Luke Cage (Netflix--2016)

Luke Cage (Netflix–2016)

Luke Cage (Mike Colter) is on the run, keeping his head down in Harlem, but when a friend is killed, he feels he must get involved. Cottonmouth (Mahershala Ali) rules the criminal underground from his music club and he… Wait. Wait. Scratch that. After getting to know Cottonmouth really well, it turns out he doesn’t

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)

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

Mummy Maniac (2007)

Mummy Maniac (2007)

Some guy wearing a cop uniform and speaking in a monotone brings an unknown and reasonably attractive 20ish actress—who isn’t really bothering to pretend to be anyone—into a small dark bathroom and then pretends to kill her and wraps her head with a few strips of gauze. Then he does it again. And then again.

Daredevil: Season 1 (Netflix-2015)

Daredevil: Season 1 (Netflix-2015)

Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) is a blind lawyer by day and an enhanced vigilante by night. In his law practice, formed with his college friend “Froggy” (Elden Henson) and aided by recent client Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll), he defends the poor. As “The Devil of Hell’s Kitchen” he attempts to take down the mobs,

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

K (Ryan Gosling), a replicant blade runner, lives in a future where new replicants are constructed to obey due to the peculiar, corporate overlord, Niander Wallace (Jared Leto). So the job of the blade runner is now running down old-style replicants who were made before the great blackout. In “retiring” one of these (Dave Bautista),

The Black Cat (1934)

The Black Cat (1934)

An accident in Hungary lands Peter Alison (David Manners) and his slightly injured wife (Jacqueline Wells) at the home of famed architect and war criminal Hjalmar Poelzig (Boris Karloff). Dr Vitus Werdegast (Bela Lugosi), who has befriended the couple, is there for revenge, and to find out what happened to his wife and daughter while

The Circle (2017)

The Circle (2017)

Mae (Emma Watson) gets a chance to escape her dead-end job due to her friend, Annie (Karen Gillan), getting her an interview with The Circle, an Appple/Facebook/Google-type company. The Circle is extremely helpful in all aspects of life, but equally intrusive. The employees act like members of a cult, led by the charismatic Bailey (Tom

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

Following the events of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Rey (Daisy Ridley) has found broken and depressed Jedi Master Luke (Mark Hamill), and wants him to return to civilization to bring hope to the rebellion. Personally, she wants him to train her in the use of the force so that she can find her place—neither

Dead Reckoning (1947)

Dead Reckoning (1947)

Capt. Rip Murdock (Humphrey Bogart) and his buddy Sgt Johnny Drake (William Prince) are headed to Washington DC to receive a pair of medals when Johnny jumps a different train to avoid the publicity. Rip follows and quickly discovers Johnny had enlisted under a false name as he was on the run from a murderer

Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan (1982)

Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan (1982)

A sequel to the old TV episode Space Seed, Wrath of Khan sees the return of the genetic supermen that Kirk left on planet to make their own way. Things didn’t work out well for them and Khan has slipped from megalomania into just being crazy. Star Trek: The Motion Picture aimed high, and missed.

D.O.A. (1950)

D.O.A. (1950)

Frank Bigelow (Edmond O’Brien) is a rather bland businessman with commitment issues and a very clingy girlfriend, Paula (Pamela Britton)—really, really clingy. He heads to San Francisco for a sudden vacation. After a night of wild partying, he discovers he’s been poisoned by a “luminous” substance and has between a day and a week to

The Gamera Trilogy (1995/1996/1999)

The Gamera Trilogy (1995/1996/1999)

Gamera had always been the also-ran of Japan’s giant monster film industry. Made in the wake of Godzilla’s success, the giant, flying, fire-breathing turtle started as most of the big critters did of that era, following The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms. Humans messing with what they shouldn’t wake the sleeping monster in the arctic and