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When Gary J. Tunnicliffe waxes lyrical on the Hellraiser series, it’s worth standing up and taking notice.

Now on the verge of its tenth instalment, Hellraiser: Judgment, Tunnicliffe recently appeared on the latest episode of The Movie Crypt podcast (h/t Bloody Disgusting), in which the series veteran and frequent make-up artist teased some of the brutal horrors in store.

Directing from his own script, Hellraiser: Judgment is very much a passion project for Tunnicliffe, who told hosts Adam Green and Joe Lynch that he’s never had as much fun – nor has he worked so hard – during the production of Judgment. And yes, the end product will be fluent in scares and gruesome deaths.

I had the most fun on that I’ve ever had, and I’ve never worked so hard on a Hellraiser film, but we had a great time. We did two sequences where… one the actress almost passed out…...

George Washington apparently has nothin’ on President Donald Trump.

During his Youngstown, Ohio, rally on Tuesday evening, Trump told his gathered supporters that, “With the exception of the late, great Abraham Lincoln, I can be more presidential than any president that’s ever held this office.”

The president also attempted to make a convoluted joke about being on Mount Rushmore, stating that if he said it even as a joke the media would take it seriously: “Now here’s what I do. I’d ask whether or not you someday think I will be on Mount Rushmore. But here’s the problem,...

Wes walton is left feeling sore on this week’s Below Deck Mediterranean — after chef Adam Glick finally gets what he wants and makes out with Malia White. The pair lock lips as fireworks light up the night sky with the Sirocco moored in Croatia. It comes after Malia and Wes got close earlier in the season. Also this episode, chief stew Hannah Ferrier ends up smitten when an attractive bachelor charters the superyacht. She’s also pissed at Christine “Bugsy” Drake for not having her back after her run-in with Adam. Meanwhile, after Adam’s repeated bungles in the kitchen — onions, anyone?…sorry,...read more...

We're now hundreds of thousands of votes into deciding the Best Vines Ever - our final sendoff to Vine, the six-second looping video application that launched the careers of superstars and left the world too soon. You - the fans - have been making your voice heard loud and clear by smashing that vote button on Snakt. You can log into the app, too, to check out the leaderboard and see who's currently on top. (Spoiler Alert: It's not necessarily who you think!)

There's only one week left in the contest, so we're kicking Bes Vines Ever up a notch with a categories reveal. The winner of each of the 13 below categories will win awards live and onstage at the Best Vines Ever Awards in Hollywood, next Wednesday May 17.

We have a laundry list of finalists for each category that we're narrowing down to just 6 Nominees a piece by this Friday,...

President Donald Trump and members of his administration are feeling the wrath of the Irish after a series of culturally insensitive moments during Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny’s annual St. Patrick’s Day-timed visit to Washington.

Kenny, who had previously criticized Trump for his “racist and dangerous” language, followed through with the traditional trip on Thursday, despite a petition from nearly 40,000 people who demanded he cancel.

With his staff and more than 20 Irish reporters by his side, the prime minister (called a “Taoiseach” in the Irish language) participated in a day of events — including a luncheon at the U.

On May 25, 1979, a misty summer morning in New York City, 6-year-old Etan Patz begged his mother, Julie, to let him walk the few blocks to school alone. She relented, and the last time she saw him alive he was walking away from her.

Etan’s mysterious disappearance struck fear both in his New York City neighborhood and the country as a whole, as the little boy became a leading face for the search for missing children everywhere.

In February, decades after he became the first-ever “milk carton kid,” a jury finally convicted Etan’s killer though his body was never found.

Louisa Mellor Feb 21, 2017

Anthology series Inside No. 9 returns for its third series tonight at 10pm on BBC Two. We chatted to creators Pemberton and Shearsmith...

Anthology strand Inside No. 9 is an ingenious antidote to bloated TV storytelling and convuluted multi-series arcs. Created by The League Of Gentlemen and Psychoville's Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, who write and appear in each episode, it tells original half-hour tales that surprise, delight and unsettle.

See related Alien: Covenant - its new title's meaning & other questions

Thankfully, BBC Two appears to know what a gem it has in the show and is treating it with the care it deserves. Five new episodes following the 2016 Christmas special start airing tonight, and filming is about to get underway on a fourth series.

We spoke to creators Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith about the necessity of keeping Inside No. 9's secrets, the joys of the half-hour format,...

Aubrey lost his appetite after running into his fugitive father, Cam planned revenge against Hodgins and Max was Mia once again on Bones Season 12 Episode 5.

