Posts Tagged ‘based-on-comic’

Underworld (1996)

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Underworld
Genres: Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Kate Beckinsale | Scott Speedman | Michael Sheen | Shane Brolly | Bill Nighy | Erwin Leder | Sophia Myles | Robbie Gee | Wentworth Miller | Kevin Grevioux | Zita Görög | Dennis J. Kozeluh | Scott McElroy
Directors: Len Wiseman
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After spending seven years behind bars, Johnny Crown is back on the street, with lots of cash, a psychotherapy degree and a burning desire to find and punish gangsters who had killed his father. One of the people involved is Frank Gavillan, who unwillingly follows Johnny in his demonical and ultraviolent crusade.

The Shadow (1994)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Shadow, The
Genres: Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Alec Baldwin | John Lone | Penelope Ann Miller | Peter Boyle | Ian McKellen | Tim Curry | Jonathan Winters | Sab Shimono | Andre Gregory | Brady Tsurutani | James Hong | Arsenio 'Sonny' Trinidad | Joseph Maher | John Kapelos | Max Wright
Directors: Russell Mulcahy
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Based on the 1930’s comic strip, puts the hero up against his arch enemy, Shiwan Khan, who plans to take over the world by holding a city to ransom using an atom bomb. Using his powers of invisibility and “The power to cloud men’s minds”, the Shadow comes blazing to the city’s rescue with explosive results.

Death Note (2006)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Death Note
Genres: Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Tatsuya Fujiwara | Ken'ichi Matsuyama | Asaka Seto | Shigeki Hosokawa | Erika Toda | Shunji Fujimura | Takeshi Kaga | Yu Kashii | Shido Nakamura | Norman England | Sota Aoyama | Masanori Fujita | Alessandro Juliani | Matt Lagan | Sarutoki Minagawa
Directors: Shusuke Kaneko
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Light Yagami finds the “Death Note,” a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world’s criminals, and soon the world’s greatest detective, “L,” is hired to find the perpetrator. An all out battle between the greatest minds on earth begins, the winner controlling the world.

Casper (1995)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Casper
Genres: Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Bill Pullman | Christina Ricci | Cathy Moriarty | Eric Idle | Ben Stein | Don Novello | Fred Rogers | Terry Murphy | Chauncey Leopardi | Spencer Vrooman | Malachi Pearson | Ernestine Mercer | Doug Bruckner | Joe Nipote | Joe Alaskey
Directors: Brad Silberling
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Furious that her late father only willed her his gloomy-looking mansion rather than his millions, Carrigan Crittenden (Moriarty) is ready to burn the place to the ground when she discovers a map to a treasure hidden in the house. But when she enters the rickety mansion to seek her claim, she is frightened away by a wicked wave of ghosts. Determined to get her hands on this hidden fortune, she hires afterlife therapist Dr. James Harvey (Pullman) to exorcise the ghosts from the mansion. Harvey and his daugh- ter Kat (Ricci) move in, and soon Kat meets Casper, the ghost of a young boy who’s “the friendliest ghost you know.” But not so friendly are Casper’s uncles–Stretch, Fatso and Stinkie–who are determined to drive all “fleshies” away. Ultimately, it is up to Harvey and Kat to help the ghosts cross over to the other side.

AVP: Alien Vs. Predator (2004)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
AVP: Alien Vs. Predator
Genres: Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Sanaa Lathan | Lance Henriksen | Ewen Bremner | Colin Salmon | Raoul Bova | Agathe De La Boulaye
Directors: Paul W.S. Anderson
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Since the beginning of time, the Predators, the feared, hulking alien game hunters, have come to Earth for one simple reason: to engage in a coming of age ritual. To become “men,” the teenage Predators have to hunt down a hive of Alien warriors and successfully defeat them and claim the skull as its trophy. However, during one hunting session, the easily aggravated Aliens fight back, leading to the destruction of the two species and the Aztec people who worshipped the Predators as Gods. Nearly two thousand years later, billionaire industrialist Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen) rediscovers the pyramid, buried thousands of feet under the ice of Antarctica, with his satellites. Knowing that he has discovered something important, Weyland fixes up a team, led by Lex Woods (Sanaa Lathan), and heads down to the Antarctic to find the pyramid. But once they get there, the enslaved Queen Alien awakens from her sleep, which results in the production of new eggs and Facehuggers. And to make matters worse, the new hunting clan of teenage Predators, led by the brash and violent Celtic, have arrived, ready to hunt down both the Aliens and the humans within…

