A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935)

Hermia (Olivia de Havilland) loves Lysander (Dick Powell), but is required by her father to marry Demetrius (Ross Alexander), who had recently had an affair with Helena (Jean Muir). The Duke (Ian Hunter), who is preparing to wed the queen of the Amazons, sides with the father and the four youths escape into the wood.

Wicked City (1992)

Wicked City (1992)

Lung and the half breed Ying are members of the Hong Kong squad tasked with fighting the monsters that live amongst us, masquerading as humans, unnoticed by the average population. Yeun (Tatsuya Nakadai) is a powerful monster that thinks it is time for humans and monsters to live in peace, but few others agree and

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)

Henry Turner (Brenton Thwaites) wants to save his father Will (Orlando Bloom in a cameo) from his curse of being the captain of The Flying Dutchman. To do this he needs the aid of Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) to find the Trident of Poseidon. Carina Smyth (Kaya Scodelario), who is always being accused of

A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

Schoolgirl Meg (Storm Reid) has the type of close relationship with her physicist father (Chris Pine) that can only be filmed in weird angles with unnecessary close-ups and lots of gibberish dialog. He claims to be able to teleport around the universe and vanishes after adopting the off-putting Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe). For the next

Jonah Hex (2010)

Jonah Hex (2010)

In the old west that never was, Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin) was disfigured and his family murdered by General Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich). The events gave Hex the power to speak to the dead. Years later, Turnbull has returned with a plan to destroy the U.S. government, and President Grant wants Hex to stop him.

The Lure {Córki dancingu} (2015)

The Lure {Córki dancingu} (2015)

Silver (Marta Mazurek) and Golden (Michalina Olszanska), a pair of mermaids, seduce the members of a band to introduce them to human culture. Getting legs when they are dry helps them move around. With their stunning singing voices and their reappearing tails when they get wet, the two win over crowds as part of a

November (2017)

November (2017)

In a bleak Estonian village, the peasants survive with the help of witchcraft and folk magic, which is as much a part of everyday life as the tree bark they eat. The most notable magic takes the form of “kratts,” automatons made from wood, bone, straw, farm implements, and eventually even snow, and animated by

Moana (2016)

Moana (2016)

Moana (Auli’i Cravalho), yet another Disney self-doubting teen needing to become who she really is, is chosen by the sea to find the demigod Maui (Dwayne Johnson) who long ago stole the heart of a goddess and cursed the world. Together they must return the heart, but first they have to whine a lot and

An Inspector Calls (1954)

An Inspector Calls (1954)

In 1912, An upper-class family’s engagement celebration is interrupted by the arrival of an unusual police inspector (Alastair Sim). A girl has just died, probably by suicide, and she is connected to the family. The inspector’s probing questions reveal secrets, prejudices, and misdeeds. An Inspector Calls is a classic British drawing room mystery play with

The Ten Commandments (1956)

The Ten Commandments (1956)

Moses (Charlton Heston), an all-American boy, grows up to be prince of Egypt and fight for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That is, until he finds out he’s a Hebrew, which makes him give up everything, including easy ways of freeing his new found people, and throw himself in the mud. Talk about

Assassin's Creed (2016)

Assassin’s Creed (2016)

Murderer Cal Lynch (Michael Fassbender) is taken by a secret organization of Templars to their lab run by Rikkin (Jeremy Irons). There, Rikkin’s daughter Sofia will use scientific hocus pocus to regress Lynch to his past life as the Assassin Aguilar (still Michael Fassbender). Sofia hopes to find the Apple of Eden, a MacGuffin that

Alias Nick Beal (1949)

Alias Nick Beal (1949)

Overly pure politician Joseph Foster (Thomas Mitchell) says out loud that he’d sell his soul to convict a mob boss. Nick Beal (Ray Milland) appears at that moment with the needed information. Foster begins to fall under Beal’s influence. Beal brings drunken actress Donna Allen (Audrey Totter) in to romance Foster, and gangster Frankie Faulkner