Could you imagine that Oz: The Great and Powerful, which is loosely based in L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was planned to be filmed by Disney since 1937? The rights for this movie was sold and resold for many times before, finally, Walt Disney Production acquired them and signed a contract with Sam Raimi to direct the film. Disney's series of decisions to reduce the filming costs had lead to unsuccessful negotiations with Robert Downey, Jr. and Johnny Depp for the leading role of Oscar Diggs/Oz, till, finally, James Franco was chosen for the role. You may remember him as Will Rodman form Rise of the Planet of the Apes. As the movie is the prequel for the core story The Wizard of Oz, there are no lovely Dorothy Gale, instead we have three witches. The Wicked Witch of the West, Theodora is portrayed by Mila Kunis which recently has had leading roles in Hell & Back and Friends with Benefits). Evanora The Wicked Witch of the East and the Ruler of the Munchkin Country is played by Rachel Weisz (The Bourne Legacy, To the Wonder); she inferiors in power of magic with Glinda the Good Witch of the South which is most powerful sorceress of Oz and is the ruler of the Quadling Country. In Disney's version of Oz: The Great and Powerful, Glinda is portrayed by Michelle Williams, which was quite smart decision, taking in consideration the amazing performance of Michelle Williams in My Week with Marilyn as Marilyn Monroe.

In a small silent American city five are shot dead. The local policemen make a rapid investigation and quickly arrest the culprit. It seems like everything is clear and the case is closed. But the guy accused in five death makes a strange declaration in front of cameras "Get Jack Reacher", claiming himself innocent. The crystal clear case turns out to be a complicated chain of events, when Reacher, who saw the accused man's request, heads to the city in order to restore the justice. The movie is solely based on Lee Child's series of novels about the giant military professional Jack Reacher. In the Christopher McQuarrie's movie Jack is portrayed by Tom Cruise. Although Cruise is not as tall as Jack Reacher described in Lee Child's books, he manages the role in very persuasive way. Furthermore, Tom looks perfectly adequate for the role of Reacher, mostly because we are to accustomed to his previous roles as special agents or military professionals in the movies like Valkyrie, Knight and Day, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol.

Guy Ritchie has made of Sherlock Holmes's character in style of Tony Stark (Iron Man). The film looks fascinating, especially as for part of mystery stories, capable of grasping the whole 128 minutes, and at the same time funny, not devoid of jokes and humor, defusing a tense situation of the investigation. But in the end not only the integrity covers the entire film, gathering in one large mosaics of events, but also anxiously expectation for the sequel, because like the Joker card in the first Nolan's "Batman", the ending is virtually guaranteed that the movie is just a kind of "Sherlock Holmes: The Beginning" and the masterpiece "The London Knight" awaits us in the near future.

Iron Man 3 is an American super-hero fantasy film scheduled to release in 2013. The movie is mostly based on the best of Marvel's Iron Man comics' series, "Extremis". In Iron Man 3, Tony Stark finds himself helpless before the menace that looms on him, his beloved ones and all the civilized humanity. His feels guilty for numerous deaths of his friends in the previous "Good vs. Evil" fights. He decides to change the world around himself, to make it less harmful both for personal guilt and happy and restful life of his folks. These attempts make world better break into pieces when powerful "Extremis" break loose in its turn. Referred as a virus, "Extremis" is not exactly what you think. It's a Super-Soldier Serum that consists of billions of programmable nano-robots. This army of robots invades the human brain and affects so called "Body's Repair Center". These nano-mediums totally erase all the original instructions that allows as to recover from wounds and replace these instructions with preprogrammed ones. The body fails to perform its basic functions and fails covered with serious injuries caused by "Extremis" action. Then the new program tells body's repair how to repair these wounds by replacing old tissues by new ones and even how to grow new organs. The better ones. The fact that this serum was produced at one of Stark factory's makes him feeling even guiltier. But there is no time to regrets, the Evil equipped with "Extremis" attacks a human world, and Iron Man is our last hope. Being defeated by virus-powered evil forces in the first round, Tony takes a frantic pace – he enchants his body with "Extremis" too. But his program for body's repair center makes quite big difference with the "bad guy's" one.

Eagle Eye is a movie that was released in 2008 and stars Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan. The movie follows two strangers, Jerry and Rachel, who are forced to follow a series of dangerous tasks by an unknown woman who has taken control of their lives through their cell phones and other technology. As they race against time to complete these tasks, they begin to uncover a conspiracy that threatens their lives and the safety of the entire country.