So what movies do you go for when you trot down the video store, classic, horror, love stories, musicals? The selection is vast and entertaining. We forget ourselves watching the movies, but we remember the awesome human drama of life, and we cry, laugh, fight, laugh and struggle with our heroes and heroines! But how would our Astro Club choose their own very special movie.

ARIES

Action loving Aries will want to pick up an epic, the kind of epic that talks of light over dark and the simple man’s belief of good winning out. So Aries could be a Frodo Baggins fan. When the Ram pop down the video store, watch them pick up the “Lord of the Rings” again and again: Aragon, Arwen, Bilbo and Frodo even Farmir, are all friends of the passionate Aries who will morph into these characters as they watch the movie in their own front room.

TAURUS

Taurus loves food, friendship, deep emotions, and above all family sagas. So it would not be too surprising to see them pick “Mystic Pizza” off the Video shelf. The is the mother of all “coming of age” movies starring a very young Julia Roberts, who looks startling beautiful in her rendition of Daisy who works in the Mystic Pizza restaurant and finds love, of a kind. Just looking at all those delicious pizza cuts will have Taurus ringing the takeaway to back up the whole home video experience.

GEMINI

Gemini dig intellectual movies that stimulate the cerebral cortex, in short they dig “foreign”. The very French “Jean de Florette/Manon de Sources” starring Gerald Depardieu and Yves Montant is one of the best French epics and gets Gemini gray matter buzzing. “Cinema Paradiso” directed by Guiseppe Tornatore is another “twin” favourite. This Oscar winning movie about a child growing up in Sicily and his friendship with a cinema projectionist touches the mind as well as the heart. Gemini is into languages, so they might improve their Italian by going to Rome for their hols!

CANCER

Sentimental and caring Cancer will want to focus on family viewing. See them pick up videos depicting kindness and friendship, with the good always winning over the bad. Vids like the “Lion King” and “Finding Nemo” are favourite pick-ups, but the 1939 “Wizard of Oz” wins the prize! The great Hollywood star Judy Garland depicts teen Dorothy Gale swept away to a magical land in a tornado. She embarks on a quest to find the fabulous “Wizard of Oz” so she can return home. Any crabby girl will tell you “there is no place like home!”

LEO

Leo likes “larger than life” on screen, so what could beat picking up a musical? Okay, the classic “Singing in the Rain” starring Gene Kelly, and of course “Moulin Rouge” are not bad! But the movie to beat all Leo musicals can only be “Evita!” Leo Madonna was literally born to play Evita Peron, and she had that gorgeous, also Leo, co star Antonio Banderas by her side to spice things up. As for the song “Don’t Cry for me Argentina” well that gets Leo into floods of loud tears every time! They “identify” you see!

VIRGO

Virgo is a purist when it comes to movies and somewhat intellectual. The classic Virgo movie combo is emotionality and complexity. They tend to hire out idealized love stories. They will definitely be sobbing into their kerchiefs at the classy “Titanic”. Just watching pure and young Kate and Leonardo seeing their dreams fall apart as “Titanic sinks”, is of excruciating pleasure to our Virgo. Another great Virgo movie is “The Barefoot Contessa”, staring the luminous Ava Gardner and her search for the romantic ideal, with it all ending in tears of course! Virgo would have a lot to say about that!

LIBRA

Libra goes for “love stories” par excellence. Movies like “The Notebook” staring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams will hit the loving Libran hard, in fact with or without a bunch of paper hankies they will even sob in front of their Aunt Gladys without a qualm. Other films for loving Librans are “A Walk to Remember” staring Nicholas Spark and Mandy Moore as the girl with leukemia who tells Nick not to love her so. But can one really turn away from “West Side Story”, an epic of fighting NY gangs, based on Romeo and Juliet? No of course not, Libra wants romance. And that is final!

SCORPIO

Scorpio wants horror and that is final too! Scorpio needs horror like you and I need a hole in the head. Scorpios lose themselves in frightening scenarios to forget their dark side. For example “Nightmare on Elm Street”. What could be more ghastly, than seeing a young Johnny Depp getting swallowed up by his bed? Other horror movies for Scorps to dig are “The Fly”, and “Videodrome” which is about nasty television sets, and naturally the horrific “Saw”. Scorp would say, “How to deal with death is at least as important as how to deal with life!”

SAGITTARIUS

When the Saggy walks into the video store, they are looking to pick up a wild, free and “wind in the hair” style road movie like “Thelma and Louise”, directed by Ridley Scott and of course the mystical “Easy Rider” starring Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson in their prime. “Easy Rider” is a movie about motorcyclists on their way to a rather sticky karma. Saggy identifies with heroes and heroines seeking themselves, free souls who travel they know not where, perhaps to happiness perhaps to oblivion!

CAPRICORN

Capricorn is into class, the sleek movie statement. They will already have their own classic movie collection, but they might trot down to the Video store, if they are missing out on classics like “Godfather I and II”, “Jaws”, “A Wonderful Life”, and “Ben Hur”. These movies are guaranteed to get the pulses racing and the heart singing. And what could be better than the “Best Years of Our Lives” made in 1946 portraying serviceman returning from the Second World War, and the difficulties they had to face. This poignant movie is perhaps Cappy’s favourite.

AQUARIUS

Aquarius wants to see the human race evolve, so they are into the protest movie, if they are lucky enough to find one down the Video Hire that is! Films like “Brokeback Mountain”, about gay love, and “Schindler’s List” about the horrific reality of the Nazi persecution of the Jews, is what the Aquarian adores the most. These films certainly do not hide the truth. Of course Charlie Chaplin’s classic Modern Times, depicting the comic dehumanization of everyday life is a work of art and could be an Aquarian favourite.

PISCES

Pisces wants more than horror, more than love, more than road, more than classic, they want poetry. So see the romantic fish pick up a film that touches the soul. They might write a list to order from the video store. “2001 Space Odyssey”, “The Seventh Seal” for example. But the ultimate Piscean thrill is Robin Williams as Professor Keating in “The Dead Poets Society” Keating stirs the Piscean heart to its depths when he says “We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute, we read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love these are what we stay alive for!” And at that point our stunning Pisces will rest their case! And so will we!