Iron Man (review)

This might well be the perfect comic book movie, actually. It’s just pertinent enough to feel like it’s set in something like the real world and just tongue-in-cheek enough not to get too heavy about it, but it’s got enough self-respect to be sincere.

New York ain’t quite what it is on film

There’s a wonderful valentine to New York City in Sunday’s Irish Independent, in which writer Donal Lynch makes love to my town: New York is the only place in the world that is exactly like it is in the movies. London, on the silver screen, is always too prissily posh and old-world English, Paris is … more…

‘Iron Man’ tidbits

Iron Man rocks. I’ll have a full review later in the week, but that’s it in a nutshell. Right now, I just want to give you an anti spoiler. Despite rumors to the contrary that have had fanboys drooling for months, Samuel L. Jackson does not appear as Nick Fury here (though a nascent S.H.I.E.L.D. … more…