Genres:Documentary | Sport Countries:USA Directors:Stacy Peralta Actors:Sean Penn | Jay Adams | Tony Alva | Jeff Ament | Bob Biniak | Steve Caballero | Paul Constantineau | 'Baby' Paul Cullen | Skip Engblom | Steve Freidman | Tony Friedkin | Glen E. Friedman | Marty Grimes | David Hackett | Tony Hawk
In the mid-70s, surfers from Venice-Santa Monica who hung out at the Zephyr Surf Shop would skateboard when the surf was quiet. Over the course of a few heady years, riding on polyurethane wheels and copying the surfing moves of Larry Bertleman, the Z-Boys invent and polish their style on a hilly street near the shop, on the asphalt slopes ringing school playgrounds, and then in swimming pools empty during California's drought. The Z-Boys astound upright skateboarders at the 1975 championship in Del Mar. Within a year, the team splinters as some players join better financed pro teams. The film ends with profiles of the stars, Jay Adams, Stacy Peralta, and Tony Alva.
Genres:Fantasy Countries:Canada | UK Directors:Nick Willing Actors:Tim Curry | Alex Diakun | Matt Frewer | Rob Hayter | Alessandro Juliani | Eugene Lipinski | Colm Meaney | Andrew Lee Potts | Zak Santiago | Harry Dean Stanton | William C. Vaughan | Timothy Webber | Philip Winchester | Kathy Bates | Natasha Calis
Director Nick Willing puts a new twist on Lewis Carroll's classic tale in this fantasy mini-series depicting Alice as a 21 year old women who ventures into Wonderland in search of a lost love. Almost immediately after presenting Alice (Catarina Scorsone) with an ornate family ring, handsome Jack Chase (Philip Winchester) is abducted by a pair of hulking brutes. Approached by a well-dressed man named White Rabbit (Alan Gray) who claims to know Jack's whereabouts, Alice follows the bearded stranger into a mirror and finds herself in a surreal new world of fantasy and wonder. When the Queen of Hearts (Kathy Bates) discovers her son bestowed a virtual stranger the ring that gives its owner power over the looking glass, it's up to Alice to determine what she should do with it. Harry Dean Stanton, Tim Curry, Matt Frewer, and Colm Meany co-star.
Genres:Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy Countries:Japan Directors:Hayao Miyazaki Actors:Yuria Nara | Hiroki Doi | Jôji Tokoro | Tomoko Yamaguchi | Yûki Amami | Kazushige Nagashima | Akiko Yano | Shinichi Hatori | Tokie Hidari | Eimi Hiraoka | Rumi Hîragi | Tomoko Naraoka | Nozomi Ohashi | Kazuko Yoshiyuki | Akihiko Ishizumi
The son of a sailor, 5-year old Sosuke lives a quiet life on an oceanside cliff with his mother Lisa. One fateful day, he finds a beautiful goldfish trapped in a bottle on the beach and upon rescuing her, names her Ponyo. But she is no ordinary goldfish. The daughter of a masterful wizard and a sea goddess, Ponyo uses her father's magic to transform herself into a young girl and quickly falls in love with Sosuke, but the use of such powerful sorcery causes a dangerous imbalance in the world. As the moon steadily draws nearer to the earth and Ponyo's father sends the ocean's mighty waves to find his daughter, the two children embark on an adventure of a lifetime to save the world and fulfill Ponyo's dreams of becoming human.
Genres:Comedy | Fantasy Countries:USA Directors:Rania Ajami Actors:Pepper Binkley | Bill Dawes | Judith Hawking | Daniel Irizarry | Stella Maeve | Camille O'Sullivan | Lee Wilkof | Remy Auberjonois | Edward James Hyland | Ken Jennings | Joseph McKenna | Noble Shropshire | Jay Smith | Gordon Joseph Weiss | Liza Binkley
A freewheeling, demented, dark comedy about the modern world, in which six men and women, fed up with the abuse they suffer in their "normal" lives, seek "asylum" as inmates of a mental institution. They've all heard about a place up on the hill with an exclusive treatment program; now each of them is out to show just how mad they can be when electro-shock treatment and a comfy bed with a doting nurse has become the perfect alternative to life on the outside. But the asylum has its own unexpected agenda; for a start, due to a massive influx of patients, there is only one bed left. As the characters are made to compete against each other for this spot, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary institution.
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
