Subgenre Sampler
Fantasy: 813 Films to Buy & Rent
X-Men: First Class (2011)
- Dir. Matthew Vaughn
Feat. James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence…
- The X–MEN juggernaut rolls on, benefiting from a spring clean of the principal cast, in this hugely entertaining origin movie set against the…
Your Highness (2011)
- Dir. David Gordon Green
Feat. Danny McBride, Natalie Portman, James Franco…
- Deeply irreverent fantasy romp clearly conceived in a cloud of pot smoke has Franco and McBride desperate to rescue Deschanel from an evil wizard…
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carter…
- Dir. Tim Burton goes down the rabbit hole in this feverish retelling of Lewis Carroll's classic tale told with his customary visual brio.
Bonham…
Arrietty (The Secret World of Arrietty) (2010)
- Dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Feat. Mirai Shida, Ryunosuke Kamiki
- Studio Ghibli's latest animated triumph respectfully borrows from the classic English children's tale of 'The Borrowers', about a family of tiny…
Black Heaven (L'autre monde) (2010)
- Dir. Gilles Marchand
Feat. Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Louise Bourgoin, Melvil Poupaud
- An innocent young man becomes entangled with a suicidal beauty and is lured into a "Black Hole" – an eerie cyberworld of avatars with deadly…
Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)
- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. Ben Barnes, Tilda Swinton, Liam Neeson…
- Rollicking third installment has the children returning to Narnia to join Prince Caspian for a voyage on the majestic royal vessel known as The Dawn…
Clash of the Titans (2010)
- Dir. Louis Leterrier
Feat. Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes…
- Beefy, special effects–saturated blockbuster reworks the 1981 fantasy film (and Ray Harryhausen’s beloved stop motion animations), based on…
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
- Dir. David Yates
Feat. Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane…
- Seventh and penultimate film in the H.K. Rowling–penned franchise now finds Harry and pals Ron and Hermione on the lam as Lord Voldemort…
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
- Dir. Dean Deblois, Chris Sanders
Feat. Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson…
- Top–flight animated feature about a hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons but becomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon himself,…
Jonah Hex (2010)
- Dir. Jimmy Hayward
Feat. Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox…
- Josh Brolin revives DC Comics' anti–hero gunslinger in this acidic western, centred on the titular character's rage–fueled quest to…