Foster on Film

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,

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

Batman Begins (2005)  The Dark Knight (2008)  The Dark Knight Rises (2012)  Batman Begins changed the superhero genre. There had been serious (and self-serious) genre films before, but they’d been rare and generally failures. More often than not, comic book-based films made fun of the source material. And Batman had fallen into camp. Christopher Nolan’s

Super scientist Alec Holland (Ray Wise) is joined at his swamp laboratory by government agent Alice Cable (Adrienne Barbeau). Evil terrorist or scientist—it isn’t clear—Arcane (Louis Jourdan… No. Can’t be. Let me check. Nope. It’s Louis Jourdan. I guess those Gigi residuals had run out) wants Holland’s supper formula, and when he attempts to take

Long ago, mankind attempted to wipe out the fair folk and take Earth for its own. To save themselves, the goblins made an indestructible, clockwork army that would kill all men, but the king of the fey had a change of heart and pulled back the army. The prince (Luke Goss) saw this as a

Adrian Toomes (Michael Keaton) has finally gotten a break with the contract to clean up the mess after the Avengers/Chitauri battle in New York, a break that is stripped away by the government and Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.). Searching for a new way to support his family, he and his team find they can

Unable to deal with the death of his parents and the evil of men, Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) joins the League of Shadows. With his training complete, he rejects their call to mercilessly kill all criminals, instead returning to Gotham to become Batman. There with the help of Alfred (Michael Caine), technical genius Lucius Fox

Penguin (Danny DeVito), leader of a criminal organization of circus freaks, rises out of the sewers for his own purposes, but industrialist Max Shreck (Christopher Walken) has other plans for him. Shreck’s secretary, Selina Kyle (Michelle Pfeiffer) discovers part of his scheme, and Shreck kills her. But she returns from the dead as Catwoman. Penguin

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

Poison Ivy (Padget Brewster) and the Floronic Man (Kevin Michael Richardson)—yeah, I had no idea who Floronic Man was before this—plan to turn all animal life into plants. Batman (Kevin Conry) and Nightwing (Loren Lester) need Harley Quin’s (Melissa Rauch) help to find Ivy and stop her. The last eleven DC Animated films have—more or

Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) is traumatized by the death of his girlfriend, Vanessa (Morena Baccarin). [No, that is not a spoiler. It happens in the first few minutes; Baccarin only makes a cameo. More than not being a spoiler, this little bit of info should have been on every poster and in every trailer surrounded by