241. The Hobbit
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.
Actors: Orson Bean, Richard Boone, Hans Conried, John Huston, Otto Preminger, Brother Theodore
Plot: This animated take on the classic tale about Bilbo Baggins and his quest that leads to the Ring of Power.
242. Solomon Kane
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael J. Bassett
Actors: Pete Postlethwaite, James Purefoy, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Ryan James, Samuel Roukin, Max von Sydow
Plot: A violent mercenary fighting Spaniards in Africa for Queen Elizabeth I finds out his soul is bound for hell and barely escapes his sentence. Vowing a life of peace, Solomon Kane sticks to his path of redemption... that is until a brutal slaying of a family and the kidnapping of a young woman before his eyes has him back on the path of vengeance against the powerful sorcerer, Malachi.
243. The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Peter Hedges
Actors: Jennifer Garner, Joel Edgerton, Ron Livingston, Rosemarie DeWitt, Dianne Wiest, Michael Arden
Plot: A couple unable to conceive decide to put all their hopes and dreams of having their own child in a box and bury it in the back yard. When a child is born, the couple believe their wishes have been heard, but Timothy Green is not your normal child...
244. Faust
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Actors: Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinsky, Isolda Dychauk, Georg Friedrich, Hanna Schygulla, Antje Lewald
Plot: Doctor Faust eats and sleeps where he studies dead people's bodies. Gradually he ends up selling his ... soul to a deformed man who lures him into catacombs and finally to his doom.
245. X-Men: Apocalypse
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Bryan Singer
Actors: Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, Evan Peters, James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, Kodi Smit-McPhee
Plot: Although thought to be a recent occurance, mutation has been with mankind for a long time. Apocalypse, worshiped as a god and harnessing the power of other mutants to become nigh immortal, has been awakened after thousands of years. Seeing the world for what it is he is disillusioned and, joined by his four horsemen, seeks to cleanse mankind and start anew. With the world on the line, Professor Xavier and a group of young mutants must work together and come up with a plan to stop the greatest threat the mutants, and the world, has ever seen.
246. Beastly
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Daniel Barnz
Actors: Vanessa Hudgens, Neil Patrick Harris, Mary-Kate Olsen, Alex Pettyfer, Peter Krause, Erik Knudsen
Plot: Beauty and the Beast gets another modern-day makeover when a New York teen
is transformed into a monster on his quest to find true love.
247. Reign of Fire
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Rob Bowman
Actors: Christian Bale, Matthew McConaughey, Izabella Scorupco, Gerard Butler, Alexander Siddig, Rory Keenan
Plot: Dragons are awakened from underground and kill every thing in their path. Years have past and civilization is trying to rebuild.
248. Naked Lunch
Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Cronenberg
Actors: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Julian Sands, Ian Holm, Roy Scheider, Monique Mercure
Plot: David Cronenberg's attempt to film the unfilmable Naked Lunch is a tour throught Willam S. Burroughs world filled with paranoia, mugwumps and transforming typewriters.
249. Little Monsters
Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Family/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Richard Greenberg
Actors: Fred Savage, Howie Mandel, Margaret Whitton, Ben Savage, Amber Barretto, Daniel Stern
Plot: An under bed world is discovered by a troublesome boy where he finds a
monster hide out and eventually tries to get his friends to join him.
250. Michael
Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Nora Ephron
Actors: John Travolta, Andie MacDowell, William Hurt, Bob Hoskins, Robert Pastorelli, Jean Stapleton
Plot: Two struggling tabloid reporters and an "angel expert" are sent by their boss to check out an old kook who claims to have an angel living with her. Sure enough, the guy's got wings, but he's also into smoking, drinking and womanizing. Unconvinced that Michael is not an Earthly being, the reporters take him to Chicago, when Michael's unconventional methods begin to work heavenly magic.
