Captain Blood marked the beginning of the golden age of Swashbucklers (yes, every genre has an era known as its golden age; just go with it). Before it, the complications in recording sound while filming the movement inherent in the genre made these films impractical. Sure, a silent Douglas Fairbanks could leap off a mast, but sound swashbuckling
Phantasm II (1988)
Doctor Strange (2016)
Arrogant surgeon Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) damages his hands in a car accident and in desperation travels to the far East for mystical healing. There he finds The Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) and her sorcerer acolytes who defend the world from magical threats. The threat of the moment is from a rogue sorcerer (Mads Mikkelsen)
Arrival (2016)
The arrival of twelve spaceships causes worldwide panic. Linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams) and physicist Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner) are brought into a military team tasked with determining what the aliens want. Each day they can enter a ship and confront the mutli-tentacled aliens behind a glass wall and try and work out some form
Man of Steel (2013)
On Krypton, the stupidest world in the universe, the effete elite are busy not noticing that the planet is about to implode. Enter Zod (a scenery-chewing Michael Shannon), freedom fighter, to bring power back to the people. Hey, this could get interesting. Nope, never mind. He’s a Nazi who also is busy ignoring the upcoming
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Tony Stark’s (Robert Downey Jr.) need to find a way to defend the Earth leads to the creation of Ultron (James Spader), an artificial intelligence more attuned to destroying the planet. Iron Man, Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), Captain America (Chris Evans), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) team up to
Teen Titans: The Judas Contract (2017)
The Teen Titans—Damian Wayne (Stuart Allen), Blue Beetle (Jake T. Austin), Raven (Taissa Farmiga), Terra (Christina Ricci), and Beast Boy (Brandon Soo Hoo), under the command of current leader Starfire (Kari Wahlgren) and past leader Nightwing (Sean Maher)—have been working to take down cult leader Brother Blood (Gregg Henry). Brother Blood, in return, has plans
The Guardians (2017)
Super villain August Kuratov is back from… somewhere… and he plans to take over the world. He was part of a cold war-era genetic experiment to make supermen. To stop him Maj. Elena Larina (Valeriya Shkirando) pulls together the other survivors of that project: rock-controller Ler (Sebastien Sisak), speedster ninja Khan (Sanzhar Madiyev), were-bear Ursus
Alien: Covenant (2017)
The crew of a colony ship is awakened by an accident—except for their synthetic, Walter (Michael Fassbender), who was awake—and while making repairs, picks up a signal. The new, uncertain captain, who needs the approval both of the crew and of God, decides to follow the signal to its Earth-like world which might be a
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
Hey, remember the unfinished spy stuff from The Amazing Spider-Man? It’s back. And it’s still unfinished as we start off with Ma and Pa Parker trying to make their getaway and failing. Then it’s back to Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) saving New York and whining about relationships and his parents. This time he has two
An Inspector Calls (1954)
In 1912, An upper-class family’s engagement celebration is interrupted by the arrival of an unusual police inspector (Alastair Sim). A girl has just died, probably by suicide, and she is connected to the family. The inspector’s probing questions reveal secrets, prejudices, and misdeeds. An Inspector Calls is a classic British drawing room mystery play with
Night of Dark Shadows (1971)
Quentin Collins (David Selby) and his young wife Tracy (Kate Jackson) have just inherited the sprawling gothic estate of Collinwood, complete with weird housekeeper, Carlotta (Grayson Hall). Quentin starts getting strange dreams, seeing things, and begins to stare off into nothing. He just might be the reincarnation of Charles Collins. Years ago Charles’s lover and