INTO THE STORM
In
the town of Silverton, Oklahoma, the local high school senior class is preparing for graduation. The high school’s vice-principal, Gary Fuller, has asked his two sons, Trey and Donnie, to record messages from the seniors for a time capsule to be opened in 25 years. Elsewhere, Pete, a veteran storm chaser, has been attempting to intercept and film tornadoes using a Tornado Intercept Vehicle nicknamed Titus, but has come up short all year long. Upon learning of a major line of developing storms, the chasers decide to head for Silverton in hopes of filming tornadoes. After arriving in Silverton, the team discovers that the cell they had been chasing has dissipated, but the Silverton cell abruptly strengthens, resulting in a hailstorm and tornado. As the team films, the funnel shifts course and heads for the high school.
At the high school, the weather suddenly sours. The students are marshaled into the school building. In the aftermath of the tornado, shaken students emerge from the damaged building to view the destruction, while Gary sets out to rescue his eldest son Donnie, who had gone to an abandoned paper mill to help his friend Kaitlyn with a project; both were subsequently trapped when the tornado brought the building down on them.
As Pete’s storm chase team stops in a small part of town, a tornado takes shape just as Gary and Trey arrive, destroying several buildings. Before the tornado dissipates Gary must save Pete’s meteorologist, Allison Stone. Then, Pete’s team agree to help Gary get to the paper mill. While en route, another round of tornadoes form and encircle Pete’s team, in the process destroying a residential neighborhood and a car lot. An explosion turns one of the tornadoes into a firenado, which Jacob the cameraman tries to film, only to be caught up in the storm and killed. This causes friction in the team, as Pete’s concern seems to be more on collecting data than ensuring his team’s safety. After recovering their vehicles, Allison leaves with Gary to continue their trip to the paper mill.
At the mill, a water pipe abruptly breaks and begins to flood the hole in which Donnie and Kaitlyn are trapped. Injured and at risk of drowning, the two record messages for their loved ones, then prepare for the worst. At the last minute, Gary and Allison arrive and successfully free them.
In the skies above Silverton, a convergence of two large tornadoes results in a colossal EF-5 tornado that threatens to level the town. The town’s citizens have taken shelter at the school, but Pete’s team determines that the school’s storm shelter will be inadequate. Unable to alert the school’s staff with mobile devices, Pete’s team rushes to the school. While citizens rush to board school buses, Pete and his team follow the storm, but the last school bus and a handful of cars are cut off from the retreat due to a downed transmission tower.
The storm chasers and school refugees take cover in a storm drain at a construction site, but a truck from the airport that the tornado struck damages one of the storm grates, compromising the shelter. In an attempt to save lives, Pete hands over his research hard drives to Gary, then sacrifices himself by leaving the shelter to move Titus down to the storm grate, to use the vehicle to anchor the storm grate to the concrete face and has the others tie its towline to the crashed truck for support. Titus’s equipment proves unable to anchor the vehicle to the ground, and the tornado picks up the vehicle. From the camera turret aboard Titus, Pete observes the funnel of the tornado as the vehicle is lifted above the clouds, fulfilling his dream, before then crashing to the ground, killing him and wrecking Titus. Shortly thereafter, the EF-5 tornado dissipates.
In the aftermath of the tornado outbreak, the townspeople begin to clean up and rebuild. As Gary’s sons complete their time capsule film, many of those they interview express newfound appreciations for their lives. Allison praises Pete’s sacrifice and dedication to science. The last footage shows two local daredevils Donk and Reevis, who were sucked up by the tornado, have survived the storm.
RAY
Ray Charles Robinson is raised in poverty in Florida by his mother, Aretha. Learning to play piano at an early age, Ray is haunted by the accidental death of his younger brother George, who drowns in their mother’s washbasin. Ray loses his vision by age seven and becomes completely blind. Aretha teaches him to be independent, eventually sending him to a school for the deaf and blind.
In 1946, Ray joins a white country band and wears sunglasses to hide his damaged eyes. Two years later, he travels to Seattle and joins a nightclub band, though the club’s owner demands sexual favors and controls his money and career. After discovering he is being exploited, Ray signs his own record deal and leaves the band. Touring on the Chitlin’ Circuit as “Ray Charles”, he is introduced to heroin.
