The feature film debut from Makoto Shinkai, the acclaimed director of Weathering With You and Your Name., is a haunting and beautiful story of friendship and loss, with stunning visuals and the emotional approach to science-fiction that would become the director's trademark. In an alternate post-war Japan, three teenagers become obsessed with a mysterious tower across the Union border, which reaches far into the sky. Hiroki and Takuya work on a makeshift airplane, which they promise their friend Sayuri they will use to visit the tower together someday, but she disappears before it is completed. Several years later, the tower suddenly activates, starting a phenomenon that threatens the world. And the young men now discover their long-lost friend Sayuri may hold the key to it all

One-eyed anti-hero Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) returns in director John Carpenter's slam-bang sequel to InchEscape from New York.Inch In the totalitarian America of 2013, captured fugitive Snake is sent into the quake-damaged island prison of Los Angeles to retrieve a stolen Inchdoomsday deviceInch from anti-government rebels. With Steve Buscemi, George Corraface, Pam Grier, Cliff Robertson. 100 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks English DTS HD 5.1 Master Audio, French Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles English (SDH), French.

The popular Disney theme park attraction inspired this hit swashbuckling adventure/fantasy. After his ship is commandeered by treasure-seeking tyrant Captain Hector Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), roguish pirate Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) is determined to reclaim his cursed vessel. With the assistance of loyal blacksmith Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), Sparrow races to defeat Barbossa and rescue beautiful maiden Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley). With Jonathan Pryce, Jack Davenport; directed by Gore Verbinski. 143 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks English Two-disc set.