Posts Tagged ‘magic’

Willow (1988)

Monday, November 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Hayes, Patricia | Davis, Warwick | Kilmer, Val | Joanne Whaley | Jean Marsh | Barty, Billy
Directors: Howard, Ron
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Willow, a small farmer/apprentice magician, meets Madmartigan, a great swordsman, and together they journey through a war-torn land of magic and monsters, to save a baby princess from death at the hands of an evil queen.

Prestige, The (2006)

Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jackman, Hugh | Bale, Christian | Caine, Michael | Perabo, Piper | Hall, Rebecca | Johansson, Scarlett | Mahurin, Samantha | Bowie, David | Serkis, Andy | Davis, Daniel | Piddock, Jim | Neame, Christopher | Ryan, Mark | Rees, Roger | Harris, Jamie
Directors: Nolan, Christopher
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A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy — full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences. From the time that they first met as young magicians on the rise, Robert Angier and Alfred Borden were competitors. However, their friendly competition evolves into a bitter rivalry making them fierce enemies-for-life and consequently jeopardizing the lives of everyone around them. Set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century London.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)

Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Cleese, John | Rickman, Alan | Grint, Rupert | Watson, Emma | Radcliffe, Daniel | Smith, Maggie | Coltrane, Robbie | Triplets, Saunders | Harris, Richard | Shaw, Fiona | Melling, Harry | Griffiths, Richard | Deadman, Derek | Hart, Ian | Borowiecki, Ben | Davis, Warwick | Troyer, Verne | Hurt, John | Bremmer, Richard
Directors: Columbus, Chris
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is the first film in the Harry Potter series based off the novels by J.K. Rowling. It is the tale of Harry Potter, an ordinary 11-year-old boy serving as a sort of slave for his aunt and uncle who learns that he is actually a wizard and has been invited to attend the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is snatched away from his mundane existence by Hagrid, the grounds keeper for Hogwarts, and quickly thrown into a world completely foreign to both him and the viewer. Famous for an incident that happened at his birth, Harry makes friends easily at his new school. He soon finds, however, that the wizarding world is far more dangerous for him than he would have imagined, and he quickly learns that not all wizards are ones to be trusted.

Covenant, The (2006)

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Strait, Steven | Stan, Sebastian | Kitsch, Taylor | Crawford, Chace | Hemingway, Toby | Schmid, Kyle | McHattie, Stephen | Welsh, Kenneth | Baril, Christian | Burns, Rob | Crooks, Robert | Crowder, Steven | Day, Larry | DeFilippo, Vito | Deveau, Jonathan
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In 1692, in the Ipswich Colony of Massachusetts, five families of powerful witches commit to a covenant of silence to protect themselves against the witch hunters, but one of the families transgress their pact and is banished from their lands. Along the centuries, the power and the covenant are transmitted through their descendants and when the eldest son is eighteen years old, he ascends to a higher power. However, the use of magic addicts and if used in excess, ages the warlock. In the present days, four wizards teenage friends are in high school and their leader Caleb Danvers is close to his eighteenth birthday and consequently to ascend. He has just met Sarah Wenham and they are dating, when the appearance of darkling and supernatural dreams haunt the group. Sooner they find an evil warlock, descendant of the fifth ancient family that wants to strip Caleb’s power.

Spiderwick Chronicles, The (2008)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Highmore, Freddie | Nolte, Nick | Strathairn, David | Rogen, Seth | Short, Martin | McCarthy, Andrew | Fennell, Tod | Lavalley, Jeremy | Jones, Tyler Patrick | Switzer, Kyle
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Once upon a time, upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures. Unable to explain the strange disappearances and accidents that seem to be happening on a daily basis, the family blames it all on Jared. When he, Simon and Mallory investigate what’s really going on, they uncover the fantastic truth of the Spiderwick estate and of the creatures that inhabit it.

Secret Garden, The (1993)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Maberly, Kate | Prowse, Heydon | Knott, Andrew | Smith, Maggie | Crossley, Laura | Lynch, John | Sparrow, Walter | Jacob, Irène | Baker, Frank | Hill, Valerie | Pickering, Andrea | Moreton, Peter | Spreckley, Arthur | Bruce, Colin | Singh, Parsan
Directors: Holland, Agnieszka
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After losing her self-indulging parents in an earthquake, a bitter young girl named Mary Lennox is sent to live in England with her reclusive Uncle. Eventually she discovers her bedridden cousin and a ’secret garden’ that once belonged to her deceased aunt. With the help of her cousin, the kindly Dikon, and a little ‘magic’, can Mary find a way to bring love back to her family?

Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The (2005)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Henley, Georgie | Keynes, Skandar | Moseley, William | Popplewell, Anna | Swinton, Tilda | McAvoy, James | Broadbent, Jim | Shah, Kiran | Cosmo, James | McIntosh, Judy | Hawthorne, Elizabeth | Kake, Patrick | Rangi, Shane | Cook, Brandon | Cook, Cassie
Directors: Adamson, Andrew
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Based on the classic novel by ‘CS Lewis’ (qv). Four London children are sent to a professor’s country home in order for protection during World War II. There they find a magic wardrobe which leads to a mystical land called Narnia, which is being ruled by an evil witch. To defeat the witch, they must join forces with Aslan, the lion God of Narnia.

Black Cauldron, The (1985)

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Bardsley, Grant | Sheridan, Susan | Jones, Freddie | Hawthorne, Nigel | Malet, Arthur | Byner, John | Rich, Lindsay | Call, Brandon | Levinson, Gregory | Merin, Eda Reiss | Malis-Morey, Adele | Hayes, Billie | Fondacaro, Phil | Renaday, Peter | Almanzar, James
Directors: Berman, Ted
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Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the Horned King. The villain hopes Hen will show him the way to The Black Cauldron, which has the power to create a giant army of unstoppable soldiers. With the aid of a stubborn princess, an exaggerating bard, and a pestering creature called Gurgi, Taran will try to save the world of Prydain from the Horned King. As the new friends face witches, elves, magic swords, and the Cauldron itself, Taran starts to learn what being a hero really means and that some things are more important than glory.

Sleeping Beauty (1959)

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Costa, Mary | Shirley, Bill | Audley, Eleanor | Felton, Verna | Luddy, Barbara | Allen, Barbara Jo | Holmes, Taylor | Thompson, Bill | Amsbery, Bill | Candido, Candy | Colvig, Pinto | McKennon, Dal | Miller, Marvin | Ravenscroft, Thurl
Directors: Geronimi, Clyde
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When a new princess is born to King Stefan & his wife, the entire kingdom rejoices. At a ceremony, three good fairies - Flora, Fauna & Merryweather - bestow gifts of magic on the child. But an evil sorceress named Maleficent shows up, and because of a rude remark by Merryweather, she places a curse on the princess - that she will die on her 16th birthday after touching a poisoned spinning wheel. Merryweather tries to undo the damage by casting a spell that will allow the princess - named Aurora - to awake from an ageless sleep with a kiss from her true love. The fairies take Aurora to their cottage in the woods to keep her away from the eyes of Maleficent, and raise her as their own child, named Briar Rose. On her 16th birthday Aurora meets Prince Phillip, the son of a king whose own kingdom will soon merge with King Stefan’s - and falls in love. Maleficent manages to kidnap the Prince and her horrible prophecy is fulfilled when she tricks Aurora into touching a spinning wheel created by Maleficent herself! Realizing that the Prince is in trouble, the 3 good fairies head to Maleficent’s castle at the Forbidden Mountain, and spring the Prince loose. But the Prince soon finds himself up against Maleficent’s army of brutes, and the power of Maleficent’s evil spells - which include a thorn forest as thick as weeds around King Stefan’s castle, and a fight against Maleficent when she turns herself into a dragon! Is the Prince strong enough to withstand the powers of the evil sorceress?

Mary Poppins (1964)

Monday, April 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Andrews, Julie | Van Dyke, Dick | Tomlinson, David | Johns, Glynis | Baddeley, Hermione | Shaw, Reta | Dotrice, Karen | Garber, Matthew | Lanchester, Elsa | Treacher, Arthur | Owen, Reginald | Wynn, Ed | Darwell, Jane | Malet, Arthur | Banas, Robert
Directors: Stevenson, Robert
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The movie combines a diverting story, songs, color and sequences of live action blended with the movements of animated figures. Mary Poppins is a kind of Super-nanny who flies in with her umbrella in response to the request of the Banks children and proceeds to put things right with the aid of her rather extraordinary magical powers before flying off again.