As you may have noticed, it's the end of the semester, which leads to all
kinds of fun things, but most importantly - the opportunity to vote on
SWILmovies for next semester!

What follows is a list of the movies nominated in meeting a few weeks ago,
followed by a list of short descriptions of the storyline of each film.
All descriptions are courtesy of the IMDB (www.imdb.com); all mistakes are
theirs, all credit goes to them.

You can vote for 15 of these movies.  To vote, please reply to this email
with a list of your picks, by June 1.  Votes will be counted by the fall,
and fifteen of these movies will be selected to be shown.  The final list
of movies will be posted at http://www.swil.org/movies.html
Anyone can vote, though we will weight the votes of current student
nonmembers slightly more heavily.

SWIL generally tries to show a fairly even mix of fantasy and science
fiction, with some anime as well.  Movies are shown on Monday nights at 10
p.m. in SC 101.

Complaints, questions, and quibbles should be directed to the SWIL
presidents, Tall, Grande and Venti, at presidents @ swil.org.

~ Venti
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MOVIE NOMINATIONS:

One star (*) indicates that it is a short or shorts.
Two stars (**) indicates that it's very recent and/or may be difficult
to find.

The Absent-Minded Professor (Comedy / Family / Fantasy)
Adaptation (Comedy / Drama)
The Adventures of Baron von Munchausen (Gilliam)(Adventure / Fantasy /
	Comedy / Family)
Alice in Wonderland (Disney) (Drama / Family / Animation / Musical /
	Fantasy )
Alice Through the Looking Glass (Musical / Family / Fantasy)
Amelie (Comedy / Drama / Romance)
Babe (Family / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy)
Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau) (Drama / Fantasy)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks ( Adventure / Family / Musical / Fantasy )
**Big Fish (Drama / Fantasy / Comedy)
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (Adventure / Comedy / Sci-Fi)
The Brave Little Toaster ( Family / Adventure / Animation / Comedy /
	Musical / Fantasy / Thriller)
Brazil (Comedy / Sci-Fi / Fantasy)
Cannibal: the musical (Comedy / Horror / Musical / Western / Romance)
The Cell (Sci-Fi / Horror / Thriller)
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (Family / Comedy)
The Court Jester (Adventure / Comedy / Musical)
Critters (Comedy / Sci-Fi)
* **Darth Vader's Psychic Hotline (Comedy / Short / Sci-Fi)
Dogma ( Comedy / Fantasy / Adventure )
*Donald in Mathmagic Land (Family / Animation / Documentary / Short)
Dude, Where's My Car (Comedy / Sci-Fi)
Equilibrium (Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller)
**Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ( Comedy / Drama / Romance /
	Sci-Fi)
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (Fantasy / Sci-Fi)
The Fifth Element ( Action / Sci-Fi / Romance / Drama / Fantasy)
The Flight of Dragons (Animation / Family / Fantasy)
Gattaca (Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller)
Grave of the Fireflies (Hotaru no haka)(Anime / War / Drama)
Harrison Bergeron (Sci-Fi)
**Hellboy (Adventure / Horror / Sci-Fi / Action)
The History of the World, Part I (Mel Brooks) (Comedy)
It's a Wonderful Life (Drama / Fantasy / Family / Romance)
Labyrinth (Family / Fantasy / Adventure / Musical)
The Last Unicorn (Family / Animation / Fantasy)
Macross Plus (Animation / Sci-Fi)
Masters of the Univers ( Fantasy / Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi)
Memento (Drama / Mystery / Thriller)
Nausicaa (Kaze no tani no Naushika) (Anime / Drama)
Neverwhere (miniseries) (Drama / Fantasy)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (Animation / Horror / Comedy / Musical /
	Fantasy)
*Peter and the Wolf ( Family / Animation / Short)
Porco Rosso (Kurenai no buta) (Family / Adventure / Comedy / Animation /
	Fantasy / Romance)
The Princess Bride (Fantasy / Family / Adventure / Comedy / Romance)
Return to Oz (Fantasy / Family / Adventure / Sci-Fi )
The Secret of NIMH (Animation / Family / Drama)
The Sixth Sense (Drama / Mystery / Thriller )
Solaris (Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi)
Soylent Green (Sci-Fi / Drama / Thriller)
Sphere (Sci-Fi / Thriller)
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (Action / Sci-Fi / Mystery)
Stay Tuned (Sci-fi / Comedy)
Treasure Planet (Adventure / Animation / Family / Sci-Fi)
20,000 Leagues under the Sea (Family / Adventure)
UHF (Weird Al) (Comedy)
Waking Life (Animation / Fantasy / Drama)
*Wallace and Gromit (3 shorts)(Animation / Family / Comedy)
The Wizard of Oz ( Family / Fantasy / Adventure / Musical)

