Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel is a frustrating, bloated movie that isn’t entirely successful. But it’s still one of the year’s best blockbusters.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/misschatter/ / CC BY 2.0Sports writers use a lot of hyperbole. It’s kind of the nature of the job. Think about it: let’s say you’re on the hometown baseball beat for a major metropolitan media outlet for two years. That means watching 324 games of baseball (not counting spring training, and potentially the World Baseball Classic and the postseason), many of them completely indistinguishable from the rest; all of which you are expected to summarize…

So in one of those freak occurrences involving a meteorite striking a doctor’s office in Lorton, Virginia, a meteorite struck a doctor’s office in Lorton — and then things got weird. Cool and collected doctors Marc Gallini and Frank Ciampi, having nearly been struck by bits of space rock falling from the universe, decided to donate this chunk of ancient sky to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History — thinking that they would…

::FiZ:: must have been doing a Superman crawl to frame this shot of stylin’ Chucks at dusk, the first of its kind in the DCist Photo Pool. According to very scientific analysis, no one else has been brave enough to get down on the ground at a bus stop to take a picture. EXIF….

Bryan Singer spent something like $200 million a few years back trying to revive the Superman movie franchise. Shaikh Nasir’s Malegaon ka Superman came somewhat more frugally: about two grand. But every rupee of that modest sum is on the screen. He shoots on a handheld digicam. A “dolly shot” consists of three guys stabilizing him and pushing him forward on a bicycle while he clutches the camera with both hands. And he sure…