Posts Tagged ‘spell’

Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: Japan
Actors: Chieko Baisho | Takuya Kimura | Akihiro Miwa | Tatsuya Gashuin | Ryûnosuke Kamiki | Mitsunori Isaki | Yo Oizumi | Akio Ôtsuka | Daijiro Harada | Haruko Kato | Jean Simmons | Christian Bale | Lauren Bacall | Blythe Danner | Emily Mortimer
Directors: Hayao Miyazaki
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Young Sophie Hatter is cursed by the Witch of the Waste, and turns into an old hag. Ashamed of how she looks, she flees into the hills where a moving castle roams the hills. It is said to belong to the young and handsome wizard Howl, who has a bad reputation. Within the castle, Sophie befriends the fire demon Calcifer, who promises to help her become young again. One catch: she must help Calcifer to be free of Howl, and Calcifer cannot tell her how. However, Sophie agrees to stay and try to find out about the contract through other ways. Still, Howl can see that Sophie is under a spell like Calcifer can, and he falls in love with her for who she is and not for what she looks like. Sophie manages to bring life to the moving castle, and she helps Howl to face his former tutor, Madam Suliman.

Excalibur (1981)

Sunday, May 17th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Nigel Terry | Helen Mirren | Nicholas Clay | Cherie Lunghi | Paul Geoffrey | Nicol Williamson | Robert Addie | Gabriel Byrne | Keith Buckley | Katrine Boorman | Liam Neeson | Corin Redgrave | Niall O'Brien | Patrick Stewart | Clive Swift
Directors: John Boorman
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As the title would suggest, it follows the travels of the legendary sword Excalibur through Arthurian myth, from the violent, powerful hands of Uther Pendragon, to a long-years’ rest in the stone to being redrawn by Uther’s son Arthur, who uses it to defeat the evil invaders and establish the great court of Camelot and the great Knights of the Round Table. It is there in Arthur’s glory years and in his decline, brought on by the love affair between his wife Guenevere and best friend and best knight Sir Lancelot, the Holy Grail Quest which produces many casualties among the knights, and the arrival of Mordred, the son Arthur had by his evil half-sister, the sorceress Morgana. Through it all, the magician Merlin watches over everything, always ready to throw in a Charm of Making when it’s called for.

Bell Book and Candle (1958)

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: James Stewart | Kim Novak | Jack Lemmon | Ernie Kovacs | Hermione Gingold | Elsa Lanchester | Janice Rule | Philippe Clay | Bek Nelson | Howard McNear | The Brothers Candoli | Monty Ash | Joe Barry | Wolfe Barzell | William Bloom
Directors: Richard Quine
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Gillian Holroyd is just your average, modern-day, witch, living in a New York apartment with her Siamese familiar, Pyewacket. But one day a handsome publisher, Shep Henderson walks into her building and Gillian decides she wants him—especially as it turns out he’s marrying Merle Kittridge, an old poison penpal from Gillian’s college days. So, Gillian casts a spell over Shep. But her powers are in danger of being exorcised by something stronger than the bell-book-and-candle routine: Love.

Ella Enchanted (2004)

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: Ireland | UK | USA
Actors: Anne Hathaway | Hugh Dancy | Cary Elwes | Aidan McArdle | Joanna Lumley | Lucy Punch | Jennifer Higham | Minnie Driver | Eric Idle | Steve Coogan | Jimi Mistry | Vivica A. Fox | Parminder Nagra | Jim Carter | Patrick Bergin
Directors: Tommy O'Haver
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Ella (Anne Hathaway) has been cursed by her dimented fairy godmother with the gift of obedience. On the quest to find her godmother again to make her take back the “gift”, Ella meets, and reluctantly falls in love with the Prince (Hugh Dancy) of Frell.

Freaky Friday (2003)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis | Lindsay Lohan | Mark Harmon | Harold Gould | Chad Michael Murray | Stephen Tobolowsky | Christina Vidal | Ryan Malgarini | Haley Hudson | Rosalind Chao | Lucille Soong | Willie Garson | Dina Spybey | Julie Gonzalo | Christina Marie Walter
Directors: Mark S. Waters | Mark Waters
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The wide generation gap between Tess Coleman (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her teenage daughter Anna (Lindsay Lohan) is more than evident. They simply cannot understand each other’s preferences. On a Thursday night they have a big argument in a Chinese restaurant. Both receive a fortune cookie each from the restaurant owner’s mother which causes them to switch bodies next day. As they adjust with their new personalities, they begin to understand each other more and eventually it’s the mutual self-respect that sorts the things out.

