JUMANJI
Dir: Joe Johnston
Wri: Jonathan Hensleigh, Greg Taylor, Jim Strain
104 min | USA | 1995 | PG

When two kids play an old magic board-game they found, they release a man trapped for decades in it and a host of dangers that can only be stopped by finishing the game.

BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS
Dir: Robert Stevenson
Wri: Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi
117 min | USA | 1971 | G

An apprentice witch, 3 kids and a cynical conman search for the missing component to a magic spell useful to the defence of Britain. During WWII in England, Charlie, Carrie, and Paul Rawlins are sent to live with Eglantine Price, an apprentice witch. Charlie blackmails Miss Price that if he is to keep her practices a secret, she must give him something, so she takes a bedknob from her late father's bed and places the "famous magic traveling spell" on it, and only Paul can activate it. Their first journey is to a street in London where they meet Emelius Browne, headmaster of Miss Price's witchcraft training correspondence school. Miss Price tells him of a plan to find the magic words for a spell known as Substitutiary Locomotion, which brings inanimate objects to life. This spell will be her work for the war effort.

GARGOYLE
Wir/Dir: Michael Cusack
9 min | Aus | 2006 | Suitiblle for all ages

This AFI award winning animation is an attempt to make people feel differently about animation. A poetic work of dramatic fantasy, Gargoyle was completed over a 3 year period with 13 560 individual frames needed to capture the action of the characters. Each frame required the animators to move the characters by hand - a painstaking process. Gargoyles and scary monsters that go bump in the night!