Our TV Fanatics Ashley Bissette Sumerel and Christine Orlando are joined by Pam, a Bones fan, to debate Cam’s revenge, Aubrey’s father’s return, and what dangling plot point we’re dying to see tied up after The Tutor in the Tussle.”

Should Hodgins have told Cam about the spiders and do you hope to see her take her revenge?

Ashley: Oh, he definitely should, but this way is going to be so much more fun. I'd love to see what Cam does to get him back.

Pam: Yes, he should have told her knowing how crazed she is about them. However, we wouldn't have gotten a nice scene filled with humor had he done so.

He wanted to get away from...

There aren’t many shows where you’d find a gruesomely decomposing body dumped on Boner Street, but leave it to Bones to go there.

The kid trying to steal the sign and stumbling over the corpse was expected, but Brennan, of all people, getting such a laugh over the street name was not.

The human penis has no skeleton material of any kind.

Brennan Permalink: The human penis has no skeleton material of any kind. Added: January 31, 2017

Let’s face it, humor is subjective.

And Bones Season 12 Episode 5 was a bit of a letdown.

With only 12 episodes in Bones Season 12, I expect every one of them to knock it out of the park, but this one didn’t quite live up to that hope.

However, I did enjoy hearing the team debate who was the best dry cleaner to remove blood, mucus membrane, and fecal matter.

I wasn’t...

Welcome to the DC Weekly, where every week we cover the land of DC comics, TV, and movies. Be it random bits of news, TV show reactions, or miscellaneous reviews, editorials, or speculation, you can be sure to get your DC fix here!

This Week will only contain a single editorial from me. I bring into question a character who was missing from last week’s Dawn Of The Justice League TV special.

What’S The Deal With Shazam?

I’ve had a bit of a DC hangover from all the goods we got last week. I’m not complaining in the slightest. After all, this is the kind of world I wish we lived in as a kid. But it was a lot of stuff to take in at once. For the longest time, we’ve been feeding on scraps and promises from DC and WB, but now after years of waiting,...

Recently, CBS served up the new, official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "The Young And The Restless" July 8th, 2015 episode, and it turns out that we're going to see some pretty interesting stuff go down as Adam's motives get questioned. Victoria and Nick team up. Paul and Christine receive important info, and more! In the July 8th, new episode press release: Chelsea will question Adam's motives. Nick and Victoria are going to team up to help the Newmans, and Sharon will share important information with Paul and Christine. The new July 8th episode is set to air tomorrow morning, July 8th at 11:30am central time on CBS.

Here's a spoiler-free look at what to expect from the second series of Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith's glorious Inside No. 9...

Inside No. 9 returns to BBC Two on Thursday the 26th of March for six more ingenious genre slices of horror, suspense and psychology. Those who were rattled and gripped by the first round of half-hour plays from Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith know to expect to be skilfully sucker-punched with sharp, tricksy writing and well-drawn characters.

Viewers engrossed by the psychological character focus of series one’s Tom & Gerri, the jump scares of series finale The Harrowing, and the unexpected emotional sting of opener Sardines have lots to look forward to from the second series’ first brace of episodes. La Couchette and The 12 Days Of Christine tell the respective stories of a fraught overnight train journey and a woman plagued by a mysterious visitor, featuring guest roles from Mark Benton,...

Memetic #1

Written by James Tynion IV

Illustrated by Eryk Donovan

Colors by Adam Guzowski

Letters by Steve Wands

Published by Boom! Studios

You are reading this review on a laptop, smartphone, tablet… some sort of personal computing device. How did you get here? What else is dancing, pulsing on the outer rim of this review and where will you click to next? How long have you been at it, staring at this screen in front of you? We live in a world overrun with social-networking, buzzfeeds, text messages, viral videos. Earlier today I received one of those “have you seeeen the [insert trending pic/vid/etc*]?” Commonplace in 2014, but James Tynion IV and Eryk Donovan’s new limited series Memetic serves up a somewhat cautionary tale on the new normal.

(*In this case, it was the Avengers: Age Of Ultron trailer.)

Aaron is a skeptical but involved college student and member of Generation Y. He leads an open Lgbt lifestyle,...

Here's a meager suggestion: Cherish this time now, because we've arrived at the most enjoyable stage of the "Big Brother" season. While there are still plenty of obvious losers with cellophane eyes and candy brains who need to leave Chenbot Manor and head back to their Not So Elite modeling gigs, we've finally arrived at the moment where we can recognize everyone in the house, identify their weaknesses and strengths, and make real predictions. During last night's Power of Veto episode, I came up with five big points to consider as the season progresses. To validate my points, I'm dragging along Andy Herren -- the winner of BB15 -- to share his thoughts on the players too. Here are our five biggest takeaway's from Wednesday's Pov spectacular. 1. Donny is the best. And the worst. Andy Herren: I hate Donny. Don’t get me wrong, I Love Donny, but that’s why I hate him.

