Fast Film Reviews

X-Men: First Class

Two allies and a powerful team of mutants band together to save the planet from nuclear annihilation. That’s the picture in a nutshell, but it doesn’t even begin to detail the numerous story threads and characters that make up this ambitious, but overly plotted film. Drama concerns the honorable Professor X, leader of the X-Men […]

The Tree of Life

Terrence Malick is an odd bird. What can you say about a director who has made just 5 films since 1973? With an average of about one movie every 10 years, his films essentially become events. They are always in fact, feats of visual style. Carefully planned, almost fussily produced works of art that bear […]