Welcome to the Quiet Room / Quiet room ni yôkoso (2007)
Drama
Asuka Sakura wakes up in the mental asylums quiet room, with no recollection of how she got there.
Starring: Yuki Uchida, Kankurô Kudô, Yû Aoi, Ryô, Yûko Nakamura, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Shinobu Ôtake
Director: Suzuki Matsuo
Panda kopanda / Panda, Little Panda / Panda! Go Panda! (1972)
Animation | Comedy | Family | Short
Cheerful Mimiko has a very strange family for a little girl – a Panda for her Papa, and his son, Panny, calls her Mom! Join this happy family and their many adventures! When Panny follows Mimiko to school, he must pretend to be a teddy bear so Mimiko won't get into trouble, but everyone wants a cute Panda! Despite his efforts to behave, Panny causes trouble in the school kitchen, and now the whole school is after Panny! Then, Panny makes a new friend, Tiny, a baby tiger who's wandered off from the circus. Getting Tiny back to his mom becomes the first adventure, but after a hard rain, the whole town is flooded and Mimiko, Papa Panda and Panny must rescue Tiny and other animals from the trapped circus train!
Starring: Kazuko Sugiyama, Kazuo Kumakura, Yoshiko Ohta, Yasuo Yamada
Director: Isao Takahata
Tarantula / The Giant Tarantula (1955)
Horror | Sci-Fi
A spider escapes from an isolated desert laboratory experimenting in giantism and grows to tremendous size as it wreaks havoc on the local inhabitants.
Starring: John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll
Director: Jack Arnold
Monster High: Fright On (2011)
Animation
Monster High is the model high school for monster integration; a melting pot where all monsters can let their fangtastic freak flags fly! But when other monster schools are merged with Monster High, the balance is upset and the school is thrown into social chaos. Our ghouls find themselves up against a convincing normie, Administrator Van Helscream, who is determined to drive a stake into the harmony of the school and magnify old grievances in order to isolate and separate the monster groups. Frankie Stein, Clawdeen Wolf, Draculaura and their ghoulfriends can only cure his agenda of intolerance if they can prove that the culture clash of Fur and Fang is no longer an issue and restore the imperfectly perfect harmony of Monster High.
Starring: Laura Bailey, Ogie Banks, Cam Clark, Debi Derryberry, Erin Fitzgerald, Kate Higgins, Wendy Lee
Director: Victor Dal Chele, Alfred Gimeno, Audu Paden
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948)
Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
As told to a psychiatrist: Mr. Peabody, middle-aged Bostonian on vacation with his wife in the Caribbean, hears mysterious, wordless singing on an uninhabited rock in the bay. Fishing in the vicinity, he catches…a mermaid. He takes her home and, though she has no spoken language, falls in love with her. Of course, his wife won't believe that thing in the bathtub is anything but a large fish. Predictable complications follow in rather tame fashion.
Starring: William Powell, Ann Blyth, Irene Hervey, Clinton Sundberg, Andrea King, Art Smith
Director: Irving Pichel
Absolute Giganten / Gigantics (1999)
Action | Comedy | Drama | Romance
In the port town of Hamburg, Germany, Floyd decides that he's shipping out to South Africa and Singapore now that his two-year probation for an unspecified juvenile offense has been completed. When he shares the news with his devoted friends Chubby, a mechanic, and Ricco, a fast-food cook and would-be b-boy, they can't comprehend their thoughtful friend's willingness to trade camaraderie for a wider view of the world. Overcoming their anger and bewilderment, the guys decide to spend one last night with Floyd, but the problem, as always, is how to find some fun. A succession of fast-food restaurants, parking garages, and local watering holes chronicles the inherent boredom of life in the provinces. But a run-in with a convention of dragster-racing Elvis impersonators sends the boys and their friend Telsa Julia Hummer on a series of adventures that veers from the farcical to the almost-tragic.
Starring: Frank Giering, Florian Lukas, Antoine Monot Jr., Julia Hummer
Director: Sebastian Schipper
