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Saturday, July 5, 2025


 

Independence Day 

 

On July 2, 1996, an extraterrestrial mother ship enters Earth's orbit
outside the Moon and deploys its flying saucers; each 15 mi (24 km) in
diameter, over major cities worldwide. U.S. Marine Captain Steven Hiller and
his unit, the Black Knights fighter squadron stationed out of MCAS El Toro,
are called back from Independence Day leave; his girlfriend, Jasmine Dubrow,
decides to flee the city with her son, Dylan. Retired combat pilot Russell
Casse, now an alcoholic single father and crop duster, sees this as
vindication of the alien abduction he has been claiming for 10 years.

 

In New York City, technician David Levinson decodes a signal embedded within
global satellite transmissions, realizing that it is the aliens' countdown
for a coordinated attack. Aided by his ex-wife, White House Communications
Director Constance Spano, David and his father Julius reach the Oval Office
in Washington, D.C. and alert President Thomas Whitmore.

 

Whitmore orders evacuations of Los Angeles, New York City and the District
of Columbia, but it is too late. Each saucer fires a beam, incinerating
every targeted city, killing millions. Whitmore, the Levinsons, and a few
others barely escape aboard Air Force One while Jasmine, Dylan, and their
dog Boomer take shelter in a tunnel's inspection alcove and escape the
destruction of Los Angeles.

 

On July 3, Earth's military retaliations against the invaders are thwarted
by the alien warships' force fields. Each saucer launches shielded fighters,
devastating the human fighter squadrons and military bases, including
Captain Hiller's. Hiller lures an enemy fighter into the Grand Canyon before
ejecting from his plane, blinding the fighter using his parachute and
causing the alien to crash in the Mojave Desert. He subdues the downed alien
and flags down a convoy of refugees, transporting the alien to Area 51,
where Whitmore's plane has landed.

 

U.S. Defense Secretary Albert Nimziki reveals that a government faction has
been involved in a UFO conspiracy since 1947, when one of the invaders'
fighters crashed near Roswell, New Mexico. Area 51 houses the refurbished
ship and three alien corpses from the crash. Dr. Brackish Okun, the chief
scientist, examines the alien captured by Steven, which awakens,
telepathically invades Okun's mind, and psychically attacks Whitmore before
being killed by Secret Service agents and military personnel. Whitmore
learns the invaders' plan from the psychic attack; they annihilate Earth's
inhabitants and harvest its natural resources, as they have done to other
civilizations.

 

Whitmore reluctantly authorizes a trial nuclear attack against a saucer
above Houston, but the ship is unharmed due to its force field, while the
city is destroyed by the blast, and all subsequent nuclear attacks are
aborted. Jasmine and Dylan commandeer a highway maintenance truck and rescue
some survivors, including the critically injured First Lady, Marilyn
Whitmore. Though Hiller rescues them and takes them back to Area 51, Marilyn
succumbs to her injuries after reuniting with her family.

 

On July 4, inspired by Julius, David plans to write a computer virus on his
laptop and upload it into the mothership’s operating system to disable the
aliens' shield. Hiller volunteers to pilot the alien ship armed with a
tactical nuclear weapon to destroy the mothership. The U.S. military
contacts the remaining forces and airborne squadrons through Morse code to
organize a united counterattack. Lacking pilots, Whitmore and General
William Grey enlist volunteers with flight experience, including Russell
Casse from the refugee camp at Area 51, to fly the remaining jets. Hiller
marries Jasmine, with David and Constance present, during which the divorced
pair reconciles before leaving on the mission.

 

Entering the alien mother ship, they upload the virus and launch the nuclear
missile, destroying it and the alien invasion force before narrowly
escaping. With the shields down, Whitmore's squadron engages a saucer
targeting the Area 51 base. They exhaust their ammunition, and as the saucer
readies to fire, Russell sacrifices himself by crashing into its primary
weapon, destroying the warship. Grey orders notifications to resistance
groups worldwide about the spaceships' critical weakness, leading to their
destruction.

 

As humanity celebrates its victory against the aliens, Hiller and David are
rescued after surviving the crash, landing back on Earth and reuniting with
their families.

 

Cast

>From top to bottom: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, and Jeff Goldblum.

Will Smith as Captain Steven Hiller, a Marine F/A-18 pilot squadron leader
with the Black Knight squadron at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro and
aspiring astronaut. The role was originally offered to Ethan Hawke, but he
turned it down, as he thought the script was terrible.[5] Devlin and
Emmerich had always envisioned an African-American for the role,[6] and
specifically wanted Smith after seeing his performance in Six Degrees of
Separation.[7]

Bill Pullman as President Thomas J. Whitmore, a former fighter pilot and
Gulf War veteran. To prepare for the role, Pullman read Bob Woodward's The
Commanders and watched the documentary film The War Room.[8]

Jeff Goldblum as David Levinson, an MIT-educated satellite engineer and
technological expert.

Mary McDonnell as First Lady Marilyn Whitmore, wife of Thomas Whitmore.

