Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightly), Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), sorceress Tia Dalma (Naomie Harris), and the resurrected Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) need the aid of a traitorous Far Eastern pirate Sao Feng (Chow Yun-Fat), to retrieve Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) from Davy Jones’s locker. This is imperative because Jack is one of the nine pirate
Long ago, a Kingdom was split by feuding brothers. Since then, the two countries have fought. With one about to lose, their sorcerer (Larry Drake) tricks the king into letting him summon the ancient protector of the land, a gryphon. With the creature firmly under his control, the sorcerer moves to take over both Kingdoms.
Mattie (Kristen Bell) finds her boyfriend, Josh (Jonathan Tucker), hanging from a telephone cable. Soon other friends and strangers are committing suicide or disappearing and ghostly images are popping up on the internet. Teaming up with Dexter (Ian Somerhalder), who purchased Josh’s computer, Mattie tries to discover what is happening and if the code that
Thirty years before the events of Ringu, and eleven after anything of interest to audiences will happen, Sadako (Yukie Nakama), the evil ghost of the first film, is a meek, twenty-something-year-old who has joined an acting troop in Tokyo. She’s also followed by the visage of her evil self. People of no importance die, and the
Unstoppable alien invaders attack Earth in giant tripod war machines. Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise), a divorced man and uninvolved father, attempts to keep his two children Robbie (Justin Chatwin) and Rachel (Dakota Fanning), safe, and take them to their mother. Steven Spielberg sucks all of the meaning out of H.G. Wells’s classic novel, leaving a
Dick and Jane Harper (Jim Carrey, Téa Leoni) are living the upper-middle class American dream. When Dick gets promoted to VP, the future looks secure and Jane quits her job. But Dick’s boss (Alec Baldwin) is a Ken Lay-style crook and the company folds like Enron. As their lives crumble, Dick and Jane must find
It’s 2019, and Lincoln Six Echo (Ewan McGregor) and Jordan Two Delta (Scarlett Johansson) live in an enclosed, sterile, controlled, post-apocalyptic society where the only goal is to win the lottery and be sent to The Island, the last uncontaminated spot on Earth. But Lincoln is discontented and having nightmares, so he sneaks out, and
Four children, Lucy (Georgie Henley), Edmund (Skandar Keynes), Peter (William Moseley), and Susan (Anna Popplewell), sent to the country to avoid the blitz, travel through a magical wardrobe to the land of Narnia, where an evil witch (Tilda Swinton) keeps the land in perpetual winter. A prophecy declares that four humans will start the overthrow
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
A traitor to a secret organization of clerics (John de Lancie) passes a “blood” sample from the demon Lilith (Shiri Appleby) to a mad scientist (David Hewlett), who injects it into himself and turns into a plague carrying demon. To stop the creature and the disease, Shaw, the clerics’ secret agent (Richard Burgi), must train