Ray is discovered by Ahmet Ertegun of Atlantic Records and records his first hit with Ertegun’s Yamilksa song “Mess Around“. In Houston, Ray falls in love with Della Bea, a preacher’s daughter. Though she and others are unhappy about Ray mixing gospel with his music, he marries Della and continues to gain fame with “I Got a Woman” and “Hallelujah I Love Her So“.
A pregnant Della finds Ray’s drug kit and confronts him. They reconcile after the birth of their first child, but Ray begins an affair with singer Mary Anne Fisher. In 1956, as Ray’s popularity grows, he hires a trio to become “The Raelettes” and immediately falls for lead singer Margie Hendrix. They begin their own affair, and a jealous Mary Anne leaves.
Margie asks Ray to let her try heroin, but he orders her to stay away from it. His producers recognize his now-complete addiction as he presents symptoms while recording “Night Time Is the Right Time” on a new electric piano, but despite their concern they recognize his genius and his recording career continues.
A few years later, when Ray’s band finishes a set early and the club’s owner demands they play the remaining time, Ray performs “What’d I Say” on the spot. His popularity rises through the 1950s and he moves his family to Los Angeles but continues to use heroin, straining his relationships with Della and Margie. In 1960, he signs a better contract with ABC Records, negotiating to own his master tapes.
Ray continues to develop his music, recording such hits as “Georgia on My Mind“. Margie reveals she is pregnant, and cuts off their affair when Ray demands she end the pregnancy. He writes “Hit the Road Jack” with a solo by Margie, who uses her newfound recognition to embark on a solo career, while Ray struggles with his addiction.
In 1961, Ray encounters civil rights protestors outside his concert in Augusta, Georgia. Deciding not to play at the segregated venue, he cancels the concert and is banned from playing in Georgia. After he allows black and white audience members to dance together onstage during a concert in Indianapolis, his hotel room is raided by police. His arrest for heroin possession is made public, to Della’s dismay, but his record label has the charges dismissed.
In St. Louis, Ray performs the country-influenced “I Can’t Stop Loving You” and is impressed by announcer Joe Adams, who joins his tour. Ray moves his family to Beverly Hills, and learns that Margie has died of an overdose. Joe alienates Ray’s band and his longtime friend and manager Jeff Brown, whom Ray fires, for stealing.
In 1965, Ray returns from a concert in Montreal and is again arrested for heroin possession. Dismissing his excuses, Della pleads with him to overcome his habit, and he is sentenced to drug rehabilitation. Suffering vivid nightmares during withdrawal, Ray learns to play chess with Dr. Hacker and Hacker explains to him that his lawyer’s arguments with the judge agreed to probation in Boston under the condition that he completes his drug rehab problem and agrees to take periodic drug tests, Ray has a vision of George and their mother, who, while praising the fact he became a success, chastises him for letting his addictions cripple him, with George telling Ray that his death was not his fault.
By 1979, Ray has permanently quit heroin and receives an official apology from the state of Georgia, which names “Georgia On My Mind” the official state song. Ray goes on to have a long and successful career as a world-famous entertainer until his death in 2004.
LOVES COMES SOFTLY
Marty Claridge (Katherine Heigl) has just moved out to the West with her husband Aaron Claridge (Oliver Macready), who dies in a riding accident shortly after. Expecting her late husband’s baby, Marty has nowhere to go and needs a place to stay through the winter. Desperate, she accepts the proposal offered by widower Clark Davis (Dale Midkiff). Clark offers to give her a place to stay for the winter and provide her with the fare for the wagon train heading back East in the spring. In exchange, Marty agrees to marry Clark and provide a maternal influence for his young daughter Missie (Skye McCole Bartusiak). Since the marriage is in name only, the pair keep separate quarters. Initially, it is not an ideal arrangement for any of them, and Missie, – regretting her dead Mother who as she says to her “was the prettiest thing you’ve ever saw, everybody said so” – resents Marty for attempting to encourage more feminine behavior from her. As winter passes, Marty learns more about “Clark’s God” than she ever dreamed and an affectionate bond develops between her and Missie, allowing them all to begin to feel more like a family. Marty and Clark finally come to realize that they have both done what they thought was impossible: they have found love again. Missie has started to read Marty’s books on her way of personal growth and individuation and found a new loving mother in the newcome stranger and Marty’s baby is blessed with a wonderful new father.
