Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) is no longer with the Joker, which means everyone who hates her feels free to try and kill her. Top of this long list is Roman Sionis (Ewan McGregor), also known as Black Mask, a rising crime lord, though he’s even more concerned with picking up a MacGuffin diamond, which has
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
Batman (Val Kilmer replacing Michael Keaton) faces both Two-Face (Tommy Lee Jones) and The Riddler (Jim Carrey). As Bruce Wayne, he finds himself guardian of recently orphaned Dick Grayson (Chris O’Donnell), who naturally gets himself a costume and becomes Robin. At least Alfred (Michael Gough) is still around. With Burton out of the directing chair,
A half-vampire (Wesley Snipes) hunts the undead with guns, swords, spikes, and drugs. When an upstart vampire gang leader (Stephen Dorff) decides to overthrow the old order of their society, Blade’s job gets a lot harder. An early entry in the style-first monster film sub-genre (Resident Evil, Underworld), Blade, like those that followed, is exciting, rich
In this third entry in the series, Blade (Wesley Snipes) joins up with a vampire hunting band (Jessica Biel, Ryan Reynolds) to stop Dracula (Dominic Purcell) and perhaps to end the vampire race forever. With big, shiny, action films, it’s easy to ignore the skill level of the director. This isn’t Shakespeare after all, so anyone
After introverted Patience Phillips (Halle Berry) is murdered, she is resurrected by cats. With a new sense of purpose and style, she hunts for her murderer, assumed to be the head of a cosmetics company (Lambert Wilson) or his wife (Sharon Stone). At the same time, a policeman (Benjamin Bratt) courts Patience while chasing the town’s new
Policewoman Angela Dodson (Rachel Weisz) seeks the aid of demon hunter John Constantine (Keanu Reeves) in finding the secret behind her twin sister’s alleged suicide. The trail will lead them to demons, angels, Hell, and the Spear of Destiny, the weapon that kill Christ and may be the key to the destruction of the world. I
Dave (Aaron Johnson) is a nerdy, comic-book reading, bullied, high school student who decides that he will be a costumed superhero, though he has no reason to believe he will be any good at it. Wearing an unusual wetsuit, he sets out to foil crime, and fails miserably. But a hospital stay later, he becomes
Don Alejandro de la Vega’s (Antonio Banderas) unwillingness to retire from being Zorro strains his marriage to Elena (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and his relationship with his son, Joaquin (Adrian Alonso). After receiving divorce papers, things get even worse, as a group of gunmen pressure locals to sell their land, a huge explosion rocks the woods, and
Spanish dueling champion Don Diego Vega (Frank Langella) returns to California to find that his father has been forced out as governor, replaced by the corrupt Luis Quintero (Robert Middleton) who has the peasants whipped, over-taxed, and generally abused. Realizing that he can help best in secret, he acts bored and effeminate in public, behaving