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Hairspray
Thursday, 22 Nov, 2007 – 12:05 | No Comment
Hairspray

Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad (Nicole Blonsky) and her best friend Penny Pingleton (Amanda Bynes) audition to be on The Corny Collins Show and Tracy wins. But when scheming Amber Von Tussle (Brittany Snow) and …

Cry-Baby
Wednesday, 3 Oct, 2007 – 11:44 | No Comment
Cry-Baby

Allison is a “square” good girl who has decided she wants to be bad and falls hard for Cry-Baby Walker, a Greaser (or “Drape” in John Waters parlance). Spoofing Elvis movies and Juvenile Delinquency scare …

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Monday, 1 Oct, 2007 – 10:45 | No Comment
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Lorelei and Dorothy are just “Two Little Girls from Little Rock”, lounge singers on a transatlantic cruise, working their way to Paris, and enjoying the company of any eligible men they might meet along the …

Cinderella
Wednesday, 19 Sep, 2007 – 4:53 | No Comment
Cinderella

In a far away, long ago kingdom, Cinderella is living happily with her mother and father until her mother dies. Cinderella’s father remarries a cold, cruel woman who has two daughters, Drizella and Anastasia. When …

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Sunday, 26 Aug, 2007 – 0:02 | No Comment
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Charlie Bucket, a poor boy who is barely able to support his family, is fortunate to be chosen as one of the 5 people to go inside the most popular and powerful chocalate factory in …

Return to Never Land
Saturday, 25 Aug, 2007 – 22:48 | No Comment
Return to Never Land

The classic tale of ‘Peter Pan’ continues in Disney’s sequel ‘Return to Never Land’. In a world besieged by World War II, Wendy, now grown up, tries to give her own children hope by telling …

All Dogs Go to Heaven
Saturday, 25 Aug, 2007 – 10:51 | No Comment
All Dogs Go to Heaven

When a casino owning dog named Charlie is murdered by his rival Carface, he finds himself in Heaven basically by default since all dogs to heaven. However, since he wants to get back at his …

Sword in the Stone, The
Saturday, 25 Aug, 2007 – 10:38 | No Comment
Sword in the Stone, The

This animated feature is set in medieval times. After the English king dies leaving no heir, in the churchyard of a cathedral in London, a sword appears imbedded in a stone inscribed, “Who so pulleth …

Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
Saturday, 25 Aug, 2007 – 8:53 | No Comment
Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure

Balto III: Wings of Change
Friday, 24 Aug, 2007 – 5:03 | No Comment
Balto III: Wings of Change

The mail in the north used to be delivered by dogsled, but the success of airplane delivery leaves Balto and the other sled dogs feeling neglected. However, when a delivery plane crashes on a mountain …

Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical
Saturday, 18 Aug, 2007 – 10:05 | No Comment
Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical

This film tells the tale of the Harper Affair, in which young Jimmy Harper finds his life of promise turn into a life of debauchery and murder thanks to the new drug menace marijuana. Along …

Funny Face
Saturday, 18 Aug, 2007 – 4:30 | No Comment
Funny Face

Fashion photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire), in search for an intellectual backdrop for an air-headed model, expropriates a Greenwich Village bookstore. When the photo session is over the store is left in a shambles, much …

Bugsy Malone
Monday, 7 May, 2007 – 2:26 | No Comment
Bugsy Malone

A gangster movie where all the gangsters are children. Instead of real bullets they use “splurge guns” that cover the victim in cream. The story tells of the rise of “Bugsy Malone” and the battle …

Robin Hood
Sunday, 6 May, 2007 – 13:11 | No Comment
Robin Hood

Retelling of the Robin Hood legend with animals for the characters. Robin Hood is an outlaw who starts to form a gang in Sherwood Forest to fight the injustices of the Sheriff of Nottingham, who …

Joe’s Apartment
Saturday, 5 May, 2007 – 11:35 | No Comment
Joe’s Apartment

Joe comes from Iowa to New York and, being short of money, wants to find an apartment with very low rent. His quest is successful, but he must share the residence with some 50,000 cockroaches. …

Rent
Saturday, 5 May, 2007 – 8:24 | No Comment
Rent

This film adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern day East Village New …