Tony Stark, a billionaire industrialist and genius inventor, is kidnapped and forced to build a devastating weapon. Instead, using his intelligence and ingenuity, Tony builds a high-tech suit of armor and escapes captivity. When he uncovers a nefarious plot with global implications, he dons his powerful armor and vows to protect the world as Iron Man.   The wait is finally over. The highly anticipated Iron Man has finally arrived and it does with a loud and thunderous clap. There are so many ways to screw up a comic based film but when Hollywood gets it right they nail it like a virgin on prom night. I can confidently say that this might very well be the best comic/super hero film ever done. (Previously held by the original Spiderman).

   David Rice has grown up with a mysterious power of which many have dreamed. He is completely and utterly mobile, able to zap through wormholes in the space-time fabric to any city, any building, any place at all that his mind desires. In the blink of an eye, he can "jump" from one side of the earth to the other and back again--he can tour twenty different sunsets in one night, he can have breakfast on the Egyptian Sphinx, spend the day surfing in Australia, then pop over to Paris for dinner and enjoy dessert in Japan. He can pass through walls and locked bank safes and enter the most forbidden chambers. So far, he has used his powers to run away from his past, to take advantage of unlimited wealth, to remain fiercely independent. He's never known limits or boundaries or consequences. Or true connection. Until now. But when ...

   Where should I begin with a movie like this. Looking from my point of view Hollywood spent hundreds of millions of dollars to produce, advertise and sell this film to the general public and to be honest I fear Hollywood made a big mistake. Does that surprise you? It would be hard for me to imagine them making their money back on a film like this and even if they do know one is going to remember this film 5 years from now unlike Lord of the Rings and some of the other greats which spent a quarter of money The Golden Compass used.

    Pan’s Labyrinth is set in the 1940’s and centers on a girl named Ofelia, a very young and imaginative girl. Ofelia and her mother are being relocated to stay with her adoptive father, a military leader tasked with removing rebels from a near by camp. This is all completely irrelevant of course and doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the point of the story, which is Ofelia’s imagination and the world she becomes fascinated with. I actually saw Pan’s Labyrinth a week ago. Since then I have been sitting here trying to figure out what to say about it. Admittedly the movie is getting a fair bit of praise. Because of that I think I wanted to figure out why it was I didn’t like the film.

    I literally just walked in the door from a midnight showing of Superman Returns and I could not wait one second to write this review! Not only did I get to sit back and enjoy a huge summer blockbuster, but I did so with several of the digital artists responsible for the incredible CG effects in Superman Returns. I was looking forward to seeing Superman Returns and at the same time I was expecting nothing from the film. Even if the movie ended up being good, I thought perhaps I had out grown the “red underwear and blue tights” phase of my life. Wow was I wrong! Not only have I not out grown the “red underwear and blue tights” phase of my life, but I’m going out to buy a cape and boots first ...