Not since Gus Van Sant inexplicably directed a shot-by-shot remake of Hitchcock's Psycho has a thriller been copied with so little point or impact. This retelling of the 1976 scare hit casts Liev Schreiber (slumming) as the U.S. ambassador to Great Britain and Julia Stiles in the nothing role of his wife. Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, looking less evil than understandably bored, plays Damien, the spawn of Satan the couple is tricked into adopting. Irish director John Moore (Behind Enemy Lines, Flight of the Phoenix) once again blands out everything he touches. All except for Mia Farrow as Damien's nut-job nanny. After mothering her demon seed in Rosemary's Baby, Farrow seems delighted to be back on devil duty. She's the only life in a DOA movie that adds insult to injury by exploiting clips of 9/11 and Katrina as portents of doom. The Catholic Church should lay off The Da Vinci Code and force The Omen to do penance for unforgivable dullness.

“He Will Break Your Heart”

A lightly swinging Latin-influenced, almost cha-cha groove and close harmonies decorated Jerry Butler's early soul hit "He Will Break Your Heart," delivering a stately warning that his rival would never love his girl like he did. The melody came to Butler as he was driving on the highway from Atlantic City, New Jersey, to Philadelphia with Curtis Mayfield, and as Butler told Rolling Stone, "I just sang the melody and Curtis put the chords to it." The song's premise, Butler added, "was something that I'd lived ...The lyric was an experience rather than a revelation. Whereas music is usually a revelation."