Judd Hirsch as Julius Levinson, David Levinson's father. The character was
based on one of Dean Devlin's uncles.[9]

Robert Loggia as General William Grey, USMC, the Commandant of the United
States Marine Corps. Loggia modeled the character after World War II
generals, particularly George S. Patton.[10]

Randy Quaid as Russell Casse, an eccentric, alcoholic former fighter pilot
and Vietnam War veteran. He insists that he was abducted by the aliens
during work on aerial application ten years prior to the film's events,
shortly after completing his military service.

Margaret Colin as Constance Spano, Whitmore's White House Communications
Director and David Levinson's ex-wife.

Vivica A. Fox as Jasmine Dubrow, Steven Hiller's girlfriend and mother of
Dylan Dubrow.

James Rebhorn as Albert Nimziki, the Secretary of Defense and, as former CIA
Director, is a member of a governmental faction who are aware of the aliens'
existence due to the ship recovered at Roswell. Not well-liked, lying,
arrogant, selfish, crooked, and often at odds with idealists such as
Whitmore and Grey, Nimziki embodies the stereotypical corrupt politician and
his ambition is to be elected as president himself. Rebhorn described the
character as being much like Oliver North.[11] The character's eventual
firing lampoons Joe Nimziki,[12] MGM's head of advertising, who made life
unpleasant for Devlin and Emmerich when studio executives forced recuts of
Stargate.[13]

Harvey Fierstein as Marty Gilbert, David Levinson's coworker at Compact
Cable Television Company who is killed in the NYC attack.

Adam Baldwin as Major Mitchell, USAF, Area 51's commanding officer and thus
a member of a governmental faction who are aware of the aliens' existence.
During the interstellar war, he becomes a trusted ally to Thomas Whitmore's
party.

Brent Spiner as Dr. Brackish Okun, the unkempt and highly excitable
scientist in charge of research at Area 51. The character's appearance and
verbal style are based upon those of visual effects supervisor Jeffrey A.
Okun, with whom Emmerich had worked on Stargate.[14]

James Duval as Miguel Casse, the oldest son of Russell Casse.

Bill Smitrovich as Lt. Colonel Watson, the commanding officer of the Black
Knights.

Kiersten Warren as Tiffani, friend and co-worker of Jasmine who is killed in
the LA attack.

Harry Connick Jr. as Marine Captain Jimmy Wilder, fellow fighter pilot and
friend of Steven, killed in the Black Knight counterattack. Connick took
over the role from Matthew Perry who was originally cast in the role.

Mae Whitman as Patricia Whitmore, the daughter of President Thomas J.
Whitmore and First Lady Marilyn Whitmore.[15]

Ross Bagley as Dylan Dubrow, Jasmine Dubrow's son and Steven Hiller's
stepson.

Lisa Jakub as Alicia Casse, the daughter of Russell Casse.

Giuseppe Andrews as Troy Casse, the son of Russell Casse.

Special vocal effects by Frank Welker.

Alien vocal effects by Gary A. Hecker.

 


Friday, , July 11, 2025


 

No Movie this week

 


Friday, July 18, 2025


 

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1 

 

At Malfoy Manor, Severus Snape meets with Lord Voldemort and his Death
Eaters. He reports that the Order of the Phoenix will move Harry Potter, no
longer under his mother's protective spell, to a safe location. Voldemort
confiscates Lucius Malfoy's wand; his own is powerless against Harry because
it and Harry's wand are "brothers" by sharing the same phoenix feather core.
During the move, Harry and the Order are attacked by Voldemort and the Death
Eaters, killing Hedwig and Mad-Eye Moody in the process.

 

During preparations for Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour's wedding, the new
Minister for Magic Rufus Scrimgeour arrives. He informs Harry, Ron, and
Hermione that Albus Dumbledore left each a bequest: Ron a Deluminator,
Hermione a copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, and Harry the Golden Snitch
he caught in his first Quidditch match. Dumbledore also bequeathed the Sword
of Gryffindor to Harry, but it has gone missing.

 

News arrives during the wedding that the Ministry has fallen and Scrimgeour
is dead. Death Eaters attack, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione escape to Number
12, Grimmauld Place. While there, Ron realises that Sirius' brother, Regulus
Black, is the R.A.B. who stole Salazar Slytherin's locket from Voldemort.
Local thief Mundungus Fletcher later sold it to Dolores Umbridge. Harry,
Ron, and Hermione infiltrate the Ministry and recover the locket, but Death
Eaters chase them in a chaotic exit. Hermione disapparates them to a forest.
Ron is injured. The trio starts their journey to discover and destroy all of
Voldemort's Horcruxes, beginning with the locket.

 

Attempts to destroy the locket fail. Hermione deduces that Gryffindor's
sword can destroy Horcruxes because it is impregnated with basilisk venom.
Ron, affected by the dark locket, is frustrated with their slow progress and
irrationally jealous of Harry and Hermione. He argues with Harry before
leaving. When Harry touches the Snitch to his lips, it reveals a cryptic
message: "I open at the close." Hermione notices a strange symbol drawn in
Beedle the Bard that is identical to one Luna Lovegood's father Xenophilius
wears.

