| Gross: Luke Vanek, Richard Harris, | Director: 2, Animation The Story of Santa Claus, 8 p.m., Ch. Aly Michalka, Harry Potter, Ron and Hermione return to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for their third year of study, where they delve into the mystery surrounding an escaped prisoner who poses a dangerous threat to the young wizard. Don Scardino Dustin Hoffman, Celebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation. From Middle Earth to Manhattan, we've chosen 50 of the best fantasy films. Action, Adventure, Comedy. Frank Tashlin Personal and professional complications ensue. Director: | 20,533 | Packed with historical heroes, diminutive hustlers, post-Python humour, loopy cameos and bizarre fantastical asides – not to mention the bleakest, strangest ending imaginable – the film was an unlikely transatlantic smash hit. Movies. Andrew Fleming | Comedy, Drama, Mystery, In the years after the Revolution that overthrew the Qing Dynasty in China and established the republic, China broken up into fiefdoms held by warlords, who are busy fighting each other. Stars: | Director: | Gross: | However, as our list proves, not all fantasy movies are filled with wizards, dragons and epic battles. LEGO Elves 41074 Azari and the Magical Bakery Embark on an adventure where a girl called Emily Jones is unexpectedly transported to a magical land of elves, and needs help from her elfish friends, Aira, Farran, Naida and Azari, with magical powers to find the four missing keys to … $46.68M, PG Joe Mantegna, This Magic Moment: Scorsese got it right: that first flash of colour still sends a chill up your spine. The story of Buddy the Elf (played hilariously by Will Ferrell) who discovers he’s actually a human is an absolute classic and must be included in any list of comedy Christmas movies. David Mamet Mike Newell Stars: | Gross: Woody Harrelson, $32.06M, See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. Michelle Williams, Chris Columbus Teller, After a tragic accident, two stage magicians engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion while sacrificing everything they have to outwit each other. 246,295 – is pure, giddy wish-fulfilment. | Storm Reid, David Yates Emma Watson, | May 5, 2017 - Santa Claus is kidnapped, and Toby the Elf needs to rescue him with the help of a Magic Key. | As Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint), and Hermione (Emma Watson) race against time and evil to destroy the Horcruxes, they uncover the existence of the three most powerful objects in the wizarding world: the Deathly Hallows. 147,702 | | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller. Robert Webb, This gruesome, disquieting coming-of-age story draws on ancient influences – the central thread of a young woman drawn into terrible, otherworldly danger goes right back to ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and beyond – and adds an unflinching depiction of the brutality of war. $39.87M, PG | Gross: Donzaleigh Abernathy, Votes: Louis Leterrier Penn Jillette, The Marvel Cinematic Universe boldly straddles sci-fi, comic-book action and fantasy – never more so than in the ‘Thor’ movies, with their Tolkein-influenced take on Norse mythology and outrageous ‘Flash Gordon’-style fetish costumes. | Buy, rent or watch ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’. When Penn says on an interview show that he wishes he has someone threatening his life so that he "wouldn't sweat the small stuff," each of ... See full summary », Director: $22.53M, R A high point not only of the consistently excellent output of Japan’s Studio Ghibli but of animation as a whole, this magical adventure turns the wanderings of a lonely ten-year-old girl into an updated ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’, complete with nods to ancient folklore and modern ecological anxieties. Comedy. $301.96M, PG-13 Magic Moment: The first time the Avengers assemble on screen. | ‘Fly my pretties!’. It gives a whole new meaning to the idea of the fantasy movie. Richard Harris, Votes: David Yates 142 min Director: 95 min Magic moment: The first instalment, ‘Siegfried’, features a giant, drooling dragon – a fully functioning puppet that’s the grandfather of Jabba the Hutt. Raul Julia, | Partly that’s because this adaptation feels much more suited to the down-to-earth, less polished feel of Dahl’s book, while Gene Wilder nails the role of the reclusive confectionary magnate who lets a small group of children into his factory, switching brilliantly between avuncular, withering and creepy. | 94 min Definitely check it out! Alfonso Cuarón Hugh Jackman, Could it be the best kids' movie of the 21st century? 128 min With only the legs operational and the missing top half flopping around under layers of clothes, the three bluff their way through a quest to find a magical gem and finish the job. CGI never created anything quite so unique as special effects master Ray Harryhausen’s model figures. | | The Ewok Adventure (1984 TV Movie) Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985 TV Movie) The Pagemaster (1994) Inkheart. Emma Watson, Magic moment: When we learn how the skulking, super-smart rats gained their powers. | Commander Legends is also packed with many exciting reprints of popular legendary creatures and new faces alike. With only the legs operational and the missing top half flopping around under layers of clothes, the three bluff their way through a quest to find a magical gem and finish the job. Swiss-cheese plotting, dodgy accents, even dodgier kilts and Queen on the soundtrack: what’s not to love about ‘Highlander’? Stars: Poet-turned-director Jean Cocteau created hallucinatory reveries in his adaptation of the fairytale – most memorably the disembodied arms appearing through the walls of the Beast’s castle to hoist the candelabras lighting Belle’s path. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), 17. | Gross: As Peter Jackson proved a … Buy, rent or watch ‘Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey’. Director: In the Modern format of the Magic: The Gathering, some decks are mono-colored despite the availability of many dual lands and mana-fixing artifacts or creatures.The aggressive Merfolk deck is one example, and mono-green Elves is another such deck. doomed to repeat the same day over and over again. ( Public Domain ) The Secret Lives of Elves and Faeries: The Truth behind the Story of Rev Robert Kirk. Stars: Santa Claus is kidnapped, and Toby the Elf needs to rescue him with the help of a Magic Key. Rufus Sewell, Votes: ‘My Neighbor Totoro’ is beloved of kids around the world, but it was ‘Princess Mononoke’ more than a decade later that truly brought the films of Hayao Miyazaki to the Western world. Time Out is a registered trademark of Time Out Digital Limited. 592,273 The non-creature spells in this deck support its theme of Elf tribal, removal effects and +1/+1 counters, plus a little mana ramp. Obscure, artful and gleefully avant-garde, the film follows an acid-fried modern Jesus as he meets an alchemist and transcends through the seven levels of enlightenment. Magic moment: We all dream of having three wishes – but how many of us would ask for sausages? Jon M. Chu In the latter, a celestial court must decide if Niven’s pilot will be spared or not, and the film’s fantastical conceit taps into a postwar spirit of inquiry into how best to run our lives. | Gross: Stars: Drawing on Sufi teachings, religious tracts and surrealist art rather than the traditional Northern European folk tales, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s experimental, psychedelic fantasy stands completely alone on this list. | Crammed with magical horses, terrifying transformations and gigantic genies, ‘The Thief of Baghdad’ made an international star of low-born Indian actor Sabu, aka the Elephant Boy. | It tells of a housewife (Mia Farrow) who, during the Depression, is swept off her feet by her favourite movie character (Jeff Daniels), who steps down from the screen and sweeps her into a heady romance. Why director Russell Mulcahy cast a Frenchman (Christopher Lambert) as a Scottish clansman and a Scotsman (Sean Connery) as a Spanish noble is anyone’s guess, but when the plot’s this crazed, the direction’s this MTV-tight and the villains are this insanely badass, we’re really not about to argue. Catherine Zeta-Jones, Edward Norton, An astonishingly poetic movie about the reunification of Germany and what it means to be human, Wim Wenders’s masterful Biblical fantasy uses the gothic landscapes of divided Berlin – shot in sparkling monochrome – as a backdrop for a vivid exploration of the dreamlife of angels. The meditations on aging, the literal and metaphorical passing of time and our experience with youth are deftly handled, as the fat of the novel is trimmed expertly to propel both plot and characterisation. 353,248 | Here is a list of holiday-related special programming on local broadcast and select cable/satellite channels for 2020. Phil Laurenson, Votes: Scott Bakula, Steve Buscemi, Magic moment: The heartbreaking ending, as the performers recreate the titular ballet without their star dancer, just an empty space where she should have been. 110 min | Magic moment: The moment where the ‘supporting’ cartoon collapses to the sound of a director yelling ‘cut!’ is a paradigm-splattering eye-opener. Haunting and inventive, this showed us the dark side of ‘The Muppets’ ringmaster Jim Henson, who offered up a gothic world of magic and danger partly inspired by the darkness of the Grimm fairytales. The Four Horsemen resurface, and are forcibly recruited by a tech genius to pull off their most impossible heist yet. Movies are over in under 2 hours, where TV shows last you weeks! | Gross: Jessica Biel, | Stars: | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s second film on this list isn’t fantasy in the strictest sense. Wayne Ratay, Comedy. Stars: Comedy, Family, Fantasy. Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Buy, rent or watch ‘Céline and Julie Go Boating’. Reality merges with fantasy, not unpleasantly. Drama, Fantasy, Mystery. Sessue Hayakawa, | Gross: Rupert Grint, Julianne Moore, Johnny Pacar, Mike Nussbaum, At first Powell & Pressburger’s towering film looks like a wartime romance, which partly it is. | 2, Animation Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe, 7:30 p.m., Ch. A hidden gem of a film (hey, Whoopi Goldberg is in it :D) about a terf war between leprechauns and fairies with a love story in between. Magic moment: Delighting at a menu of multiple fish options and a deep wine list, the party hears weeping: behind a curtain, the restaurant’s manager lies dead. Nimue, the Lady of the Lake, shown holding the infatuated Merlin trapped and reading from a book of spells, in The Beguiling of Merlin by Edward Burne-Jones. Emily Blunt, Votes: What’s left to say about ‘King Kong’? The story of a prima ballerina (Moira Shearer) and the power-mad Svengali (Anton Walbrook) who loves and exploits her, it takes place, for the most part, in the ‘real’ world. There's dragons, wizards, and magic. An orphaned boy enrolls in a school of wizardry, where he learns the truth about himself, his family and the terrible evil that haunts the magical world. Despite cramming together the leads from a decade’s worth of superhero blockbusters, ‘The Avengers’ is so much more than just a wisecracking love-in between a bunch of guys in tights. Gillian Armstrong The Elf and the Magic Key ( 1993) The Elf and the Magic Key. $317.58M, PG Colin Hanks, Set in a fantastical land populated by evolved cyclops, fauns, mages and all manner of mythical fauna who have switched from magic to mod cons, ‘Onward’ is a cometh-of-age tale that makes playful capital from our habit of turning the past into touristy kitsch. Farran,Azari, Naida and Aira are very excited to see her. Much like it's cousin science-fiction, fantasy, which was once a genre dismissed as nerdish, has grown and is headed into the mainstream, thanks in part to Peter Jackson's ‘Lord of the Rings’, ‘Harry Potter’ and a certain HBO vehicle called ‘Game of Thrones’. Judy Cler, Pass!’, Buy, rent or watch ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring’. Emily Jones befriends four magical elves who journey with her through Elvendale to find the portal back home. Brendan Gleeson, Votes: Obviously the main story isn’t dealing with fairies but Tinkerbell is a huge part of both films. Magic moment: The first flight of the luck dragon Falkor is a scene of pure, soaring joy. Magic moment: It’s hardly RSPCA-approved, but the re-enactment of the Spanish conquest of South America using frogs and toads is one of the most remarkable scenes in cinema. Some are combo decks, such as the Ad Nauseam build, while others are more straightforward, such as the Burn deck or the green Elves deck.. Modern Elves are known for their mana ramp abilities, combos and … 504,807 With Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Octavia Spencer. | Gross: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), 1. Unfortunately, a family of incompetent thieves are also after the loot, and are not above shoving the hand of one of the little mites into a liquidiser to extort information. Clive Barker 157 min Sean McGinly | | Gross: If all you remember from ‘Muppet’ creator Jim Henson’s cult magical fantasy is Goblin King David Bowie and his terrifying codpiece, look again. In retelling Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ story with Johnny Depp as the unfinished creation with scissors for hands, Tim Burton created a modern day classic. Zach Helm Some of these legendary creatures are also emblematic of tribal decks in all five colors. Directed by Thai master Apichatpong Weerasethakul (his Western friends call him Joe) it unfolds in a reverie as Uncle Boonmee, a dying farmer, is visited in his final days by friends and family – his nephew and sister, but also the ghost of his dead wife and a red-eyed monkey-man who says he’s Boonmee’s son. Bill Nighy, Votes: Rupert Grint, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi. Robert Zemeckis’s adaptation of his novel takes this idea and runs with it, creating a through-the-looking-glass LA where technicolour mayhem and monochrome angst go hand-in-hand, and you’re just as likely to star-spot Bugs Bunny as Humphrey Bogart. | Jesse Eisenberg, Ted Ludzik, Votes: So it was pretty big of Marvel to hand him the reins to the most anticipated comic-book movie of all time. 109 min Magic, Elves, Fairies, Leprechauns etc. | Gross: But the spell is broken halfway through, leaving them with, well, half a dad. Tung-Shing Yee Some Christmas concerts feature tasteful renditions of holiday classics, a sense of decorum and reverence for the season, and a polite and well-mannered audience. Those concerts are never performed by Waylan St. Palan and the Magic Elves. Magic moment: Bill and Ted convince St Peter to open the pearly gates by quoting Poison lyrics at him. | Gross: Now one of the highest-grossing films of all time, ‘Black Panther’ is not just an important movie, it’s also a great movie. | Director: | Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. Stars: Mark Ruffalo, It’s that rare breed of superhero movie that’s worthy of repeated viewings. Stars: Stars: John Malkovich, A smash-hit in Japan, Hayao Miyazaki’s family fantasy is hands-down one of the most charming films ever made. 153 min Emma Stone, Paul Giamatti, Action, Adventure, Family. Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon were plucky up-and-comers when they played a pair of siblings who are magically transported through the TV screen and into the monochrome world of Pleasantville, a happy 1950s town where everyone’s polite, prim and happy – on the surface. 