Superman returns to Earth (thus the title) after a five year absence. While he was away, Lois has had a child and Lex Luthor has gotten out of prison. Luthor’s plan is once again based on real-estate and will kill millions. Superman must stop Luthor as he attempts to reintegrate with society. So, Superman has
The caped crusaders (George Clooney taking over for Val Kilmer, Chris O’Donnell) face two new threats, Mr. Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and Poison Ivy (Uma Thurman), while their own relationship is falling apart. And Alfred (Michael Gough) is dying, which brings his niece (Alicia Silverstone) to visit. She gets a costume and becomes Batgirl, because at
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.
Hey, remember the unfinished spy stuff from The Amazing Spider-Man? It’s back. And it’s still unfinished as we start off with Ma and Pa Parker trying to make their getaway and failing. Then it’s back to Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) saving New York and whining about relationships and his parents. This time he has two
In an alternate 1985, costumed superheroes have been outlawed. When one ex-“hero” is murdered, his former colleagues look into it. They include: Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley)—a sociopathic fascist detective without powers Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson)—a drab wealthy guy with lots of super-gadgets Silk Spectre II (Malin Akerman)—a generic female vigilante Ozymandias (Matthew Goode)—the richest and
In 1944, a young Professor Broom accompanies a military unit on a mission to stop Rasputin (Karel Roden) and The Third Reich from carrying out a magical ritual that will end the world. They succeed—though Rasputin’s loving assistant, Ilsa Haupstein (Biddy Hodson) and the freakish assassin Karl Ruprecht Kroenen (Ladislav Beran) escape—and find a horned,
Adrian Toomes (Michael Keaton) has finally gotten a break with the contract to clean up the mess after the Avengers/Chitauri battle in New York, a break that is stripped away by the government and Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.). Searching for a new way to support his family, he and his team find they can
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
Poison Ivy (Padget Brewster) and the Floronic Man (Kevin Michael Richardson)—yeah, I had no idea who Floronic Man was before this—plan to turn all animal life into plants. Batman (Kevin Conry) and Nightwing (Loren Lester) need Harley Quin’s (Melissa Rauch) help to find Ivy and stop her. The last eleven DC Animated films have—more or
Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) is traumatized by the death of his girlfriend, Vanessa (Morena Baccarin). [No, that is not a spoiler. It happens in the first few minutes; Baccarin only makes a cameo. More than not being a spoiler, this little bit of info should have been on every poster and in every trailer surrounded by