Review of “The Omen (2006)”

The original Omen, made in 1976 and staring Gregory Peck, was made in the midst of decade of horror films that focused on the occult, including Rosemary’s Baby and the Exorcist. Although it never received quite the acclaim of these, it has become something of a classic and won an Academy Award for its music […]

Review of “Superman Returns”

Is it a cliché? Is it a melodrama? No: it’s Superman Returns! But what else would you expect! Despite nearly twenty years rest, we all know that Superman has to save the world from the bad guys, and can’t really ever get Lois Lane, even though he loves her. What we don’t know is how […]

Review of “Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift”

This feels like a product pulled off the shelf, re-packaged for business reasons with one eye on the Asian market, branded under the Fast & Furious label, and polished up to satisfy its carefully targeted customers: testosterone laden male teens. And if the product experience you are after is some great street racing sequences, […]

Review of “Colour Me Kubrick”

This quirky discourse on the sycophantic reflex that we reserve for celebrity is based loosely on the real story of London travel agent Alan Conway who passed himself off as the reclusive film director Stanley Kubrick in the early 1990’s. Conway, who was born Eddie Jablowsky and changed his name in a bizarre act of […]