AE Movie Club: Psycho Beefcake, 5 Comic Book Movies We'd Rather Watch Than the "Ghost Rider" Sequel, and More!

Happy Friday, fellow film fiends! It's time for another round of movie mayhem courtesy of the AE Movie Club.

Yet again, I failed to see anything new in theaters this week. In my defense, we're currently deep in the throes of a search for our first real home (up until now we have been living in a very large mushroom), which leaves me very little time to indulge my standard Raisinet-littered lifestyle. And aside from that, nothing was going to get me anywhere near a theater where they were showing The Vow.

But let's move onward and upward! This week we'll kick things off with a Fast Five dedicated to superhero movies, in honor of this weekend's Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vegans Vengeance (and last week's Chronicle and, really, the majority of the big-budget movies that seem to get made anymore, period).

Elsewhere, It Came From Instant Queue unearths a bun-lover's delight (and a Housewife's dirty secret), we break down some new posters and trailers, and this week's Movie Confessional asks us to admit that we are all much stupider more stupid than we care to reveal.

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Fast Five: Holding Out for a Hero

Nic Cage is hot

This weekend Nic Cage attempts to chip away at his looming IRS debt by releasing a needless sequel to the already unnecessary Ghost Rider. These days you can't swing a dead Catwoman without hitting a comic book movie of some sort, so I thought I'd ask: What's your favorite superhero movie? I'll start with mine, and then I wanna hear from you Boy Wonders and Supergirls.

Billy Campbell and Alan Arkin in The Rocketeer

5. The Rocketeer
Even aside from the fact that the image of an in-his-prime Billy Campbell in flyboy drag is enough to make it rain newborn kittens and milkshakes, The Rocketeer is an enjoyable, proudly corny old-timey superhero romp. Or you could ignore all the campy Jazz-age set dressing and focus on the fact that had Campbell and co-star/lover Jennifer Connelly actually procreated, their offspring would have literally blinded anyone who looked upon it with its scalding, white-hot beauty.

4. The Dark Knight
I'm also a big fan of Tim Burton's gleefully ghoulish Batman Returns, but pound for pound Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight is my favorite Batman film. I loved how it managed to capture and distill Gotham down to a tangible, living ecosystem complete with its own interwoven politics, crime, class, celebrity, and moral code. Gorgeous.

3. Unbreakable
Sorry if I'm spoiling anyone who hasn't seen the film by revealing that it is, indeed, a superhero movie - but it is. And not knowing this going into the film was probably much of the reason that I enjoyed this subtle human drama about a superhuman man just beginning to realize his potential.

2. X-Men
Ian McKellan, Patrick Stewart, blue-boobied-but-lethal Rebecca Romjin. Done.

Flash Gordon

1. Flash Gordon
This movie manages to do the impossible: Be both laughably awful and legitimately stunning at the same time. It's cheap-looking AND visually inspired. It's camp as a row of tents AND pure rock-and-roll. And thanks to Sam Jones as everyone's favorite interstellar football hero, there's plenty of beefcake to enjoy along the way.

Those are my picks, but they're just the tip of the Iceman. What are your faves?