Posts Tagged ‘dc-comics’

V for Vendetta (2005)

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Portman, Natalie | Weaving, Hugo | Rea, Stephen | Fry, Stephen | Hurt, John | Pigott-Smith, Tim | Graves, Rupert | Allam, Roger | Miles, Ben | Cusack, Sinéad | Wightman, Natasha | Standing, John | Marsan, Eddie | Ashborn, Clive | Field-Rayner, Emma
Directors: McTeigue, James
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The futuristic tale unfolds in a Great Britain that’s a fascist state. A freedom fighter known as V (Weaving) uses terrorist tactics to fight the oppressive society. He rescues a young woman (Portman) from the secret police, and she becomes his unlikely ally.

Batman (1966)

Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: West, Adam | Ward, Burt | Meriwether, Lee | Romero, Cesar | Burgess Meredith | Gorshin, Frank | Napier, Alan | Hamilton, Neil | Repp, Stafford | Blake, Madge | Denny, Reginald | Frome, Milton | Perkins, Gil | Crockett, Dick | Sawaya, George
Directors: Martinson, Leslie H.
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When the four greatest arch super-criminals ever to plague Gotham City join forces, their only objective can only be the entire world! Armed with Penguin-personalized a pre-atomic submarine, an army of ruthless pirates, exploding sharks and octopi, and an arsenal of polaris missiles, the Penguin, the Joker, the Riddler and Catwoman have set their sights on the United World Security Council! Can the dynamic duo, Batman and Robin, stop the United Underworld before its too late? Will they save the Security Council from almost certain dehydration? Can they possibly save the free world from the four most powerful villains it has ever seen? One hint: The worst is yet to come…!

Superman II (1980)

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK
Actors: Hackman, Gene | Reeve, Christopher | Beatty, Ned | Cooper, Jackie | Douglas, Sarah | Kidder, Margot | O'Halloran, Jack | Perrine, Valerie | York, Susannah | James, Clifton | Marshall, E.G. | McClure, Marc | Stamp, Terence | Willoughby, Leueen | Pappas, Robin
Directors: Donner, Richard
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This time, the Man of Steel has his hands full with a trio of super-powered villains who escape from their Phantom Zone prison (remember the weird flying diamond-shaped mirror that scooped them up from the planet Krypton?) and land on Earth, where all three have powers to rival Superman’s own. How does it all come out? With a fabulous duel above the streets of Metropolis, and a startling plot twist that neatly ties in Superman’s explosive past. Arch-criminal Lex Luthor plays both ends gleefully against the middle in hopes of a modest reward: Australia.

Catwoman (2004)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Fantasy
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Berry, Halle | Bratt, Benjamin | Stone, Sharon | Wilson, Lambert | Conroy, Frances | Borstein, Alex | Massee, Michael | Mann, Byron | Smith, Kim | Heyerdahl, Christopher | Wingfield, Peter | McKenzie, Berend | Nelson-Murray, Chase | Petruzzelli, Manny | Reiner, Harley
Directors: Pitof
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Catwoman is the story of shy, sensitive artist Patience Philips (Halle Berry), a woman who can’t seem to stop apologizing for her own existence. She works as a graphic designer for Hedare Beauty, a mammoth cosmetics company on the verge of releasing a revolutionary anti-aging product. When Patience inadvertently happens upon a dark secret her employer is hiding, she finds herself in the middle of a corporate conspiracy. What happens next changes Patience forever. In a mystical twist of fate, she is transformed into a woman with the strength, speed, agility and ultra-keen senses of a cat. With her newfound prowess and feline intuition, Patience becomes Catwoman, a sleek and stealthy creature balancing on the thin line between good and bad. Like any wildcat, she’s dangerous, elusive and untamed. Her adventures are complicated by a burgeoning relationship with Tom Lone (Benjamin Bratt), a cop who has fallen for Patience but cannot shake his fascination with the mysterious Catwoman, who appears to be responsible for a string of crime sprees plaguing the city.

Batman & Robin (1997)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Schwarzenegger, Arnold | Clooney, George | O'Donnell, Chris | Thurman, Uma | Silverstone, Alicia | Gough, Michael | Hingle, Pat | Glover, John | Macpherson, Elle | Fox, Vivica A. | Thomessen, Vendela Kirsebom | Sanders, Elizabeth | Swenson, Jeep | Fink, John | MacKay, Michael Reid
Directors: Schumacher, Joel
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Mr. Freeze plans on taking Gotham City hostage by freezing the town into a permanent winter. In the meantime, a new seductive villainous, Poison Ivy, has appeared to cause a rift in the partnership of Batman & Robin. While all this is happening, faithful butler Alfred is dying. Mr. Freeze holds the key to save his life. Enter Batgirl to help save the day.

