Tagged: genre: fantasy

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Sucker Punch OST

Most of the time, films use music to fill in awkward gaps in dialogue, or for random mash-up scenes that are meant to pull on your emotional heart strings. Sucker Punch used the music to tell the story

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Sucker Punch

When 20-year-old Baby Doll loses her mother she knows instantly that she has to protect herself and her little sister from their stepfather. But things don’t go as planned: Baby Doll’s sister is dead, she has a gun in her hand and her stepfather winds up committing her to a mental institution.

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Goblet of Fire follows Harry in his fourth year at Hogwarts, as he is mysteriously entered as one of the contestants in a special event known as the Triwizard Tournament, and things are set in motion for the return of You-Know-Who.

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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is an action/comedy/romance film based on the graphic novel series Scott Pilgrim, created by Bryan Lee O’Malley, directed by Edgar Wright, and starring Michael Cera as the main character.

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Secret Garden

Secret Garden is your typical drama in where the rich boy falls in love with the working class girl. He wants her, she resists a bit and suddenly they have switched bodies. One of the better Korean dramas of the winter 2010-2011 season.

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Rare Exports

Rare Exports is a Finnish film that follows the excavations of a “sacred” tomb of what some believed to be the original Santa Claus, who instead of giving good kids gifts, punishes naughty ones. Little Pietari, an awkward little boy, is the only inhabitant of the Korvatunturi mountains who suspects what they have unleashed, as supplies begin to get stolen and kids begin to disappear.

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Paco and the Magical Book

Tetsuya Nakashima’s Paco and the Magical Book tells the story of grumpy old Okunuki (Yakusho) as he enters a board meeting and is sent to a hospital, in which he meets a whole bunch of picturesque characters, including a little girl named Paco who can only retain memories for a day.

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Keizoku 2: SPEC

Keizoku 2 follows two detectives, ill-suited to each other with the uptight and uncommunicative Sebumi clashing with the slobbish genius Toma, trying to track down criminals with supernatural abilities.

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

In Year 3, Harry Potter must go back to Hogwarts to course his third year in magical school, but after an angry outburst against the Dursleys and a chance encounter with a big black dog, he finds out a crazy dark wizard follower of You-Know-Who called Sirius Black is out to get him.