Posts Tagged ‘allegory’

MirrorMask (2005)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Barry, Jason | Brydon, Rob | Fry, Stephen | Hamilton, Andy | Harvey, Simon | Henry, Lenny | Llewellyn, Robert | Robson, Nik | Allen, Rick | Schofield, Simon | Tate, Mark | Thompson, Richard | Thompson, Robin | Ballamy, Iain | Batchelor, Chris
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Helena, a 15-year-old girl in a family of circus entertainers, often wishes she could run off and join real life. After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her fault. On the eve of her mother’s major surgery, she dreams that she is in a strange world with two opposing queens, bizarre creatures, and masked inhabitants. All is not well in this new world - the white queen has fallen ill and can only be restored by the MirrorMask, and it’s up to Helena to find it. But as her adventures continue, she begins to wonder whether she’s in a dream, or something far more sinister.

Crucible, The (1996)

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: USA
Actors: Day-Lewis, Daniel | Ryder, Winona | Scofield, Paul | Allen, Joan | Davison, Bruce | Campbell, Rob | Jones, Jeffrey | Vaughan, Peter | Graves, Karron | Woodard, Charlayne | Conroy, Frances | Lawrence, Elizabeth | Gaynes, George | Gleason, Mary Pat | Breuler, Robert
Directors: Hytner, Nicholas
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A small group of teen girls in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts caught in an innocent conjuring of love potions to catch young men are forced to tell lies that Satan had invaded them and forced them to participate in the rites and are then forced to name those involved. Thrown into the mix are greedy preachers and other major landowners trying to steal others’ land and one young woman (Ryder) infatuated with a married man (Day-Lewis) and determined to get rid of his innocent wife (Allen). Arthur Miller wrote the events and the subsequent trials where those who demanded thier innocence were executed, those who would not name names were incarcerated and tortured, and those who admitted their guilt were immediately freed as a parable of the Congressional Communist witch hunts led by Senator Joe McCarthy in 1950’s America.

Dust Devil (1992)

Friday, April 10th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller | Western
Countries: South Africa | UK
Actors: Burke, Robert John | Field, Chelsea | Mokae, Zakes | Matshikiza, John | Swart, Rufus | Hootkins, William | Norton, Terri | Copley, Russell | Odendaal, Andre | Cornell, Luke | Henn, Philip | Stevenson, Robert | Hallr, Peter | Earnhart, Stephen | Sägebrecht, Marianne
Directors: Stanley, Richard
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A shape shifter (Burke) comes from the desert in search of victims, a spirit the locals call “The Dust Devil”. He prays on the lonely and the unloved, those that have already lost everything but life itself. Wendy (Field) has broken up with her husband and wanders aimlessly in her car. She picks up a stranger and begins having misgivings about picking him up when strange things begin to occur. Meanwhile a local police officer (Mokae) tracks the killer. Aided by a shaman’s admonishments about witchcraft he sets off to try and stop the beast before it can complete its grisly task.

X2 (2003)

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Stewart, Patrick | Jackman, Hugh | McKellen, Ian | Berry, Halle | Janssen, Famke | Marsden, James | Paquin, Anna | Romijn, Rebecca | Cox, Brian
Directors: Singer, Bryan
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Having returned from the north after finding nothing, Wolverine/Logan watches over the school students for a night as Charles Xavier visits Magneto in his plastic confinement prison and Storm and Jean Grey search for a teleporter mutant known as Nightcrawler who attempted to assassinate the president. Things become deadly as William Stryker, a scientist who has experimented on mutants, leads a siege on Xavier’s mansion- few mutants escape. With the school no longer safe, Magneto out of prison and forming a temporary alliance with the X-Men, and Professor Xavier in the hands of Stryker; the mutants team up to stop Stryker’s plans to wipe the mutants off the face of the Earth.

Three Lives of Thomasina, The (1964)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: McGoohan, Patrick | Hampshire, Susan | Naismith, Laurence | Anderson, Jean | Brambell, Wilfrid | Currie, Finlay | Winter, Vincent | Gilmore, Denis | Carson, Charles | Roberts, Ewan | Johnston, Oliver | De Wolff, Francis | Nicholson, Nora | Stewart, Jack | Dotrice, Karen
Directors: Chaffey, Don
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A young Scottish girl’s cat, Thomasina, apparently dies at the hands of her widowed veterinarian father. The strained relationship between the girl and her father is eventually repaired with the return of Thomasina and the aid of a beautiful and mysterious “witch” who seems to have powers to revive and heal animals.