Josh Charles received his second Best Supporting Actor nomination this morning for playing (the late) Will Gardner on CBS’s The Good Wife. Sick with a cold and cough, he went back to bed after getting up early to let out his dog, Zeus—and learned of his nod when he rolled over and saw a congratulatory email on his iPhone. “Nothing super fancy or exciting, sorry,” he jokes to EW. “I’m really excited about it even if my voice doesn’t sound normal.”

Entertainment Weekly: Lead and supporting actors don’t have to choose an episode to submit until after they’re nominated.

Either Barack Obama is a big fan of Funny Or Die, or people on his staff think it's the best way to reach young people, but the administration has been going hard on the channel in order to get folks to sign up for government health care aka Obamacare. The President himself even sat down with Zach Galifianakis for an episode of "Between Two Ferns." Now, another approach is being tried to ensure everyone gets themselves coverage. Adam Scott has returned to reprise his slimy character Derek from "Step Brothers," and he takes a break from hanging with his bros Mark Cuban, Jeff Probst, and Chris Daughtry, to talk health care and how he doesn't need it....only to realize that it might come in handy. Check it out below, but we do have one comment. You know what this video needs more of? Rob Riggle.

Miami, Fl – March 17, 2014 – (Hispanicize Wire) – Hispanicize 2014 will kick off its Latino film showcase April 1st with a one-of-a-kind film screening reception and red carpet for Cesar Chavez, featuring the family of American Latino civil rights leader, Cesar Chavez.

Sponsored by Aarp’s Movies for Grownups, myLINGO, and hosted by Regal Cinemas, the ‘Entre Familia: A Special Screening of ‘Cesar Chavez’ will be held at the Regal Cinemas South Beach Stadium 18, located at: 1120 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, Fl.

During the Cesar Chavez screening, viewers can listen to the English language film in Spanish thanks to myLINGO, a new smartphone app that will launch with the release of Cesar Chavez on March 28th. Prior to going to the movie, users can download the application and Spanish audio track. Once in the theatre, using their smartphones and headphones, moviegoers can listen to the film in Spanish in real time.

Cesar Chavez’ granddaughters,...

Chicago – It’s “Cabaret” for god’s sake. It’s not “Bambi”. You’re supposed to need to leave the kids at home watching their own Disney flick. You don’t go to McDonald’s to eat healthy just like you don’t go to “Cabaret” for good clean fun.

Play Rating: 3.5/5.0

The show at Chicagoland’s Marriott Theatre starts off with so much potential because of a promise from our Emcee (Stephen Schellhardt). He guarantees we’ll delve into the sketchy world of sin in the Kit Kat Klub where we can put our real-world worries aside. It’s a “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” kind of warranty, but you never feel it realized. And that is the show’s biggest downfall.

Stephen Schellhardt as the Emcee in “Cabaret”.

Photo credit: Peter Coombs and the Marriott Theatre

For a moment, I considered that I’ve already “seen...

Chicago – The Phantom in one word? An enigma. But he’s so much more. He’s lonely, desperately in love, a musical genius, misunderstood, vengeful, afraid and angry at a world that was so cruel to him. His shining beacon out of the darkness is his music – and falling for Christine. But The Phantom has to try to force her to feel the same way. He doesn’t want your pity. He just wants to be musical, loved and understood.

Play Rating: 4.5/5.0

She partially loves him, but their love is the epitome of complicated. Instead, Raoul (played by Chicago native Ben Jacoby) is the guy she’s supposed to marry and take home to mommy. The Phantom – in a bit of a “Beauty and the Beast”-like story – falls victim to his biggest downfall: choosing to become the monster the world has been to him instead of embracing forgiveness. He...

We return with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes news on a horror auction promoting, a clip from Ditch Day Massacre, details on the Lethal Ladies of Horror Film Festival, information on Screambox, and more:

Horror Items Auctioned For Charity: “Mental Fitness, Inc. [is] a national nonprofit charity that educates on various mental health and fitness issues that include eating disorders, body image awareness, self-esteem, depression, stress management, and other important issues. We have a online silent auction up on CharityBuzz. We have some pretty cool horror auction items up on the site and will be adding more throughout the next few days.

