Howl's Moving Castle (2004)

Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

Cursed by the jealous Witch of the Waste (Lauren Bacall), Sophie (Emily Mortimer) is aged to an old crone (Jean Simmons).  With limited options, she travels to the wastes, and is picked up by the giant walking “castle” of the dashing wizard, Howl (Christian Bale), who is said to have no heart.  Accepting her new

Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

In order to prove the gods are on his side in a battle with the usurping King Pelias, Jason (Todd Armstrong, voice: Tim Turner) gathers the finest athletes of Greece and heads out to take the legendary golden fleece.  Aided by the goddess Hera (Honor Blackman), the powerful Hercules (Nigel Green), the ship builder Argos

Kibakichi (2003)

Kibakichi (2003)

Kibakichi (Ryuuji Harada), a yokai (beastman-demon) samurai, stumbles upon a village of yokai who masquerade as humans and feed off yakuza and other criminals who enter their gambling den. The residents have made a deal with some local  humans: if they help the humans take over their clan, they will be given land where they can

King Arthur—Director's Cut (2004)

King Arthur—Director’s Cut (2004)

The half-Roman, half-British Arthur (Clive Owen) leads a band of Eastern knights in defense of Roman interests in Britain. The six surviving knights are Lancelot (Ioan Gruffudd), Tristan (Mads Mikkelsen), Gawain (Joel Edgerton), Galahad (Hugh Dancy), Bors (Ray Winstone), and Dagonet (Ray Stevenson). On the day the knights, who have been forced into service for

Krull (1983)

Krull (1983)

The wedding of Prince Colwyn (Ken Marshall) and Princess Lyssa (Lysette Anthony) is interrupted by slayers, the troops of The Beast, who kidnap Lyssa and take her to The Black Tower.  Colwyn journeys to rescue her, with the aid of a wise man (Freddie Jones), a clownish shape changer (David Battley), a bandit chief (Alun

Kull the Conqueror (1997)

Kull the Conqueror (1997)

Kull (Kevin Sorbo), a barbarian warrior from Atlantis, kills King Borna (Sven-Ole Thorsen) of Acheron and, by Borna’s last words, becomes king. The two surviving heirs team with a sorcerer to usurp the kingdom by resurrecting the powerful demon-witch, Akivasha (Tia Carrere).  Akivasha takes the kingdom for herself while Kull, a priest, and a harem

Minotaur (2006)

Minotaur (2006)

Theo (Tom Hardy), the son of the tribal elder (Rutger Hauer), chooses to be one of the sacrifices required every five years of their village.  He and the other “youths” travel to the capitol where King Deucalion (Tony Todd) casts them into the catacombs to be killed by the half-god minotaur.  But Theo has his

Night Watch {Nochnoy Dozor} (2004)

Night Watch {Nochnoy Dozor} (2004)

In ancient times, a war between the forces of light and darkness ended in a truce. The Night Watch was given authority to keep evil in its place (and the Day Watch polices “good”). Anton (Konstantin Khabensky) is an “other,” a person with supernatural powers. After meeting with a witch in order to harm the fetus of his

Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

Young Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) travels with her fragile and pregnant mother (Ariadna Gil) to the outpost of her new stepfather (Sergi López), a fascist captain entrusted with exterminating the remaining “rebels” hiding in the hills in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War.  Confronted by the cruelty of the world, Ofelia finds temporary refuge in

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007)

Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightly), Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), sorceress Tia Dalma (Naomie Harris), and the resurrected Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) need the aid of a traitorous Far Eastern pirate Sao Feng (Chow Yun-Fat), to retrieve Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) from Davy Jones’s locker. This is imperative because Jack is one of the nine pirate

The Raven (1963)

The Raven (1963)

Erasmus Craven (Vincent Price) is visited by a raven at his window that turns out to be Adolphus Bedlo (Peter Lorre), a magician transformed in a failed duel with sorcerer Scarabus (Boris Karloff).  Informed that his dead wife, Lenore (Hazel Court), has been seen in Scarabus’s castle, Craven, his daughter Estelle (Olive Sturgess), the now-human

The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)

The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)

King Titus Cromwell (Richard Lynch) summons a demonic sorcerer (Richard Moll) to aid him in conquering a neighboring kingdom, then betrays the sorcerer, but fails in his attempt to kill him.  Years later, Prince Mikah (Simon MacCorkindale), the closest thing anyone can find to an heir to the slain king, and his sister Alana (Kathleen