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-protégé 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
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
< In near-future Hong Kong, where cyber-enhancement of the human body is all the rage, Major (Scarlett Johansson), who was the victim of a terrorist attack, has had her brain placed into an android body by a blatantly evil robotics company. She’s intended to be the first in a long line of weapons, but for
Mere seconds after Von Helsing (Edward Van Sloan)—and yes, it is now “Von Helsing” instead of “Van Helsing”—staked Dracula, the bobbies show up. Van Helsing goes with the “I was killing an immortal undead” defense which gets him arrested for murder, although as an upper class professor, he’s treated ridiculously well. Psychologist Jeffrey Garth (Otto Kruger), another
A Bedouin princess (Maureen O’Hara) returns home from England to find her father murdered. She wants revenge, and so takes up with the sleazy Pasha (Vincent Price). The assumed murderer is Hassan (Paul Hubschmid), but is he the leader of the savage Black Robes or a hero on the run? I’ll include Bagdad as a