THICKER THAN WATER
After 
the death of her father, Natalie Travers discovers he was married to a rodeo star before he married Natalie’s mother. Upset that her father kept part of his life a secret from her and bewildered over how a prominent judge could fall for a cowgirl, she sets out to find Maggie Mae Jarrett. But Natalie meets Maggie’s daughter Jessie Mae Jarrett, who is struggling to keep the wild horses on her land alive and safe.
HACHI: A DOG’S TALE Based on a true story
Ronnie says to his class that his personal hero is his grandfather Parker Wilson’s dog Hachi, whose story he starts narrating.
Parker Wilson, a professor who commutes to Providence, Rhode Island, finds a dog lost on the railway station in Bedridge and temporarily takes it home. The dog remains unclaimed but grows close to Parker, who takes it everywhere with him. Parker’s Japanese friend Ken says the dog is a breed called Akita and the character on its collar tag is “Hachi” (“Eight” in Japanese). Parker thus names the dog “Hachi” as it is a lucky number. Parker’s wife Cate Wilson eventually warms to Hachi but he sleeps outside in his own shed. Parker tries in vain to train Hachi in normal dog things like fetching a ball. However, Ken explains that Akita dogs cannot be trained; if Hachi fetches the ball, it will be for a special reason. Later, Parker’s daughter Andy marries Michael, and Hachi is in the family marriage photograph. Soon after the marriage, Andy announces that she is pregnant. Years later, a grown-up Hachi digs under the fence and follows Parker to the station. He refuses to go home, and Parker misses the train. He hands him over to Cate and catches the next train. At 5:00 pm, he returns from the train and is surprised to find Hachi waiting for him at the station. He is even more surprised to learn that he came to the station all by himself. A daily routine begins: the two walk to the station, Parker leaves from the train, Hachi goes home, and returns at 5:00pm to receive Parker.
However, one morning, Hachi behaves strangely at home and then follows Parker to the railway station with the ball. Parker throws the ball toward him, and much to his delight, Hachi fetches it for the first time. They play for a while, and Parker eventually puts the ball in his pocket and begins to leave. Hachi barks and watches Parker’s train leaving. Hours later, while still holding the ball, Parker suffers a fatal stroke in his classroom and collapses; Hachi waits for him at the railway station. At 9:30pm, Michael comes to the railway station and takes Hachi home. From his shed, Hachi watches the family mourning Parker. The next morning, Parker’s family members and friends gather for his funeral while Hachi goes to the station to wait. Soon, Cate sells the house and moves away, and Hachi goes to live with Andy and Michael and their infant son Ronnie. However, Hachi follows the train tracks to Bedridge. Andy and Michael find him and take him back to their house. Realizing that Hachi is pining for Parker, Andy opens the gate for him. Hachi licks her hand and runs back to the Bedridge station. Hachi waits at the station every day, while hot-dog seller Jasjeet and the other passers-by feed him. Soon, a reporter writes a story about Hachi, and people start sending him money and cards. Ken reads Hachi’s news, travels to Bedridge and speaks to Hachi in Japanese: he too misses his best friend. On Parker’s tenth death anniversary, Cate arrives in town to visit his grave, where Ken is present, too. She is moved to see an elderly Hachi still waiting at the station for his master. Later, Cate tells 10-year-old Ronnie the story of Hachi, who slowly settles in place. Hachi later passes away at his place in the station, while still waiting for Parker who finally comes to seek him in death and they at last reunite, in the afterlife.
In the present, Ronnie says that his grandfather and Hachi taught him the meaning of “loyalty”, which means “you should never forget anyone you have loved”. He concludes that Hachi will forever be his personal hero and the class applauds. From the school bus, Ronnie is met by Michael and a tiny new puppy who is also named Hachi. Ronnie and the puppy travel through the same tracks Hachi traveled years ago.
