Hey, funny we mention Kiss and robots, because in the 1978 TV movie Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park, the famous rockers take on evil robotic doubles created by a former theme-park designer who wants to upstage their concert at California's Magic Mountain. Thirty-five years later, fellow makeup kings Twisted Sister find themselves playing a Six Flags park in New Jersey during their reunion tour and performing on the West Coast in support of then future California "Governator" Arnold Schwarzenegger. And plenty of metal bands can now give older headbangers/parents relief from kiddie attractions at the House of Blues at Disney World.

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Hollywoodland
(Universal)

Although the death of former Superman star George Reeves in 1959 by gunshot was ruled a suicide, some people speculate that it was another person who pulled the trigger and ended his life. Combining real-life events with a fictitious story line in which a detective named Louis Simo (Adrien Brody) searches to find out what really happened to Reeves (Ben Affleck), Hollywoodland juxtaposes the frustrated lives of a small-screen star and a small-time PI. It is a tale of big-studio politics, the constrictions of fame, and the illusion of stardom, which were much less frequently front-page news in the days of old Hollywood than in our tell-all era. The filmmakers wanted to avoid making a standard biopic, but the story of Reeves - an aspiring movie star known only for his immortal TV role and who was the kept man of the wife (Diane Lane) of an MGM studio head (Bob Hoskins) - makes for compelling material. Simo is hot on the trail of evidence of homicide (which provokes threats to his life), and his saga is one of a failing detective struggling to cope with his ethical missteps, his divorce, and the waning attention of his young son. But you'll probably wish you had seen less of him and more of Reeves. There's a certain cleverness in casting Affleck as Reeves, especially considering that he has coped with similar trappings of typecasting, albeit it without the financial hardships his alter ego faced. In the end, you'll want to dig further into the life of Reeves on your own, especially as the bonus features do not probe into his life and we see little of his childhood on-screen. Despite its flaws, the well-acted Hollywoodland at least draws you into and humanizes the life of a former Man of Steel who was not so invincible in the end but who remains some fans' favorite ­Superman. - B.R.