Alyssa Lobit (writer and star of Among Friends), Christy Carlson Romano (former Disney and Mirrors 2 star), and Jonathan Tiersten (Sleepaway Camp and The Perfect House star) have partnered up with the national nonprofit, Mental Fitness,...

Recently, "Boardwalk Empire's" Ron Livingston told Zap2it of his time on HBO's "Sex and the City": "I don't think there's an actor in New York who didn't either die on a 'Law & Order' or wasn't one of Carrie's boyfriends."

While not all of 2013's Emmy nominees died on "Law & Order" (some of them had to be the killer/rapist/criminal mastermind), 29 of them have a connection with one or more installment of the "L&O" franchise.

"Homeland's" Morena Baccarin did her time as a "Criminal Intent" extra, and "30 Rock" nominee Alec Baldwin has actually never been on "Law & Order." But he did get a co-credit for the story that became Season 8's "Tabloid."

Bobby Cannavale -- who is nominated for both his "Boardwalk Empire" and "Nurse Jackie" roles this year -- has always been an overachiever, having appeared on "Law & Order," "Svu" and "Criminal Intent." But...

Did Bones‘ Booth leave two women scorned? Will Burn Notice leave you with heartbreak? Will Arrow‘s Felicity be flying without a net? Did the Revolution wipe out the entire Friends cast?! Read on for answers to those questions plus teases from other shows.

Photos | Fall TV Spoiler Spectacular: Exclusive Scoop on Bones, Arrow and 43 Other Returning Faves

Got anything on the final episodes of Burn Notice? Will Mike and Fi end up together? –Bergs

In addition to what I served up here, there’s this special delivery scoop from series creator Matt Nix: “Without being coy, I think...

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Good afternoon, happy Friday and happy Pride Los Angeles!

Happy birthday to Sarah Parish, Kim Rhodes, Anna Kournikova and Jenny Jones!

Ilene Chaiken returns to television with The Black Box. ABC has ordered 13 episodes of the drama that centers on a neuroscientist named Elizabeth Black. Chaiken will serve as showrunner and one of the executive producers. X-Men director Bryan Singer will also executive produce the series, which is set to premiere in January 2014.

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Wanna see Tegan and Sara in London? Then tweet them fast!

Tweet #CloserToTnS + #London for a chance to win 2 tix for Jun 11@troxy_london! Going to be a great show! Lots of #Heartthrob and oldies!

— Tegan and Sara (@teganandsara) June 7, 2013

Nurse Jackie has been renewed by Showtime for a sixth season.

Olivia Munn graces the cover of July’s Flare magazine.

It’s the biggest night in Hollywoodland and we’re along for the crazy, caffeine-fueled night. Whether it’ll be Lincoln’s night or a wider net of awards there’ll be plenty to talk about for weeks to come.

If you’re on Twitter then follow us tweet the night away over at @heyuguys and you can keep abreast of all the winners as they are announced right here.

Ang Lee’s Life of Pi took home the most awards, with four statues to its name for Best Director, Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, and Best Visual Effects.

Ben Affleck’s Argo and Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables were next, taking three apiece. Affleck’s third feature took the most coveted award of the evening, very much deservedly winning him, George Clooney, and Grant Heslov the Best Picture award, as well as taking home the Best Film Editing and...

One day after 26 people were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 'Saturday Night Live' opened with a tribute to those lost on Dec. 15. The New York City Children's Chorus opened the Dec. 15 episode of Saturday Night Live by singing "Silent Night," a clear departure from SNL's usual comedy routine-type opening. The song was performed in tribute to the 20 children and six adults who were shot and killed by Adam Lanza, 20, on Dec. 14 at Sandy Hook Elementary School. At the closing of the Christmas song, the chorus turned back to tradition and shouted, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" Connecticut Shooting Victims List: Children: Charlotte Bacon, 6 Daniel Barden, 7 Olivia Engel, 6 Josephine Gay, 7 Ana Marquez-Greene, 6 Dylan Hockley, 6 Madeleine Hsu, 6 Catherine Hubbard, 6 Chase Kowalski, 7 Jesse Lewis, 6 James Mattioli, 6 Grace McDonnell, 7 Emilie Parker, 6 Jack Pinto, 6 Noah Pozner, 6 Caroline Previdi, 6 Jessica Rekos, 6 Avielle Richman, 6 Benjamin Wheeler, 6 Allison N. Wyatt,...