NEW CHILDREN’S MOVIES…….
JINGLE BELLS
A wonderful collection of seven timeless Holiday cartoons. Great fun for all of the family to sit and enjoy. Jingle Bells, Toys Will Be Toys, A Christmas Visit, Have You Got Any Castles, Gold Rush DAze, The Pincushion Man, Boy Meets Dog.
VIRGINIA’S RUN
Virginia
Lofton is a 13-year-old girl living with her older sister Caroline and their father Ford. Deborah, the mother of Virginia and Caroline, was killed three years earlier after a fall in a riding accident. Ford has sold their horse, Twister, to a neighbor and forbidden his daughters from riding in an effort to keep them safe. Ford and Caroline both blame Twister for Deborah’s death. Twister dies in childbirth while she delivers a foal and Virginia names the foal Stormy.
Virginia sneaks out to care for Stormy and ride him at night. The owner, Blake, tries to train Stormy to race for his son Darrow, who is also Caroline’s boyfriend, but the horse doesn’t get along well with him. Blake decides to sell Stormy and Virginia is heartbroken. Ford is able to track down the person who bought Stormy and he buys him back to give to Virginia as a birthday present.
Virginia has started working with one of Blake’s trainers, Jessie. Virginia tells her how much she loves horses and how riding them is a way to remember her mom. After trying to reason with him Ford explains to Jessie that he’s trying to protect Virginia. Jessie tries to get Ford to understand that by not letting Virginia ride, he is only crushing her spirit. Ford realizes that Deborah wouldn’t have wanted him to stop riding or to keep Virginia away from horses. He starts riding with Virginia and giving her lessons. There is a race on Memorial Day and he thinks that she and Stormy are ready.
Virginia is riding by herself and she comes across Darrow riding with his buddies. He challenges her to a race to the train tracks and Virginia barely makes it, missing the train by a few feet. Darrow realizes that she is a better rider and that he needs to do something to prevent her from beating him in the race. He and his buddies kidnap Stormy. When Virginia finds out that Stormy is missing, she is distraught. Her father believes that Stormy has just escaped, but she tells her sister that she believes Darrow stole him. Caroline thinks that she can find out what happened by coming on to one of his friends, who tells her where to find Stormy. Virginia finds Stormy and gets to the town square where the race is about to begin. The race officials refuse to let her race because she is late, but after the crowd starts chanting, “Let Virginia Ride! Let Virginia Ride!” she is allowed to participate.
She starts out behind but catches up to the pack. Darrow was in the lead since the beginning, but when he sees Virginia he resorts to cheating. He knocks her off her horse and then hides a trail marker flag, so she will get lost. When she can’t figure out which way to go by looking at her map, Stormy knows she is lost and he tells her which way to go. She catches up to Darrow again and wins the race.
Darrow’s father convinces the MC to disqualify Virginia for some vague and unspecified violation and Darrow tries to accept the trophy. Virginia notices something in his pocket and tells Caroline to check it out. She sneaks up to him and pulls out the flag. He is disqualified for cheating and Virginia accepts the trophy while two men from the audience toss the MC into a water trough.
At home, the family is eating dinner with Jessie. Blake has fired Jessie and Caroline has broken up with Darrow. Virginia comments that they are happier than they have been in a long time. She walks outside to feed Stormy and knows she would not won the race if not for memories of her mother.
IGOR
The Ki
ngdom of Malaria was once a peaceful land of farmers, until its environment was devastated by a never-ending storm that killed all of its crops, thus driving its inhabitants into poverty. In response, Malaria’s ruler, King Malbert, initiates a plan to save the country by having the kingdom’s best and most wicked scientists create various doomsday devices and blackmail the rest of the world into paying them by threatening to unleash these devices upon the world. As a result, Malaria becomes a dark country where evil reigns supreme. There is also an annual Evil Science Fair. The scientists responsible for these inventions are treated as celebrities, while citizens with hunchbacks are treated as second-class, usually referred to by the derogatory name “Igor” and are often employed as lowly servants for these scientists.
