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Directed by: Simon Ennis. 14A: Sexual content, coarse language Running time: 79 minutes Two-and-a-half stars VANCOUVER a ' Finding the funny side of suicidal tendencies is a tough one.

More AFM news Hideo Nakata, who directed the original Japanese version of "The Ring" and the second English version "The Ring Two," has been tapped to direct Zanuck Independent's supernatural thriller "Voice From the Stone." Mark Wheaton has written the screenplay for the project, which Dean Zanuck and Stefano Gallini-Durante will produce alongside ...

Island tunesmith-author Dean Pitchford's ill-fated 1988 Broadway musical 'Carrie,' based on the Stephen King story, will get a second life on the Great White Way next year.

Out on DVD is Messiah Of Evil , a truly memorably bizarre 1973 horror film from the writers of American Graffiti , William Huyck and Gloria Katz .

In the spirit of Halloween '09, we're breaking out reviews of some Fall Frights you may want to work into your monthly viewing.

We've all breathed a collective sigh of relief that Kanye West's jackhole move at this year's MTV Video Music Awards has receded from the public consciousness.

Twenty8Twelve was the second collection of the night to reference photographs of stylish Africans.

Major casting alert: Oscar-winning actress Sissy Spacek is joining HBO's "Big Love." She'll play a powerful Washington D.C. lobbyist in a multi-episode arc starting in the third episode of next season.

In a Newsweek article published back in June, entertainment writer Ramin Setoodeh observed that movies and television these days are rife with older female actresses, because there are no 20-something female actors around who can "open" a movie.

Reporting from Toronto -- There are a thousand short stories behind "Get Low," which is premiering tonight at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Victor S said... I cannot put in words how much I love Julianne's performance as Amber Waves.

McClurg. Directed By: Brian De Palma. Stats: *Budget: $1.8 Million. *Domestic Gross: $33 Million.

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Where are the Ghostbusters now? BILL MURRAY One of the early "Saturday Night Live" stars, Murray, now 58, has worked with director Wes Anderson on "Rushmore," "The Royal Tenenbaums," "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou" and "The Darjeeling Limited." He received a Best Actor Oscar nomination for "Lost in Translation," directed by Sofia Coppola, and ...

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When the protagonist commits deeds sure to damn a soul or at least imperil a body, the actor must remain sympathetic or intriguing enough to get an audience screaming "Don't open that door!" - or, as I heard during the original Prom Night, "Don't step on that head!" If gore-soaked thespians are able to do even more than that, and create ...

May 28, 2009 at 10:13AM Remember that scene in Carrie where Sissy Spacek gets her menses and all the girls in the locker room pelt her with feminine sanitary products and chant "plug it up, plug it up!"? Well, honestly, someone needs to do that to Britney Spears .

The classic image of Carrie - willowy prom queen showered in blood - is so epochal, it's all but eclipsed the hour and a half of rich teen horror that surrounds it.

Sissy Spacek has lived within the Appalachian mountain range since before the role in "Coal Miner's Daughter" that identified her with the region.

I finally saw Missing , a 1982 film about political violence in Chile, staring Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek.