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Category Archives: Fantasy

June 4th, 2013: Up (2009)

Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Animation, Buddy Flick, Comedy, Computer Animation, Drama, Event Film, Family, Fantasy, Lost World, Movie of the Day, Road Trip Tagged "I won't sell", "old person taught to love again", balloons, biplane, birds, Boy Scout, Christopher Plummer, Delroy Lindo, Disney, dogs, Ed Asner, explorers, idol, John Ratzenberger, living fossil, living legend, old men, old pictures, Pixar, stowaway, talking animals, widower, Zepplin

May 10th, 2013: Mary Poppins (1964)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Animation, Based on a Book, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film Tagged "England", Alan Napier, annoying children, Arthur Malet, bank, banker, before they were famous, Best Actress, Best Adapted Score Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Costume Design Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Best Effects Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Picture Nominee, Best Sound Nominee, chimney sweep, comedic working class, David Tomlinson, Dick Van Dyke, Disney, Ed Wynn, Elsa Lanchester, feminist, Glynis Johns, Jane Darwell, Julie Andrews, live action combined with animation, Marnie Nixon, nanny, suffragettes, terrible accent, Walt Disney

March 28th, 2013: Pan’s Labyrinth

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1 Comment Posted in War Movies, Period Film, Drama, Arthouse, "Foreign Film", Thriller, Coming of Age, Fantasy, Monster, Movie of the Day, Guerrillas Tagged Best Cinematography, Best Original Screenplay Nominee, fairy tale, Best Art Direction, dream worlds, Guillermo Del Toro, Spain, Mexico, Spanish Civil War, Best Foreign Language Picture Nominee, Best Original Score Nominee, pregnancy, Best Makeup, co-production, tyrannical officer, Doug Jones, stepfather, evil stepfather, fairy, faun, labyrinth

March 25th, 2013: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Computer Animation, Epic, Event Film, Fantasy, Ghost, Last Stand, Monster, Movie of the Day, Remake, Road Trip, Sequel, Sword and Sorcery, War Movies Tagged Andy Serkis, Annie Lenox, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Makeup, Best Original Song, Best Picture, Best Score, Best Sound Mixing, Best Visual Effects, Billy Boyd, Bob Weinstein, Brad Dourif, Bruce Spence, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, curse, cursed objects, Dominic Monaghan, dwarves, Elijah Wood, elves, Fran Walsh, Harvey Weinstein, Hobbits, Howard Shore, Hugo Weaving, Ian Holm, Ian McKellen, insanity, John Rhys-Davies, JRR Tolkien, Karl Urban, Liv Tyler, Lord of the Rings, mastermind, Miranda Otto, New Line Cinema, New Zealand, orcs, Orlando Bloom, Peter Jackson, prophecy, Sean Astin, Sean Bean, self immolation, sorcerer, under siege, Viggo Mortensen, Wing-Nut Productions, wizards

March 17th, 2013: The Secret of Kells

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", "Foreign Film", Adaptation, Animation, Arthouse, Coming of Age, Family, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Period Film Tagged Belgium, Best Animated Feature Nominee, Brendan Gleeson, co-production, fairies, France, Ireland, Middle Ages, monastery, monks, teens, Vikings

February 16th, 2013: The Mummy (1999)

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4 Comments Posted in Action, Period Film, Romance, Comedy, Screwball, Remake, Event Film, Fantasy, Slapstick, The Original, Adventure, Movie of the Day, Mummy Tagged "re-imagined", "This Lost World is Gonna Blow!", Arnold Vosloo, before they were famous, biblical allusion, Brendan Fraser, buried alive, buried treasure, cult, cult leader, cultists, deserted city, doomed expedition, Egypt, Egyptians, Erick Avari, ethnic stereotype, fire, French Foreign Legion, Great War veteran, Jerry Goldsmith, John Hannah, Jonathan Hyde, Kevin J. O'Connor, Legionnaire, librarian, library, Oded Fehr, Odious Comic Relief, pilots, plague, Rachel Weisz, reincarnation, riverboat, scarab, secret society, sorcerer, Stephen Sommers, storm, thief, Universal Pictures, World War One

February 14th, 2013: Simon, King of the Witches

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Cults, Drama, Fantasy, Independent, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good, Witches Tagged addiction, Andrew Prine, cash-in, corrupt politicians, D.A., Drive-In, drug addict, flashback, it's not over, low-budget, rip-off, teens, time loop, warlock, witch

February 7th, 2013: El Topo (1970)

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3 Comments Posted in "Foreign Film", Arthouse, Fantasy, Independent, Movie of the Day, Road Trip, Spaghetti Western, Western Tagged Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alfonso Arau, allegory, father-son relationship, gore, grindhouse, gunfighter, head film, low-budget, Mexico, midnight movie, religion, surreal

February 2nd, 2013: Groundhog Day

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Leave a comment Posted in Black Comedy, Comedy, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Romance, Slapstick Tagged Andie MacDowell, Bill Murray, Brian Doyle-Murray, Chris Elliot, Columbia Pictures, Groundhog Day, Harold Ramis, it's not over, National Film Registry, Rick Overton, Stephen Tobolowsky

January 21st, 2013: Hugo (2011)

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Leave a comment Posted in 3D, Adaptation, Based on a Book, Coming of Age, Computer Animation, Drama, Event Film, Family, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Period Film Tagged Asa Butterfield, automaton, Ben Kingsley, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Original Score Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Visual Effects, Brian Selznick, Chloe Grace Moretz, Christopher Lee, clockwork, dad bomb, Emily Mortimer, father-son relationship, film history, fire, George Melies, godfather, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, magician, Martin Scorces, orphan, Paramount Pictures, Paris, Ray Winstone, Sacha Baron Cohen, train station, uncle

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