2012: An effects-heavy "Doomsday" movie. John Cusack stars as a Los Angeles limo-driver caught up in the tumultuous disasters that go along with the world ending.Find it in the catalog!
Ponyo: A beautifully animated family film, written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle). The title character is a goldfish who befriends a human boy and wishes to be human herself. Roger Ebert has called Miyazaki "The greatest of all animators."
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Where The Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendak's beloved children's book is adapted for the screen by indie auter Spike Jonze. The original story - a slender 38 pages in its book form - underwent significant alteration, becoming something like a domestic melodrama about a commune of monsters. An engaging film, but unlikely to interest younger viewers. Voices of the Wild Things: James Gandolfini, Lauren Ambrose, Chris Cooper, Forest Whitaker, and Paul Dano. The soundtrack, by Karen O and The Kids, is wonderfully suited to the the film's energetic mood swings.
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