Photos of the 20 children who were executed at Sandy Hook Elementary School have been released. Those who were killed by the kindergarten killer, Adam Lanza, on Dec. 14 will never be forgotten. So sad. Ana Marquez-Greene, 7, Jesse Lewis, 6, and Grace McDonnell, 6, are a few of the 20 children who were killed by Adam Lanza on Dec. 14 at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Earlier, we revealed a number of details about the victims of the Connecticut shooting, and now, we have photos of the children who were tragically gunned down on Dec. 14. Connecticut Shooting Victims List -- The Children: Charlotte Bacon, 6 Daniel Barden, 7 Olivia Engel, 6 Josephine Gay, 7 Ana Marquez-Greene, 6 Dylan Hockley, 6 Madeleine Hsu, 6 Catherine Hubbard, 6 Chase Kowalski, 7 Jesse Lewis, 6 James Mattioli, 6 Grace McDonnell, 7 Emilie Parker, 6 Jack Pinto, 6 Noah Pozner, 6 Caroline Previdi, 6 Jessica Rekos, 6 Avielle Richman, 6 Benjamin Wheeler, 6 Allison N. Wyatt, 6 President Obama Will Visit Newtown, Connecticut President Barack Obama is planning a visit to...

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Question: What’s going to happen with Auggie and Annie on Covert Affairs? —Alex

Ausiello: Chris Gorham recently told TVLine that Auggie and Annie are going to have that conversation — and now I can tell you when: the Nov. 20 season finale. It’s “a real game-changer” for the pair, Gorham teases, and “it changes everything.” And if you enjoyed the increase in serialized storylines this season, you’re in luck. ”That’s definitely going to continue,...

If ABC were to go into Sunday’s Emmy ceremony confident that Modern Family was about to add its third comedy series statuette to the network’s trophy case, no one would be the slightest bit surprised. The odds are so in favor of a threepeat for the feel-good, laugh-hard smash that it’s almost no contest. So just imagine how shocked everybody would be if HBO’s Girls — arguably the most talked-about show of the season — managed to parlay all of its buzz into gold. Could the breakout hit, with its sheen of indie cool, really defeat the returning champ,...

A film festival about disabilities has launched its line-up and announced both local and international guests. The Other Film Festival will open with the Australian premiere of Aphasia, about Carl McIntyre an actor who lost his ability to write, read and speak after a massive stroke. McIntyre will be a guest of the festival along with producer Chuck Bludsworth.

Other films include Deaf, Mugger, My Song, Athens Inferno, and Beautiful.The announcement:

The world’s leading disability film festival The Other Film Festival today announced a stellar line-up of local and international guests. The five-day event presented by Arts Access Victoria screens at Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall from 19-23 September.

Opening night features the Australian premiere of festival circuit favourite Aphasia (USA) which follows the story of successful actor Carl McIntyre as he negotiates his way back from losing his ability to read, write and speak after a massive stroke.

These days, fictional fathers run the gamut from the traditional to the unorthodox. Whether they are married or single, an ex-con or a fairy tale prince, all of the following characters make our list for this year's Best TV Dad.

But only You can decide who actually goes home with that title. In honor of Father's Day, run down the contenders and then vote for you favorite below...

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Adam Braverman, Parenthood - Adam's a stand up guy and a great dad. From organizing family outings to dealing with son Max's Asperger's syndrome, or somehow finding the money to send Haddie to the college of her dreams, Adam's earned his spot at the top of the list.

Prince Charming, Once Upon a Time - What other dad had to do battle with an evil queen's minions in order to save his infant daughter by sending her off in...

For his new movie, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Ben Stiller plays a timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams and at one point in the film, we fast-forward to Walter as an old man -- a moment that also gives Ben's wife Christine Taylor a glimpse into her future.

Video - Ben & Christine's Burning Love

I've gotta give the producers credit because this is some phenomenal makeup work. Instead of over-applying lots of prosthetics (think Leonardo DiCaprio in J. Edgar), they've simply aged up Ben, creating a creepily accurate depiction

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, which hits theaters on December 25, 2013, is adapted from the iconic 1939 short story and co-stars Kristen Wiig, Sean Penn, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn, Shirley MacLaine and Josh Charles.

(Update: Adam B. Vary’s recap is live!) It’s been an understandable complaint issued by even some of Mad Men’s most ardent fans (including EW’s Ken Tucker) that the last few episodes of season 5 have traded subtle character shifts for sledgehammer shocks. Not to mention that every new installment threatened to spin its plot threads a little bit more obviously around a central unifying theme. So you would have guessed that the finale, titled “The Phantom,” would have saved the most jarring reveals for the end. But not so! By my reckoning at least, ‘The Phantom” was...