Shrek (2001)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Mike Myers | Eddie Murphy | Cameron Diaz | John Lithgow | Vincent Cassel | Peter Dennis | Clive Pearse | Jim Cummings | Bobby Block | Chris Miller | Cody Cameron | Kathleen Freeman | Michael Galasso | Christopher Knights | Simon J. Smith
Directors: Andrew Adamson | Vicky Jenson
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Shrek is a big ogre who lives alone in the woods, feared from all the people in the land of Duloc. When Lord Farquaad, the ruler of Duloc, exiles all the fairy-tale beings in the woods, Shrek looses his peaceful life and his home becomes a refugees camp. So, he sets to find Lord Farquaad and convince him to take the fairy-tale beings back where they belong, and leave him alone. Lord Farquaad accepts, under one condition. Shrek must first go and find the beautiful young princess Fiona, who will become Farquaad’s bride. So, the big Ogre begins his quest, along with his newfound donkey friend…

Sleepy Hollow (1999)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Johnny Depp | Christina Ricci | Miranda Richardson | Michael Gambon | Casper Van Dien | Jeffrey Jones | Christopher Lee | Richard Griffiths | Ian McDiarmid | Michael Gough | Marc Pickering | Lisa Marie | Steven Waddington | Christopher Walken | Claire Skinner
Directors: Tim Burton
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The classic story of “The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow” is brought to life by the gothic film maker Tim Burton. Johnny Depp plays Ichabod Crane, and to win the heart of Katrina Van Tassel (Christina Ricci) he will have to brave the nearby woods, even though several decapitated bodies have been found. And then the legend of the axe wielding headless horsemen come together to make this movie.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: John Cleese | Alan Rickman | Rupert Grint | Emma Watson | Daniel Radcliffe | Maggie Smith | Robbie Coltrane | Saunders Triplets | Richard Harris | Fiona Shaw | Harry Melling | Richard Griffiths | Derek Deadman | Ian Hart | Ben Borowiecki | Warwick Davis | Verne Troyer | John Hurt | Richard Bremmer
Directors: Chris Columbus
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is the first film in the Harry Potter series based off the novels by J.K. Rowling. It is the tale of Harry Potter, an ordinary 11-year-old boy serving as a sort of slave for his aunt and uncle who learns that he is actually a wizard and has been invited to attend the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is snatched away from his mundane existence by Hagrid, the grounds keeper for Hogwarts, and quickly thrown into a world completely foreign to both him and the viewer. Famous for an incident that happened at his birth, Harry makes friends easily at his new school. He soon finds, however, that the wizarding world is far more dangerous for him than he would have imagined, and he quickly learns that not all wizards are ones to be trusted.

Bad Girls from Valley High (2005)

Sunday, October 12th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Julie Benz | Monica Keena | Nicole Bilderback | Chris D'Elia | Aaron Paul | Suzanna Urszuly | Jonathan Brandis | Janet Leigh | Christopher Lloyd | Terrance Morris | Tanja Reichert | Jennifer Carmichael | Patricia Idlette | Frederick Pleasure II | Bobby Jo Moore
Directors: John T. Kretchmer
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Danielle (Julie Benz) is the leader of a clique of arrogant, mean high school girls; she and her rich friends Tiffany (Nicole Bilderback) and Brooke (Monica Keena) care only about their pampered selves (although Brooke has periodic misgivings). No one really hangs out with them except a dumb jock named Gavin, and the class nerd Jonathan, and poor Danielle is getting nowhere with the popular guy Drew (Jonathon Brandis), even after she and friends accidentally killed his last girlfriend. It’s been a year, and Drew still ignores her - but he doesn’t ignore the new foreign exchange student Katarina (Suzanna Urszuly). Since Katarina can’t take a hint, Danielle begins plotting her downfall. But there’s a slight problem: Danielle and her friends begin experiencing a level of high weirdness in which all three of them rapidly age. This serves to make Danielle more desperate than ever. She’ll sacrifice anything, even Drew, to get her youth and looks back.

The Craft (1996)

Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Skeet Ulrich | Breckin Meyer | Nathaniel Marston | Cliff De Young | Arthur Senzy | Endre Hules | Mark Conlon | William Newman | Rod Britt | Brogan Roche | Tony Genaro | Jason Filardi | John Kapelos | Darin Mangan
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Sarah Bailey, a sixteen year old troubled teenager with a painful past and a history of suicidal tendencies and hallucinations, moves to L.A. with her father and stepmother to start a new life - and is enrolled into a Catholic school. It is at school that she comes into contact with three unlikely friends, Nancy, Bonnie and Rochelle, all who are socially outcast with various problems in their lives that they wish they could fix. Nancy, Bonnie and Rochelle dabble in occult practices, and when they notice Sarah has the powers of a natural witch, they talk her into joining their coven. When Sarah joins, they soon realize that with a fourth witch in the coven they can begin to cast spells they couldn’t before, and begin to amend all the things wrong in their lives - but like everything else in life - things come with a price.