Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)This expensive blockbuster, directed by Zack Snyder, occurred on the 75th anniversary of the DC Comics hero (from 1938).Allen described the film""s plot as a combination of his previous two films,Interiors (1978)andAnnie Hall (1977).Grocery items (egg cartons, raw meat, carrots, bacon, etc.) are in a messy heap that lead toward the pet-door.With an enchanted look on his face, as if called by an invisible presence (off-screen) that only he senses, Barry irresistibly follows he sounds and is spirited away by the aliens into a field.In the laboratory of Luthor""s Lair, Lenny and Luthor prepared a protoplasmic mass, grown from Superman""s cells, to recreate life itself.