Stories by @michaelcosby

Batman: The Last Crusade

When a new string of bizarre killing sprees take up Batman and Robin’s attention, critics begin to question if the Dark Knight has a right to endanger the life of a child. What does night after night of danger and brutality do to a child? And what is the Joker planning?

Sam Raimi's The Last of Us

Based on the 2013 video game of the same name developed by Naughty Dog, the film follows Joel, a smuggler tasked with escorting the teenage Ellie across a post-apocalyptic United States.

Zack Snyder's The Dark Knight Returns

It tells an alternative story of Bruce Wayne who, at 55 years old, returns from a decade of retirement to fight crime while facing opposition from the Gotham City police force and the United States government. The story also features the return of classic foes Two-Face and the Joker, and culminates in a confrontation with Superman, who is now an instrument of the government. The story introduces Carrie Kelley as the new Robin and the hyper-violent street gang known as the Mutants.

Wolfgang Petersen's Batman vs. Superman

Bruce Wayne attempts to shake all of the demons in his life after his five year retirement of crimefighting. Dick Grayson, Alfred Pennyworth and Commissioner Gordon are all dead. Meanwhile, Clark Kent is down on his luck and in despair after his divorce from Lois Lane. Clark serves as Bruce's best man at his wedding to the beautiful and lovely Elizabeth Miller. After Elizabeth is killed by the Joker at the honeymoon, Bruce is forced to don the Batsuit once more, tangling a plot which involves Lex Luthor manipulating a fight between Batman and Superman, while Clark begins a romance with Lana Lang in Smallville.

CW's Gotham Knights

When Batman dies in a Batcave explosion alongside Ra's al Ghul, his four protégés—Nightwing, Batgirl, Red Hood, and Robin—inherit the Belfry and a final mission: protect Gotham without him. Their investigation into a murdered scientist uncovers the Court of Owls, a secret society led by Bruce Wayne's own uncle, Jacob Kane. As the Knights dismantle the Court, they are unwittingly serving Talia al Ghul, who orchestrated everything to eliminate her enemies. In the final battle, she reveals her ultimate weapon—a resurrected, brainwashed Batman. The Knights must free their mentor, stop the League of Shadows, and prove to Gotham that the city still has protectors.

Quentin Tarantino's Casino Royale

Casino Royale takes place at the end of James Bond's career as Agent 007. The plot has Bond on an assignment to bankrupt terrorist financier Le Chiffre in a high-stakes poker game at the Casino Royale in Montenegro; Bond falls in love with Vesper Lynd, a treasury employee assigned to provide the money he needs for the game.

George A. Romero's Resident Evil

A deadly viral outbreak at a secret underground lab beneath an abandoned mansion prompts a corporate military team, S.T.A.R.S., to investigate. As soldiers are picked off by zombies and bio-organic weapons, survivor Chris Redfield—a local Native naturalist—joins officer Jill Valentine to fight their way to the lab's deepest level. There, commander Albert Wesker reveals his true mission: to sell the virus data and destroy all evidence using a dead-man's switch bomb. Betrayed by their leader and hunted by the ultimate weapon, the Tyrant, the remaining survivors must escape, destroy the lab, and expose the corporation responsible.

Darren Aronofsky's Batman: Year One

In rain-soaked Gotham, Bruce Wayne lives as a feral mechanic above a garage, waging a savage one-man war on crime using military surplus and hockey gear. Newly transferred Detective James Gordon, an honest cop in a corrupt department, battles brutal colleagues, a pregnant wife, and a commissioner who controls the underworld. As Batman terrorizes pimps, dealers, and dirty cops, Gordon must choose between the system and an alliance with the creature Gotham fears. Their uneasy partnership culminates in a bloody confrontation that shatters corruption and births the Dark Knight.