One Igor, however, is a talented inventor and aspires to be an evil scientist himself. Among his inventions are his friends Scamper, an immortal, nihilistic and suicidal rabbit, and Brain, an unintelligent robot with a human brain transplanted into a life support jar. Unfortunately, he must keep his talent a secret out of fear of being sent to the “Igor Recycling Plant”, especially from his master, the incompetent Dr. Glickenstein. Meanwhile, another evil scientist, Dr. Schadenfreude, becomes immensely popular due to winning several Evil Science Fairs in a row. In truth, he always steals the prize-winner from other scientists before the fair with help of his shape-shifting girlfriend, Jaclyn, as part of his desires to overthrow King Malbert and rule Malaria as its new king.
One day, Glickenstein is visited by his “girlfriend” Heidi (who is actually Jaclyn in disguise attempting to steal his plans), giving Igor aspirations of romance. After throwing out Heidi, Glickenstein ignores Igor’s concerns about his latest invention, which malfunctions and kills Glickenstein. At this same moment, King Malbert arrives to see Glickenstein and demand that he builds an invention that could defeat Schadenfreude, who Malbert fears will replace him as king due to his popularity. Unable to tell the truth of Glickenstein’s death and seizing the opportunity, Igor boldly claims that Glickenstein is creating life, which greatly pleases Malbert, who proclaims that such an invention would make its creator the greatest evil scientist of all time. After the king leaves, Igor reveals to Scamper and Brain his project to create a monstrous being from human remains.
With Brain and Scamper’s help, he assembles the monster, and adds an “evil bone” that will make her pure evil. The monster comes alive and later escapes. They find her in an orphanage playing with blind orphans. At the same time, Schadenfreude sneaks into Glickenstein’s castle to steal his invention, but he not only discovers that Glickenstein is dead, but his Igor had created a living monster, which he believes will be his key to taking the throne.
Igor discovers that the evil bone he gave the monster was not activated, making her friendly and gentle. He accidentally names her Eva, and she soon aspires to be an actress after Brain messes up a brainwashing attempt.
On the way back to the castle, Schadenfreude chases after Igor in an attempt to steal Eva by using a shrink ray, only to shrink himself. Igor and his friends nearly go over a cliff, but Eva saves them all, showing her appreciation of all life. Igor slowly starts to fall for Eva, who tries to convince him that it’s always better to be good than evil, no matter how much more successful evil is.
Dr. Schadenfreude takes Igor to his home revealing he knows about Glickenstein’s death and Eva, so he offers a compromise, if Igor gives him Eva to overthrow King Malbert he will make Igor Malaria’s number one scientist. Igor refuses. Schadenfreude tricks Eva into coming with him by having Jaclyn (again disguised as Heidi) pretend to kiss Igor.
At the fair, Schadenfreude manipulates Eva into striking him, activating her evil bone and turning her into a mindless killing machine. Igor, Brain, and Scamper learn that Malbert had deliberately created a weather ray to devastate Malaria so he could implement his “Evil Inventions” plan, thereby keeping himself in power. Igor tries to reason with the enraged Eva while Brain and Scamper power down the weather ray. Eva roars at Igor until the sunlight begins to shine once again on Malaria, which permanently deactivates her evil bone and returns her to her sweet and gentle self.
Igor exposes Malbert’s lies to the public, telling them they do not need to be evil. The crowd boos at Malbert for his treachery before the damaged weather ray falls and crushes him to death. Dr. Schadenfreude attempts to take power, but Eva humiliates him. Malaria returns to its sunny peaceful ways with the monarchy dissolved and replaced with a republic with Igor as the president. Schadenfreude is reduced to a pickle salesman and Jaclyn, who’s revealed to be a female german Igor, loses her shapeshifting ability and becomes a pretzel saleswoman (while starting a relationship with Schadenfreude’s Igor) while the annual science fair becomes an annual musical theatre showcase. Igor reveals his plan to build a dog to Eva, with her remarking that they’ll just adopt if it doesn’t work out. Igor and Eva live happily together as Malaria becomes a better place.
