Fantasy Film

Tenan kann seiner Ausbildung zum Wasserzauberer wenig abgewinnen. Er sehnt sich nach großen Abenteuern und nach Gefahren, die seinen ganzen Wagemut erfordern. Als er eines Tages in einem Schiffswrack am Strand einen geheimnisvollen Stein findet, ahnt er noch nicht, wie nah er seinem Traum ist: An diesem magischen Kristall entscheidet sich das Schicksal des Inselreichs Algarad. Der Todesfürst schickt ein Heer von grausamen Kriegern aus, um ihn in seinen Besitz zu bringen.

In Berlin, Germany, in the early 1930s, the acclaimed Swiss film director Emil Nägeli receives the assignment of a lifetime: travel to Japan and make a film to establish the dominance of Adolf Hitler's Nazi empire once and for all. But his handlers are unaware Nägeli has colluded with the Jewish film critics to pursue an alternative objective - to create a monumental, modernist, allegorical spectacle to warn the world of the horror to come.

Author Michael J. Hayde's definitive work about Superman on radio and television. Hayde is well-known for My Name's Friday: The Unauthorized but True Story of Dragnet and The Films of Jack Webb and Little Elf: A Celebration of Harry Langdon, and this new treasure trove of information on the Man of Steel covers comprehensive episode logs for the radio series and the original television series, plus the complete story lines for two unproduced television series episodes, and dozens of "deleted scenes" taken right from the scripts.

This collection of irreverent and surprising essays about the popular television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer includes pieces by leading science fiction and fantasy authors. Contributors include best-selling legend David Brin, critically acclaimed novelist Scott Westerfeld, cult-favorite vampire author Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and award-winner Sarah Zettel.

It is the season of monsters, and wild magic rules the land. Young warrior bard Omen Daenoth and his intrepid companions - the prince of Terizkand, a Sundragon scholar, a cynical spy, a reckless Corsair, not to mention the talking cats - journey toward the looming Mountain of Shadow.

As the predictions for the end of the world look likely, Mike, a journalist, begins to uncover the scoop of our lifetime, which takes him on an adventure to India, England, and then back to the United States. His story is not taken kindly by many, and his life soon becomes a matter of National Security.

After an accident on his way home from school, 17-year-old Joe Harding is locked out of his house. A stranger, who appears to own Joe's house, warns him to escape. Huge bells on rooftops ring out, and Joe is chased out of town by a band of citizens determined to kill him. He escapes, and after surviving alone in an England that is wild and uncultivated, joins a small band of young people in hiding. He is in a parallel world in which he wants to remain, but fate has other things in store for him.

The kids of Cowslip Grove are putting on a school play, and Kat, Levi, Donte, and their friends all have parts. But at rehearsal one day, a piece of chalk leaps up on its own and starts writing on the blackboard. Soon the kids learn they are being stalked by the mysterious "Little Nobody"—an invisible child with no memories. As the kids begin to unravel the mystery behind Little Nobody, they accidentally reveal a strange and secret world—along with the true fates of many long-lost children and creatures.

The explosive conclusion of the quest for the Autumn King! What magic, what curses, what schemes await.... Through the mountain of shadow and into the gated lands, Omen and his companions travel right into the heart of darkness. Can they save the land? Can they save themselves? Or does the fate of the world ultimately hang on the antics of two chatty felines with a history more tangled than a ball of yarn? Of Cats and Dragons, where the epic meets the adorable. You don't want to miss out on this one!

A brilliant scientist has found two hairs he believes belonged to Wilbur and Orville Wright (inventors of the first airplane). With the hairs and a pinch of DNA from Albert Einstein (a pretty smart guy), he has created two of the greatest minds on the planet. After being rejected by the science community, they are angry.

In "Snowboarding’s Last Stand: A Samurai and The Slingling," connected to ancient traditions and powerful forces Ollie, a snowboarding samurai grappling with a past he seeks to amend, and Misty a female snowboarder and inventor, encounter an audacious Slingling with a fiery spirit and unwavering loyalty to snowboarders. As their paths unexpectedly intertwine, a gripping snowboarding showdown unfolds against the backdrop of an oppressive regime and a world shaped by PINPIN's sinister influence.

In the shadow of a devastating hex, pursued by a stealer of souls, with both interference and help from Tormy and the potty-mouthed kitten Tyrin, Omen faces monsters, ghosts, and grave troubles unshackled by the volatile seasons themselves. Accompanied by the prince of Terizkand, a Sundragon scholar, a cynical spy, and a reckless Corsair, our young firebrand has to employ all his strengths as the autumn winds carry them into the center of a cataclysm that threatens to swallow the world.