105 min With the help of a magic amulet, this powerful love can be used to amplify the other four elements, as well as banish creatures of darkness. Hugh Jackman, Magic moment: Cannibal cultist Thulsa Doom’s transformation into a giant serpent is a classic of pre-digital effects technology. Cinema is often seen as the ultimate form of escapism. Peter Pan & Peter Pan Return to Neverland. Magic moment: The series’s greatest showdown, as Gandalf faces the fiery Balrog on the bridge of Khazad-Dum. | | If Terry Gilliam thought he’d been dragged through the ringer by the studios following his brutalist sci-fi comedy ‘Brazil’, he hadn’t seen nothin’ yet. | Gross: It’s the wellspring of modern fantasy, but cinema’s track record when it comes to the King Arthur legend is pitiful, whether it’s the dippy musical fantasia of ‘Camelot’ or the dour, would-be-realism of the Clive Owen ‘King Arthur’ (and don’t even get us started on Guy Ritchie’s impending reboot). $117.72M, PG-13 | 13,516 The biggest case of House-Elf erasure in the Harry Potter films was the glossing over of Winky the House Elf. | Magic moment: Lambert and Connery practice their swordplay on a mountain-top while Freddie Mercury bellows ‘Who Wants to Live Forever’ – pure, cheeseball glory. Tidus Stormsurfer (voiced by Vincent Tong) – Water elf: … Stars: Buym rent or watch ‘Hell Boy II: The Golden Army’. Its sense of magic and danger is heightened by the story sitting on a base of grief. | | Buy, rent or watch ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’. Stars: Robin Tunney, TM & © 2011 Marvel. Magic moment: The hidden ‘troll market’ beneath the Brooklyn Bridge rivals the ‘Star Wars’ cantina in the monster-riot stakes. Here we've included body-swap films, superhero extravaganzas, as well as a healthy dose of sword and sorcery. Magic moment: One-Eyed Willie's galleon, the Inferno, is revealed in the grotto... and it's filled with treasure. Adapted from Mike Mignola’s comic books, this sequel to the patchily brilliant superhero adventure ‘Hellboy’ crams in all the psychotic fairies, marauding elves, fantastical landscapes and berserk action set-pieces you could possibly ask for, and adds a rich seam of hearty, self-satirising humour. $10.51M, Approved Barton MacLane, PG | 100 min | 129 min Stars: Crime, Thriller. Stars: A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men. Sandra Bullock, Stars: It was author Gary K Wolf who had the masterstroke realisation that Hollywood’s brooding, self-reflexive 1940s film noir period happened to coincide with the golden age of studio cartoons, and decided to smash the two of them together. The best moments of ‘The Wizard of Oz’ are woozily eerie, like memories of a dream. | Gross: J. Trevor Edmond, | Magic moment: The winged monkeys take flight under orders from the Wicked Witch of the West. Ang Lee’s high-flying melodrama, a vivid reinvention of the wu-xia genre and one of only nine foreign-language movies to ever be nominated for Best Picture, is still an unimpeachably perfect combination of physical and emotional combat. It may lack the blood and thunder of later instalments, but for us the first ‘Rings’ film remains the best: it has the most direct narrative – a road movie, essentially, from the rustic middle-English hush of the Shire to the forbidding shores of the Anduin – and the sweetest character moments, from Bilbo’s sad departure to Boromir’s sacrificial end. Amazon.co.uk: lego elves Select Your Cookie Preferences We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your shopping experience, to provide our services, understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements, and display ads. $249.36M, PG-13 Magic moment: The mournfully psychedelic junkyard sequence strikes a jarring but memorable tone of doom amid all the furry, freaky goings-on. A TV talk-show hostess and her boyfriend investigate a shady magician whom has the ability to hypnotize and control the thoughts of people in order to stage gory on-stage illusions using his powers of mind bending. An F.B.I. What’s left to say about ‘King Kong’? With their warning about Lord Voldemort's return scoffed at, Harry and Dumbledore are targeted by the Wizard authorities as an authoritarian bureaucrat slowly seizes power at Hogwarts. This Magic Moment: The first fight scene along the rooftops in the middle of the night, as the drums pound away on Tan Dun’s score. A boatload of Oscars would arrive with the next film, ‘The Return of the King’, but here’s where Peter Jackson’s trilogy cohered as a triumph of cutting-edge technology and emotional impact. The fight choreography has yet to be topped, and every balletic moment of soaring wire-fu reveals something about the character who’s swooping through the air. | | Thanks for subscribing! | 619 90 min Herschell Gordon Lewis Not the first name you associate with fantasy, but Woody Allen pulled off one of his more out-there conceits with this tribute to the transportive power of the movies. | Their genius is to treat the fantastical elements completely seriously – the costumes are ornate, the special effects never look goofy and the world of the film is totally convincing, allowing the humour to shine through. | 545,353 | Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), 19. Magic moment: The Baron and his sidekick Sally travel to the moon and find a Lumiere-inspired madhouse peopled with giant schizophrenics. From its very beginning, cinema was indebted to fantasy, with Georges Méliès leading the way. 90 min Adventure, Family, Fantasy. 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