Iznogoud (2005)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Iznogoud
Genres: Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Michaël Youn | Jacques Villeret | Olivier Barroux | Kad Merad | Franck Dubosc | Bernard Farcy | Elsa Pataky | Arno Chevrier | Rufus | Magloire Delcros-Varaud | Juliette Poissonnier | Maurice Lamy | Mathias Jung | Eric Hémon | Vernon Dobtcheff
Directors: Patrick Braoudé
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Set in Baghdad, Iznogoud is second in command (Grand Vizier) after the Caliph, Haroun El Poussah (Haroun El Plassid in English – a pun on the historical Caliph, Harun al-Rashid) but his sole aim in life is to eliminate/destroy the Caliph and take his place, expressed in his famous catchphrase, “I want to be Caliph instead of the Caliph” (“je veux devenir calife à la place du calife”), which has passed into everyday French for qualifying over-ambitious people who want to become chief. Iznogoud is always assisted in his plans by his faithful and slightly dumb (but not so dumb) henchman, Wa’at Alaaf (Dilat Larat in original French).

Batman Forever (1995)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Batman Forever
Genres: Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Val Kilmer | Tommy Lee Jones | Jim Carrey | Nicole Kidman | Chris O'Donnell | Michael Gough | Pat Hingle | Drew Barrymore | Debi Mazar | Elizabeth Sanders | Rene Auberjonois | Joe Grifasi | Philip Moon | Jessica Tuck | Dennis Paladino
Directors: Joel Schumacher
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Batman’s third film follows the practice of the second by giving him two villains to face, Two-Face and the Riddler. Two-Face blames Batman for his disfigurement and simply wishes him dead. The Riddler is a disgruntled inventor who worked for Wayne Enterprises and is terribly jealous of Wayne’s success and sophistication and uses his riddles to show his superiority over Wayne and Batman. Added to this mix are a sexy abnormal psychologist who is not only studying the criminals, but has a thing for Batman as well and Dick Grayson, (Robin) is introduced. Gotham is still a dark and foreboding place in which Batman begins to come to grips with his own psychology as he relives the deaths of his parents in his dreams.

Enquête Corse, L’ (2004)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Enquête Corse, L’
Genres: Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Christian Clavier | Jean Reno | Caterina Murino | Didier Flamand | Pierre Salasca | Pido
Directors: Alain Berberian
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Batman (1989)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Batman
Genres: Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Keaton | Jack Nicholson | Kim Basinger | Robert Wuhl | Pat Hingle | Billy Dee Williams | Michael Gough | Jack Palance | Jerry Hall | Tracey Walter | Lee Wallace | William Hootkins | Richard Strange | Carl Chase | Mac McDonald
Directors: Tim Burton
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Gotham City: dark, dangerous, ‘protected’ only by a mostly corrupt police department. Despite the best efforts of D.A. Harvey Dent and police commissioner Jim Gordon, the city becomes increasingly unsafe…until a Dark Knight arises. We all know criminals are a superstitious, cowardly lot…so his disguise must be able to strike terror into their hearts. He becomes a bat. Enter Vicky Vale, a prize-winning photo journalist who wants to uncover the secret of the mysterious “bat-man”. And enter Jack Napier, one-time enforcer for Boss Grissom, horribly disfigured after a firefight in a chemical factory…who, devoid of the last vestiges of sanity, seizes control of Gotham’s underworld as the psychotic, unpredictable Clown Prince of Crime…the Joker. Gotham’s only hope, it seems, lies in this dark, brooding vigilante. And just how does billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne fit into all of this?

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Spider-Man 2
Genres: Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Kirsten Dunst | Tobey Maguire | Alfred Molina | James Franco
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Peter Parker’s having a rough time. His double life as the superhero Spider-Man is having a devastating impact on his civilian life. Things are so bad he declares that he’s quitting, and never putting on the suit again. However, his sense of duty forces him to become a hero again when the brilliant scientist Dr. Otto Octavius is deformed in an accident and becomes Dr. Octopus. With four metal tentacles sticking out of his back, he’ll prove to be a more than worthy opponent for Spider-Man.

