Bluebeard’s Castle {Herzog Blaubarts Burg} (1963)

Bluebeard’s Castle {Herzog Blaubarts Burg} (1963)

Judith (Ana Raquel Satre) has abandoned her family and fiancé to run off with the powerful and disreputable Bluebeard (Norman Foster) to his imposing castle. Rumors abound of his foul deeds, and he gruffly tries to warn her off, but she insists that she wants him and will stay. As he softens a bit, she

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

Jake (Asa Butterfield) is a bland and unhappy teen, raised listening to the fantastic bedtime stories of his Grandfather (Terence Stamp). When his grandfather dies under mysterious circumstances at the hand of an invisible monster that only Jake can see, he sets off to find the orphanage in the stories. Once there, he meets the

Beauty and the Beast (2017)

Beauty and the Beast (2017)

Belle (Emma Watson) becomes the captive of an enchanted nobleman (Dan Stevens as CGI) who must find someone to love him or remain forever a beast. The magical castle is filled with servants who have been transformed into clocks, candelabra, tea pots and the like (Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Emma Thompson). Oh, come on, you

Death Note (2017)

Death Note (2017)

High school student Light Turner (Nat Wolff) finds the Death Note, a book that allows the holder to kill anyone whose name he writes into it, within a set of rules. The book is watched over by the demonic death god Ryuk (voice: Willem Dafoe). After a couple successful uses, he shows the book to

The BFG (2016)

The BFG (2016)

Sophie (Ruby Barnhill) is a lonely, insomniac orphan. Awake far too late for a little girl, she spies a giant (Mark Rylance) roaming the streets. He, in return, sees her, and kidnaps her so she can’t tell anyone, taking her back to Giantland. Quickly it is revealed that he is a kindly giant who delivers

Doctor Strange (1978)

Doctor Strange (1978)

The barriers between worlds are falling as the current sorcerer supreme (John Mills) comes to the end of his time. He and his associate, Wong (Clyde Kusatsu), must find the new sorcerer, Dr. Strange (Peter Hooten) in three days. In that same amount of time, Morgan LeFay (Jessica Walter) must destroy them to allow a

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)

Four stereotypical teenagers, the nerdy weakling, the smart overly serious girl, the popular girl, and the football player, get detention in stereotypical ways and find the Jumanji video game. The game sucks them into a jungle world where they take the forms of the avatars they had chosen: the powerful guy (Dwayne Johnson), the combat

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

In 1926—in the pre-Harry, Harry Potter world—Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) comes to a terribly quaint New York with his suitcase full of magical creatures. That probably wasn’t a good move on his part as magical creatures are illegal there. An accidental run-in with Kowalski (Dan Fogler) a “no-mag” allows several of his beasts to escape.

Miranda (1948)

Miranda (1948)

Paul Martin (Griffith Jones), a wealthy doctor, leaves his wife Clare (Googie Withers) at home and takes a bachelor holiday to the seaside. There he meets Miranda, a lonely mermaid (Glynis Johns) and agrees to take her to London, disguised as an invalid patient. As she is attractive, enthusiastic, flirtatious, and lacking in the norms

Gabriel Over the White House (1933)

Gabriel Over the White House (1933)

Newly elected President Judson Hammond (Walter Huston) is a typical weak and corrupt politician of the early 1930s. He has no plans to do anything, just like his predecessor, so the depression will continue and crime will run rampant. Working for him is his non-corrupt secretary, Beekman (Franchot Tone) and his mistress, Pendola (Karen Morley).

Justice League Dark (2017)

Justice League Dark (2017)

Ordinary citizens are murdering their neighbors, believing them to be demons. and The Justice League can’t find a cause. Batman (Jason O’Mara) teams up with the esoteric mage and anti-hero John Constantine (Matt Ryan), the magician Zatanna (Camilla Luddington), the ghost Deadman (Nicholas Turturro), and the possessed knight Jason Blood (Ray Chase) to unravel the

Mad About Men (1954)

Mad About Men (1954)

Kindly but repressed school teacher Caroline Trewella (Glynis Johns) takes a trip to Cornwall to see the house she has inherited. It sits on top of a sea cave where a pair of mermaids frolic. The brighter of the two, Miranda (also Glynis Johns) shares a grandfather with Caroline—the two are doubles—and persuades her to