Awesome Fantasy

Steven Spielberg brings one of Roald Dahl’s classics to the big screen with his adaptation of The BFG, a story of a girl who finds herself in a land inhabited by giants, and a speaking a vocabulary filled with humplecrimps, crumpscoddles, and snozzcumbers.

A young man discovers a secret haven for children with unusual abilities. But he soon finds out that he has both supernatural friends and enemies. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is Tim Burton’s adaptation of the eponymous horror fantasy novel.

A witch hunter is cursed with immortality when he slays the witch queen. Now she’s back, and to defeat her he has to team up with a wildling her kind. You fear nothing, Diesel. We hope you won’t need to gather herbs or ride Roach.

The great explainer CGP Grey provides a simple-ish summary of The Lord of the Rings mythology, from its universe’s creator to the silly thing that led to the suffering of millions. TL,DW: all we have are six movies about nobodies.

“You have but one question to answer: how shall this day end?” The Dwarves, the Wood-elves, the Men of the Lake, the Goblins and the Warg clash upon the Lonely Mountain in The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies.

“I will have war.” Bickering over Smaug’s treasure, and greed threatens to consume the heroes of Middle-earth in the The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, the final film in the second Lord of the Rings movie trilogy.

Sneaky Zebra’s latest video takes us to Salt Lake City’s FantasyCon 2014, where fans showed off their spirit with costumes from all manner of science fiction and fantasy. The Hound and Arya win our top prize – while R2 and 3PO win nothing.

A unique co-op fantasy board game in which players must flick their wooden hero discs across the playing field to battle monsters and earn treasure. If Dungeons & Dragons and curling had a baby, this would be it.

From director Stephen Chow (Shaolin Soccer, Kung Fu Hustle, CJ7) comes a comedic re-telling of the legendary Chinese novel Journey to the West. The movie portrays the tale’s hero as a pacifist demon hunter.

The latest trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is very exciting, but it’s also particularly ominous. When two wizened and bearded dudes tell you you’re in grave danger, you’re in grave danger.

The second film in The Hobbit trilogy continues Bilbo and Gandalf’s epic journey with Thorin and his fellow dwarves on their mission to take back what is rightfully theirs – the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor. Out 12/13/13.

Brothers Seb and Ben McKinnon took home the well deserved Best Cinematography award at the 2013 Fantasia Film Festival for KIN; it’s gorgeous fantasy and fable, with rich, abstract storytelling, and amazing visual composition.

Keanu Reeves leads a band of outcast samurai who aim to avenge their master and regain their honor. But to do so they have to defeat an army of mythical creatures. 47 Ronin is (very) loosely based on a legendary Japanese story.

“If you awaken that beast, he will destroy us all.” Bilbo, Gandalf, Legolas, Thorin and their companions attempt to reclaim the lost dwarf kingdom Erebor from the mighty dragon KHAAA– er, SMAAAAAUUUUGGGGG!

The latest trailer for the first of P. Jack’s Hobbit films gives us a greater look at Bilbo Baggins’ epic quest to take back the Kingdom of Erebor, and his encounter with Gollum along the way.

The launch trailer for the sequel to the hit action RPG. Torchlight II has 4 new classes, co-op via Internet or LAN, offline single player and just a $20 price tag. Sweet. Drops 09/20.

It’s amazing what artist Patrick Gannon is able to accomplish with textured and carved paper. Each work pieces together a beautiful land filled with the creatures of his fantastic imagination.

(MAJOR SPOILERS) HBO’s 22-minute recap of the first season of Game of Thrones is perfect for those who are new to the series. We watched this just so we could stare at the beautiful Emilia Clarke.

For its Xbox 360 release, The Witcher 2 bucks today’s DLC gimmickry and includes all of the post-release content and fixes from the PC version, along with more enhancements at no added cost.

Perseus runs from an ogre, meteors turn into Siamese twin soldiers and Hades finds time to be dramatic in the midst of destruction in the latest trailer for Wrath of the Titans.

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning looks mighty fine in its launch trailer. It’s unfortunate that its publishers have bought in to the pre-order exclusive gimmick, but we’ll take what we can get.

The long-anticipated prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Here’s the first look at Peter Jackson’s fantasy spectacle, the story of Bilbo Baggins, to be told in two parts in 2012 and 2013.

Hollywood’s fairy tale bandwagon keeps on chugging with this re-telling of that children’s story about a douchebag who kept stealing magical stuff from a poor giant and never got punished for it.