Stories by @michaelcosby

Rupert Sanders' Van Helsing

In 1990s Romania, young Eric Van Helsing witnesses his parents' murder by monsters at a stone circle. Twenty-five years later, Eric is a battle-hardened monster hunter tracking Dracula across Europe. When he crosses paths with Catherine, a young woman enslaved by the immortal Countess Elizabeth Bathory—Dracula's granddaughter—he must forge an uneasy alliance with his sworn enemy to stop her. As Bathory's power grows, threatening to unleash an ancient evil, Eric and Dracula race to destroy her before she drains Dracula's power and becomes unstoppable. But victory comes at a devastating cost, and Eric must decide how far he'll go for revenge.

Ben Affleck's Brave and the Bold Trilogy

Batman's world is shattered when Talia al Ghul arrives in Gotham with Damian—the son Bruce never knew—and reveals that Ra's al Ghul is dead, murdered by Professor Hugo Strange and the mysterious Red Hood. As Bruce trains Damian to abandon his assassin upbringing and embrace Robin, the Red Hood's war on crime exposes a devastating truth: Jason Todd has returned from the dead. Bruce's mission to save Jason fractures the Bat-Family, while Black Mask makes a desperate play for power. When Batman vanishes, Dr. Simon Hurt and the Black Glove strike—unleashing the sinister Zur-En-Arrh and threatening to transform Bruce into the Bat-God Barbatos. Now Damian, Nightwing, Red Robin, Oracle, and Catwoman must unite to save their leader and Gotham itself from a war the Batman may not survive.

Zack Snyder's Justice League: Parts 2 & 3

After the League unites to stop Steppenwolf, Lex Luthor forms his own villainous League—Dr. Maru, Captain Cold, Orm, Black Manta, and the Riddler—secretly connected to Darkseid, who invades Earth and enslaves it with the Anti-Life Equation. Five years later, Batman, Cyborg, Flash, Mera, Deadshot, and Green Lantern launch a desperate time-travel mission to undo the apocalypse. In the end, Batman sacrifices himself, Diana's son learns his father was Bruce Wayne, and a new Batman rises in Gotham twenty years later.

Martin Campbell's G.I. Joe

Duke and Rex, blood brothers since childhood, lead an elite team to destroy Destro's nanomite weapons lab in Greenland. The mission goes catastrophically wrong when Rex is exposed to the nanomites and horrifically burned. Discharged after disobeying orders to retrieve a sample, Duke watches helplessly as Rex is recruited by Destro, mutated into the super-soldier Cobra, and given command of a gene-doped army. Duke reassembles his team—Scarlett, Snake Eyes, Heavy-Duty, Hi-Tech, Wild Bill, and CIA operative Vanessa Charles—to track Rex to Paraguay, where they uncover Destro's plan to hijack a U.S. weapons ship and unleash the nanomites on America. In a final confrontation, Duke tries to save his friend, but Rex is too far gone. Duke lets him fall, and Rex is buried—only for Cobra's eyes to snap open in his coffin.

James McTeigue's Bloodsport

Haunted by atrocities he committed as a black-ops soldier, Jonathan Dekker hides in the Amazon with the Kayapo tribe—until land raiders massacre the village that sheltered him. To buy the tribe's land and save them, Dekker returns to the world he fled, entering Brazil's brutal vale tudo circuit alongside a blind fighter, Lusia, and a washed-up manager, Rourke. Their success draws the attention of both a Rio crime lord running a death-match tournament and Securecorp, the corrupt military contractor Dekker betrayed—which sends his former best friend, Alex Mason, to kill him. To win the money, survive the hunt, and expose the truth, Dekker must conquer the undefeated champion Carlito and finally face the brother he once trusted.

Jan de Bont's Point Break: Indo

When washed-up pro surfer and ex-Marine Billy Dalton is framed for drug possession in Bali, he's forced to work for shadowy maritime security operative John McCoy to hunt a gang of modern pirates known as "The Bush Administration." Infiltrating the local surf scene, Billy falls for the beautiful Teela and her charismatic, dangerous brother Dali—only to discover they are the very pirates he's hunting, direct disciples of the legendary Bodhi. Torn between his mission and his growing bond with the crew, Billy must choose sides as Dali's Robin Hood-style heists escalate into deadly confrontations with McCoy's mercenaries, culminating in a violent jungle showdown that forces Billy to decide where his true loyalties lie.