Bulletproof Monk (2003)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Bulletproof Monk
Genres: Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Yun-Fat Chow | Seann William Scott | Jaime King | Karel Roden | Victoria Smurfit | Marcus J. Pirae | Mako | Roger Yuan | Chris Collins | Sean Bell | Kishaya Dudley | Rob Archer | Mauricio Rodas | Bayo Akinfemi | Russell Yuen
Directors: Paul Hunter
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For 60 years a mysterious monk with no name has zigzagged the globe to protect an ancient scroll – a scroll that holds the key to unlimited power. Now the Monk must look for a new scrollkeeper. Kar is an unlikely candidate, a streetwise young man whose only interest is himself. But when he inadvertently saves the Bulletproof Monk from capture, the two become partners in a scheme to save the world from the scroll’s most avid pursuer. Packed with spectacular special effects and martial arts action, the Monk, Kar, and a sexy Russian mob princess called Bad Girl must struggle to find, face, and fight the ultimate enemy.

From Hell (2001)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
From Hell
Genres: Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Johnny Depp | Ian Holm | Ian Richardson | Jason Flemyng | Robbie Coltrane | Heather Graham | Katrin Cartlidge | Terence Harvey | Susan Lynch
Directors: ?llen Hughes | Albert Huges
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It is 1888 in London, and the unfortunate poor lead horrifying lives in the city’s deadliest slum, Whitechapel. Harassed by gangs and forced to walk the streets for a living, Mary Kelly and her small group of companions trudge on through this daily misery, their only consolation being that things can’t get any worse. Yet things somehow do when their friend Ann is kidnapped and they are drawn into a conspiracy with links higher up than they could possibly imagine. The kidnapping is soon followed by the gruesome murder of another woman, Polly, and it becomes apparent that they are being hunted down, one by one. Sinister even by Whitechapel standards, the murder grabs the attention of Inspector Fred Abberline, a brilliant yet troubled man whose police work is often aided by his psychic abilities. Abberline becomes deeply involved with the case, which takes on personal meaning to him when he and Mary begin to fall in love. But as he gets closer to the truth Whitechapel becomes more and more dangerous for Abberline, Mary, and the other girls. Whoever is responsible for the grisly acts is not going to give up his secret without a fight….will they be able to survive the avenging force that has been sent after them from hell?

Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
Genres: Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Claude Berri | Joël Cantona | Gérard Depardieu | Christian Clavier | Jamel Debbouze | Monica Bellucci | Alain Chabat | Claude Rich | Gérard Darmon | Edouard Baer | Dieudonné | Mouss Diouf | Marina Foïs | Bernard Farcy | Jean Benguigui | Michel Crémadès | Jean-Paul Rouve
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The Egyptian Queen Cleopatra bets against the Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar, that her people are still great, even if the times of the Pharaohs has long passed. She vows (against all logic) to build a new palace for Caesar within three months. Since all her architects are either busy otherwise or too conservative in style, this ambivalent honor falls to Edifis. He is to build the palace and be covered in gold or, if not, his fate is to be eaten by crocodiles. Edifis calls upon an old friend to help him out: The fabulous Druid Getafix from Gaul, who brews a fantastic potion that gives supernatural strength. In order to help and protect the old Druid, Asterix and Obelix accompany him on his journey to Egypt. When Julius Caesar gets wind of the project succeeding, he has the building site attacked by his troops in order to win the bet and not lose face. But just like the local pirates, he hasn’t counted on Asterix and Obelix.

Spawn (1997)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Spawn
Genres: Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Jai White | John Leguizamo | Martin Sheen | Theresa Randle | Nicol Williamson | D.B. Sweeney | Melinda Clarke | Miko Hughes | Sydni Beaudoin | Michael Papajohn | Frank Welker | Robia LaMorte | John Cothran Jr. | Caroline Gibson | Tony Haney
Directors: Mark A.Z. Dippé
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The movie adaptation of Todd McFarlane’s mega-cult comic! Al Simmons is a hitman who works for the government. One day, someone sets him up and he gets killed. Of course, he goes to Hell, where Malebolgia – the Devil himself – offers him a deal. Al will come back to life with a certain amount of “energy”, but when it runs out, he will return to Hell as a Hellspawn, and help in the war against Heaven. Al accepts the offer, because of the love for his wife Wanda, but when he arrives to Earth he sees that the Devil has cheated him… His face is horribly distorted, his body covered with a living suit, and the worst of all; he finds Wanda married with his best friend. Shattered, the Spawn starts wandering in New York’s alleys…

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Blade: Trinity (2004)

