Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

The Bat Whispers (1930)

The Bat Whispers (1930)

The arch-criminal The Bat has just finished his most daring robbery and heads off to the country to a mansion rented by elderly but fierce Cornelia Van Gorder. The house is soon filled with an array of strange characters, including Van Gorder’s niece, a suspected bank robber, a suspicious doctor, a stern police detective, a

Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

Star Wars 7 is a construction more than a film, made up of pieces from the other six films (mainly the original three and primarily A New Hope). It’s all homages and repeats. It’s well done, with every aspect meticulously crafted. We may have seen it all before, but the new paint looks good. The

The Prince and the Pauper (1937)

The Prince and the Pauper (1937)

Edward (half of the Mauch Twins), Prince of England, encounters Tom Canty (the other half of the Mauch Twins), a look-a-like begger child, and the two switch places a short time before the king dies. The Earl of Hertford (Claude Rains), discovering the truth, plans to control Tom as king, and have Edward assassinated. But

Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)

Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)

In Perfectlandia, where the perfect people live their perfect lives, the outside world upsets perfection when a damaged Data reveals a Federation spy mission. The Federation is working with the Son’a, an aggressive species that violates many Federation rules, to screw with the perfect folks. Captain Picard and company must discover why Data was damaged,

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)

An account of the “Doolittle Raid” in which the US bombed Tokyo and other Japanese cities, undertaken to raise US morale and damage Japanese morale instead of for the physical damage that could be done. We follow the crew of “The Ruptured Duck,” captained by Ted Lawson (Van Johnson) and including gunner David Thatcher (Robert