I saw this over the weekend and was simply blown away. Iron Man is the best movie adaptation of a comic book character since Batman Begins and one of the best, period. The story of industrialist Tony Stark (played to the hilt by Robert Downey Jr.) as he invents the "Iron ...

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Awake - the opposite of what I had become less than halfway through this snorefest from director Joby Harold, starring Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba and Terrence Howard. Seriously. I got hit because I was snoring loudly. I then proceeded to go back to sleep. -K

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It's that time of year again. Only a month or so before the summer movie season begins, but even more important, it's a little over two months before Pixar's latest effort hits the big screen: Wall-E. The last film Andrew Stanton directed was Finding Nemo, so if you've seen that one, ...

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Greg over at Real Life is running a storyline in which he and his wife agree that each person has to watch a movie chosen by the other as a way of rectifying their ignorance about certain genres of film. Two days in and it's already broken when "musical" clashes ...

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In April, 1992, Chris McCandless began hiking along the Stampede Trail, near Denali National Park, Alaska. Carrying few provisions, including a .22 rifle, a bag of rice and a book on the local flora and fauna, he soon discovered an abandoned bus and made it his base camp. For almost ...

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