This 2002 film was the first to capture the graphic thrills and eye-popping spectacle of a true comic book superhero and it essentially launched the 21st century superhero genre.
Denzel Washington plays real-life Harlem crime boss Frank Lucas and Russell Crowe plays the obsessive New York narcotics detective who pursued him through the 1970s.
The Austrian bodybuilder took his first major role playing Robert E. Howard’s primitive mercenary hero in the adventure fantasy from director John Milius and screenwriter Oliver Stone.
A teenage street urchin in an alternate reality Paris battles a mysterious organization kidnapping the greatest minds in the world in this playful fantasy fable.
Paul Verhoeven turns Robert Heinlein’s science fiction classic novel of interstellar war into a perverse concoction of patriotic fervor, fascist ideology, media satire, and military might
Plus ‘A Small Light’ on Hulu and Disney+, ‘Queen Cleopatra’ and ‘The Mother’ on Netflix, ‘Saint Omer’ and sesaon 3 of ‘The Great’ on Hulu, and Anthony Mann and James Stewart on Criterion Channel.
Sarah Polley and Ving Rhames star in this 21st century remake of George Romero’s zombie classic of human survivors who turn a suburban mall into a luxury bunker.
