The Spider-Man Trilogy

The Spider-Man Trilogy

Spider-Man (2002)  Spider-Man 2 (2004)  Spider-Man 3 (2007)  A sleepy and uncharismatic late twenties/early thirties Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire), cosplaying as a teenager, fails to deal emotionally with his newfound spider powers while mooning over Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst), who he dumps and also saves over and over and over again. He fights an enemy

Batman and Harley Quinn (2017)

Batman and Harley Quinn (2017)

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

The Comedy of Terrors (1963)

The Comedy of Terrors (1963)

Unpleasant, alcoholic Waldo Trumbull (Vincent Price) runs the funeral business he’s taken over from his wife’s father (Boris Karloff). To dig up business, he and his employee, Felix Gillie (Peter Lorre), murder elderly members of the town. When their landlord (Basil Rathbone) comes for a year’s back rent, Trumbull decides he is next. The major

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

On a paradise planet, the members of the species known as Pearl live perfect lives until Armageddon comes from the skies. Thirty years later, agents Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline (Cara Delevingne) are sent to the Alpha Station—where millions of creatures from many species interact—and assigned to guard suspicious-acting Commander Filitt (Clive Owen). A radioactive

Adventures of Captain Fabian (1951)

Adventures of Captain Fabian (1951)

Lea Mariotte (Micheline Presle), a mistreated servant and social-climbing Creole woman, is arrested for murder. Captain Michael Fabian (Errol Flynn) gets her off by threatening the powerful Brissac family with a scandal because George Brissac (Vincent Price) was involved. While Fabian is at sea, Mariotte pushes Brissac to murder his uncle, and then blackmails him

The Discovery (2017)

The Discovery (2017)

Thomas Harber (Robert Redford) has discovered definitive proof of an afterlife. This has lead to massive numbers of suicides. Upon hearing his father has discovered something new, Harber’s truly annoying son, Will (Jason Segel), travels to a beautiful home that is supposed to be considered ugly for no reason. It is the cult-like base where

The Bad Batch (2017)

The Bad Batch (2017)

Sometime in the future, undesirables are forced into a desert south-ish of Texas. Arlen (Suki Waterhouse) is the newest resident. She is quickly captured by body-building cannibals who chop off an arm and a leg. Before they can devour more of her, she escapes and ends up in Comfort, a drug-laden party town ruled by

Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

The Borg travel back in time to assimilate humanity and disrupt Earth’s first warp drive test. The Enterprise follows to stop them, with Picard having Borg flashbacks and the Borg Queen attempting to seduce Data. Like multiple of the films that came before it, a cast member takes over the director’s chair. This time it

Brighton Rock (1948)

Brighton Rock (1948)

Seventeen-year-old psychopath Pinkie Brown (Richard Attenborough) runs a cheap protection racket in Brighton with his gang of Dallow (William Hartnell), Cubitt (Nigel Stock), and Spicer (Wylie Watson). He kills a reporter, and it is ruled a suicide, but Ida (Hermione Baddeley), a performer the reporter met briefly, doesn’t believe it and sets out to prove

Gamera vs. Gyaos (1967)

Gamera vs. Gyaos (1967)

A volcanic eruption serves the dual purpose of calling Gamera and waking Gyaos, an ancient flying lizard-bat that shoots sonic beams. Nearby, a greedy firm is trying to build an expressway through a village of equally greedy people. The prepubescent grandson of the village elder is obsessed by Gamera and makes friends with him. It

Fire Over England (1937)

Fire Over England (1937)

In a time of conflict between Queen Elizabeth I of England (Flora Robson) and King Philip II of Spain (Raymond Massey), an English privateer ship is captured, resulting in young Michael Ingolby (Laurence Olivier) recovering in secret with a Spanish friend of his father’s and that man’s daughter Elena (Tamara Desni). He returns to England,

Rampage (2018)

Rampage (2018)

He-man Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (Dwayne Jonson)—for some reason using the name Davis Okoye, but he’s just The Rock—pretends to be a special forces trained killing machine, who loves animals. He’s also a primatologist, which in this film does not require any scholarly training; it just means you hang out with apes and joke around,