Top superhero movies
This late star’s legendary performance was the first Academy Award for a role taken from a comic book. His famous quote now decorates everything from T-shirts to wallpaper
This genius business owner/superhero played by a sharp-tongued Robert Downey Jr., built his own armored suit with amazing superpowers
Forget your typical teenage angst. The high school student in this film gets bitten by a genetically engineered spider, falls in love for the first time AND has to fight bad guys. Yet he still finds time to help Aunt May.
The famous movie franchise began with Superman leaving his home planet to take up residence on Earth. The relationship between his alter ego Clark Kent and famous female love interest Lois Lane made them one of the most well-known fictional couples around.
Before this noted actor/director and action star donned the dark suits and sunglasses and became famous for fighting off terrifying extraterrestrials, there was a science fiction comic book version.
The version with Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson and Kim Basinger may not be as legendary as more recent Batman movies, but it launched the comic book movie renaissance. It was a critical and financial success.
X-Men, mutants with bizarre powers, are feared and hated by humans, but really they just want to co-exist. Especially one of the film’s more famous stars who told fans at an annual convention that his mutant was “one of the best comic book characters ever created”. The newest installment of the franchise comes out this summer.
Historical fiction fans flocked to “300,” when it opened at conventional and IMAX theaters. Based on a graphic novel by the author of “Batman” and “Sin City,”, it followed a 1962 film based on the same ancient battle.
A human-vampire hybrid, the tortured character known as Blade has been slaying evil vampires since debuting with other Marvel comic book horror characters in the ‘70s.
This film based on a graphic novel comic is about a teenager who becomes a self-styled superhero. It was co-produced by a famous actor and super dad and Nicolas Cage plays an on-screen dad
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