THE LION KING 1 1/2
Timon is a social outcast in his meerkat colony on the outskirts of the Pride Lands, as he frequently messes things up by accident. Though he is unconditionally supported by his mother, Timon dreams of a better life than his colony’s bleak existence, continually hiding from predators, most notably the hyenas. One day, he is assigned as a sentry in an attempt by his mother to get him accepted, but his daydreaming leads to the near death of his uncle, Max, at the hands of hyenas Shenzi, Banzai and Ed.
Now ostracized, Timon decides to leave. He meets the mandrill Rafiki, who teaches him about “Hakuna Matata”, and advises him to “look beyond what you see”. Timon takes this advice literally and observes Pride Rock in the distance. Believing Pride Rock to be his dream home, Timon ventures in that direction and encounters Pumbaa the warthog on his way. The two quickly form a bond, and Pumbaa accompanies Timon on his journey.
The pair arrive at Pride Rock during the presentation of Simba to the animals of the Pride Lands, mistaking it for a land rush. As they make their way through the crowd, Pumbaa explosively passes gas due to his agoraphobia, causing the nearby animals to faint and prompting animals further away to bow to Simba. Following this, Timon and Pumbaa make multiple attempts to set up homes throughout the Pride Lands, but wind up being forced away every time upon witnessing several events from the original film.
Eventually, the pair are caught in the wildebeest stampede that killed Mufasa, and are thrown off a waterfall in their attempt to escape. Exhausted, Timon decides to give up and realizes that Pumbaa, who sympathizes with Timon over being a social outcast, is the only friend that he has ever had. The next morning, the two discover a luxurious green jungle. With their dream home found, they settle there, embracing “Hakuna Matata” as their life’s philosophy.
Some time later, Timon and Pumbaa encounter Simba in a nearby desert, nearly dead. They rescue him and decide to raise him under their philosophy. Years later, Simba’s childhood friend Nala appears and reunites with him. Believing Hakuna Matata to be in jeopardy, Timon and Pumbaa attempt to sabotage their dates, but fail every time. Upon witnessing Simba and Nala’s argument, Simba disappears, and Timon believes they have succeeded. The next day, they and Nala learn from Rafiki that Simba has run off to challenge Scar and reclaim Pride Rock. Upset that Simba left them, Timon decides to stay behind, but Pumbaa follows Simba and Nala. Timon indulges in the jungle’s luxuries by himself, but loneliness starts to overwhelm him. Timon meets Rafiki, who indirectly makes him realize that his true Hakuna Matata is with the ones he loves, not just the place he sought for, prompting Timon to follow the others.
Timon catches up and reconciles with Pumbaa before journeying onward to Pride Rock to join Simba and Nala. After helping them distract the hyenas with a hula dance, Timon and Pumbaa run into Ma and Uncle Max, who had come looking for Timon after Ma learnt from Rafiki his teaching of Hakuna Matata to Timon. Timon proposes that they all help Simba by getting rid of the hyenas. While Simba battles Scar on the top of Pride Rock, Ma and Uncle Max construct a series of tunnels beneath the hyenas, while at the same time, Timon and Pumbaa use various tactics to distract them. When the tunnels are finished, Max knocks down the support beams, breaking the ground under the hyenas. However, the last few beams get jammed, prompting Timon to dive underground and break them himself. The cave-in ensues, and the hyenas are ejected through the tunnels. Simba accepts his place as the rightful king of the Pride Lands, thanking Timon and Pumbaa for their help. Timon takes Pumbaa, Ma, Uncle Max, and the rest of the meerkat colony to live in the jungle to complete his Hakuna Matata, and he is praised as their hero, while gaining acceptance into his colony.
TOY STORY 3
Andy Davis, w
ho has not played with his toys in years, is leaving for college, and intends to take Woody with him. Buzz Lightyear, Jessie, and the others are put in a bag to be stored in the attic, but Andy’s mother mistakenly takes the bag to the curb for garbage pickup. The toys escape and, believing Andy intended to throw them away, join Barbie in a donation box bound for Sunnyside Daycare. Woody pursues the others and fails to convince them of the truth.