DESCRIPTIONS:

The Absent-Minded Professor (1961, Comedy / Family / Fantasy)
A bumbling professor accidently invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an
incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a hard
surface. It allows for the invention of shoes that can allow jumps of
amazing heights and enables a modified Model-T to fly. Unfortunately, no
one is interested in the material except for Alonzo Hawk, a corrupt
businessman who wants to steal the material for himself.

Adaptation (2002, Comedy / Drama)
An account of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's (Cage) attempt to adapt
Susan Orlean's (Streep) non-fiction book The Orchid Thief, which is the
story of John Laroche (Cooper), a plant dealer who clones rare orchids
then sells them to collectors. We see the action of the book as we see
Kaufman struggle to adapt it into a movie. This is presumably a somewhat
true story, as Charlie Kaufman is the real life screenwriter of
Adaptation.

The Adventures of Baron von Munchausen (Terry Gilliam version) (1988,
Adventure / Fantasy / Comedy / Family)
The fantastic tale of a 17th century aristocrat, his talented henchmen
and a little girl in their efforts to save a town from defeat by the
Turks. Being swallowed by a giant sea-monster, a trip to the moon, a
dance with Venus and an escape from the Grim Reaper are only some of the
improbable adventures. If it's chosen, we promise we'll actually show it
this time.

Alice in Wonderland (Disney) (1951, Drama / Family / Animation / Musical
/ Fantasy )
On a golden afternoon, young Alice follows a White Rabbit, who
disappears down a nearby rabbit hole. Quickly following him, she tumbles
into the burrow - and enters the merry, topsy-turvy world of Wonderland!
Memorable songs and whimsical escapades highlight Alice's journey, which
culminates in a madcap encounter with the Queen of Hearts - and her army
of playing cards!

Alice Through the Looking Glass (1985, Musical / Family / Fantasy)
Classic tale of a girl named Alice who follows a white rabbit down a
hole into Wonderland, where she can change sizes by eating and drinking
and animals talk. After escaping the disturbing Queen of Hearts, she
finds that she has ended up on the other side of the looking glass in
Looking Glass Land and that there is a mind-created Jabberwocky after
her. With the advice of a wise owl and royal chess pieces on her mind,
she ventures home, vowing to grow up in this two-part movie which
remains most faithful to the original stories written by Lewis Carroll.
Made-for-TV version.

Amelie (2001, Comedy / Drama / Romance)
Amelie tries to enrich the lives of those around her by weaving her
special brand of mischievious magic. She befriends a neighbor who's a
shut-in, plays pranks on another neighbor, steals a garden gnome and
returns objects she collects to their rightful owners. She romantically
daydreams in the cafe she works at and marvels at life's ironies. One
day she finds a small box containing a child's momentos and decides to
set about finding its rightful owner...will romance blossom for Amelie?

Babe, The Gallant Pig (1995, Family / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy)
Farmer Hoggett wins a runt piglet at a local fair and young Babe, as the
piglet decides to call himself, befriends and learns about all the other
creatures on the farm. He becomes special friends with one of the
sheepdogs, Fly. With Fly's help, and Farmer Hoggett's intuition, Babe
embarks on a career in sheepherding with some surprising and spectacular
results.

Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau, La Belle et la bete)(1946, Drama /
Fantasy)
"Once upon a time..." A half-ruined merchant lives in the country with
his son Ludovic and his three daughters. Two of the daughters, Felicie
and Adelaide, are real shrews, selfish, pretentious, evil. They exploit
the third daughter, Belle, as a servant. One day, the merchant get lost
in the forest and enters a strange castle. He picks up a rose for
Beauty, what makes the castle's owner appear. He is a monster,
half-human (body) and half-beast (paws, head), and he has magic powers.
He sentenced the merchant to death, unless one of his daughters replaces
him. Beauty sacrifices herself for her father and go to the castle. She
will discover that the Beast is not so wild and inhuman than it looks.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971, Adventure / Family / Musical / Fantasy)
In August of 1940 in the English village of Pepperinge Eye, three
cockney orphans are sent to live with Eglantine Price (Angela Lansbury),
who is studying to become an apprentice witch. When she receives a
letter from the Correspondence College of Witchcraft in London, she and
the children fly on a bed (by way of a magic bedknob) to London to meet
the headmaster of the defunct school, Emelius Brown (David Tomlinson).
At a townhouse where Mr. Brown is staying, Miss Price finds half of a
book called THE SPELLS OF ASTOROTH. For the other half, they deal with a
shady character known as the Bookman (Sam Jaffe).

Big Fish (2003, Drama / Fantasy / Comedy)
This film follows the incredible life of Edward Bloom, through a series
of flashbacks that begin when his son Will visits him for the last time.
Edward is dying of cancer, and Will hasn't spoken to him for years
because he believes him to be a liar that never really cared for his
family. Will winds up re-creating his father's elusive life in a
series of legends and myths inspired by the few facts he knows. Through
these tales, the son begins to understand his father's great feats and
his great failings.

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989, Adventure / Comedy / Sci-Fi)
Ted "Theodore" Logan and Bill S. Preston esquire won't graduate if they
don't do well in their history presentation. This would be both bogus
and uncool! A dude called Rufus comes from the future in a telephone
box to help them, as their lives are apparently rather important to the
future of mankind! They travel through time doing some interesting
research for their history presentation, and generally being excellent
to each other!

The Brave Little Toaster ( 1987, Family / Adventure / Animation / Comedy
/ Musical / Fantasy / Thriller)
When a young boy and his family go on holiday, their household
appliances, led by the toaster, think they've been abandoned. They
decide, rather than be left alone in the house for who knows how long,
to try to find him. So begins a dangerous and amusing venture through
the city and countryside.

Brazil (1985, Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Comedy)
Sam Lowry is a harried technocrat in a futuristic society that is
needlessly convoluted and inefficient. He dreams of a life where he can
fly away from technology and overpowering bureaucracy, and spend
eternity with the woman of his dreams. While trying to rectify the
wrongful arrest of one Harry Buttle, Lowry meets the woman he is always
chasing in his dreams, Jill Layton. Meanwhile, the bureaucracy has
fingered him responsible for a rash of terrorist bombings, and both Sam
and Jill's lives are put in danger.

Cannibal: The Musical (Alfred Packer: the musical) (1996, Comedy /
Horror / Musical / Western / Romance)
Alfred Packer was a mountain guide and sole survivor of a party of
pioneers that got lost in the mountains in winter. Accused and convicted
of murdering and eating his travelling companions, he was executed by
hanging. The movie begins at his trial, where he pleads his innocence to
an unsympathetic audience. Only reporter Polly Pry will listen to his
story, which is then related to the viewers in the form of flashbacks.
As Packer and his gold-prospecting clients make their way through the
forests and mountains, they encounter bemused Japanese Indians, an
unimpressed group of mountain men and the brutal Rocky Mountain winter,
all of which inspire the travellers to break out into song and dance.

The Cell (2000, Sci-Fi / Horror / Thriller)
Catharine Deane is a psychotherapist who is part of a revolutionary new
treatment which allows her mind to literally enter the mind of her
patients. Her experience in this method takes an unexpected turn when an
FBI agent comes to ask for a desperate favour. They had just tracked
down a notorious serial killer, Carl Stargher, whose MO is to abduct
women one at a time and place them in a secret area where they are kept
for about 40 hours until they are slowly drowned. Unfortunately, the
killer has fallen into an irreversible coma which means he cannot
confess where he has taken his latest victim before she dies. Now,
Catherine Deane must race against time to explore the twisted mind of
the killer to get the information she needs, but Stargher's damaged
personality poses dangers that threaten to overwhelm her.

