Film Review

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a tin can! No, it’s Iron Man!

Yes, Iron Man, faster than a speeding snail, louder than Metallica, and able to leap salvage yards in a single bound. Armed with powers far beyond just a bucket of bolts, Iron Man, disguised as brash playboy and arms manufacturer Tony Stark, fights a never-ending battle for truth, justice and the American military complex.

Wait, wait, wait! Iron Man? Didn’t he rust out during the Nixon administration?

Well, yes. But now he’s rebuffed, re-plated and doing his part to promote recycling by filling his lead boots with a rehabbed actor.

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Ladies and gentlemen: Stop your engines!

And as you leave the track, try to avoid the mangled wreckage of “Speed Racer,” Andy and Larry Wachowski’s over-glitzed, under-written and just plain annoying remake of the Saturday morning cartoon classic.

Early on in the new "Sex and the City" film and don't worry, we're not spoiling the plot here Carrie and longtime love Mr. Big are in bed together. A passionate interlude? Nah, they're just reading. Except they both need glasses, and there's only one pair.

The summer movie season is here. There’s some big hitters coming, but what’s the most likely bomb?

Today, I’m spotlighting a monster movie that sneaked into theaters way back in 1990 with no fanfare and carved out a well-deserved reputation as a thrilling, chilling, funny and fun film.

Despite the carefully orchestrated hype and prerelease Internet fan frenzy, “Cloverfield” didn’t revolutionize the horror film. It didn’t break new ground in on-screen terror, and it didn’t strike a national chord the way “The Blair Witch Project” (an obvious influence) did nine years ago.

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Though she’s been acting regularly for about 40 years — a TV show here, a small film there — Marianne Faithfull will always be best known as Mick Jagger’s former girlfriend, as the songstress who had a hit with “As Tears Go By” before the Stones did, and as a burned-out heroin junkie and alcoholic who successfully battled her demons in the 1980s.

 In “Irina Palm,” her first starring role, she plays Maggie, a sad woman who can’t get her long-dead husband out of her mind. But she carries on, getting by with a little help from her friends, her married son Tom and his less-than-friendly wife Sarah.

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The greatest deception in “Deception” is the fact that it’s billed as a thriller. I sat through it. It’s not.

Nothing is what it seems and what it seems is nothing; just one immense gasbag of unsexy sex and inert action meshing into yet another soulless exercise in flash trumping substance.

The message behind Irena Salina's new film is simple and direct: Without water humans can't live.

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One would think casting Robert Downey Jr. to play a superhero would make as much sense as casting Paris Hilton to play Mother Teresa. Yet as Tony Stark in "Iron Man," Downey is perfect.