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Bandidas
2006 • 93 minutes • Colour • 20th Century Fox
Director: Joachim Roenning, Espen Sandberg
Cast: Penélope Cruz, Salma Hayek, Steve Zahn, Joseph D. Reitman, Denis Arndt, Audra Blaser
Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek star as Mexico’s most unusual – and Most Wanted -- bank-robbing duo, in this wild, wild Western
comedy-adventure, set in the late 19th century. When a ruthless robber baron takes away everything they cherish, a rough-and-tumble,
idealistic peasant and a sophisticated heiress embark on a quest for justice, vengeance…and a few good heists.
Barbarella
1968 • 98 minutes • Colour • Paramount Pictures
Director: Roger Vadim
Cast: Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law
Barbarella recaptures the spirit of the early American comic strips. The setting is the planet Lythion in the year 40,000 when Barbarella
(Fonda, in her pre-feminist days) makes a forced landing while traveling through space in her rocket. A female James Bond, she conquers
evil in the forms of robots and monsters. She also graciously rewards the handsome men who assist her in her adventure.
Barnyard
2006 • 88 minutes • Colour • Paramount Pictures
Director: Steve Oedekerk
Cast: Kevin James, Maria Bamford, S. Scott Bullock, Megan Cavanagh, Cam Clarke, Courteney Cox, John Di Maggio
When the farmer's away, all the animals play ... and sing, and dance. Eventually, though, someone has to step in and run things, a
responsibility that ends up going to Otis (James), a carefree cow.
Barry Lyndon
1975 • 184 minutes • Colour • Warner Brothers
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson
Ryan O'Neal is Lyndon, a role derived from William Makepeace Thackeray's 19th century novel about a rags-to-riches rogue who
galavants through Europe from casinos to castles as a spy, a soldier, a wife beater, and a gambler.
Batman
1989 • 126 minutes • Colour • Warner Brothers
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger
Bruce Wayne returns after several years' absence spent developing his physical and scientific skills. He finds his hometown has become
highly corrupt. He then assumes a second identity — the powerful and terrifying crimefighter known as Batman.
Batman and Robin
1997 • 130 minutes • Colour • Warner Brothers
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Clooney, Chris O'Donnell, Uma Thurman, Alicia Silverstone
The fourth installment in the phenomenally successful Batman saga continues the crime fighting exploits of Batman and Robin (Clooney
and O'Donnell), who are bolstered by a new partner, Batgirl (Silverstone), as they battle the villainous Mr. Freeze (Schwarzenegger) and
flower-power femme fatale Poison Ivy (Thurman) on the streets of Gotham City.
Batman Begins
2005 • 134 minutes • Colour • Warner Brothers
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, Ken Watanabe, Katie Holmes, Cillian Murphy
When his parents a killed, millionaire playboy Bruce Wayne relocates to Asia when he is mentored by Henri Ducard and Ra's Al Ghul in
how to fight evil. When learning about the plan to wipe out evil in Gotham City by Ducard, Bruce prevents this plan from getting any further
and heads back to his home. Back in his original surroundings, Bruce adapts the image of a bat to strike fear into the criminals and the
corrupt as the icon known as 'Batman'. But it doesn't stay quiet for long.
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