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969, Family / Comedy )
Some college students manage to persuade the town's big businessman, A.
J. Arno, to donate a computer to their college. When the problem-
student, Dexter Riley, tries to fix the computer, he gets an electric
shock and his brain turns to a computer; now he remembers everything he
reads. Unfortunately, he also remembers information which was in the
computer's memory, like the illegal business Arno is involved in.

The Court Jester (1956, Adventure / Comedy / Musical)
Danny Kaye is a young rebel impersonating a jester in the court of an
evil king (although in this film, his evil is blunted) but mistaken for
a hit man. Kaye could sing, he could dance, and he could make you laugh
so hard you could only take liquids the next day. And in this movie he
gets a chance to do all three, plus do some swashbuckling! Also along
for the ride are the elegant Glynis Johns, who plays his superior in the
slight rebel force trying to return the throne to its rightful owner,
and Basil Rathbone, who could play the clever, suave cad as good as
anyone in movies.

Critters (1986, Comedy / Sci-Fi)
A massive ball of furry creatures from another world eat their way
through a small mid-western town followed by intergalactic bounty
hunters opposed only by militant townspeople.

Darth Vader's Psychic Hotline (2002, Comedy / Short / Sci-Fi)
Parody of Miss Cleo and various other television psychic commercials,
but with Darth Vader giving readings to various Star Wars characters.

Dogma (1999,  Comedy / Fantasy / Adventure )
Two mischievous angels who were laid off by God and are given the boot.
Finding themselves banned to Wisconsin, they set out for New Jersey
where they find a loophole that will allow them to re-enter heaven. The
only problem is it will destroy humanity. An abortion clinic worker who
is a descendant of Christ, a wisecracking 13th apostle, a stripper/muse,
and mischievous mallrats Jay and Silent Bob band together to stop them.

Donald in Mathmagic Land (1959, Family / Animation / Documentary /
Short)
Disney used animation here to explain through this wonderful adventure
of Donald how mathematics can be useful in our real life. Through this
journey Donald shows us how mathmatics are not just numbers and charts,
but magical living things.

Dude, Where's My Car (2000, Comedy / Sci-Fi)
Jesse and Chester, two bumbling stoners, wake up one morning from a
night of partying and cannot remember where they parked their car which
prompts them on a journey to find it and along the way, they encounter a
variety of people who include their angry girlfriends Wilma and Wanda
whose house they trashed, an angry street gang, a transexual stripper
hounding them for a suitcase full of stolen money, a cult of alien
seeking fanatics, and a group of aliens in human form looking for a
mystical device that could save or destroy the world.

Equilibrium (2002, Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller)
In a futuristic world, a strict regime has eliminated war by suppressing
emotions: books, art and music are strictly forbidden and feeling is a
crime punishable by death. Clerick John Preston (Bale) is a top ranking
government agent responsible for destroying those who resist the rules.
Whe he misses a dose of Prozium, a mind-altering drug that hinders
emotion, Preston, who has been trained to enforce the strict laws of the
new regime, suddenly becomes the only person capable of overthrowing it.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004,  Comedy / Drama / Romance /
Sci-Fi)
Joel (Jim Carrey) is stunned to discover that his girlfriend Clementine
(Kate Winslet) has had her memories of their tumultuous relationship
erased. Out of desperation, he contracts the inventor of the process,
Dr. Howard Mierzwaik (Tom Wilkinson), to have Clementine removed from
his own memory. But as Joel's memories progressively disappear, he
begins to rediscover their earlier passion. From deep within the
recesses of his brain, Joel attempts to escape the procedure. As Dr.
Mierzwiak and his crew (Kristen Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood) chase
him through the maze of his memories, it's clear that Joel just can't
get her out of his head.

Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985, Fantasy / Sci-fi)
The army of the Marauders, led by by King Terak and the witch Charal
attack the Ewoks village. The parents and the brother of Cindel all die
in this attack. Cindel and the Ewok Wicket escape and in a forrest they
meet Teek a naughty and very fast animal. Teek takes them to a house in
which a old man, Noa, lives. Like Cindel he also crashed with his
Starcruiser on Endor. Together they fight Terak and Charal.