Superman Returns (2006)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Routh, Brandon | Bosworth, Kate | Spacey, Kevin | Marsden, James | Posey, Parker | Langella, Frank | Huntington, Sam | Saint, Eva Marie | Brando, Marlon | Penn, Kal | Leabu, Tristan Lake | Fabrizio, David | Roberts, Ian | Stone, Vincent | Larson, Jack
Directors: Singer, Bryan
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After eliminating General Zod & the other Kryptonian arch-villains, Ursa & Non, Superman leaves Earth to try to find his former home world of Krypton after astronomers have supposedly found it. When he finds nothing but remnants, he returns home to Earth - to find out that Lois Lane is engaged to a relative of his boss, and that Lex Luthor is at it again - after swindling an elderly, terminally ill woman. The psychopathic Luthor, whose plans to destroy California failed because of Superman’s heroics, vows vengeance against the Man of Steel and contrives a new sinister plot - using the crystals of Krypton to build a continent that will wipe out most of North America! Embedded in the continent’s structure is Kryptonite - the lethal substance that is Superman’s only weakness. Upon learning of Luthro’s sinister scheme, Superman must again race against time to stop the psychopathic Luthor before millions - possibly billions - are killed.

Batman Returns (1992)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Romance | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Keaton, Michael | DeVito, Danny | Pfeiffer, Michelle | Walken, Christopher | Gough, Michael | Murphy, Michael | Conaway, Cristi | Bryniarski, Andrew | Hingle, Pat | Schiavelli, Vincent | Hooks, Jan | Witting, Steve | Strong, John | Zumwalt, Rick | Katarina, Anna
Directors: Burton, Tim
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Having defeated the Joker, Batman now faces the Penguin - a warped and deformed individual who is intent on being accepted into Gotham society. Crooked businessman Max Schreck is coerced into helping him become Mayor of Gotham and they both attempt to expose Batman in a different light. Earlier however, Selina Kyle, Max’s secretary, is thrown from the top of a building and is transformed into Catwoman - a mysterious figure who has the same personality disorder as Batman. Batman must attempt to clear his name, all the time deciding just what must be done with the Catwoman.

Batman Begins (2005)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bale, Christian | Caine, Michael | Neeson, Liam | Holmes, Katie | Oldman, Gary | Murphy, Cillian | Wilkinson, Tom | Hauer, Rutger | Watanabe, Ken | Boone Junior, Mark | Roache, Linus | Freeman, Morgan | Holden, Larry | Murphy, Gerard | McFarlane, Colin
Directors: Nolan, Christopher
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In tone with the early “Batman: Year One” style comics. As a boy a young Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of his eyes, a trauma which led him to become obsessed with revenge but his chance is cruelly taken away from him by fate. After disappearing to the East where he seeks counsel with the dangerous but honorable ninja cult leader known as Ra’s Al-Ghul, he returns to his now decaying Gotham City overrun by organized crime and dangerous individuals manipulating the system whilst the company he inherited is slowly being pulled out from under him. The discovery of a cave under his mansion, and a prototype armored suit leads him to take on a new persona, one which will strike fear into the hearts of men who do wrong - he becomes, Batman. In the new guise, and with the help of rising cop Jim Gordon, Batman sets out to take down the various nefarious schemes in motion by individuals such as mafia don Falcone, the twisted doctor/drug dealer Jonathan ‘The Scarecrow’ Crane, and a mysterious third party that is quite familiar with Wayne and waiting to strike when the time is right.

Constantine (2005)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Reeves, Keanu | Weisz, Rachel | LaBeouf, Shia | Hounsou, Djimon | Baker, Max | Vince, Pruitt Taylor | Rossdale, Gavin | Swinton, Tilda | Stormare, Peter | Ramirez, Jesse | Zúñiga, José | Guinan, Francis | Cedar, Larry | Grace, April | Whang, Suzanne
Directors: Lawrence, Francis
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The story of irreverent supernatural detective John Constantine, who has literally been to Hell and back. When Constantine teams up with skeptical policewoman Angela Dodson to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists just beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles. Caught in a catastrophic series of otherworldly events, the two become inextricably involved and seek to find their own peace at whatever cost.

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The (2003)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: Czech Republic | Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Connery, Sean | Shah, Naseeruddin | Wilson, Peta | Curran, Tony | Townsend, Stuart | West, Shane | Flemyng, Jason | Roxburgh, Richard | Ryan, Max | Goodman-Hill, Tom | Hemmings, David | O'Neill, Terry | Pellar, Rudolf | Willox, Robert | Orr, Robert
Directors: Norrington, Stephen
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Renowned adventurer Allan Quatermain (Connery) leads a team of extraordinary figures with legendary powers to battle the technological terror of a madman known as “The Fantom.” This “League” comprises seafarer/inventor Captain Nemo (Shah), vampiress Mina Harker (Wilson), an invisible man named Rodney Skinner (Curran), American secret service agent Tom Sawyer (West), the ageless and invincible Dorian Gray (Townsend), and the dangerous split personality of Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde (Flemyng).