Every week, editors Adam Bryant and Natalie Abrams satisfy your need for TV scoop. Please send all questions to [email protected] or tweet them at @adam_bryant or @NatalieAbrams.

Is Chase really gone for good on House? — Christine

Adam: Not exactly. While he has definitely resigned, executive producer David Shore confirms that Chase is scheduled to appear in the series finale. But more surprisingly, one of his colleagues might follow him out the door. In Monday's penultimate episode, another doctor is readying a career life raft in case House implodes under the strain of Wilson's increasingly grim diagnosis.

I can't believe The Vampire Diaries finale is Thursday! What will we learn from the flashback to Elena's parents' accident? — Rachel

Natalie: For one thing...

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Every week, editors Adam Bryant and Natalie Abrams satisfy your need for TV scoop. Please send all questions to [email protected] or tweet them at @adam_bryant or @NatalieAbrams.

What else can you tell me about Patrick Jane's new love interest on The Mentalist? — Christine

Adam: Creator Bruno Heller wants to be clear about one thing: Loralei (Emmanuelle Chriqui) is no ordinary cocktail waitress, and as such viewers should take this relationship seriously. "It's certainly not a fling and it's not a spur-of-the-moment booty call or anything like that," Heller says. "She comes into Jane's life at a very, very low ebb. He's at a moment when he really needs a helping hand and a little ray of light, and she provides that."

Please tell me you have info on Dexter! — James

Natalie: Could Dexter be getting...

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In conjunction with La Furia Umana, Notebook is very happy to present Ted Fendt's original English translation of Luc Moullet's "Rockefeller's Melancholy," on Michelangelo Antonioni. Moullet's original French version can be found at La Furia Umana. Our special thanks to Mr. Moullet, La Furia Umana and Ted Fendt for making this possible.

Above: "John D. Rockefeller" (1917) by John Singer Sargent.

Drifting is the fundamental subject of Antonioni’s films. They are about beings who don’t know where they are going, who constantly contradict themselves, and are guided by their momentary impulses. We don’t understand what they feel or why they act as they do.

Psychological cinema could be defined in this way: it is psychological when you don’t understand the motivation of emotions and behaviors. If you understand, it means it’s easy, immediately, at a very superficial level... The filmmaker must therefore let it be...

It's almost time for WonderCon 2012 to start packing fans into the Anaheim Convention Center, and we have the horror highlights of the three-day event that runs from March 16th-18th right here.

Along with the horror, we've included a few other panels that we thought would be of interest to our readers. For more info be sure to visit the official WonderCon website.

Friday, March 16th

12:30-1:30 Idw Presents: The Idw Panel!— Chief creative officer Chris Ryall and sergeant of marketing Dirk Wood, give out prizes, make announcements, and evade questions! Featuring a host of creators, including Steve Niles, Ben McCool, Jason Ciaramella and more! All this, plus the Smoke & Mirrors boys, Mike Costa and Jon Armstrong, perform live magic! Yes, you read that right! Room 203

1:30-2:30 Monsters Anonymous— Comics and prose authors discuss the pros and cons of world-building with monsters and whether or not...

Chicago – In our latest must-own musical event edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Blu-ray, we have 10 Blu-rays up for grabs for the home entertainment release of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall”! Universal Studios Home Entertainment is bringing the musical phenomenon to Blu-ray and DVD on Feb. 7, 2012.

This production features Ramin Karimloo, Sierra Boggess, Hadley Fraser, Wendy Ferguson, Barry James, Gareth Snook, Liz Robertson, Wynne Evans, Sergei Polunin, Peter Joback, John Owen-Jones and Colm Wilkinson with a special guest appearance by Sarah Brightman.

To win your free “The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall” Blu-ray courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question in this Web-based submission form. That’s it! Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and win can be found below.

“The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall” comes to Blu-ray and DVD on Feb.

Adam Sandler has pretty much mastered the role of an adult who can't grow up, but now he's taking that archetype to a whole new level — because he's officially attached to star in a live action feature film based on the Hasbro's board game, Candy Land. Yes, the one with the quasi-hot Princess Frostine and semi-evil Lord Licorice.

In the game (in case you've forgotten) players go on a magical journey through fantastical lands made of candy, sweets, and ice cream: the Peppermint Forest, the Gum Drop Mountains, and the Lollypop Woods.encounter such iconic characters as Mr. Mint, King Kandy and the halfway melted fudge bar, Gloppy.

We can already hear the activist groups against promoting such horrible eating habits to children now... but we digress.

Kevin Lima ("Enchanted") is set to direct from a script that Sandler and SNL-scribe Robert Smigel will write. Though it sounds like...