Friday, July 10th, 2009
Blade: Trinity
Genres: Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Wesley Snipes | Kris Kristofferson | Dominic Purcell | Jessica Biel | Ryan Reynolds | Parker Posey | Mark Berry | John Michael Higgins | Callum Keith Rennie | Paul Levesque | Paul Anthony | Françoise Yip | Michael Rawlins | James Remar | Natasha Lyonne
Directors: David S. Goyer
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The storyline for the third film finds Blade joining forces with two vampire hunters, part of a group called the Nightstalkers, as they tackle the powerful and ruthless villain Danica Talos. After harvesting the superior blood of the ancestor of all modern vampires, Talos has resurrected the man now known as “Drake” (notice the modernization of the Dracula name) from a century-long sleep in the hopes of finally getting world control for all vampires. Blade, along with the Nightstalkers must unleash a virus that will kill all vamps— but only are given one chance to make it work.

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Howard the Duck (1986)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Howard the Duck
Genres: Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Lea Thompson | Jeffrey Jones | Tim Robbins | Ed Gale | Chip Zien | Tim Rose | Steve Sleap | Peter Baird | Mary Wells | Lisa Sturz | Jordan Prentice | Paul Guilfoyle | Liz Sagal | Dominique Davalos | Holly Robinson Peete
Directors: Willard Huyck
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The story begins of a sarcastic humanoid duck the size of a man by the name of Howard from outer space is pulled from his home world to Earth through a laser beam and somehow winds up in Cleavland where he meets and quickly befriends with Beverly Switzler, a lead singer where they must stop an alien invader known as the Dark Overlords at all costs.

Immortel (ad vitam) (2004)

Friday, April 17th, 2009
Immortel (ad vitam)
Genres: Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Linda Hardy | Thomas Kretschmann | Charlotte Rampling | Frédéric Pierrot | Thomas M. Pollard | Yann Collette | Derrick Brenner | Olivier Achard | Paul Bandey | Paul Barrett | Geoffrey Carey | Leslie Clack | Javon Constantin | Lemmy Constantine | Gary Cowan
Directors: Enki Bilal
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This movie is set in the year 2095, hence the presence of mutant humans and extraterrestrials. The main character is known as Jill (Linda Hardy). She is not human. When she is discovered by Dr Elma Turner (Charlotte Rampling) she is diagnosed as being the most interesting genetic test subject Turner has ever come across. Her organs are not in the right place, she has no memory and she appears, biologically to be only three months old. Turner gives her a break, gives her an identity card and a place to stay, in exchange for being her guinea-pig to work on and discover more about. Nicopol is a frozen prisoner who is due to be released a year after the film is set. There is a problem in the prisoner ward and several are thrown down to grow (dying in the process), including Nicopol (but only his leg). There is a lot more to this story but I can’t disclose it in this summary, I don’t have the words.

Blueberry (2004)

Monday, April 13th, 2009
Blueberry
Genres: Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Vincent Cassel | Juliette Lewis | Michael Madsen | Temuera Morrison | Ernest Borgnine | Djimon Hounsou | Hugh O'Conor | Geoffrey Lewis | Nichole Hiltz | Kateri Walker | Vahina Giocante | Kestenbetsa | Tchéky Karyo | Eddie Izzard | Colm Meaney
Directors: Jan Kounen
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In the 1870’s, U.S Marshal Mike S. Blueberry tries to stop Wally Blount, the man who killed his girlfriend, from getting to a stockpile of gold hidden in Indian territory. On his way, he meets Prosit, a German villain on a persistent mission to find gold in the Superstition Mountains.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Genres: Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Hugh Jackman | Ryan Reynolds | Liev Schreiber | Dominic Monaghan | Lynn Collins | Danny Huston | Daniel Henney | Taylor Kitsch | Kevin Durand
Directors: Gavin Hood
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Wolverine lives a mutant life, seeks revenge against Victor Creed (who will later become Sabertooth) for the death of his girlfriend, and ultimately ends up going through the mutant Weapon X program.

Popeye (1980)

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Popeye
Genres: Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Robin Williams | Shelley Duvall | Ray Walston | Paul Dooley | Paul L. Smith | Richard Libertini | Donald Moffat | MacIntyre Dixon | Roberta Maxwell | Donovan Scott | Allan F. Nicholls | Wesley Ivan Hurt | Bill Irwin | Robert Fortier | David McCharen
Directors: Robert Altman
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The comic strip and animated sailor hero comes to life in this meticulous live action production that looks at the origins of Popeye and his battle against arch-rival Bluto. Nearly all the characters from the strip are reproduced here.