Movies to recommend

Having already missed his wedding to his beautiful sweetheart, Sara, twice, the happy, absent-minded professor, Dr Phillip Brainard, is struggling to come up with a brilliant invention to save Medfield College from closure. However, as good things come to those who wait, the eccentric inventor stumbles upon an innovative but highly unstable formula for "Flubber", a mysterious rubber-like hybrid elastomer that can lift objects, bouncing and stretching as if it had a mind of its own. Of course, this unique but untamed creation catches the attention of a ruthless rival who is bent on getting his hands on the extraordinary substance. But first, he will have to catch it. Can Dr Brainard protect his invention?

This film follows the 'life' and times of the lead character, an android who is purchased as a household robot programmed to perform menial tasks. Within a few days the Martin family realizes that they don't have an ordinary droid as Andrew begins to experience emotions and creative thought. In a story that spans two centuries, Andrew learns the intricacies of humanity while trying to stop those who created him from destroying him.

In the third installment of the hit Zenon trilogy, it's 2054 and Zenon Kar is 17 and competing to win the Galactic Teen Supreme contest--against handsome competitor Bronley Hale--and celebrate at the Moonstock Festival. She also reunites with Moon preservation activist Sage Borealis, who is desperate to keep the Moon from being colonized and exploited and wants Zenon's help. Meanwhile, Commander Edward Plank and Aunt Judy Cling's new foster daughter Dasha is starstruck by Zenon and finds staying out of trouble difficult. During the last competition for the Galactic Teen Supreme contest, moon goddess Selene appears and threatens to destroy the Earth, and Zenon must save everyone from this angry deity. It's up to Zenon to save everyone from this angry deity. In the end, Zenon, Sage, Bronley, and Dasha and her friends Margie and Cassie team up to evacuate everyone in Protozoa's tour bus and try to remove the Moon Dome, with each taking a hover pod. Unfortunately, the dome is too heavy until Commander Plank and Aunt Judy show up looking for Dasha. They're able to help lift the dome and send it drifting into space. Selene then destroys the rest of the base and waves goodbye as the friends return to Earth. Selene stops the wild weather she caused, Zenon and Sage kiss, and Protozoa's band Microbe and the new hit band Cosmic Blush hold a concert.

Wayne Szalinski is at it again. But instead of shrinking things, he tries to make a machine that can make things grow. As in the first one, his machine isn't quite accurate. But when he brings Nick & his toddler son Adam to see his invention, the machine unexpectedly starts working. And when Adam comes right up to the machine, he gets zapped along with his stuffed bunny. Now, whenever Adam comes near anything electrical, the electricity causes him to grow. Adam soon starts to grow to the height of over 100 feet. And he is now walking through Las Vegas which he thinks is one big play land.

Four childhood friends, Jonesy, Beaver, Pete and Henry all share a special secret. Each year, they take a trip into Maine woods. This year is different. A blizzard occurs, and they recover a man found wandering around. Unbeknownst to them, this wandering individual isn't the only being to be found. Now they must act fast to stop the outbreak developing and to prevent the world from its doom.

A 12-year-old boy goes missing in 1978, only to reappear once more in 1986. In the eight years that have passed, he hasn't aged. It is no coincidence that at the time he "comes back", a flying saucer is found, entangled in power lines.

When Henry DeTamble meets Clare Abshire in a Chicago library they both understand that he is a time traveler, but she knows much more about him as he has not yet been to the times and places where they have already met. He falls in love with her, as she has already with him, but his continuing unavoidable absences while time traveling - and then returning with increasing knowledge of their future - makes things ever more difficult for Clare.

On the brink of perfecting his state-of-the-art matter-shrinking machine, the suburban paterfamilias and indefatigable inventor, Professor Wayne Szalinski, realises that his device truly works, when it zaps both his kids and their friends. Now, to return to the relative safety of their home while being reduced to a mere quarter-inch size, the minuscule humans must venture out into the dense and perilous landscapes of their now-immense backyard--a hostile environment where nearly everything spells trouble. Can the kids exit the green maze of grass in one piece?

Will Browning is a slacker student who needs a good grade in science or he's headed to a military camp for the summer. He orders a product called "Ocean Pets" for his project, but some clone formula accidentally leaks into the package. So when he stirs the mixture with a comb, he accidentally creates a clone of himself. When he discovers that the clone is smarter than him, he sends it to school--and everybody prefers it to him.

Samantha's band, the Zettabytes, is meeting with little success, so her friend Roscoe uses his knowledge of technology designed by his father to create a holographic lead singer, Loretta Modern. The band instantly becomes successful, but Samantha begins to feel alienated, Roscoe discovers feelings for Samantha, and Loretta struggles with individuality.

After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott. Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, Elliott introduces E.T., as the alien is dubbed, to his brother and his little sister, Gertie, and the children decide to keep its existence a secret. Soon, however, E.T. falls ill, resulting in government intervention and a dire situation for both Elliott and the alien.