The Fifth Element (1997, Action / Sci-Fi / Romance / Drama / Fantasy)
Two hundred and fifty years in the future, life as we know it is
threatened by the arrival of Evil. Only the fifth element (played by
Milla Jovovich) can stop the Evil from extinguishing life, as it tries
to do every five thousand years. She is helped by ex-soldier,
current-cab-driver, Corben Dallas (played by Bruce Willis), who is, in
turn, helped by Prince/Arsenio clone, Ruby Rhod. Unfortunately, Evil is
being assisted by Mr. Zorg (Gary Oldman), who seeks to profit from the
chaos that Evil will bring, and his alien mercenaries.

The Flight of Dragons (1986, Animation / Family / Fantasy)
This is an animated movie based on the book by Peter Dickinson. In this
movie the realm of magic is being threatened by the realm of logic, so
Carolinus, the green wizard decides to shield it for all time. Ommedon,
the evil red wizard, stands in his way. Carolinus then calls for a quest
that is to be led by a man named Peter Dickinson, who is the first man
of both the realms of science and magic. It is Peters job to defeat
Ommedon.

Gattaca (1997, Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller)
Vincent is one of the last "natural" babies born into a sterile,
genetically-enhanced world, where life expectancy and disease likelihood
are ascertained at birth. Myopic and due to die at 30, he has no chance
of a career in a society that now discriminates against your genes,
instead of your gender, race or religion. Going underground, he assumes
the identity of Jerome, crippled in an accident, and achieves prominence
in the Gattaca Corporation, where he is selected for his lifelong
desire: a manned mission to Titan. But he must still constantly pass
gene tests by diligently using samples of Jerome's hair, skin, blood and
urine. His now-perfect world is thrown into increasing desperation, his
dream within reach, when the mission director is killed - and he
carelessly loses an eyelash at the scene!

Grave of the Fireflies (Hotaru no haka) (1988, Anime / War / Drama)
Setsuko and Seita are brother and sister living in wartime Japan. After
their mother is killed in an air raid they find a temporary home with
relatives. Having quarreled with their aunt they leave the city and make
their home in an abandoned shelter. While their father's destiny who was
a soldier is unknown the two must depend on each other to somehow keep a
roof over their heads and food in their stomachs. When everything is in
short supply, they gradually succumb to hunger and their only
entertainment is the light of the fireflies.

Harrison Bergeron (1995, from a Vonnegut short story, Sci-fi)
"All men are not created equal. It is the purpose of the Government to
make them so." This is the premise of the Showtime film adaption of Kurt
Vonnegut's futuristic short story Harrison Bergeron. The film centers
around a young man (Harrison) who is smarter than his peers, and is not
affected by the usual "Handicapping" which is used to train all
Americans so everyone is of equal intelligence.

Hellboy (2004, Adventure / Horror / Sci-Fi / Action)
In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic
to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is
taking place, but not before a demon - Hellboy - has already been
conjured. Joining the Allied forces, Hellboy eventually grows to
adulthood, serving the cause of good rather than evil.  From the comic
books.

The History of the World, Part I (1981, Comedy)
From the dawn of man to the distant future, mankind's evolution (or lack
thereof) is traced. Often ridiculous but never serious, we learn the
truth behind the Roman Emperor, we learn what REALLY happened at the
last supper, the circumstances that surrounded the French Revolution,
how to test eunuchs, and what kind of shoes the Spanish Inquisitor wore.

It's a Wonderful Life (1946, Drama / Fantasy / Family / Romance)
George Bailey spends his entire life giving up his big dreams for the
good of his town, Bedford Falls, as we see in flashback. But in the
present, on Christmas Eve, he is broken and suicidal over the misplacing
of an $8000 loan and the machinations of the evil millionaire, Mr.
Potter. His guardian angel, Clarence, falls to Earth, literally, and
shows him how his town, family, and friends would turn out if he had
never been born. George meant so much to so many people; should he
really throw it all away?

Labyrinth (1986, Family / Fantasy / Adventure / Musical) (Jim Henson)
Young Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) is left home alone by her parents and
she has to babysit her little brother Toby. But the baby keeps crying
and Sarah, while telling him a story to make him sleep, inadvertently
conjures from a fantasy world the Goblin King (David Bowie) who steals
the child and brings him to his castle in the middle of a labyrinth.
Sarah has to rescue him before midnight, or the baby will became a
goblin...

The Last Unicorn (1982, Family / Animation / Fantasy)
The last unicorn in the world goes on a quest to discover what has
happened to all the others of her kind. Along the way she meets a
variety of interesting characters including the rather inept Schmendrick
the Magician, a sensible middle-aged woman named Molly Grue, and the
evil King Haggard. The story is part fantasy, part allegory about fairy
tales, and part tale about life itself. Based on the novel of the same
name by Peter S. Beagle.

Macross Plus (1994, Animation, Sci-Fi)
2040 AD. Humankind's first colonized planet, Eden. Master pilot Isamu
Dyson is assigned to New Edwards Flight Center as the test pilot for the
prototype variable fighter, the YF-19. YF-21 pilot Guld Goa Bowmann is
also there. Once friends and now rivals, the two compete in prototype
trials. Meanwhile, virtual singer Sharon Apple has come to Eden to hold
a concert. Her producer, Myung Fan Long, was a former friend of the two
pilots. The three will fulfill a fated reunion...

Memento (2000, Drama / Mystery / Thriller)
Point blank in the head a man shoots another. In flashbacks, each one
earlier in time than what we've just seen, the two men's past unfolds.
Leonard, as a result of a blow to the head during an assault on his
wife, has no short-term memory. He's looking for his wife's killer,
compensating for his disability by taking Polaroids, annotating them,
and tattooing important facts on his body. We meet the loquacious Teddy
and the seductive Natalie (a barmaid who promises to help), and we
glimpse Leonard's wife through memories from before the assault. Leonard
also talks about Sammy Jankis, a man he knew with a similar condition.
Has Leonard found the killer? Who's manipulating whom?

Masters of the Universe (1987,  Fantasy / Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi)
The once-beautiful planet Eternia lies devastated, a victim of the
demonic Skeletor and his vile minions. Momentarily vanquished, Eternian
hero He-Man and his forces of good escape to a land of strange creatures
and customs: Earth, the next battlefront in the quest to become Masters
of the Universe. Who awaits the beckon of Skeletor's cadaverous finger?
Evil-Lyn (Meg Foster), the Air Centurions and the ghastly foursome of
Beastman, Saurod, Blade and Karg. And assisting He-Man?
Teela,Man-at-Arms, puckish Gwildor (Billy Barty). And two small-town
America kids who stumble across the lost Cosmic Key -- and share an
adventure beyond their wildest dreams.

Nausicaa (Kaze no tani no Naushika, Miyazaki) (1984, Anime/Drama)
In the far future, man has destroyed the Earth in the "Seven Days of
Fire". Now, there are small pockets of humanity that survive. One pocket
is the Valley of Wind where a princess named Nausicaa tries to
understand, rather than destroy the Toxic Jungle. Note that the old US
release titled Warriors of the Wind is an entirely kiddified version
which edits the original movie heavily, thus creating an entirely
different story

Neverwhere (miniseries)(1996, Drama / Fantasy)
Richard Mayhew leads an ordinary life in London when one day a girl
named Door falls, injured, across his path. The next thing he knows, his
life is gone and he's pulled into the fantastical world of London Below.
Pursued by the murderous Messrs. Croup and Vandemar, Door and Richard
with the help of Hunter and the Marquis de Carabas, attempt to find the
Angel Islington, who knows the secret behind the murder of Door's
family, and possibly a way for Richard to go home.

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993, Animation / Horror / Comedy /
Musical / Fantasy)
Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king of Halloween Town, is bored with
doing the same thing every year for Halloween. One day he stumbles into
Christmas Town, and is so taken with the idea of Christmas that he tries
to get the resident bats, ghouls, and goblins of Halloween town to help
him put on Christmas instead of Halloween -- but alas, they can't get it
quite right.

Peter and the Wolf (1946,  Family / Animation / Short)
Animated version of the fairy tale of the Russian boy Peter and his hunt
for a raiding wolf, presented to the music of Sergei Prokofiev.