Andy’s toys are welcomed by the other toys at Sunnyside, and are given a tour of the seemingly perfect play-setting by Lots-O’-Huggin’ Bear (“Lotso”), Big Baby, and Ken, with whom Barbie falls in love. All the toys choose to stay, except Woody, who attempts to return home. A Sunnyside child named Bonnie finds Woody and takes him to her house, playing with him and her other toys.
After Andy’s toys endure a rough playtime with the toddlers, Buzz asks Lotso to have himself and his friends moved to the older children’s room, but is instead captured. Lotso tells Buzz he and his gang keep themselves safe by sending all new toys to the toddler room, not caring whether the new toys are age-appropriate or get broken. Seeing promise in Buzz, Lotso has him switched to demo mode, brainwashing him into believing Lotso is his commander. Meanwhile, Mrs. Potato Head, who lost an eye in Andy’s room, sees an upset Andy searching for his toys. Andy’s toys realize their mistake and attempt to leave, but are imprisoned by Buzz on Lotso’s order.
At Bonnie’s house, Woody meets a toy clown named Chuckles, and learns that Chuckles, Lotso, and Big Baby were once owned by a girl named Daisy. When the three toys were accidentally lost during a road trip, they traveled back to Daisy’s house on foot, only to find that Daisy’s parents had replaced Lotso. After convincing Big Baby that Daisy had replaced all of them, Lotso led the toys to Sunnyside, taking it over as a dictator.
Woody returns to Sunnyside and reunites with his friends. That night, Andy’s toys initiate an escape plan, inadvertently resetting Buzz to Spanish mode in the process. “Spanish Buzz” immediately befriends Woody and begins a relationship with Jessie. The toys reach Sunnyside’s dumpster, but Lotso and his gang corner them. As a garbage truck approaches, Woody reveals Lotso’s deception to Big Baby, who promptly throws Lotso into the dumpster. Andy’s toys attempt to escape, but Lotso pulls Woody in with him. Andy’s other toys jump in to help, and wind up in the truck, where a television falls onto Buzz and restores him to his normal persona.
The toys are brought to a local landfill, and most of them are placed on a conveyor belt leading to an incinerator. Woody and Buzz help Lotso avoid a shredder, and later to reach an emergency stop button, but Lotso abandons them. As Woody and his friends accept their impending fate, Andy’s Aliens rescue them with an industrial claw. A garbage truck driver later finds Lotso and straps him to his truck’s radiator grille. Woody and his friends ride another garbage truck, driven by an adult Sid Phillips, back to Andy’s house.
Andy discovers a note from Woody and, assuming it is from his mother, donates the toys to Bonnie. Andy introduces the toys individually to Bonnie, and is surprised to find Woody at the bottom of the donation box. After Bonnie recognizes Woody, an initially hesitant Andy passes him on to her. Andy plays with Bonnie before leaving; Woody bids him a quiet farewell, and the toys begin their new life with Bonnie.
Later, Woody and the other toys learn that Barbie, Ken and Big Baby have improved the lives of the toys at Sunnyside.
MADAGASCAR
In New York City,
lion Alex lives in the Central Park Zoo as a star attraction known as the “King of New York”, and spends time with his friends — reticulated giraffe Melman, hippopotamus Gloria and his best friend, plains zebra Marty, who has grown weary of his daily routine and desires to experience the wild. On Marty’s tenth birthday, Alex, Melman and Gloria attempt to cheer him up, but a still-unsatisfied Marty learns that the zoo’s penguins — Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private — are trying to escape to Antarctica, and promptly follows them out. Marty heads towards Grand Central Terminal, as he plans to catch a train to nearby Connecticut. Alex, Melman and Gloria pursue Marty in an attempt to convince him to return, only to end up, along with the penguins and chimpanzee duo Mason and Phil, at Grand Central, where the police officers, firemen and animal control officers subdue them. Under pressure from anti-captivity activists, the zoo is forced to ship the escaped animals by sea to a nature reserve in Kenya. During the trip, the penguins escape their crate and commandeer the ship in the hopes of heading to Antarctica, causing the crates containing Alex and his friends to fall overboard.
