Today heralds the return of director Bryan Singer to the cinema with Jack and the Giant.  While it doesn’t seem like this is going to be a classic on par with his earlier work (Rotten Tomatoes has it at 49% at the time of this piece), I’m just glad he’s back.  His career got off to such a spectacular beginning and, let’s not forget, we owe this man for beginning the modern comic book movie renaissance with the first two X-Men films.  Singer got his start in Hollywood as an assistant to Richard Donner whose Superman saga he brought to a close in Superman Returns.  I think the stress of that production and the backlash from some fans really shook him and threw him entirely off track.  I love Superman Returns.  I’ll have to do a whole column on it sometime, but I think it’s absolutely fantastic.  So here are my top 5 Singer films and I cannot wait to see what he has in store for us next year with X-Men: Days of Future Past.
1. The Usual Suspects (1993)
2. Superman Returns (2006)
3. X2: X-Men United (2003)
4. X-Men (2000)
5. Valkyrie (2008)