Evil Dr. Arcane (Louis Jourdan) is back, somehow, and is searching for immortality. He believes the answer is hidden in the genes of his dippy stepdaughter (Heather Locklear), who likes planets more than people. Can Swamp Thing save the hot chick? I think we know. Quick Review: So someone thought, “Swamp Thing…Yeah, we need a
Under attack from the people they just robbed, Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Drax (Dave Bautista), Rocket (voice: Bradley Cooper), and Baby Groot (voice: Vin Diesel) are rescued by Ego (Kurt Russell), Peter’s long lost father. The team splits, with Peter, Gamora, and Drax going with Ego and his sidekick/slave Mantis (Pom Klementieff)
Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal), The Punisher, is a new vigilante in town, who has no problem killing. Daredevil decides he must take him down while Karen feels there is more to his story that needs to be revealed. Simultaneously, Matt Murdock’s old love, Elektra Notchios (Elodie Yung) has returned to town, her appearance corresponding to
Clark Kent (Jerry O’Connell) is worried about his relationship with Lois Lane (Rebecca Romijn), and vise versa, as his secret identity is getting in the way. Meanwhile, Lex Luther (Rainn Willson) has discovered a strange object hurtling toward Earth and he speculates that this may be his way to get back at Superman. The object
Scott (Paul Rudd), his daughter Cassie (Kathryn Newton), Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), Janet Van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer), and Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) are pulled into the Quantum Realm so that there will be a movie. Scott and Cassie run into rebels while they try to find a way back to our world, while separately
Superman returns to Earth (thus the title) after a five year absence. While he was away, Lois has had a child and Lex Luthor has gotten out of prison. Luthor’s plan is once again based on real-estate and will kill millions. Superman must stop Luthor as he attempts to reintegrate with society. So, Superman has
The caped crusaders (George Clooney taking over for Val Kilmer, Chris O’Donnell) face two new threats, Mr. Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and Poison Ivy (Uma Thurman), while their own relationship is falling apart. And Alfred (Michael Gough) is dying, which brings his niece (Alicia Silverstone) to visit. She gets a costume and becomes Batgirl, because at
Diana (Gal Godot), princess of the Amazons, is just discovering that she is different from her sisters when pilot Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) pierces the bubble that hides the island and crashes. He’s followed by ships full of Germans, thus bringing WWI to paradise. Steve has vital information on evil “Dr. Poison’s” newest lethal gas.
Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield), whose parents disappeared while believing they were in a James Bond movie, is just your average, everyday super genius high school teenager. While attempting to connect with Dr. Curt Connors (Rhys Ifans), his father’s old one-armed colleague, he is bitten by a genetically altered spider and yada yada yada, Spider-Man, dead
One of the standard Swashbuckler plots has the hero masquerading as a fop so his real self can right wrongs and win the maiden, and no film did it better than The Mark of Zorro. Leslie Howard recited doggerel poems as the The Scarlet Pimpernel and Louis Hayward dithered on about banking as The Son of Monte Cristo, but Tyrone Power is on
In an alternate 1985, costumed superheroes have been outlawed. When one ex-“hero” is murdered, his former colleagues look into it. They include: Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley)—a sociopathic fascist detective without powers Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson)—a drab wealthy guy with lots of super-gadgets Silk Spectre II (Malin Akerman)—a generic female vigilante Ozymandias (Matthew Goode)—the richest and
In 1944, a young Professor Broom accompanies a military unit on a mission to stop Rasputin (Karel Roden) and The Third Reich from carrying out a magical ritual that will end the world. They succeed—though Rasputin’s loving assistant, Ilsa Haupstein (Biddy Hodson) and the freakish assassin Karl Ruprecht Kroenen (Ladislav Beran) escape—and find a horned,