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Elf

Buddy (Will Ferrell) has the right attitude towards Christmas. He feels that the best way to spread Christmas cheer is to sing carols aloud for all to hear. I’d have to agree. Most times when I break into a carol, those around look at me with wide eyes of joy and hold their hands in front of their mouths to test whether they know the words. Few join in because it seems to me that they don’t want to interrupt the sheer joy my vocals bring to those within earshot. But they do stand around and marvel at my willingness to share the joy of serenading others. Jovie (Zooey Deschanel) is skeptical about Buddy’s enthusiasm. If she heard me singing, she’d know.


Director:  Jon Favreau
Writer:  David Berenbaum
Cast:
Will Ferrell -  Buddy
James Caan -  Walter
Bob Newhart -  Papa Elf
Edward Asner -  Santa
Mary Steenburgen -  Emily
Zooey Deschanel -  Jovie
Daniel Tay -  Michael
Faizon Love -  Gimbel’s Manager
Peter Dinklage -  Miles Finch
Amy Sedaris -  Deb
Michael Lerner -  Fulton
Andy Richter -  Morris
Kyle Gass -  Eugene
Artie Lange -  Gimbel’s Santa
Claire Lautier -  NY 1 Reporter
Ted Friend -  NY 1 Anchor









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End Game

How do you convince someone that a conspiracy exists with no tangible proof, only a lot of conjecture applied to a batch of unrelated circumstances? Well, this is the stuff of movies and random web sites. You know that, after making discrete inquiries and gathering extenuating details, you may be on to something when the strangers come after you. Alex Thomas (Cuba Gooding Jr.), a Secret Service agent, and Kate Crawford (Angie Harmon), a reporter, find themselves in the cross-hairs after delving where some think they shouldn’t. At one point, Alex is being chased across his property. When two baddies searches for him, he pops up from beneath the water of the lake in front of his house and blasts them into next week before they get him.


Director:  Andy Cheng
Writer:  J.C. Pollock; Andy Cheng
Cast:
Cuba Gooding Jr. -  Alex Thomas
James Woods -  Vaughn Stevens
Angie Harmon -  Kate Crawford
Anne Archer -  The First Lady
Christa Campbell -  Mistress
John Cenatiempo -  Tony Morino
Heather Dawn -  Reporter 1
Patrick Fabian -  Brian Martin
Eddie J. Fernandez -  COP #1
Jhon Goodwin -  Metro Police Officer (non-credited)
Peter Greene -  Jack Baldwin
Todd Jensen -  Agent Smith
Benito Martinez -  Crawlford’s boss
Carsten Norgaard -  Arman
Brian Presley -  Billy Bergoon
Burt Reynolds -  General Montgomery









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Enough

How much of yourself are you willing to sacrifice to protect those you love and yourself? To the public, Slim Hiller (Jennifer Lopez) had a perfect life but privately she was at the behest of her domineering husband Mitch (Billy Campbell) who kept her terrified by threats and swats. After fleeing their house with her daughter and moving from place to place, she decides to make a stand. Little does her pompous husband know how much her hate can evolve into defending herself and daughter. His arrogance is in for the kicking of its petty little life.


Director:  Michael Apted
Writer:  Nicholas Kazan
Cast:
Jennifer Lopez -  Slim Hiller
Billy Campbell -  Mitch Hiller
Tessa Allen -  Gracie Hiller
Juliette Lewis -  Ginny
Dan Futterman -  Joe
Noah Wyle -  Robbie
Fred Ward -  Jupiter
Janet Carroll -  Mrs. Hiller
Bill Cobbs -  Jim Toller
Christopher Maher -  Phil
Bruce A. Young -  Instructor
Bruce French -  Homeowner
Ruben Madera -  Teddy
Dan Martin -  FBI Agent
Jeff Kober -  FBI Agent
Brent Sexton -  FBI Agent









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Enchanted

The day-to-day drudgery of maintaining a home, the meeting and avoiding street people from musicians to street vendors and the startling impact of meeting someone who may be ‘the one’ are situations that always call for a method to handle them with grace and aplomb. My approach has always been to take the centre and try to avoid the pain of crushes (for that is what they usually are), the harangue of solicitation and the ennui of cleaning. But I hadn’t thought that breaking into song might solve the annoyance of having to be involved in these events. Princess Giselle (Amy Adams) makes it seems so worthwhile. I think I’ll give it a try.


Director:  Kevin Lima
Writer:  Bill Kelly
Cast:
Julie Andrews -  Narrator
Amy Adams -  Giselle
Patrick Dempsey -  Robert Philip
James Marsden -  Prince Edward
Susan Sarandon -  Queen Narissa
Timothy Spall -  Nathaniel
Idina Menzel -  Nancy Tremaine
Rachel Covey -  Morgan Philip
Jeff Bennett -  Pip in Andalasia
Kevin Lima -  Pip in New York
Emma Rose Lima -  Bluebird / Fawn / Rapunzel
Teala Dunn -  Bunny
Fred Tatasciore -  Troll
Courtney Williams -  Sunglass Street Vendor
William Huntley -  Grumpy
Samantha Ivers -  Angie









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Enigma

I’ve never been to war. I don’t respond well to authority. I don’t play well with others. But I recognize and understand the need for unity, discipline and respect for a command structure for a group to meet their goals. But it is hard to understand the need to sacrifice others for what is perceived as the greater good. Tom Jericho (Dougray Scott ) lays out the possibility of cracking new Nazi signal codes but the expense is the destruction of a convoy of some 140 merchant vessels and their crews. How big a human sacrifice is acceptable? Apparently it is hundreds if not thousands, if you don’t know their names or their families.


Director:  Michael Apted
Writer:  Robert Harris; Tom Stoppard
Cast:
Dougray Scott -  Tom Jericho
Kate Winslet -  Hester Wallace
Saffron Burrows -  Claire Romilly
Jeremy Northam -  Wigram
Nikolaj Coster Waldau -  Jozef ‘Puck’ Pukowski
Tom Hollander -  Logie
Donald Sumpter -  Leveret
Matthew MacFadyen -  Cave
Richard Leaf -  Baxter
Ian Felce -  Proudfoot
Bohdan Poraj -  Pinker
Paul Rattray -  Kingcome
Richard Katz -  De Brooke
Tom Fisher -  Upjohn
Robert Pugh -  Skynner
Corin Redgrave -  Admiral Trowbridge