Secret of NIMH, The (1982)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Jacobi, Derek | Hartman, Elizabeth | Malet, Arthur | DeLuise, Dom | Baddeley, Hermione | Shannen Doherty | Wheaton, Wil | Hicks, Jodi | Fried, Ian | Carradine, John | Strauss, Peter | Shenar, Paul | Hatten, Tom | Bliss, Lucille | Ray, Aldo
Directors: Bluth, Don
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A fieldmouse named Mrs. Brisby must move her family to a safe location before the farmer plows the field where they live, but her invalid son Timmy cannot go outside due to his pneumonia. She enlists the aid of some highly intelligent, escaped lab rats that have built a subterranean society inside a rose bush near the farmer’s garden. The rats, led by the wise Nicodemus, decide to help her physically move her house to repay a debt of gratitude to her late husband, who made possible the rats’ escape from the laboratory. But things become complicated when some of the rats decide to use the situation to kill Nicodemus and make it appear to be accidental.

Babe: Pig in the City (1998)

Friday, November 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Szubanski, Magda | Cromwell, James | Stein, Mary | Rooney, Mickey | Daily, Elizabeth | Mann, Danny | Headly, Glenne | Wright, Steven | Cosmo, James | Kress, Nathan | Jeffrey, Myles | Ross, Stanley Ralph | Taylor, Russi | Goldberg, Adam | Barth, Eddie
Directors: Miller, George
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After Babe’s great victory in the shepherding contest, Farmer Arthur Hoggett turns down all offers to make money with his pig’s talents. But when he gets hurt severely in the well, his wife has to take up farming. She does her best but cannot meet the bank’s requirements, which results in the necessity of getting back to Babe. Soon, Esme Hoggett is sitting in a plane headed for “the” city. There, Babe unwillingly causes deep trouble. He has to stay with Mrs. Hoggett in the only hotel in town that accepts pets. Friendly neighbours send officials who catch all animals from the hotel: Cats, dogs, chimpanzees and many others. Babe, who managed to stay free, decides to help his new friends and gets unexpected help - not only by Ferdinand, who flew all the way to the city.

Runaway Train (1985)

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Israel | USA
Actors: Voight, Jon | Roberts, Eric | Heffner, Kyle T. | Ryan, John P. | Carter, T.K. | McMillan, Kenneth | Wyatt, Walter | Bunker, Edward | Cruickshanks, Reid | Wray, Dan | Gogin, Michael Lee | Bloom, John | Worden, Hank | Otrin, John | Gibbs, Norman Alexander
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Manny is the “boss” of the convicts in an Alaskan high security prison. Renken, the heartless prison’s administrator wants to kill him, so Manny escapes with the help of another young prisoner, Buck, who follows him. The two fugitives manage to get to a rail depot and get onboard a train. The problem is, the engineer has died and the the train is totally out of control, and nothing can stop it. So, leaving the prison, Manny and Buck find themselves aboard something that is both their freedom and their death…

Southland Tales (2006)

Monday, April 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | USA
Actors: Amezcua, Carlos | Armstrong, Curtis | Benz, Robert | Berger, Todd | Campana, Joe | Ciulla, Chris Andrew | Del Rio, Rebekah | Dillar, Aaron | Dunn, Nora | Dunn, Shari | Durrett, Michele | Falcone, Jon | Feinstein, Leila | Gardiner, Jaret | Garofalo, Janeane
Directors: Kelly, Richard
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Southland Tales is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who’s stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.

Crow, The (1994)

Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Lee, Brandon | Davis, Rochelle | Hudson, Ernie | Wincott, Michael | Bai, Ling | Shinas, Sofia | Levine, Anna | Kelly, David Patrick | David, Angel | Mason, Laurence | Massee, Michael | Todd, Tony | Polito, Jon | Raymond, Bill | Rodríguez, Marco
Directors: Proyas, Alex
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A poetic guitarist Eric Draven is brought back to life by a crow a year after he and his fiancée are murdered. The crow guides him through the land of the living, and leads him to his killers: knife thrower Tin-tin, drugetic Funboy, car buff T-Bird, and the unsophisticated Skank. One by one, Eric gives these thugs a taste of their own medicine. However their leader Top-Dollar, a world-class crime lord who will dispatch his enemies with a Japanese sword and joke about it later, will soon learn the legend of the crow and the secret to the vigilante’s invincibility.