Looper (2012)

Looper (2012)

Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is an assassin. The mob controls time travel in 2074 and sends their victims back in time to 2044 where Joe and his colleagues shoot them and dispose of the bodies. The final job of each “looper” is to kill his own future self. When Joe comes gun-to-face with himself (Bruce Willis),

Whisky Galore (1949)

Whisky Galore (1949)

Things are bleak on a Scottish island during war times: They’ve run out of whisky. The fishermen are lifeless and miserable, and one elderly inhabitant is dying for lack of a drink. Without Whisky, life is intolerable. When a ship carrying a cargo of bottles of that most desirable liquid ends up on the rocks,

Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)

Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)

Three respectable gentlemen secretly form their own little hellfire club. Bored with prostitutes and drink, they ask Lord Courtley, a notorious libertine and dabbler in the black arts, to guide them to the next step. That step: To resurrect Dracula from his powdered blood and a few trinkets. When the attempt goes awry, the three

Passengers (2016)

Passengers (2016)

An accident on a colonization ship causes one man (Chris Pratt) to wake from suspended animation ninety years too early. Alone on a luxury liner, with no one to talk to, no hope of returning to stasis, no future, and in a state of suicidal despair, he begins to obsess about one of the sleeping

Batman (1989)

Batman (1989)

Photographer Vicki Vale (Kim Basinger) arrives in Gotham City to cover the story of the mysterious masked vigilantly know as The Bat. She also meets eccentric millionaire Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton), who has begun his secret crusade against crime as Batman. Shortly thereafter, psychotic killer Jack Napier (Jack Nicholson) falls into a vat of toxic

Superman and the Mole-Men	(1951)

Superman and the Mole-Men (1951)

Oil drilling opens up a path for the underground mole-men to come to the surface. Clark Kent (George Reeves) and Lois Lane (Phyllis Coates) happen to be there when panic breaks out. Are the mole-men a threat, or is the real threat humanity? To get this film, you have to be able to read that

Midnight Special (2016)

Midnight Special (2016)

Alton (Jaden Lieberher), a super-powered kid who can’t control his powers, has been kidnapped from a cult by his father Roy Tomlin (Michael Shannon) and his friend Lucas (Joel Edgerton). They take a very, very slow drive through very dark, nowhere roads while pursued by the cult that thinks the child is their salvation and

The Restless {Joong-Cheon} (2006)

The Restless {Joong-Cheon} (2006)

Demon Hunter Yi Gwak (Woo-sung Jung) saves a village from demons and is betrayed for his troubles. Drugged, he escapes to fall unconscious in the woods, awakening in Mid-heaven, the land the dead go to before passing on to Heaven and being reincarnated. But Yi Gwak isn’t dead, a fact that is some consternation to

Pacific Rim (2013)

Pacific Rim (2013)

Giant monsters—kaiju—have risen up through a dimensional portal on the ocean’s floor, and caused massive death and destruction. Eventually, humans got the advantage by building giant robots they call jaegers. The robots require two closely aligned pilots whose brains are connected to the machines and to each other. Raleigh Becket (Charlie Hunnam) was such a

Spider-Man (2002)

Spider-Man (2002)

Peter Parker gains his powers, which he can’t deal with. He saves Mary Jane three times, because that is her sole reason for existence. The villain of the week is The Green Goblin/Norman Osborn (Willem Dafoe), father of Peter Parker’s terrible best friend, Harry (James Franco). Spider-Man makes money by selling pictures of himself to

The Defenders (Netflix-2017)

The Defenders (Netflix-2017)

The evil ninja crime syndicate, The Hand, led by Alexandra Reid (Sigourney Weaver), needs the Iron Fist (Finn Jones) to fulfill their scheme in New York city. Coincidentally, Luke Cage (Mike Colter) runs into pointless Hand activity in Harlem. Doubly coincidentally, Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) takes a case that leads to The Hand in the

His Kind of Woman (1951)

His Kind of Woman (1951)

Deported gangster Nick Ferraro (Raymond Burr) wants to sneak back into the US and figures the best way involves finding someone his size. So his minions hire down-on-his-luck gambler Dan Milner (Robert Mitchum) to travel to a Mexican vacation lodge. Milner wants to figure out what is going on as he interacts with a group