I'm a huge fan of animation, animated films are getting better and better. Not only is the look and animation getting ridiculously awesome, but I find that many of these animated films actually have incredibly good stories. Not all of them are good though, for example, Cars 2 and Rio sucked. It will be interesting to see who ends up taking home the awards this year. Out of the movies on the list that I've seen and liked we have Puss in Boots, Rango and Kung Fu Panda 2. I guess it's no surprises that Kung Fu Panda 2 is leading the nominations with 9. Check out the list and let us know what your favorite animated movies of the year are!

Production Categories

Best Animated Feature

A Cat in Paris – Folimage Arrugas (Wrinkles) - Perro Verde Films, S.L. Arthur Christmas – Sony Pictures Animation, Aardman Animations Cars 2 – Pixar Animation...

"Kung Fu Panda 2" dominated the nominations for the 39th Annual Annie Awards. Given by the International Animated Film Society, the DreamWorks Animation sequel received 12 nods including Best Animated Feature. "Puss in Boots" and "Rango" each took nine noms. Pixar's "Cars 2" received seven nominations, while Disney's "Winnie the Pooh" took eight nods but was oddly missing in the Best Animated Feature category.

Winners of the 2011 Annie Awards will be announced on Saturday, Feb. 4.

Here's the complete list of nominees of the 39th Annual Annie Awards:

Production Categories

Best Animated Feature

A Cat in Paris . Folimage

Arrugas (Wrinkles) - Perro Verde Films, S.L.

Arthur Christmas . Sony Pictures Animation, Aardman Animations

Cars 2 . Pixar Animation Studios

Chico & Rita . Chico & Rita Distribution Limited

Kung Fu Panda 2 . DreamWorks Animation

Puss In Boots . DreamWorks Animation

Rango . Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies present A Blind Wink/Gk Films Production

Rio . Blue Sky Studios

Tintin . Amblin Entertainment,...

This year's Kennedy Center Honorees were in the company of many celebrities on Saturday night in Washington, DC. Meryl Streep was one of the five people receiving the nation's highest arts honor, along with Yo-Yo Ma, Neil Diamond, saxophonist Sonny Rollins, and singer Barbara Cook. The President and First Lady, who wore a custom Vera Wang, joined Matthew Broderick, a Theyskens’s Theory-clad Sarah Jessica Parker, John Krasinki, and Emily Blunt for the party. Emily stood out in a bold Giambattista Valli number, while her sister, Felicity Blunt, wore black to accompany fiancé Stanley Tucci. Stanley, Emily, and Anne Hathaway completed a Devil Wears Prada foursome with Meryl! Anne brought along her husband-to-be Adam Shulman. She wore a simple black Giambattista Valli that let her new rock shine. Anne's engagement ring made its debut last week, when she and Adam went public with their happy news. View Slideshow ›...

Considering many of his recent performances, a monster hunter isn’t the world’s biggest transition for Dwayne Johnson. According to Deadline, the action star will lead The Monster Hunter’s Survival Guide, an adaptation of John Paul Russ‘ comic miniseries that serves as “a comprehensive guide to hunt monsters, the undead and unnatural beasts, and survive the confrontations.” Simon Kinberg, a writer who’s made contributions to Jumper and Mr & Mrs. Smith, will be producing through his group, Genre Films.

The name and basic description — both of which are kind of synonymous with one another — don’t give me the impression that this is going to be Vivre Sa Vie, but my entertainment-based instincts tell me that the sight of Johnson eliminating some kind of evil creature would be pleasing, to put it bluntly. And, when you really think about it, the man’s one of our last true...

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Question: When will we find out definitively who the father of Blair’s baby is on Gossip Girl? We still haven’t seen the paternity test. —Sarah

Ausiello: Exec producer Josh Safran tells me an answer — and a “cemented” one at that — is coming in the next couple of episodes, adding, “We definitely understand and expect people to still be wondering.”

Question: All this “Chair” regression is making me yawn. Can you offer us “Dair” fans any hope?...

The residents of the Hamptons continued to be haunted by their past on Wednesday's new episode of Revenge, as Emily Thorne set her sights on yet another person responsible for her family's demise.

What was the best scene from "Betrayal?" What does our Round Table panel make of Tyler? Christine Orlando, Leigh Raines and Dan Forcella are happy to answer those questions and others below...

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What was your favorite scene from the episode?

Christine: Loved Victoria's eye roll when Emily asked if she could call her by her first name. I know it was just a little thing but it showed the thinly veiled feelings between these two women despite all the civility.

