15 great superhero movies that aren’t Marvel or DC but are worth a watch
With The Batman dominating box offices around the country and the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s pull over cultural conversations for the last decade, there’s no shortage of superhero movies for you to watch in theaters or at home. But what if someone wanted something, you know, a little different?
We’ve put together this list of 15 great superhero movies outside of the Marvel and DC universes that you can watch at home right now. In favor of digging deeper through the superhero movie canon, we’re not including some of the more obvious picks you probably already thought of, like The Incredibles (Disney Plus) and Robocop (Prime/Tubi/Hoopla). Similarly, there are some great superhero titles that aren’t currently available on streaming (such as Johnnie To’s The Heroic Trio) that would otherwise be listed here.
Across the 8th Dimension is the latest cinematic adventure of Dr. Buckaroo Banzai, the famed physicist/neurosurgeon/test pilot/rock star who occasionally saves the world. Oh, you’re not familiar?
Peter Weller stars as Dr. Buckaroo Banzai, who in this installment must save the Earth from the Red Lectroids, a group of inter-dimensional aliens led by an absolutely maniacal John Lithgow (delivering one of the most deliciously amped-up performances the 80s had to offer). Banzai is aided by his sidekicks, who are also his band mates, including Jeff Goldblum dressed up as a cowboy named “New Jersey.”
One of the great joys of Buckaroo Banzai is despite actually being a standalone film, it throws you into what feels like the middle of a long-running serial, to its great (and often bizarre) benefit.
One of two movies directed by W.D. Richter (writer of 1978’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Big Trouble in Little China and,
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