It’s a bird, it’s a plane … It’s another film reboot of the classic 1930s comic book “Superman.” While Bryan Singer’s “Superman Returns” failed to wow audiences back in 2006, director Zach Synder’s highly anticipated “Man of Steel” lays a solid foundation for the future of the franchise. Conceived by Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer and written by the latter, the film uncovers the origins of everyone’s favorite Kansas-based alien, Kal-El (Henry Cavill). As Kryton’s core collapses, scientist Jor-El (Russell Crowe) decides that the only way to save his newborn son and the entire Kryptonian race is to send the baby to Earth, where he will be welcomed as a god. Moments before the entire planet implodes, a failed military coup by General Zod (Michael Shannon) and his followers leads to the entire group being frozen in pods (we’ve seen that already this summer in “Into Darkness”) and banished to prison in the Phantom Zone. When Zod escapes, he vows to find Kal-El and create a new Krypton on Earth.