Friday, November 7, 2008

IMAX: Into the Deep

Close encounters of the oceanic kind.

Finding Nemo

The fretful Marlin and his young son Nemo become separated from each other in the Great Barrier Reef. Nemo, a clown fish, is unexpectedly taken from his home and thrust into a fish tank in a dentist’s office overlooking Sydney Harbor. Buoyed by the companionship of a friendly fish named Dory, Marlin embarks on a dangerous trek and finds himself the unlikely hero.

Destination Moon

An American inventor gets private backing to build a rocket so that the United States can reach the moon before the Russians.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Three Coins in the Fountain

Three American women in Rome, throw money into a fountain and wish for love.

Mutiny on the Bounty

In 1789, the HMS Bounty sets sail under Captain William Bligh. Bligh is the cruelest taskmaster and his cruelties become more than first mate Christian can bear. After the Captain causes the death of the ship’s doctor, the crew stage a mutiny, with Christian in charge. Bligh is set adrift in an open boat with a handful of his loyal officers and limited supplies.

Fight Club

When a ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a soap salesman channel their aggresion into therapeutic "fight clubs", an eccentric woman gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.

Fame

Story about students at the High School of Performing Arts, New York. Dance sequences include an audition, classes, a ballet solo by Antonia Franceschi, and the ensemble numbers "Fame" and "I sing the body electric."

Alien

Terror begins when the crew of a spaceship investigates a transmission from a desolate planet and discovers a life form that is perfectly evolved to annihilate mankind. Each crew member is slain until only Ripley is left.

Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls

Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls
Sweeney Todd and the string of pearls [an audio melodrama in three despicable acts]
Find @ your library: http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=143320343X+&qt=owc_search

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

A musical about two showgirls from Little Rock searching for love and marriage aboard a luxury-liner bound for France.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

This Is Spinal Tap

Once upon a time, Spinal Tap had a big hit song. Now, nearly two decades later, Spinal Tap still clings to some glint of their lost glory as they embark on an accident-plagued tour across America.

Murder on the Orient Express

Hercule Poirot is a dapper detective, aboard the Orient Express, for whom murder-solving is a precise, intellectual exercise. When murder occurs, Poirot agrees to interview all aboard the famous trains Calais coach, hoping to find the killer of an American millionarie before the local police arrive.

Modern Times

The Little Tramp is an oppressed assembly-line factory worker who is used as a guinea pig for his employer’s test of a new "Automatic Feeding Machine".

Fifth Element

Two hundred and fifty years in the future, life as we know it is threatened by the arrival of Evil. Only the fifth element can stop the Evil from estinguishing life, as it tries to do every five thousand years.

Cry in the Dark



Lindy lives the nightmare of seeing a wild dog carry off her infant, then endures a travesty of a trial by the courts and media.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

The first B-25’s in training for a bombing mission over Japan, under General Jimmy Doolittle’s command.

Stand And Deliver

Story of Jaime Escalante, a math teacher at East Los Angeles’ Garfield High School, who pushes and inspires 18 inner-city Hispanic students who were struggling with math to become math whizzes.

Muppet Movie


Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog share the limelight in Kermit’s search for fame and fortune in Hollywood.

Fiddler on the Roof

Tevye is a poor Jewish milkman with five unmarried daughters to support in a village in Czarist Russia. With a sharp tongued wife at home and growing anti-Semitism in the village, Tevye talks to God about his troubles. His people’s traditions keep him strong when his existence is as precariously balanced as a fiddler on the roof.

Monday, November 3, 2008

Big

A 12-year-old boy’s wish comes true when he asks a mechanical carnival genie to make him ’big’. He manages to land a job at a toy company where he experiences the complications of being an adult.