A young man who was born without an immune system and has lived his life within a plastic bubble in his bedroom finds out that the woman he has loved since childhood is about to be married at Niagara Falls, so he builds a portable bubble suit and ventures into the outside world to win her affections.

In 2015, Zenon Kar is 2 years older but no wiser about the dangers of meddling, but when she shows Nebula how to play a new game, she inadvertently empties out Commander Plank's office and is assigned work detail in the Alien Patrol lab. Worse: the space station is now under command of the military, and General Hammond is assigned to command the station and boots Commander Plank out of his office. Even worse: he assigns Zenon to look after his daughter, who turns out to be her demanding old nemesis Margie, who threatens to have her dad kick Zenon and her family off the space station if Zenon doesn't obey her. Zenon then discovers that her space station is being decommissioned due to damage from Windom and Lutz's plot, so she sneaks down to Earth to try to stop it after she gets a message from aliens who seem to want to meet with Proto Zoa. Margie wants to go too, so she sneaks down to Earth as well but makes it look like Zenon forced her to go with her. With Aunt Judy's help, the girls track down Proto Zoa, who has gone into hiding during a dry spell, and convince him to join them. With Margie, Aunt Judy, Nebula, Orion (the Alien Patrol lab guy), Proto Zoa, and her mom, Zenon goes to meet with the aliens near the moon. Unfortunately, their ship runs out of fuel and they nearly crash to their deaths on the moon, but the aliens show up and rescue them. They turn out to be friendly; communicating with Zenon telepathically, they reveal that they've been lost on space for 3 years and need the ship's navigation charts to get home--just taking them would be rude. When they have the charts they tow the ship back to the space station, where General Hammond refuses to relent, saying the space station is too badly damaged and must be destroyed. Margie stands up to him for once, but it isn't enough until the aliens return and repair the space station as a thank-you gift for helping them. With the space station saved, Commander Plank and General Hammond are assigned to command it together, Aunt Judy marries Plank, and Proto Zoa plays at their wedding, dedicating his new song to Zenon, having been revitalized by the whole experience. The aliens had actually been trying to communicate with Zenon, not Proto Zoa, using the transmission of his old concert to do so. Margie convinces her dad to let her stay, she and Zenon become friends, and attraction builds between Zenon and Orion.

A comedy/sci-fi/adventure about three high school kids who invent a 10 minute time machine to spare others just like them from the humiliation they've endured.

Fifteen-year-old Alan Abernathy, the son of a toy store owner, tries out some new action figures: The Commando Elite versus The Gorgonites. But three months ago, a toy company believes it is onto something when it employs the latest government military technology in a series of action figures, enabling them to talk. They underestimate the power of the special micro chips they've employed, however, as the two opposing sides of the toy line start thinking for themselves and engaging in real combat! The Commando Elite vow to wipe out the Gorgonites in a suburban neighborhood. Alan, his neighbor Christy Fimple, (on whom he has a massive crush) with the help of the kind Gorgonites, must protect his home and family from the Commandos.

Nick Larson and his best friends Trevor Eastman and Amanda are celebrating the twentieth-fourth birthday of his girlfriend Julie Miller in a beautiful lake on a Sunday morning. Nick is expecting to be promoted in the company where he works, and Julie is planning to move to his place instead of going to New York for her Master degree. However, Nick is called by his colleague Dave Bristol, who is disputing the promotion with Nick, for a meeting with a client. While on the road, Nick has an accident and Julie and his friends die. One year later, Nick finds that he can travel in time and tries to fix the past, with tragic consequences for the future.

The siblings Noah and Emma travel with their mother Jo from Seattle to the family cottage in Whidbey Island to spend a couple of days while their workaholic father David Wilder is working. They find a box of toys from the future in the water and bring it home, and Emma finds a stuffed rabbit called Mimzy, and stones and a weird object, but they hide their findings from their parents. Mimzy talks telepathically to Emma and the siblings develop special abilities, increasing their intelligence to the level of genius. Their father becomes very proud when Noah presents a magnificent design in the fair of science and technology, and his teacher Larry White and his mystic wife Naomi Schwartz become interested in the boy when he draws a mandala. When Noah accidentally assembles the objects and activates a powerful generator creating a blackout in the state, the FBI arrests the family trying to disclose the mystery. But Emma reveals the importance to send Mimzy back to the future.

Zenon Kar is a trouble-prone 13-year-old girl who lives on a space station with her family in the year 2049 AD. When she runs afoul of the station's owner, Parker Windom, she is judged to be "incorrigible" and punished by being exiled to the worst place imaginable: the planet Earth. After several painful weeks of adjustment to her new surroundings, Zenon enlists the aid of her earthbound pals to return to her "real" home with evidence that the "respectable" Mr. Windom is up to no good.