Upon being washed ashore on Madagascar, the animals come across its lemur community. The predatory fossa attack the lemurs, only to be scared off by the fearsome appearance of Alex, who selfishly blames Marty for the group’s predicament and makes several attempts to get them back to civilization. Marty finds life on Madagascar to be exactly what he was looking for and Gloria and Melman soon join him. Alex, coming to realize how selfish and entitled he has been and after some encouragement from Marty, eventually comes around and makes amends, but without the raw steaks he was provided at the zoo, his hunger sets in and prey drive begins to show. The lemurs’ leader, ring-tailed lemur King Julien XIII, leads his subjects into befriending the castaways in hopes that Alex’s presence will keep the fossa at bay, despite protest about Alex’s predatory nature from his adviser, aye-aye Maurice. After briefly losing his sanity and attacking Marty, Alex realizes what he has done and, fearing he may be a danger to his friends, flees to the predator side of the island, where the fossa live. Seeing what Alex has become and how dangerous the wild can be, Marty regrets his decision to leave the zoo.
Having found Antarctica to be inhospitable, the penguins land the ship at Madagascar. Seeing the chance to return Alex to New York, Marty crosses over to the predator side and attempts to convince Alex to return, but he refuses out of fear that he will attack Marty again. The fossa attack Marty and though Gloria, Melman and the penguins come to the rescue, they are outnumbered. Alex overcomes his predatory instincts, rescues his friends and scares the fossa away from the lemur territory permanently. The lemurs regain their respect for Alex and the penguins satisfy his hunger by feeding him sushi, which he finds better than steak. As the lemurs throw a farewell celebration for the foursome, the penguins decide not to tell them that the ship has run out of fuel, leaving them stranded on the island for the time being.
DORA THE EXPLORER: DORA’S CHRISTMAS!
Dora takes a special trip to the North Pole on Christmas Eve to help Santa deliver presents. Lift the flaps to help Dora find her way there!
GARFIELD: THE MOVIE
After Garfield’s unexpected reunion with his long-lost father, ragged alley cat Vic, he and his canine friend Odie are forced from their perfectly pampered lives to join Vic on a risky heist.
THE PIRATES: BAND OF MISFITS
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A LITTLE GAME
The sto
ry is about a 10-year-old girl named Max, living in Manhattan, NYC, whose interaction with a retired, fellow New Yorker teaches her about life and chess simultaneously.
At the beginning, Max goes to a local public school, but her parents feel that she isn’t being challenged enough. They get her into a private school in the upper West Side, far from her home in lower Manhattan with a scholarship, but it means that her mother Sarah has to work many more hours. And Max has to take the subway every day.
On the way home after having to join the chess team without knowing how to play, while taking a detour through Washington Square Park, Max sees several people playing chess. The following day she asks Norman, who she had seen alone with a chess board, if he could teach her how to play. He initially discourages her, but her determination wins out.
Over a series of many days, Norman sends her on seemingly meaningless ‘tasks’, like not taking shortcuts to learn about chess. But rather, piece by piece, he describes how they move comparing them to people in the city. He explains Max needs to think creatively and use her imagination. A pawn, like a small cautious child, needs friends by their side to support them. If they slip by unnoticed, they can eventually become a queen and win the game. A chess player has to adjust and change their plans with every move, just like in life.
So, the castle or rook moves only in straight lines, like how people can move in a church, along the aisle or down the rows. The knight like in small ovals… once she has learned how each piece works, he then starts her practising how to move them in a certain number of moves each time. First five moves, then first twenty… She challenges her school rival, which angers Norman because he doesn’t think she’s ready. Max wisely says that it’s time for her to make her own decisions.
A final lesson, Norman compares the timing in a chess match to life, that change is inevitable. ‘Enjoy it while it’s here’. As she plays against her rival, she watches the other people in the park to remind her and help her with each move. Finally, she’s in a position where she’s told she can win in three moves, but chooses to forfeit the game and essentially return to her old life and school.
She learns that sometimes ‘an old pizza place closes so that a new one can open’.
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