Category: Fantasy

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2000s / Action / Comedy / Fantasy / Horror / Superhero

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)

With Hellboy II: The Golden Army, writer-director Guillermo del Toro (Blade II, Mimic) continues his tradition of making visually magnificent spectacles that succeed not just through gorgeous eye candy, but by giving his characters the room to...

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1990s / Adventure / Fantasy

Jumanji (1995)

Based on Chris Van Allsburg’s 1981 children’s book of the same name, Jumanji, the film, fleshes out the short book to include a story about Alan Parrish (Hann-Byrd, Little Man Tate), who, as a young boy...

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1990s / Comedy / Fantasy

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

Though set in the late 1950s, this comic fantasy concoction by the Coen Brothers (Barton Fink, Blood Simple), as well as co-screenwriter Sam Raimi (Darkman, Spider-Man 3), owes much more to the screwball comedies of the...

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2000s / Comedy / Fantasy

Fred Claus (2007)

The proverbial lumps of coal (boy, isn’t this phrase becoming a trite cliché for movie critics?) called the family Christmas movie get trotted out toward the end of almost every year. For every good...

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1990s / Action / Fantasy / Superhero / Thriller

The Shadow (1994)

Walter B. Gibson’s famous long-dormant character of the 1930s gets a 1990s update, primarily fitting in the mold of other crime-fighting superhero efforts like Batman and Darkman, both characters whose artistic origins are influenced by the original...

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2000s / Adventure / Fantasy

Stardust (2007)

Set 150 years ago, Tristan is a young man in the small English town of Wall who aims to win the hand of the local beauty (Miller) in exchange for a star that has fallen...

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1990s / Action / Comedy / Fantasy / Romance

Heart Condition (1990)

Bob Hoskins plays bigoted cop Jack Moony, who spends much of his time becoming irate, eating the worst foods, chain-smoking, and swilling in booze.  It eventually leads to a stroke.  Moony is lucky enough...

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1990s / Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy

Super Mario Bros. (1993)

Since debuting in the video game “Donkey Kong” in 1981, Mario had become a celebrity, emblazoned on lunch boxes, pajamas, underwear, bedsheets, and starring in a couple of kids’ TV shows. Polls proclaimed Mario...

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1980s / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy

The Golden Child (1986)

The Golden Child is said to have been originally conceived of as a more serious adventure, intended to star Mel Gibson, but those plans fell through.  When Eddie Murphy (Beverly Hills Cop, Trading Places) became available,...