Der radioBERLIN-OHRENBÄR präsentiert: Radiogeschichten von Mr. Vam von Annette Herzog, gelesen von Boris Aljinovic. "Harte Zeiten für Mr. Vam": Als Mr. Vam mit Kopfschmerzen aufwacht, muss er feststellen, dass er nach einer Blutvergiftung 250 Jahre verschlafen hat. Schlimmer noch: Seine Zähne sind so locker, dass jeder Beißversuch aussichtslos ist. Ist es nun Glück oder Pech für den halbverhungerten Vampir, dass sich der filmbesessene Kater Plaus Pinsky seiner annimmt? Der wittert die Chance seines Lebens: Mit einem echten Vampir in der Hauptrolle wird sein nächster Film ein sicherer Erfolg.

Film ab für die Schule der magischen Tiere! Margit Auer erzählt anhand des Drehbuchs den Film nach: Ida findet an der Wintersteinschule nur schwer Anschluss. Doch als sie den Fuchs Rabbat als Gefährten bekommt, wird sie zum Star der Klasse. Auch Benni ist ein Außenseiter, aber mit Schildkröte Henrietta kann er ein Piratenabenteuer erleben. Eines Tages treibt ein Dieb sein Unwesen! Die Kinder und ihre magischen Tiere beschließen, ihm das Handwerk zu legen.

Klappe – die Zweite! Die Wintersteinschule ist zurück auf der großen Leinwand! Miss Cornfields Klasse plant ein Theaterstück. Doch hinter den Kulissen herrscht eine Menge Aufregung: Anna-Lena und Helene wollen beide die Hauptrolle spielen, Ida ist verliebt in Jo und auf dem Schulhof tauchen seltsame Löcher auf. Endet alles im Chaos oder schaffen es die Kinder, die Aufführung durch Teamwork zu retten? Na klar – aber natürlich nur mit Hilfe ihrer magischen Tiere.

In April 2020, the world faced imminent lock-down, so a group of filmmakers started a virtual support group. Once a week, these diverse voices would assemble to do what they do best: tell each other stories. Campfire horror tales, emotional cosmic mysteries, and anything else that either made them take their minds off what was happening to the world, or help them understand it. HAUNTED REELS is the best of those stories.

Jet and her robot dog, Otis, have been taken with Jet’s two sisters - one of whom has a role in the latest Super-Movie - to their planet’s film capital, Ollywood. Jet and Otis are soon catapulted into the unplumbed underworld that lurks below the studios and lots. Here lies the beautiful and sinister otherwhere of Indigara, which has spontaneously generated from the sets, costumes, models, and actual celluloid of rejected pilot fantasy and SF movies that never got made into series. Meawhile, their Indigaran mirror images have replaced them, and are running amok in the real world above....

What if you could jump into any movie in the world? 14-year-old Blake Connors and his 11-year-old sister Becky discover that their parents invented a device that could make that very dream come true. After every government agency on the planet began hunting them they found themselves in their worst nightmare. Forced to fake their own deaths and hide out in the worlds they had unlocked, it now falls on Blake and Becky to jump in and find them, before somebody else does.

Eine uralte Prophezeiung rankt sich um den Edelstein in Mias Armband. Sie führt Mia auf eine abenteuerliche Reise in das Elfenreich Centopia. Dort lernt sie Iko kennen, einen Elfen von der Lotusinsel. Er braucht ihre Hilfe, denn ein Bösewicht hat die Bewohner seiner Insel mit dunkler Magie verzaubert! Während der Kampf um die Lotusinsel zu einer Rettungsmission wird, erkennt Mia, dass die Macht der Angst niemals siegen wird, solange es Freundschaft und Hoffnung gibt! Eine magische Geschichte über (Helden-)Mut und Selbstlosigkeit – ungekürzt gelesen von Rieke Werner, der Synchronstimme von Mia.

In near-future America, film critic Noah Body uploads his reviews to a content aggregator. His job is routine: watch, seethe, pan. He dreams of making his own film, free from the hackery of commercial cinema. Faced with writing about lousy movies for a website that no one reads, Noah smuggles into his work episodes from his trainwreck of a life. We learn that his apartment in Miniature Aleppo has been stripped of furniture after his wife ran off with his best friend - who Noah believes has possessed his body.