 

Harry and Hermione search for the sword in Godric's Hollow and encounter the
same strange symbol in a cemetery. Elderly historian Bathilda Bagshot
invites them in her cottage, where they find a photo of the young man in
Harry's dream who stole a wand from wandmaker Gregorovitch. Bathilda morphs
into Voldemort's snake Nagini and attacks Harry. Hermione disapparates them
to safety, but her rebounding spell accidentally destroys Harry's wand.
Hermione identifies the man in the photo as dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald.
That night, a doe patronus leads Harry to a frozen pond where Gryffindor's
sword lies on the bottom. Harry dives into the frigid water, but the locket
around his neck tightens, strangling him. Ron appears, retrieves the sword,
and saves Harry. They destroy the locket Horcrux with the sword. Ron
explains that the Deluminator led him to their location.

 

Harry, Ron, and Hermione visit Xenophilius Lovegood and learn the symbol
represents the Deathly Hallows. Many years before, three brothers each
received a prize that evades Death: the Resurrection Stone, the Cloak of
Invisibility, and the Elder Wand, the most powerful wand known. Possessing
all three makes one the Master of Death. Xenophilius secretly summons the
Death Eaters, hoping to exchange Harry for a kidnapped Luna. The three
escape, but Snatchers capture them. During a vision, Harry sees an elderly
Grindelwald telling Voldemort that the Elder Wand is buried with Dumbledore.

 

At Malfoy Manor, Bellatrix Lestrange sees a Snatcher with Gryffindor's sword
that she believed was in her Gringotts vault. Harry and Ron are locked into
the cellar, where they encounter Luna, Ollivander, and Griphook. Upstairs,
Bellatrix tortures Hermione. Harry begs for help using a mirror shard in
which he believes he glimpsed Dumbledore; Dobby appears in response and
helps save everyone while Harry grabs their captured wands from Draco
Malfoy. As they disapparate, Bellatrix throws a knife, and Dobby is fatally
wounded, dying in Harry's arms. Harry buries him near Bill and Fleur's
seaside cottage, an Order safe house. Meanwhile, Voldemort retrieves the
Elder Wand from Dumbledore's tomb.

 

Cast

Further information: List of Harry Potter cast members

Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter: A 17-year-old wizard.

Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley: A young wizard and one of Harry's best friends
and allies.

Emma Watson as Hermione Granger: A young witch and one of Harry's best
friends and Ron's love interest.

Robbie Coltrane as Rubeus Hagrid: Harry's half-giant friend, and gamekeeper
at Hogwarts.

Warwick Davis as Griphook: A goblin and former employee at Gringotts Bank.
Davis replaced Verne Troyer, who portrayed the character physically in the
first film, though Davis had dubbed Griphook's lines.

Ralph Fiennes as Lord Voldemort: An evil power-hungry wizard, and the leader
of the Death Eaters.

Michael Gambon as Professor Albus Dumbledore: Former headmaster of Hogwarts
killed by Severus Snape in the previous film.

Brendan Gleeson as Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody: A member of the Order of the
Phoenix.

Richard Griffiths as Vernon Dursley: Harry's Muggle uncle.

John Hurt as Garrick Ollivander: A wandmaker abducted by the Death Eaters.

Jason Isaacs as Lucius Malfoy: Draco Malfoy's father and a disgraced Death
Eater.

Alan Rickman as Professor Severus Snape: A double agent to the Death Eaters
and the new headmaster of Hogwarts.

Fiona Shaw as Petunia Dursley: Harry's Muggle aunt.

Timothy Spall as Peter Pettigrew/Wormtail: The Death Eater who betrayed
Harry's parents to Voldemort.

Imelda Staunton as Dolores Umbridge: Senior Undersecretary to the Minister
for Magic and Head of the Muggle-born Registration Commission.

David Thewlis as Remus Lupin: A member of the Order of the Phoenix and a
former teacher at Hogwarts.

Julie Walters as Molly Weasley: The Weasley matriarch and a mother figure to
Harry.

Toby Jones as Dobby: The house elf Harry saved from the Malfoy family.

Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange: A Death Eater, Sirius Black's
insane cousin and murderer, and the aunt of Draco.

The film also features Bonnie Wright as Ginny Weasley, Ron's sister and
Harry's love interest; Matthew Lewis as Neville Longbottom, one of Harry's
friends; Evanna Lynch as Luna Lovegood; another one of Harry's friends; Tom
Felton as Draco Malfoy, Lucius Malfoy's son and a Death Eater; and Helen
McCrory as Narcissa Malfoy, Draco's mother and Bellatrix's sister. Mark
Williams, James and Oliver Phelps, Domhnall Gleeson and Clémence Poésy
appear as members of the Weasley family and the Order of the Phoenix Arthur
Weasley, twins Fred and George Weasley, Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour,
respectively. Natalia Tena, George Harris and Andy Linden appear as members
of the Order of the Phoenix Nymphadora Tonks, Kingsley Shacklebolt and
Mundungus Fletcher, respectively.[15]

 


Friday, July 25, 2025


 

Trivia Night

 


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