Wes Craven's Batman Triumphant

A decade after the brutal murder of Robin (Dick Grayson), a retired, haunted Bruce Wayne lives alone in a decaying Wayne Manor. When a wave of mutant violence and Two-Face push Gotham to the brink, the 55-year-old billionaire succumbs to his inner demons and once again becomes Batman. Teaming with teenage Carrie Kelley, he battles the feral Mutant Leader and awakens his greatest nemesis, the Joker, from catatonia. As Commissioner Ellen Yindel declares war on the vigilante, Batman faces a final, brutal showdown with the Joker at a carnival. Broken but victorious, Bruce dies of a heart attack, leaving Carrie to inherit his mission.

Peter Segal's Archer

When a shadowy biotech mogul begins auctioning stolen DNA from history's greatest assassins, the CIA reluctantly reactivates the defunct ISIS agency to stop him. Sterling Archer—older, drunker, but still convinced he's the world's greatest spy—must lead his dysfunctional former colleagues on a globe-trotting mission from Monte Carlo to Tangier. But when the villain uses Archer's own genetic material to create a perfect clone, Sterling is forced to confront the one enemy he never expected: himself. Teaming up with Lana, Cyril, Pam, and the rest of the crew, Archer must prove that his chaotic, self-destructive unpredictability is the one thing no laboratory can replicate—and maybe, just maybe, become the father and partner he was always too afraid to be.

Sam Raimi's Second Spider-Man Trilogy

A decade after losing his leg to the Hobgoblin, a retired Peter Parker mentors Miles Morales, a student bitten by a genetically altered spider at Midtown High, in Spider-Man 4. As Miles grapples with newfound powers, he uncovers a criminal conspiracy led by Martin Li, whose public philanthropy masks a ruthless human-trafficking empire built with the Vulture and secretly orchestrated by Roderick Kingsley. When Miles’s mother sacrifices herself to stop Mister Negative, tragedy reshapes his purpose. Spider-Man 5 is set a year later, where Uncle Aaron returns as the Prowler, forced by the Vulture to hunt Spider-Man, leading to devastating loss and Miles’s retirement. In Spider-Man 6, Kingsley and the Jackal unleash the Tarantula—Miles’s corrupted best friend Ganke—to force Peter and Miles into a final battle. Peter sacrifices himself saving both boys, passing the mantle to Miles.

Antoine Fuqua's Scarface

After escaping a brutal Sinaloan cartel training camp as a child, Antonio "Tony" Zavala and his friends cross into America, determined to claim their piece of the American Dream. Years of grinding poverty in Los Angeles lead Tony to a ruthless, self-made kingpin, Michael Martillo, who becomes his mentor. Tony's hunger and cunning quickly propel him up the criminal ladder, securing a direct cocaine pipeline from Bolivia and cutting out the cartel. But his rise ignites a bloody war with his former tormentor, the cartel boss El Sapo. As the violence escalates—culminating in the bombing of Martillo's home and the death of his young daughter—Tony seizes control of the entire empire, orchestrating a final, brutal coup that leaves him standing atop Los Angeles, the world finally his.

Greg Berlanti's The Flash

When a bolt of freak lightning imbues obsessive but emotionally scarred CSI Barry Allen with superhuman speed, he becomes the Flash—a silent guardian protecting Central City from a grief-stricken killer known as Cold. But his mentor, the brilliant Dr. Eobard Thawne, is secretly the Reverse-Flash: a time-traveling speedster who murdered Barry's mother and is now stealing his speed to rip a hole in reality. With the help of his childhood love Iris West and a loyal team of scientists, Barry must race faster than light, survive a black hole, and confront Thawne across the fabric of spacetime itself to save his city, prove his father's innocence, and finally learn his mother's lesson: that feeling—and love—is the only force faster than time.

Robert Smigel's Green Lantern

When slacker reality TV contestant Jud Plato is mysteriously chosen by a dying alien to inherit a powerful Green Lantern ring, he gains the ability to create anything he can imagine—but his reckless, immature antics immediately draw the ire of the universe's most rigid and orderly Lantern, Sinestro. As a race of yellow alien conquerors targets Earth and Sinestro's thirst for control threatens cosmic balance, Jud must overcome his own insecurities, win over his disapproving mother, and prove that even a chaotic goofball can be a true hero—if he can just stop using the ring to make giant condoms, Elmo humping Barbara Walters, and green lap-dancing babes.

Ninja Turtles: The Blue Door

When small-town hockey enforcer Casey Jones witnesses a covert military operation at his dead-end night watchman job, he unwittingly frees four hulking, captive creatures who turn out to be mutant ninja turtles—Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo. Forced on the run with the Turtles and his ex-girlfriend, aspiring reporter April O'Neil, Casey discovers their true origin: they were born in Dimension X, prophesied to defeat the tyrannical alien warlord Krang. As Krang merges Dimension X with Earth to power his Technodrome, Casey must abandon his small-town life, embrace his destiny, and help the Turtle brothers fulfill their prophecy—before two worlds collide and New York falls.

