With a portal now permanently open between Halloweentown and Earth, Marnie “Cromwell” Piper (Kimberly J. Brown), with the help of her mother (Judith Hoag) and grandmother (Debbie Reynolds), hosts a group of monster exchange students to a human high school. However, the students are put in danger by unknown individuals who want to steal the
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Laurence Olivier), upset that his mother, Queen Gertrude (Eileen Herlie) has married his uncle Claudius (Basil Sydney) just two months after the death of the old king, is informed by his father’s ghost that Claudius murdered him. Hamlet vows revenge, but moves slowly, feigning madness, rejecting and abusing the young Ophelia (Jean
The Adventures of Harry Potter during his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) finds himself mysteriously chosen as a fourth competitor in the very dangerous TriWizard Tournament, even though he is too young and there should be only three. He must survive three challenges, and determine who submitted his
The Adventures of Harry Potter during his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), who has been raised by his unpleasant guardians without being told there is a secret world of magic and that he is a wizard, is taken to Hogwarts by the giant Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane). There he
When the new Santa (Andy Dick) decides to destroy Hanukkah, it’s up to Mordechai Jefferson Carver (Adam Goldberg), a street-smart Jewish hero, to save the holiday. Quick Review: I expected very little from a film titled The Hebrew Hammer, but it turned out to have some good performances and humorous concepts. Unfortunately, due to a
In this parody of disaster movies… What? It’s not a parody? This is serious? OK. In this deeply deeply serious disaster film, a plane-full of eccentrics (Jan Sterling, Sidney Blackmer, David Brian, Claire Trevor) make excessively long speeches, sometimes accompanied by flashbacks, detailing far more of their personal lives than other passengers or the audience
An annoying teen (Omri Katz), who dislikes Halloween because the script says so, accidentally resurrects the witchy Sanderson sisters Winifred, Mary, and Sarah (Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, Sarah Jessica Parker). With the aid of his obnoxious little sister (a prepubescent Thora Birch), and a love interest who’s only along for the ride, he must stop
Johnny Case (Cary Grant), a dreamer in the midst of a very promising business deal, becomes engaged to Julia Seton (Doris Nolan), not knowing she’s an heiress with a very proper, old-school father (Henry Kolker). Neither father nor daughter is aware of Johnny’s unorthodox plan to make a bit of money and then quit for
After he loses a girl to his partner, Ted Hanover (Fred Astaire), song man Jim Hardy (Bing Crosby) quits the business to run an Inn which will only be open on holidays. He hires singer-dancer Linda Mason (Marjorie Reynolds) for his shows, and the two are quickly a romantic item. But Ted is dumped and
A green creature (Jim Carrey), abused as a child and publicly humiliated recently, takes his revenge upon the shallow residents of Whoville by stealing all of their Christmas presents and decorations. If, while watching the 1966 animated version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, you thought, “this isn’t bad, but what it really needs is
