Posts Tagged ‘witchcraft’

Ninth Gate, The (1999)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | Spain | USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Langella, Frank | Olin, Lena | Seigner, Emmanuelle | Jefford, Barbara | Taylor, Jack | López Rodero, José | Amoni, Tony | Russo, James | Holt, Willy | Garfield, Allen | Dacqmine, Jacques | Sheridan, Joe | Pauly, Rebecca | Benguigui, Catherine
Directors: Polanski, Roman
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Based on the book The Club Dumas, written by Arturo Perez-Reverte. Dean Corso, a somewhat sleazy rare book dealer, is hired by a mysterious patron who has just come into possession of one of the only three copies of The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows (a 17th century occult text said to give its owner unimaginable power). The man hires Corso to track down the other two copies and compare them to his, but complications - both natural and supernatural - arise at every turn.

Witches, The (1990)

Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Genres: Family | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: UK
Actors: Huston, Anjelica | Zetterling, Mai | Fisher, Jasen | Horrocks, Jane | Lambton, Anne | Atkinson, Rowan | Paterson, Bill | Blethyn, Brenda | Potter, Charlie | Smith, Sukie | English, Rose | Runacre, Jenny | Brooks, Annabel | Relph, Emma | Connolly, Nora
Directors: Roeg, Nicolas
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A young boy, recently orphaned, is taken to England by his grandmother. At a hotel in which they are staying, a group of witches have gathered to prepare a plot to rid the world of all children.

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?

Stardust (2007)

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Cox, Charlie | Danes, Claire | De Niro, Robert | Miller, Sienna | Pfeiffer, Michelle | Flemyng, Jason | Barnes, Ben | Burns, Mark | Buxton, Adam | Cavill, Henry | Curran, Jake | David, Elwin 'Chopper' | Ellis, Frank | Everett, Rupert | Fletcher, Dexter
Directors: Vaughn, Matthew
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“Stardust,” based on the best-selling novel by Neil Gaiman illustrated by Charles Vess, takes audiences on an adventure that begins in a village in England and ends up in a magical world. A young man named Tristan (Charlie Cox) tries to win the heart of village beauty Victoria (Sienna Miller) by promising to bring her a falling star. His journey takes him beyond the walls of his village to a mysterious and forbidden land.

When Tristan finds the star, he is stunned to discover that it is, not a lump of meteoric rock, but an angry, injured girl named Yvaine (Claire Danes) – who has no desire to be dragged across the world and presented to anyone’s girlfriend. But Tristan is not the only one seeking the star. A dying king’s (Peter O’Toole) four sons – not to mention the ghosts of their three dead brothers – all need the star as they vie for the throne. Three evil witches, led by the murderous Lamia (Michelle Pfeiffer) seek the star’s heart to make them young again.
Tristan and Yvaine are forced to flee together, encountering the captain of a flying pirate ship (Robert De Niro) and a shady trader named Ferdy the Fence (Ricky Gervais) along the way. As they travel Tristan discovers the meaning of true love, but does not realise he’s leading Yvaine into even more danger…

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

Monday, November 12th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Radcliffe, Daniel | Grint, Rupert | Watson, Emma | Bonham Carter, Helena | Coltrane, Robbie | Fiennes, Ralph | Gambon, Michael | Gleeson, Brendan | Griffiths, Richard | Isaacs, Jason | Oldman, Gary | Rickman, Alan | Shaw, Fiona | Smith, Maggie | Staunton, Imelda
Directors: Yates, David
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Harry is about to start his fifth year at Hogwarts. He’s desperate to get back to school and find out why his friends Ron and Hermoine have been so secretive all summer. However, what Harry is about to discover in his new year at Hogwarts will turn his world upside down….

