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He's battled Batman, trained Jedi, led revolutions, and chased down kidnappers using a "particular set of skills." The Oscar-nominated Liam Neeson's been fighting the good fight for decades, bouncing from drama to action to rom-coms to…well, action again. But which are Liam Neeson's best films of all time? We've whittled …

60 years after his first comic book appearance, Spider-Man remains one of the world's most recognizable and beloved superheroes, thanks in large part to the excellent Sony and Marvel films released over the past 20 years. Those films, starring three iterations of Peter Parker for three different generations of moviegoers, …

Most franchises run out of gas as they churn out more sequels, but in the case of Fast & Furious, the movies have grown more ambitious and a bit more ridiculous with each installment, so let's take a look back at this most unlikely of franchises and rank its 11 …

While Resident Evil may have started as a video game franchise, Paul W.S. Anderson and Milla Jovovich helped bring the series to the big screen with a film series that spanned six movies. The films feature characters and villains from the games, but they tell their own separate stories and …

DC is wrapping up another Crisis event, and as is standard practice with these stories, the DC multiverse has been given a major overhaul. DC has fully abandoned the 52 universes approach popularized by 2011's New 52 relaunch. Instead, they're returning to a classic version of the multiverse where thousands …

Christian Bale is – for now, at least – the only actor to star in three live-action Batman movies. That allowed Bale to really own the role and develop his incarnation of Bruce Wayne in a way we haven’t seen before or since. This may not be the perfect Batman …

There are certain staples of any solid Batman diet: cape and cowl, batmobile, Alfred, insane villain and, of course, bat-gadgets. And lots of them. For what good is Batman without his trusty utility belt and the many, many enthralling pieces of tech contained therein? So with The Dark Knight Rises …

In Hollywood, conventional wisdom suggests that it doesn't matter what you do with the first two-thirds of a story as long as you have a strong ending. While the commercial success of any major film series demands that the opposite be true, front-loading a franchise with its best writing, acting …

Films based on comic books don't have the best rep in the world. Even in the years of critical and commercially successful comic films like the Spider-Man and X-Men films, there are still films like Catwoman and Elektra. It's a crapshoot and you never know what you're going to get. …

The Wachowski Brothers (Writers/Directors of The Matrix trilogy) must be sleeping soundly this evening. Their movie will open huge, allow them a blank check on all future projects, and cement their membership into the modern class of effects-savvy directors such as Peter Jackson, George Lucas, Michael Bay, and Roland Emmerich. …