Foster on Film

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

Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) puts together a group of unusual criminals (Harley Quinn—Margot Robbie, Deadshot—Will Smith, Diablo—Jay Hernandez, Killer Croc—Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Boomerang—Jai Courtney, Enchantress—Cara Delevingne) with the intention of creating a US force to defend against meta-humans. The group is called into action early when one of her criminals slips through her fingers and sets

Miners discover a giant frozen reptilian tail and hunkiest miner sends it to Professor Marteen of the Copenhagen aquarium. Professor Marteen has two, hot, man-hungry daughters. It doesn’t matter for the story, but the film wants you to know just how male-crazed these two chicks are and how lucky any man is who they get

The evil stereotype Shredder is broken out of jail while in the care of the guy from Arrow (Stephen Amell). Naturally, he puts on a hockey mask and beats up people with his hockey stick to redeem himself. This leads him to April O’Neil (Megan Fox) and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (some guys…who cares).

In a cosmic coincidence, the Phantom Zone prison of Ursa (Sarah Douglas), Non (Jack O’Halloran), and General Zod (Terence Stamp) happens to drift by Earth right when Superman (Christopher Reeve) has tossed a nuclear bomb into space. Now freed, the three Kryptonians move to conquer Earth. Meanwhile, Lois (Margot Kidder) has discovered Clark is Superman

Bruce Banner hides out from authorities as he tries to find a cure—a cure that will take him back into the life of Betty Ross, and put him into conflict with her obsessed father and a megalomaniac soldier. Rebooting the green rage monster after Ang Lee’s miserable Hulk, Marvel decided to aim low, and they

At an archaeological dig, Hu Bayi (Mark Chao) volunteers, along with other soldiers, to accompany Professor Yan and his daughter Ping (Yao Chen) down a dangerous tunnel. These leads to fire bats, avalanches, and a mysterious temple, and also the deaths of most of the party. Several years later Bayi and his childhood friend Wang

The Bat is back with a new plan to get that Aztec treasure so that he can continue his cruel animal experiments. Well, maybe it is the same old plan. He kidnaps Flor, and drugging her, uses hypnosis to learn the location of the breastplate and armband. Luckily our heroes have the aid of a

After a volcanic eruption, people living near an isolated Mexican village begin to disappear. A pair of geologists, one American (Richard Denning) and one Mexican (Carlos Rivas), on their way to study the volcano, find a damaged police car, dead officer, and abandoned baby. They soon find themselves in the middle of the mystery given

Paul Martin (Griffith Jones), a wealthy doctor, leaves his wife Clare (Googie Withers) at home and takes a bachelor holiday to the seaside. There he meets Miranda, a lonely mermaid (Glynis Johns) and agrees to take her to London, disguised as an invalid patient. As she is attractive, enthusiastic, flirtatious, and lacking in the norms

Long ago, a team of alien Power Rangers were destroyed, along with their enemy, Rita (Elizabeth Banks). In modern times, a group of supposed troublemaking teens—white jock Jason Scott (Dacre Montgomery), white depressed Kimberly Hart (Naomi Scott), black autistic Billy Cranston (RJ Cyler), Hispanic gay Trini (Becky G), and Asian wildman Zack (Ludi Lin)—discover the

Three stories introduced by Boris Karloff. (1) A woman steals a ring from a corpse that may have died due to the actions of ghosts. (2) A woman receives a series of threatening phone calls from a dead man. (3) A vampire hunter (Boris Karloff) returns to his family after a hunt, and after the