Posts Tagged ‘superman’

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.

Look, Up in the Sky: The Amazing Story of Superman (2006)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Documentary | History
Countries: USA
Actors: Ackerman, Forrest J | Adler, Gilbert | Bender, Stephan | Brando, Marlon | Dean Cain | Carlin, Mike | Christopher, Gerard | Cooper, Jackie | Didio, Dan | Donner, Richard | Dougherty, Michael | Fishler, Stephen | Gough, Alfred | Grossman, Gary H. | Hamill, Mark
Directors: Burns, Kevin
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In 1938, two aspiring comic strip talents, Jerry Siegal and Joe Shuster, published a character that would create a new genre of fantasy, Superman, the first superhero. This film explores the creation of the character and his subsequent evolution over the decades through various media. With various interviews of noted creative luminaries, the film shows how the character has adapted to the times and bounced back from times when he felt irrelevant to always regain his prominence as one of the great heroes of popular culture.

Hollywoodland (2006)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | History | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Brody, Adrien | Lane, Diane | Affleck, Ben | Hoskins, Bob | Tunney, Robin | Cedar, Larry | DeMunn, Jeffrey | Henke, Brad William | Mihok, Dash | Parker, Molly | Dhavernas, Caroline | Robertson, Kathleen | Spano, Joe | Williams, Gareth | Mills, Zach
Directors: Coulter, Allen
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An exploration of fame and identity, inspired by one of Hollywood’s most infamous real-life mysteries. June 16, 1959. The glamour of Tinseltown permanently fades for actor George Reeves, the heroic Man of Steel on TV’s Adventures of Superman, as the actor dies in his Hollywood Hills home. Felled by a single gunshot wound, Reeves leaves behind a fiancée - aspiring starlet Leonore Lemmon - and millions of fans who are shocked by his death. But it is his grieving mother, Helen Bessolo, who will not let the questionable circumstances surrounding his demise go unaddressed. Helen seeks justice, or at least answers. The Los Angeles Police Department closes the case, but Helen hires - for $50 a day - private detective Louis Simo. Simo soon ascertains that the torrid affair Reeves had with Toni Mannix, the wife of MGM studio executive Eddie Mannix, might hold the key to the truth. But truth and justice are not so easily found in Hollywood. Simo pursues dangerous and elusive leads in both high and low places and, in trying to turn up the heat, risks getting burned. The detective also uncovers unexpected connections to his own life as the case turns more personal and he learns more about Reeves himself. Behind the icon was a complex man who gave his life to Hollywood in more ways than one.

Epic Movie (2007)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Penn, Kal | Campbell, Adam | Coolidge, Jennifer | Mays, Jayma | Chambers, Faune A. | Glover, Crispin | Cox, Tony | Jiménez, Héctor | Hammond, Darrell | Electra, Carmen | Willard, Fred | Carradine, David | Lehre, David | McDonald, Kevin | Alvarez, George
Directors: Friedberg, Jason
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The twisted minds of two of the six writers of “Scary Movie” tackle the biggest mega-blockbusters of all time in “Epic Movie.” The story centers on four not-so-young orphans: one raised by a curator at the Louvre (where an albino assassin lurks), another a refugee from Mexican “libre” wrestling, the third a recent victim of snakes on her plane, and the fourth a “normal” resident of a mutant “X”-community. The hapless quartet visits a chocolate factory, where they stumble into an enchanted wardrobe that transports them to the land of Gnarnia (with a “G”). There they meet a flamboyant pirate captain and earnest students of wizardry - and join forces with, among others, a wise-but-horny lion to defeat the evil White Bitch of Gnarnia.

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.