The Punisher: Kitchen Irish

When a Hell's Kitchen bar explodes, the Punisher is drawn into a gang war over $10 million supposedly left by the hated late crime lord Nesbitt. As rival Irish gangs—the Westies, the River Rats, Finn Cooley's crew, and Maginty's outfit—battle for the inheritance, Frank teams with MI6 veterans Yorkie Mitchell and Andy Lorimer to hunt Finn Cooley. But the money is a final trick: a bomb meant to cleanse Hell's Kitchen from beyond the grave.

Gina Prince-Bythewood's Silver and Black

Under the cover of a snowstorm in Kiev, mercenary Silver Sable watches her father executed by the cyberneticist Dr. Mendell Stromm. Seven years later, she is hired by the U.S. government to track down Felicia Hardy—the Black Cat—a reckless thief who has stolen Stromm's technology. Their chase through the lawless Tri-Border region forces them into an uneasy alliance when Stromm's enhanced enforcers, the Scorpion and the Tarantula, hunt them both. As Felicia's artificial intelligence implant awakens, the two damaged women must confront their haunted pasts and stop Stromm before he perfects his weaponized future.

Shane Black's Death Note

When brilliant Chicago teen Light Turner discovers a supernatural notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in it, he decides to become the divine vigilante "Kira" and purge the world of criminals. As his body count rises, the world's greatest detective—the eccentric recluse known only as "L"—closes in, turning their hunt into a deadly game of psychological chess. But Light's quest for utopia comes at a devastating cost: his girlfriend Naomi dies reaching for him on a bridge, his father is broken by suspicion, and Light himself must sacrifice his memories to survive. In the end, he faces an impossible choice—renounce the Death Note forever, or embrace the monster he has become.

Alfonso Cuarón's The Umbrella Academy

A dysfunctional family of superpowered adopted siblings—led by the guilt-ridden Spaceboy, the bitter Kraken, the reality-bending Rumor, the spirit-channeling Séance, the time-traveling Boy, and the forgotten Vanya—reunites after the death of their abusive alien father, Sir Reginald Hargreeves. As they gather to bury him, Number Five arrives from a apocalyptic future, warning that the world will end in less than twelve hours. The siblings must overcome decades of resentment, trauma, and infighting to stop the mysterious Conductor and his Black Orchestra from unleashing Vanya's suppressed power as the world-destroying White Violin—before a lunar meteor finishes the job.

Justin Lin's Highlander: The Reckoning

When 16th-century Scottish warrior Conner MacLeod is murdered by the barbaric Kurgan and mysteriously resurrects, he learns he is one of an ancient race of Immortals—doomed to duel through the centuries until only one remains to claim the Prize. After 500 years of loss, love, and ruthless training under the manipulative mentor Ramirez, MacLeod hides as a New York history professor, haunted by his past. But when the murderous Kurgan resurfaces, MacLeod is forced from the shadows into a final, brutal confrontation through the streets of Manhattan—where the Prize isn't power, but the freedom to finally live.

John Singleton's Cage

After being framed for murder and beaten by sadistic guards, Carl Lucas volunteers for a risky genetic experiment that grants him superhuman strength and unbreakable skin. Escaping Riker's Island, he assumes the name Luke Cage and heads to the African nation of Canann, where charismatic leader Moses Magnum is building a Black utopia. Cage initially aligns with Magnum, but discovers his new ally is a ruthless dictator armed with a deadly bio-weapon and plans to create an army of super-soldiers. Teaming up with the amnesiac martial artist Iron Fist and government spy Dr. Claire Temple, Cage must stop Magnum before he unleashes the virus on the world—all while his own body slowly begins to deteriorate from the experiment that saved his life.

John Woo's Max Payne

In the dead of a New York winter, haunted detective Max Payne—hollowed by his family’s unsolved murder and drowning in painkillers—uncovers a conspiracy linking the Valkyr drug trade to the Aesir Corporation. With help from Internal Affairs officer Mona Sax, he navigates a brutal underworld of mob dons, fallen angels, dirty cops, and ruthless executives. As he closes in on CEO Nicole Horne, Max learns the truth: his wife was killed for witnessing Horne’s operation, and his quest for revenge is a slow suicide. In the end, justice comes at a cost—Max survives, but paralyzed, stripped of his badge, and finally at peace.