Hocus Pocus (1993)

Saturday, September 1st, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Midler, Bette | Parker, Sarah Jessica | Najimy, Kathy | Katz, Omri | Birch, Thora | Shaw, Vinessa | Shepherd, Amanda | Bagby, Larry | Jelinek, Tobias | Faracy, Stephanie | Rocket, Charles | Jones, Doug | Malchus, Karyn | Murray, Sean | Voboril, Steve
Directors: Ortega, Kenny
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More than 300 years ago, 3 witches were sentenced to die in Salem, Massachusetts and a boy was turned into a cat (a black cat, naturally). Now it’s Halloween, and the witches (who fly on [I kid you not] vacuum cleaners) are back. This time, they’ve got their eyes on immortal life and have turned their wrath on trick-or-treaters and it’s up to the 300-year-old cat to save the day.

Epic Movie (2007)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Penn, Kal | Campbell, Adam | Coolidge, Jennifer | Mays, Jayma | Chambers, Faune A. | Glover, Crispin | Cox, Tony | Jiménez, Héctor | Hammond, Darrell | Electra, Carmen | Willard, Fred | Carradine, David | Lehre, David | McDonald, Kevin | Alvarez, George
Directors: Friedberg, Jason
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The twisted minds of two of the six writers of “Scary Movie” tackle the biggest mega-blockbusters of all time in “Epic Movie.” The story centers on four not-so-young orphans: one raised by a curator at the Louvre (where an albino assassin lurks), another a refugee from Mexican “libre” wrestling, the third a recent victim of snakes on her plane, and the fourth a “normal” resident of a mutant “X”-community. The hapless quartet visits a chocolate factory, where they stumble into an enchanted wardrobe that transports them to the land of Gnarnia (with a “G”). There they meet a flamboyant pirate captain and earnest students of wizardry - and join forces with, among others, a wise-but-horny lion to defeat the evil White Bitch of Gnarnia.

Conan the Barbarian (1982)

Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Schwarzenegger, Arnold | Jones, James Earl | von Sydow, Max | Bergman, Sandahl | Davidson, Ben | Gava, Cassandra | Lopez, Gerry | Mako | Quennessen, Valérie | Smith, William | Barboo, Luis | Columbu, Franco | Foldvary, Leslie | Herman, Gary | Holmey, Erik
Directors: Milius, John
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A barbarian trained in the arts of war joins with thieves in a quest to solve the riddle of steel and find the sorcerer responsible for the genocide of his people in this faithful adaptation of Robert E. Howard’s sword and sorcery adventures. This film briefly sparked a wave of fantasy films including the sequel, Conan the Destroyer, in the early 80s.

Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Weaver, Sigourney | Neill, Sam | Keena, Monica | Davis, Viola | Bellows, Gil | Glover, Brian | Conrad, David | Brophy, Anthony | Cuka, Frances | Bauer, Chris | Allen, John Edward | Táborský, Miroslav | Tiernan, Andrew | Pringle, Bryan | Wyatt, Dale
Directors: Cohn, Michael
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Based somewhat more authentically on the Grimm Brothers’ story of a young woman who is unliked by her stepmother, the film includes the talking mirror, a poisoned apple, and some ruffian gold (not diamond) miners (and they aren’t dwarfs or cute). It takes place at the time of the Crusades, and depicts the attitudes of the wealthy and the peasant classes toward one another.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Sykes, Eric | Spall, Timothy | Tennant, David | Radcliffe, Daniel | Watson, Emma | Grint, Rupert | Williams, Mark | Phelps, James | Phelps, Oliver | Wright, Bonnie | Rawle, Jeff | Pattinson, Robert | Isaacs, Jason | Felton, Tom | Ianevski, Stanislav
Directors: Newell, Mike
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Harry’s fourth summer and the following year at Hogwarts are marked by the Quidditch World Cup and the Triwizard Tournament, in which student representatives from three different wizarding schools compete in a series of increasingly challenging contests. However, Voldemort’s Death Eaters are gaining strength and even creating the Dark Mark giving evidence that the Dark Lord is ready to rise again. In the unsuspecting lives of the young wizard and witches at Hogwarts the competitors are selected by the goblet of fire, which this year makes a very surprising announcement: Hogwarts will have two representatives in the tournament, including Harry Potter! Will Harry be able to rise to the challenge for the Tri Wizard Tournament while keeping up with school or will the challenges along with Voldemort’s rebirth be too much for the young hero?