Journalists and romantic couple Carlos (Tomas Perrin Jr.) and Lola (Elena D’Orgaz) investigate the murder of a woman whose heart was cut out, implying she was a sacrifice. Their investigation leads them to the foremost expert on the Aztecs, Dr. Gallardo (Carlos Orellanda) of the museum. He’s also secretly a member of an Aztec cult
Three or so years after a brief nuclear “misunderstanding” destroyed the world and killed most of the population, the remaining British are still very, very British. Father (Arthur Lowe), Mother (Mona Washbourne), and Penelope (Rita Tushingham) live on an underground train, which is powered by a man peddling a bike. When Father finds Penelope has
Mary Gibson (Kim Hunter) leaves her boarding school to search for her sister Jacqueline (Jean Brooks), who had been paying her bills and has mysteriously vanished. Mary’s quest leads her to private investigator Irving August (Lou Lubin), who is murdered in a shadowed doorway, and also to helpful failed poet Jason (Erford Gage) and paternalistic
Super scientist and ex-Ant-Man, Hank Pym, recruits down-on-his-luck cat burglar Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) to become the new Ant-Man. Hank’s ex-protĂ©gĂ© and stereotypically evil businessman, Darren Cross, is about to rediscover Pym’s shrinking technology and sell it to terrorists, and Hank needs a new Ant-Man to stop the evil plan and destroy all records of
Batman (Ben Affleck) is very grumpy because his life has sucked and Superman’s big fight in Man of Steel killed his friend. Superman (Henry Cavill suffering from depression) is grumpy because…he’s just an asshole. Lois (Amy Adams napping) is grumpy because director Zack Snyder told Adams to act that way. They all express their grumpiness
With the previous four Japanese Mars missions destroyed (maybe by a UFO, maybe not, but let’s not get too worried about little details like that), a new mission is set to go, with a manly-man captain, a goofy sidekick, a hot American Blonde, and a doctor who will soon be replaced by a grumpy American,
Jake (Asa Butterfield) is a bland and unhappy teen, raised listening to the fantastic bedtime stories of his Grandfather (Terence Stamp). When his grandfather dies under mysterious circumstances at the hand of an invisible monster that only Jake can see, he sets off to find the orphanage in the stories. Once there, he meets the
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
Daredevil Season 1 Daredevil Season 2 Jessica Jones Luke Cage Iron Fist Marvel’s MCU films are the most successful film series of all time. Each has been clever and exciting, with a touch of theme and a whole lot of character, while also allowing Mickey Mouse to dance around his new pools of money.
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.
There’s an evil, cat-petting villain in town. His plan: to insure the fashion icons around the city, and then kill them. Turkish Commissioner Gordon contacts playboy, crime-fighter, and mercenary, Turkish Batman (Levent Cakir) to save the day. The costumed superhero, along with his ward, Robin (Huseyin Sayar) set out to track down the evil-doers, and