10 Super Heronies You Must See

10 Super Heronies You Must See

The Powerpuff Girls Movie

Release Date 2002
Rating : 6.5 Production Companies: Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Animation Director: Dave Kupczyk, Craig McCracken Stars: Cathy Cavadini, Tara Strong, Elizabeth Daily

Summary: Based on the hit animated television series, this feature film adaptation tells the story of how Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup - three exuberant young girls - obtain their unique powers, become superheroes and join forces to foil evil mutant monkey Mojo Jojo's plan to take over the world.

Barb Wire

Release Date 1996
Rating : 3.5 Production Companies: Propaganda Films, Dark Horse Entertainment Director: David Hogan, Esther Vivante, Douglas E. Wise Stars: Pamela Anderson, Temuera Morrison, Victoria Rowell

Summary: A sexy nightclub owner, Barb Wire moonlights as a mercenary in Steel Harbor, one of the last free zones in the now fascist United States. When scientist Cora Devonshire wanders into Barb's establishment, she gets roped into a top-secret government plot involving biological weapons. Soon Barb is reunited with her old flame Axel Hood, who is now Cora's husband and a guerrilla fighter, resulting in plenty of tense action.

The Hunger Games

Release Date 2012
Rating : 7.2 Production Companies: Lionsgate, Color Force Director: Dawn Gilliam, Steven Soderbergh, Jon Kilik Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth

Summary: Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Part twisted entertainment, part government intimidation tactic, the Hunger Games are a nationally televised event in which “Tributes” must fight with one another until one survivor remains. Pitted against highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives, Katniss is forced to rely upon her sharp instincts as well as the mentorship of drunken former victor Haymitch Abernathy. If she’s ever to return home to District 12, Katniss must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival against humanity and life against love. The world will be watching.

Elektra

Release Date 2005
Rating : 4.7 Production Companies: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Regency Enterprises Director: Rob Bowman, Portia Tickell, Bryan Spicer Stars: Jennifer Garner, Goran Visnjic, Will Yun Lee

Summary: Elektra the warrior survives a near-death experience, becomes an assassin-for-hire, and tries to protect her two latest targets, a single father and his young daughter, from a group of supernatural assassins.

Supergirl

Release Date 1984
Rating : 4.4 Production Companies: Warner Bros. Pictures, DC Comics Director: Derek Cracknell, Jeannot Szwarc Stars: Helen Slater, Faye Dunaway, Peter O'Toole

Summary: After losing a powerful orb, Kara, Superman's cousin, comes to Earth to retrieve it and instead finds herself up against a wicked witch.

Catwoman

Release Date 2004
Rating : 3.4 Production Companies: Village Roadshow Pictures, Di Novi Pictures Director: Steve Danton, Jean-Francois Morissette, Steve M. Davison Stars: Halle Berry, Benjamin Bratt, Sharon Stone

Summary: Liquidated after discovering a corporate conspiracy, mild-mannered graphic artist Patience Phillips washes up on an island, where she's resurrected and endowed with the prowess of a cat — and she's eager to use her new skills... as a vigilante. Before you can say "cat and mouse", handsome gumshoe Tom Lone is on her tail, fascinated by both of her personas.

X-Men: Days of Future Past

Release Date 2014
Rating : 7.9 Production Companies: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, The Donners' Company Director: Milena Popovic, Christine Wilson, Bryan Singer Stars: Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender

Summary: The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future.

Black Panther

Release Date 2018
Rating : 7.3 Production Companies: Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Pictures Director: Dawn Gilliam, Lisa C. Satriano, Ryan Coogler Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o

Summary: King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as well as without. Using powers reserved to Wakandan kings, T'Challa assumes the Black Panther mantle to join with ex-girlfriend Nakia, the queen-mother, his princess-kid sister, members of the Dora Milaje (the Wakandan 'special forces') and an American secret agent, to prevent Wakanda from being dragged into a world war.

Ant-Man and the Wasp

Release Date 2018
Rating : 7 Production Companies: Marvel Studios Director: Hajar Mainl, Hannah Myvanwy Driscoll, Karen M. Cantley Stars: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Peña

Summary: Just when his time under house arrest is about to end, Scott Lang once again puts his freedom at risk to help Hope van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym dive into the quantum realm and try to accomplish, against time and any chance of success, a very dangerous rescue mission.

Wonder Woman

Release Date 2017
Rating : 7.3 Production Companies: Warner Bros. Pictures, Dune Entertainment Director: Patty Jenkins, Inti Carboni, David Bispham Stars: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen

Summary: An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict.