Category Archives: Fantasy

Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)

The film begins with a special onscreen prologue introduced by famed broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow. The prologue includes rare footage of an early science fiction/fantasy film by Georges Méliès, A Trip to the Moon (1902), which is based loosely … Continue reading

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Fred Claus (2007)

The film begins a long time ago in Middle Age Europe with a woman giving birth to a baby. As the baby is born, the midwife comments on how its the fattest baby she’s ever seen. Within a few minutes … Continue reading

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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

The film opens in a California forest as a group of alien botanists collect vegetation samples. U.S. government agents appear and the aliens flee in their spaceship, leaving one of their own behind in their haste. The scene shifts to … Continue reading

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Gremlins 2 – New Batch (1990)

Zach Galligan, the star of the first Gremlins, is back, along with Phoebe Cates, his girlfriend from the first film. They’re both working in an ultramodern skyscraper owned by a Donald Trump clone (a hilarious John Glover). Galligan’s furry little … Continue reading

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Spider-Man 2

Stan Lee’s all-too-human superhero returns to the screen in this highly anticipated sequel to 2002′s blockbuster hit Spider-Man. Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) is attempting to juggle college classes and his job as a photographer with the Daily Bugle while maintaining … Continue reading

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