16 great wizard, witch, and warlock movies you can watch at home
polygon.comCan you feel that? There’s magic brimming in the air. Not a surprise, given that Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, the third installment in the Fantastic Beast film series, releases in theaters this weekend. It’s been over 20 years since Chris Columbus first brought J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World to the silver screen, and since then audiences worldwide have only become more infatuated with flights of fantasy and magic.
Besides the likes of The Boy Who Lived and Albus Dumbledore, there’s a plethora of iconic wizards, warlocks, and witches to choose from in cinema — from the sagely presence of Gandalf the Grey/White in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the MCU’s Scarlet Witch and Doctor Strange (he’s a sorcerer) to the eponymous spellcasters of 1939’s The Wizard of Oz and Nicolas Roeg’s The Witches. With that in mind, we’ve conjured a list of some of our favorite magical fantasy films and broke down just what exactly makes them so captivating, entertaining, and… well, magical!
Are you reading closely? Here are 16 great wizard, witch, and warlock movies you can stream from home this weekend.
What it is: 1971’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks is the movie Disney started making when it ran into difficulty obtaining the rights to Mary Poppins. It shares a director, composers, structural elements, and cast members with the more famous Disney hit, and even almost nabbed Julie Andrews in the lead role. Andrews declined, and we got Angela Lansbury as the prickly spinster Eglantine Price, who is trying to care for a trio of siblings unexpectedly left in her care.
The magical connection: Miss Price is taking lessons in witchcraft via correspondence course, and her efforts to entertain the children largely come in a series of
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