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In a gritty and alternate 1985, the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown. But after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so they uncover a sinister plot that puts all of humanity in grave danger. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Mar 3, 2025 - 29 comments

[TRAILER] Down-on-his-luck John Ellman (Boris Karloff) is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor (Edmund Gwenn, aka Santa in Miracle on 34th Street) uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is not as expected. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 12, 2024 - 1 comment

[TRAILER] Spike Lee's epic film biography of the Black activist and leader of the struggle for Black liberation. Starring Denzel Washington in the title role, with Angela Bassett as Betty Shabazz. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jul 24, 2024 - 4 comments

The swift and powerful monarch of the ocean gets his own movie in the DC Extended Universe. [more inside]
posted by prize bull octorok on Dec 21, 2018 - 39 comments

A showbiz memoir by Nicholas Meyer, who directed Time After Time, Star Trek II, The Day After, Star Trek VI, and The Human Stain; co-wrote the screenplays for Star Trek IV and Fatal Attraction; and wrote the Sherlock Holmes novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution and directed its film adaptation. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Nov 23, 2018 - 4 comments

(1969, Color, Sci-Fi, Warner Bros., British, Western, Comedy, Sixties, Moonopoly) In the near future, mankind has a base on the moon. The pilot of a moon ferry based there is hired by crazy richguy "Hundred Percent" Hubbard to crash a satellite made of gemstone into the lunar surface. Meanwhile, go-go dancers flail about in a "Moon Bar." "The first moon 'western.'" "An Asteroid Worth Millions. A Robbery. A Murder." Moon Zero Two is a weird one. Parts of the movie seem to want to be comic, which is something the guys shied away from in later seasons, and there's animated titles as in Catalina Caper. This is also a very sixties movie, with sexy moon dancers and a blaring trumpet soundtrack. It's still the first season, but the riffing is improving, and I think the movie helps out a bit from sheer strangeness. YouTube (1h37m) First aired around January 20, 1990. [more inside]
posted by JHarris on Dec 3, 2014 - 8 comments