
This movie is about a school kid who has nothing special about him. The Kid Who Would Be King: Disney+ Hotstar The Kid Who Would Be King is available to watch on Disney+ Hotstar. A faithful adaptation, Stardust captures the whimsical storytelling of Gaiman. The story is about Tristan (Charlie Cox) who enters a hidden magical world on the border of the aforementioned town to retrieve a fallen star to gift to his girlfriend so that she would marry him.

(Photo: Paramount Pictures)Īn adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s 1997 novel of the same name, Stardust is set in a town in England. The films are fun, though there are no overarching themes à la Harry Potter. If you love Greek mythology and creatures, Percy Jackson is for you. Percy Jackson: Disney+ Hotstar A still from Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. The film is firmly rooted in its setting, and the context is not accidental. In del Toro’s highly underrated Pan’s Labyrinth, a young girl meets a strange faun creature in a labyrinth Spain in 1944, five years after the country’s Civil War. In his movies, they are a stand-in for people and creatures that are shunned by society. The scale, the vision, the visual effects, the performances, the writing, the small character moments that are given as much importance as the big moments, LotR is a staggering achievement. Peter Jackson’s adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s magnum opus, The Lord of the Rings trilogy is still without equal. The Lord of the Rings: Netflix and Amazon Prime Video A still from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The hero of the story, though, is Eddie Redmayne’s Newt Scamander, who loves, well, fantastic beasts, and wishes to erase prejudice against them among humans, wizards and muggles. A prequel series to Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts has a young-er Dumbledore who faces the greatest Dark Lord that ever lived before Voldemort, Johnny Depp’s Gellert Grindelwald.

The Fantastic Beasts movies are the perfect antidote to Harry Potter withdrawal symptoms. Fantastic Beasts: Amazon Prime Video A poster of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.
