Three respectable gentlemen secretly form their own little hellfire club. Bored with prostitutes and drink, they ask Lord Courtley, a notorious libertine and dabbler in the black arts, to guide them to the next step. That step: To resurrect Dracula from his powdered blood and a few trinkets. When the attempt goes awry, the three
Passengers (2016)
Batman (1989)
Photographer Vicki Vale (Kim Basinger) arrives in Gotham City to cover the story of the mysterious masked vigilantly know as The Bat. She also meets eccentric millionaire Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton), who has begun his secret crusade against crime as Batman. Shortly thereafter, psychotic killer Jack Napier (Jack Nicholson) falls into a vat of toxic
Superman and the Mole-Men (1951)
Midnight Special (2016)
Alton (Jaden Lieberher), a super-powered kid who can’t control his powers, has been kidnapped from a cult by his father Roy Tomlin (Michael Shannon) and his friend Lucas (Joel Edgerton). They take a very, very slow drive through very dark, nowhere roads while pursued by the cult that thinks the child is their salvation and
The Restless {Joong-Cheon} (2006)
Demon Hunter Yi Gwak (Woo-sung Jung) saves a village from demons and is betrayed for his troubles. Drugged, he escapes to fall unconscious in the woods, awakening in Mid-heaven, the land the dead go to before passing on to Heaven and being reincarnated. But Yi Gwak isn’t dead, a fact that is some consternation to
Pacific Rim (2013)
Giant monsters—kaiju—have risen up through a dimensional portal on the ocean’s floor, and caused massive death and destruction. Eventually, humans got the advantage by building giant robots they call jaegers. The robots require two closely aligned pilots whose brains are connected to the machines and to each other. Raleigh Becket (Charlie Hunnam) was such a
Spider-Man (2002)
Peter Parker gains his powers, which he can’t deal with. He saves Mary Jane three times, because that is her sole reason for existence. The villain of the week is The Green Goblin/Norman Osborn (Willem Dafoe), father of Peter Parker’s terrible best friend, Harry (James Franco). Spider-Man makes money by selling pictures of himself to
The Defenders (Netflix-2017)
The evil ninja crime syndicate, The Hand, led by Alexandra Reid (Sigourney Weaver), needs the Iron Fist (Finn Jones) to fulfill their scheme in New York city. Coincidentally, Luke Cage (Mike Colter) runs into pointless Hand activity in Harlem. Doubly coincidentally, Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) takes a case that leads to The Hand in the
His Kind of Woman (1951)
Deported gangster Nick Ferraro (Raymond Burr) wants to sneak back into the US and figures the best way involves finding someone his size. So his minions hire down-on-his-luck gambler Dan Milner (Robert Mitchum) to travel to a Mexican vacation lodge. Milner wants to figure out what is going on as he interacts with a group
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is captured by Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) on a gladiatorial planet ruled over by the Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum). In order to win his freedom, he must fight the champion, the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo). And he must escape quickly as back on Asgard, his sister, Hela-Godess of Death (Cate Blanchett), has taken over, with
Against All Flags (1952)
Brian Hawke (Errol Flynn) is an undercover agent among pirates. Capt. Roc Brasiliano (Anthony Quinn) doesn’t trust him. Captain Prudence “Spitfire” Stevens (Maureen O’Hara) switches back and forth between lusting after him and wanting to skewer him. On his first pirate mission with Brasiliano, they capture an Indian princess and her caretaker (Mildred Natwick). Now