Category: Fantasy

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Midnight in Paris (2011)

Owen Wilson stars as a Hollywood hack screenwriter named Gil, traveling to his favorite city, Paris, with his fiancée Inez (McAdams) and her parents, John (Fuller) and Helen (Kennedy).  Paris brings out the romanticized notions of...

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Thor (2011)

Hard to call it a superhero film when it is about a Norse god, but given its comic book pedigree, that it’s a Stan Lee and Jack Kirby creation, and Thor’s future inclusion in...

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Sucker Punch (2011)

Many questions emerge shortly after walking out of a viewing of Sucker Punch.  Perhaps the first and foremost one is, “What the *bleep* was that all about?”  There may be a few more thoughts that...

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Weird Science (1985)

In April of 1984, on the strength of his yet-to-be-released debut feature as director, Sixteen Candles, and his scripts for The Breakfast Club and Weird Science, the prolific John Hughes entered into a $30...

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Alice in Wonderland (2010)

Director Tim Burton teams up with Disney scribe Linda Woolverton in a visual tour-de-force telling of the classic story, which combines elements of the two Lewis Carroll allegories, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and its...

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Avatar (2009)

The year is 2154.  A powerful Earth corporation discovers and determines to mine a rare and exceedingly valuable metal on a habitable moon called Pandora in a distant planetary system.  The only obstacle in...

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The Mummy (1999)

A barely recognizable remake of the 1932 Boris Karloff classic, 1999’s The Mummy tells the tale of the Ancient Egyptian high priest, Imhotep (Vosloo, Agent Cody Banks), who made the fatal error of engaging in an affair...

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Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Johnny Depp (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Arizona Dream) stars as Edward, a synthetic representation of a young man created by a bizarre inventor who died shortly before his transformation from mechanical construct to organic...