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Batman: The Animated Series remains the single greatest version of the Dark Knight to ever hit the screen. You may notice that theres a disproportionate number of first season episodes on this list. So here are our most essential episodes ofBatman: The Animated Series. And when youre talking about animation, well, theres rarelyanyreason to start at the beginning. Ah, but On Leather Wings is different. Theres an uneasy tension between Batman and the police....

Batman Begins revitalized a franchise after several botched attempts to reinvent Batman. Joel Schumachers bat nipples momentarily killed the Batman film franchise. Its how Ill be remembered. From a commercial standpoint, the numbers told a different story. With a big opening weekend and strong merchandise sales, the film at least warranted talk of aBatman 5. How did we get here? How did it all come to this? Opening line ofBruce Wayne, a proposed television pilot from the early 2000s....

The Underworld movies might be some of the strangest and most melodramatic B-action movies ever. That’s a good thing. Quizzically, via repurposed Shakespearean conventions… but, you know, with vampires. Nevertheless, whereas Paul W.S. From the outset, these are vampire movies by way of 16th century histrionics. A poetry of pulp. At least in its earlier installments, that made for quite a beguiling stare into the undeads realm. Here is a brooding dominatrix gargoyle ready to descend....

It wasThe X-FilesbeforeThe X-Files. Well, sort of. Later that fall, someone did. Marshall hates the town of Eerie because its not the dirty, crowded city he was born in. Statistically speaking, its the most normal place in the country. But, as Marshall himself states in the opening narration for the pilot, statistics lie. To pass the time, Marshall takes up a new hobby thats more of a quest. He starts investigating every act of weirdness in Eerie to find out why it is the way it is....

Cannon Films was in deep trouble by 1987. But in the mid-80s, Golan and Globus began to change their strategy. With them, Cannon planned to break into the Hollywood A-list. Cannons classic approach to making films was to effectively sell them before they were even made. Theyd attach a star and put together a poster, and use that package to attract financial backing. But the same financial headaches that plaguedSuperman IValso hamperedMasters Of The Universes production....

Six seasons and a movie. Yes, the sixth season ofCommunitycame and went on Yahoo! and is now come again on Hulu, along with the rest of the series. Thus we have compiled a list of every movie reference (that we can think of or remember). Here are the 61 Movie References ofCommunity. But even then the earliest seeds of movie references were ready to sprout. Together, theyll find intolerance and acceptance… ## Season 1: Environmental Science An American Tail...

I would argue that it is the first mainstream, big-budget film to do so. (Its robots were directly inspired by the 1941 Superman-inspired shortThe Mechanical Monsters.) We wanted the film to feel like a lost film of that era. Fifteen years later, theMarvel Cinematic Universeis one of the biggest, most lucrative film franchises of all time. I would never argue that the MCU owes most of its success toSky Captain....

Friday the 13th boasts some of the strangest movie tie-in comics ever made. We hit the bloody highs and lows. Friday the 13ths Jason Voorhees has been part of pop-culture for decades. The surprising thing to me is that the earliest Jason comic is only in the early 90s. For comparison,the RoboCop comicsall stretched across the franchises entire existence. They were around for all four movies as well as the stretch where he was just about nostalgia....

On July 26th, 2002 Abrams delivered the first draft of a screenplay titled simply Superman. Ive read both of Abrams drafts of the project, and theyre a lot of fun. Once those projects fell apart, Warner Bros. opted for a different take on the mythology. Two, as a matter of fact. One was the project that were discussing here. Why reinvigorate one franchise when you’ve got the option to do two at once, right?...

While it’s over 20 years old, time has been unusually kind to the hacker caper thriller Sneakers… This article comes fromDen of Geek UK. Proverbial cards on the proverbial table: I loveSneakers. However, Ive got to share two problems first. Then, it knocks Lizs (played by Mary McDonnell) handbag to the floor. There, Toblowskys nerdy computer expert discovers she has stolen his ID. Because of an accidental triggering of a toy animal....

Stephen King universe isn’t just full of terrifying monsters. It is also home to many great fictional heroes… In the Kingverse, there are monsters aplenty, but what of the heroes? Both the novel and the movies show how the Losers must persevere when faced with insurmountable odds. These are all of Kings greatest champions: Ad content continues below 10. When readers first meet Bill, he could be considered a failure....

We present the most outrageous moments from the cartoon that encouraged kids to pick their noses. Beetlejuice, beetlejuice, beetleuh…line? And it was a pretty darn good one if I can say so myself. Beetlejuice: The Animated Serieswas all about puns. You could go as far as to say it was one big punishment. Or, rather, a ton of pun. Lots of fun in the pun maybe? Fine, what about one long weekly session of punnilingus?...

Here are 16 of the very best horror stories from Stephen King! Hes done it all, with no sign of stopping. Youll always find something to give you the chills. Make a note: this is a list ofshort stories, not novellas. And on top of that, stories that are genuinely scary. I didnt forget The Mist or N. or Secret Window, Secret Garden or any of those other goodies. Those deserve their own article, dont they?...