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1) Matilda
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Special ed.
Description
Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.
3) The Fountain
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
One man. One love. One destiny. One thousand years . . . Hugh Jackman anchors acclaimed visionary filmmaker Darren Aronofsky's epic sci-fi adventure chronicling a man's thousand-year struggle to save the woman he loves (Academy Award® winner Rachel Weisz). Searching for the secrets of eternal life, he embarks on three parallel quests, in three lives, in three millennia, to unlock the mysteries of life that have consumed him for centuries.
Pub. Date
1989.
Description
One evening, soon after the death of her mother and a move to a new town, 14-year-old Millie sees her next-door neighbor, Eric, sitting precariously on his second-floor windowsill, arms outstretched as though in flight. Since the age of five, when his parents died in a plane crash, Eric has been mute, withdrawn from reality and absorbed in the belief that he can fly.As an awkward, magical first love grows between the two, Millie (Lucy Deakins) encourages...
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Somewhere between a modern-day nightmare and a techno-fetishist's ultimate fantasy, this extraordinary film from Shinya Tsukamoto (Vital, A Snake of June) caused a cult sensation when first released. A strange man known only as the "metal fetishist", who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body, is hit and possibly killed by a Japanese "salaryman", out for a drive with his girlfriend. The salaryman then notices that he...
6) P.S
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
An unfulfilled divorced woman gets the chance to relive her past when she meets a young man who appears to be her high school sweetheart who died many years before.
7) Unicorn Boy
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
The story follows Matty, a down-on-their-luck artist, who is magically sucked into a unicorn-run alternate dimension. Forced to confront their issues, Matty must bring peace to the kingdom and emotional stability to their bleak Silver Lake life.
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
After the death of his wife, Ben Grady (Grant Rosenmeyer) stumbles upon a self-help book by an enigmatic guru named “Mealworm” (Paul Raci), who claims to have harnessed the power to fly. The book arrives…and so does Mealworm, forcing Ben to navigate his family life, accusations of foul play, and the bizarre rituals laid before him in the hopes of healing and, just maybe, achieving flight.
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
In this outrageous musical comedy adventure, aspiring rockers JB (Jack Black) and KG (Kyle Gass) form the band Tenacious D and embark on an epic quest to find the Pick of Destiny, a legendary guitar pick that grants its wielder unparalleled musical talent. Featuring cameos from rock legends and a soundtrack that rocks as hard as the story, the film blends humor, music, and fantasy in a way that only Tenacious D can.
10) Petrov's Flu
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A deadpan, hallucinatory romp through post-Soviet Russia. With the city in the throes of a flu epidemic, the Petrov family struggles through yet another day in a country where the past is never past, the present is a booze-fueled, icy fever dream of violence and tenderness, and where – beneath the layers of the ordinary, things turn out to be quite extraordinary. Based on the novel The Petrovs In and Around the Flu by Alexey Salnikov.
13) Magical movies
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Five early fantasy and trick films--including a previously-unseen trick film by Georges Méliès, hand-colored films from Segundo de Chomon and Gaston Velle, and astonishing stop-motion animation from 1911.
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Description
The Fellowship has been broken. Boromir is dead; Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee have gone to Mordor alone to destroy the One Ring; Merry and Pippin have been captured by the Uruk-hai; Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli have made friends of the Rohan, a race of humans that are in the path of the upcoming war, led by its aging king, Theoden. The two towers between Mordor and Isengard, Barad-dur and Orthanc, have united in their lust for destruction. The...
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
From director Robert Redford comes a film that celebrates the power and potential of the human spirit. Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron star in this highly-acclaimed tale of a local hero with a promising future whose hopes are shattered on the battlefields of war. The disillusioned young man turns his back on the world – until a fateful visit from a mysterious stranger turns his life around. Visually stunning and emotionally compelling, THE...
17) The Dark Crystal
Pub. Date
1982.
Description
In this groundbreaking fantasy epic from Jim Henson and Frank Oz, the peaceful world of Thra is threatened by the evil Skeksis, who rule through the power of the shattered Dark Crystal. A young Gelfling named Jen (voiced by Stephen Garlick) embarks on a quest to restore the crystal and fulfill an ancient prophecy. Along the way, he encounters mystical creatures and allies, including the brave Kira (voiced by Lisa Maxwell). Featuring stunning puppetry...
18) Come away
Formats
Description
In this imaginative origin story of two of the most beloved characters in literature, Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland, eight-year-old Alice, her mischievous brother Peter, and their brilliant older sibling David let their imaginations run wild one blissful summer in the English countryside, encouraged by their parents Jack and Rose.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Description
In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-Earth still it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell, by chance, into the hands of the Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. On his eleventy-first birthday, Bilbo disappeared, bequeathing to his young...
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