Yesterday I watched Iron Man and I was pleasantly surprised by how much I thoroughly enjoyed it. Usually I tend to nitpick on plot points and characterization, but I really felt that the movie covered all of these bases and more.

Summary of the plot: Tony Stark is a playboy billionaire industrialist who is captured in Afghanistan while ( Read more... )

I first heard of this book when I watched Blind Flight on the Sundance channel and I absolutely loved the movie. I didn't realize at the time that the movie was based on the real-life accounts of Brian Keenan (an Irish school-teacher) and John McCarthy (a British reporter), when they were held hostage for 4 years by terrorists in Beirut. So ( Read more... )