Leigh: For a show that's about scheming, plotting and the awesome conniving ways of Emily Thorne, I'm going to go off base and pick a sweet moment. When Emily returned the dog, yet again, to...

It appears things have come full circle for Ethan Hunt, the hero of the Mission: Impossible movies, a.k.a. Tom Cruise’s one and only movie franchise. In the first film — released 15 years ago, just to blow your mind for a moment — Hunt was “disavowed” as an Imf agent after a mission gone horribly wrong. Well, now it’s 2011, and the stakes appear much, much higher: In the new trailer for Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol (out Dec. 16), we learn that no less than the Kremlin has gone kablooey. The fallout? As a grim-faced Tom Wilkinson explains, “The president has initiated ‘ghost protocol,...

[With I Was A Teenage Werebear playing film festivals and Chillerama set to debut later this year, Tim Sullivan writes up the first of two parts, regarding his experiences bringing this unique film to life! --Dqm]

As I write this, I am sitting in my hotel room in Honolulu, one day before the world premiere of my Chillerama segment, I Was a Teenage Werebear at the Rainbow Film Fest.. It’s been a long journey to get to this point. I am grateful to so many who supported my journey, and even more grateful to those who did not, for they only strengthened my fortitude to be true to myself, and to my artistic vision. Hawaii will be followed by a 3 month tour on the Lgbt film circuit, before Werebears joins its companion films as part of Chillerama late summer/early fall. (I cannot Wait to tell you what me, Adam Rifkin, Joe Lynch and Adam Green got planned for That!!!!)

With the ocean breeze wafting through the balcony windows, I find myself in a reflective mode. For those who don’t already know it, let me just spell it out.

When Third Window Films' Adam Torel left Tartan in 2005, as he mentioned in our interview, it was mainly because he felt that the quality of films being released by the "Asia Extreme" label was plummeting fast.  After leaving Tartan, Adam started buying up titles that deserved to be seen, but fit nowhere under any label's horror/extreme cinema's line.  It was a bold decision to make when all of the big money was on those titles, and in the end it didn't really pay financially, however, the films he's picked up remain quality films, while people barely remember things like Sorum and Acacia.

Torel picked up a ton of great Korean films at first, running the gamut between the critically acclaimed work of Lee Chang Dong (Peppermint Candy, Oasis, and Green Fish) and the box office powerhouses of Friend and Guns & Talks.  Starting in May of 2007 he started releasing the...

The first two labels I have profiled for Twitch have been mainly focused on bringing older or forgotten films to home video, so I thought it was time to check up on a label whose focus is on contemporary cinema, and I can hardly think of a better example than Third Window Films.  With our exclusive first look at Third Window's acquisition of Sion Sono's Cold Fish, a film that has just started making the festival rounds a couple of months ago, you can tell that they have their finger on the pulse of Asian cinema and they strive to stay ahead of the curve and we get the benefit of that foresight.

Third Window Films focuses on contemporary films from the Far East, so far that means Hong Kong, Korea, and especially Japan.  They began with several Korean box office and art-house favorites like Kick The Moon, Friend, Peppermint Candy,...

“I need you to gather the able-bodied.”

Thomas and Sophia reprised the Inostranka Conference, as they had in Episode 1.03 and in Episode 1.02 before that. The Avias passengers suffered nosebleeds, as they had in Episode 1.04. Michael Buchanan demanded to know what was going on, as he had the episode before. Thomas, as usual, was on his mobile phone. He was disobeying Sophia, as usual.

There’s nothing new under the sun, and there was very little new on Inostranka. Sean and Leila reunited after an unlikely decision by Vicky, Blake Sterling presented his final solution to the Inostranka problem, President Martinez showed a dark side to his character, and Sophia revealed a humane outlook.

Last night’s episode was weak. Perhaps some episodes must serve to “put the pieces in place”. This is a nearly axiomatic truth in serial fiction, but even so, we cannot be faulted for some expectation of novel technique,...

Chicago – In this inaugural edition of the HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Book, we have 5 books up for grabs to the new 288-page book “Djibouti” from New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard. Leonard is the creator of the character “Raylan Givens” on FX’s “Justified” TV show. The season-two premiere of “Justified” returns to FX in 2011.

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The 288-page book “Djibouti” from FX’s “Justified” character creator Elmore Leonard.

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Fans of FX’s “Justified” know Elmore Leonard as the creator of the character “Raylan Givens”: a U.S. Marshall from Leonard’s novels “Pronto” and “Riding the Rap”. What you may not know is that Leonard’s career spans 60 years,...