Stories by @mcorkrean

Captain America: The First Avenger (1991)

It is 1941 and the world is in the throes of war. Steve Rogers wants to do his part and join America's armed forces, but the military rejects him because of his small stature. Finally, Steve gets his chance when he is accepted into an experimental program that turns him into a supersoldier called Captain America. Joining forces with Bucky Barnes and Peggy Carter, Captain America leads the fight against the Nazi-backed HYDRA organization.

Thor (1991)

After reigniting a dormant war, Thor is banished from Asgard to Earth, stripped of his powers and his hammer Mjölnir. As his brother Loki plots to take the Asgardian throne, Thor must prove himself worthy.

Iron Man 2 (1990)

With the world now aware that he is Iron Man, billionaire inventor Tony Stark faces pressure from all sides to share his technology with the military. He is reluctant to divulge the secrets of his armored suit, fearing the information will fall into the wrong hands. With Pepper Potts and "Rhodey" Rhodes by his side, Tony must forge new alliances and confront a powerful new enemy.

The Incredible Hulk (1988)

Scientist Bruce Banner desperately seeks a cure for the gamma radiation that contaminated his cells and turned him into The Hulk. Cut off from his true love Betty Ross and forced to hide from his nemesis, Gen. Thunderbolt Ross (William Hurt), Banner soon comes face-to-face with a new threat: a supremely powerful enemy known as The Abomination.

Iron Man (1988)

A billionaire industrialist and genius inventor, Tony Stark , is conducting weapons tests overseas, but terrorists kidnap him to force him to build a devastating weapon. Instead, he builds an armored suit and upends his captors. Returning to America, Stark refines the suit and uses it to combat crime and terrorism.

The Brothers Bloom (1968)

The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job - showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.

2012 (1992)

A frustrated writer struggles to keep his family alive when a series of global catastrophes threatens to annihilate mankind.

Looper (1985)

"Present-day" contract killers called "loopers" are hired by criminal syndicates from the future to terminate victims whom they send back through time.

Willow (2022)

Enter the world of "Willow." Journey to the far corners of your imagination, to a land of myth and magic, where dream and reality live side by side ... to a place that never existed, a time that never was. It is a world where a young man named Willow lives out an adventure that explodes beyond the boundaries of his own hopes and fears.

Vagrants

After a bad experience on his last film, screenwriter Richard Jefferies writes a cruel, mean-spirited script called "The Vagrant" which goes by the wayside, until director William Wesley sees and ad for it in the paper. By this point Jefferies has written a new script about killer scarecrows, which Wesley agrees to make after contacting him. Shooting begins in Florida in 1984.

The Princess Bride (2021)

the story of a farmhand named Westley, accompanied by companions befriended along the way, who must rescue his true love Princess Buttercup from the odious Prince Humperdinck. The film essentially preserves the novel's narrative style by presenting the story as a book being read by a grandfather to his sick grandson.

Splendour

A biopic surrounnig the life Natalie Wood

Watchmen (1993)

In 1985 where former superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach into his own sprawling investigation, uncovering something that could completely change the course of history as we know it.

Mario

Two plumbers find themselves transported to a magical kingdom full of strange creatures and dangers and are sent on a quest to save a princess from an evil tyrant

Gods and Monsters (1999)

An Avengers-style gathering of Universal Monsters

Uncle Clarence

In the summer of 1998, Clarence Elkins is arrested in Barberton, Ohio, and accused of murdering his mother-in-law and assaulting his 6-year-old niece and leaving her for dead. The little girl says it was "Uncle Clarence" who had committed the crimes.

Knives Out (1978)

A detective investigates the death of a patriarch of an eccentric, combative family.

The Tommyknockers

The small town of Haven becomes a hot-bed of inventions all run by a strange green power device. The whole town is digging something up in the woods, and only an alcoholic poet can discover the secret of the Tommyknockers.