Porco Rosso (Kurenai no buta)(1992, Family / Adventure / Comedy /
Animation / Fantasy / Romance)(Miyazaki)
In Early 1930's era Italy, air pirates, bounty hunters and high flyers
of all sorts rule the skies. The most cunning and skilled of these
pilots is Porco Rosso, a man cursed by being turned into a pig  after
watching the spirits of the pilots killed in the last air battle he
fought in rise to the heavens. He now makes a living taking jobs, such
as rescuing those kidnapped by air pirates. Donald Curtis, Porco's rival
in the air and in catching the affections of women, provides a constant
challenge to the hero, culminating in a hilarious, action packed finale.

The Princess Bride (1987, Fantasy / Family / Adventure / Comedy /
Romance )
A kindly grandfather sits down with his grandson and reads him a bedtime
story. The story is one that has been passed down through from father to
son for generations. As the grandfather reads the story, the action
comes alive. The story is a classic tale of love and adventure as the
beautiful Buttercup is kidnapped and held against her will in order to
marry the odious Prince Humperdinck, and Westley (her childhood beau,
now returned as the Dread Pirate Roberts) attempts to save her. On the
way he meets an accomplished swordsman and a huge, super strong giant,
both of whom become his companions in his quest. They meet a few bad
guys along the way to rescue Buttercup. From the book from the book by
S. Morgenstern.

Return to Oz (1985, Fantasy / Family / Adventure / Sci-Fi )
Dorothy, back in Kansas, can't stop thinking about Oz, and even believes
that her friends have sent her a key. Auntie Em, worried for Dorothy's
health, takes her to a famous doctor who works miracles with
electricity. When Dorothy escapes from the treatment, she and a chicken
named Billina find themselves in Oz. But when Dorothy tries to find her
old friends in the Emerald City, she learns that they've all been
transformed by the Nome King. And the evil witch Mombie wants Dorothy's
head. It's up to Dorothy, Billina, and their new friends, the clockwork
Tik-Tok (aka the royal army of Oz), Jack Pumpkinhead, and a Gump-thing
to defeat Mombie and the Nome King and restore the rightful ruler of Oz
to her throne.

The Secret of NIMH (1982, Animation / Family / Drama)
It seems to Mrs. Brisby, the widowed head of a family of field mice,
that her youngest son must die, either by the farmer's spring plough or
of pneumonia in his flight to safety. In her quest for a cure she frees
a young crow from some string in which he has foolishly tied himself, at
the mercy of the farmer's cat Dragon. In return for her risking her life
to save his, he takes her to the creature all birds know is the wisest:
a great owl. Owls eat mice, but when this owl learns Mrs. Brisby's name
he sets her on a path to earning a noble solution to her predicament -
which is the secret of NIMH...

The Sixth Sense (1999, Drama / Mystery / Thriller )
Malcom Crowe is a child psychologist who receives an award on the same
night that he is visited by a very unhappy ex-patient. After this
encounter, Crowe takes on the task of curing a young boy with the same
ills as the ex-patient. This boy "sees dead people". Crowe spends a lot
of time with the boy (Cole) much to the dismay of his wife. Cole's mom
is at her wit's end with what to do about her son's increasing problems.
Crowe is the boy's only hope.

Solaris (2002, Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi)("George Clooney version")
Upon arrival at the space station orbiting an ocean world called Solaris
a psychologist discovers that the commander of an expedition to the
planet has died mysteriously. Other strange events soon start happening
as well, such as the appearance of old acquaintances of the crew,
including some who are dead.

Soylent Green (1973, Sci-Fi / Drama / Thriller)
Disturbing tale of Earth in despair in 2022. Natural food like fruits,
vegetables, and meat among others are now extinct. Earth is
overpopulated and New York City has 40 million starving, poverty
stricken people. The only way they survive is with water rations and
eating a mysterious food called Soylent Green with an unidentifiable
source. A detective investigates the murder of the president of the
Soylent Green company. The truth he uncovers is more disturbing than the
Earth in turmoil when he learns the secret ingredient of Soylent Green.

Sphere (1998, Sci-Fi / Thriller)
1000 feet below the ocean, navy divers discover an object half-a-mile
long. A crack team of scientists are deployed to the site in Deepsea
Habitats. What they find boggles the mind as they discover a perfect
metal sphere. What is the secret behind the sphere? Will they survive
the mysterious 'manifestations'? Who or what is creating these? They may
never live to find out.

Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country (1991, Action / Sci-Fi / Mystery)
After an explosion on their moon, the Klingons have an estimated 50
years before their ozone layer is completely depleted, and they all die.
They have only 1 choice - to join the Federation, which will mean an end
to 70 years of wars. Admiral James T. Kirk and crew are called upon to
help in the negotiations because of their "experience" of the Klingon
race. Peace talks don't quite go to plan, and eventually Kirk and McCoy
are tried and convicted of assassination, and sent to Rura Penthe, a
snowy hard-labour prison camp. Will they manage to escape? And will
there ever be peace with the Klingons?

Stay Tuned (1992, Sci-fi / Comedy)
Roy and Helen Knable are having problems. Roy has become a couch potato
and Helen resents this. After a fight, Spike, a high ranking devil,
appears to offer Roy the ultimate satellite system. Roy signs without
realizing he has sold his soul. When he is sucked into the cable version
of Hell, Helen is sucked in with him. They go through the satanic
variety of cable TV where dying will consign them to damnation. Shows
they find themselves on include, Driving over Miss Daisy, Northern
Overexposure, and Autopsies of the Rich and Famous. Roy must take charge
and save them from the dangers of this cable Hell.

Treasure Planet (2002, Adventure / Animation / Family / Sci-Fi)
A futuristic twist on Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, Treasure
Planet follows restless teen Jim Hawkins on a fantastic journey across
the universe as cabin boy aboard a majestic space galleon. Befriended by
the ship's charismatic cyborg cook, John Silver, Jim blossoms under his
guidance and shows the makings of a fine shipmate as he and the alien
crew battle a supernova, a black hole, and a ferocious space storm. But
even greater dangers lie ahead when Jim discovers that his trusted
friend Silver is actually a scheming pirate with mutiny on his mind.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Disney, 1954, Family / Adventure)
The oceans during the late 1860-92s are no longer safe; many ships have
been lost. Sailors have returned to port with stories of a vicious
narwhal (a giant whale with a long horn) which sinks their ships. A
naturalist, Professor (Pierre) Aronnax, his assistant, Conseil, and a
professional whaler, Ned Land, join an US expedition which attempts to
unravel the mystery. They encounter the advanced submarine, the
Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.

UHF (Weird Al Yankovic) (1989, Comedy)
The worthless daydreaming slob George Newman can't keep a job for more
than a few days at a time before he gets fired. Fortunately, his uncle
wins a UHF television station in a poker-game (it was almost bankrupt),
which George Newman is put in charge of. Will the new job be any
different from the last few jobs he's had?

Waking Life (2001, Animation / Fantasy / Drama)
Dreams. What are they? An escape from reality or reality itself? Waking
Life follows the dream(s) of one man and his attempt to find and discern
the absolute difference between waking life and the dreamworld. While
trying to figure out a way to wake up, he runs into many people on his
way; some of which offer one sentence asides on life, others delving
deeply into existential questions and life's mysteries. We become the
main character. It becomes our dream and our questions being asked and
answered. Can we control our dreams? What are they telling us about
life? About death? About ourselves and where we come from and where we
are going? The film does not answer all these for us. Instead, it
inspires us to ask the questions and find the answers ourselves.

Wallace and Gromit shorts (1993, Claymation / Family / Comedy)
Three shorts: A Grand Day Out (Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese
and this provides an excellent excuse for the animated duo to take their
holiday on the moon), The Wrong Trousers (Wallace is used by a criminal
penguin in a robbery involving mechanical trousers), A Close Shave
(Wallace falls for Wendolene, a wool shop owner, while Gromit is framed
for the sheep rustling).  By Nick Park, the guy who did Chicken Run.

The Wizard of Oz (1939,  Family / Fantasy / Adventure / Musical)
When a nasty neighbor tries to have her dog put to sleep, Dorothy takes
her dog Toto, to run away. A tornado appears and carries her to the
magical land of Oz. Wishing to return, she begins to travel to the city
of Oz where a great wizard lives. On her way she meets a Scarecrow who
needs a brain, a Tin Man who wants a heart, and a cowardly lion who
desperately needs courage. They all hope the Wizard of Oz will help
them, before the Wicked Witch of the West catches up with them.