. Tracing the operation to the small country of Cagliostro, they come up against the crooked Count Cagliostro when attempting to rescue a damsel in distress, his intended bride Clarisse. Meanwhile Lupin's nemisis Inspector Zenigata is hot on his trail.
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THE BUCCANEER (Dir: Anthony Quinn, 1958).
Historical accuracy goes out the window in this less than epic war movie, masquerading as a pirate adventure; a fictionalised account of the real life events of the War of 1812 between the US and the British.
Famed privateer Jean Lafitte (Yul Brynner) is offloading his ill gotten gains to the good people of Louisiana, much to the chagrin of Governor William Claiborne (E G Marshall), while also romancing the governor's daughter Annette (Inger Stevens). The governor conspires with General Andrew Jackson (Charlton Heston) to put an end to Lafitte's pirating ways but eventually seek his assistance at the Battle of New Orleans.
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MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (Dir: Frank Lloyd, 1935).
A lavish Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer adaptation of the bestselling historic novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall.
Mutiny on the Bounty recounts the now famous events of the 1789 mutiny when, on a mission to Tahiti to collect breadfruit, the crew of the HMS Bounty, lead by First Officer Fletcher Christian (Clark Gable) revolt against the tyrannical Captain William Bligh (Charles Laughton). Putting him to sea in a rowboat, the crew pilot the ship to the lush paradise of the Pitcairn Islands.
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