On April 10, 1864, during the Civil War, Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, an assistant surgeon for the 52nd Ohio Volunteers, was captured by the Confederates and accused of being a Union spy; she was held until her release in August 1864 as part of a prisoner exchange.
ON THIS DAY IN 1992: Sam Kinison was killed in a car crash. He's shown here in a 1988 photo.
A psycho-killer stalks two New York City women--one a frustrated housewife, the other a street-smart hooker who teams up with the first woman's son to trap the murderer.
Fake snow used in the filming of a classic horror film has been discovered buried in a heap of rubble at Elstree Studios.
Jan Bijvoet in Borgman.
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The Dutch film Borgman hadn't been on my radar of movies to check out in 2014, but with the recent release of the first US trailer, it's shot up near the top of my must-sees. From the first striking image to the final even more striking visual, it looks wonderfully weird. The story follows a charming vagrant who worms his way into the home of an upper-class family and begins to assert an increasingly dark influence. It's been described as a darkly humorous fable reminiscent of the works of Michael Haneke (Funny Games, The White Ribbon, Caché) and Giorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth), which makes me want to see it all the more. We'll all get a chance when Drafthouse Films releases it on June 6.
...Horror movies have become so formulaic that it's always refreshing when a movie bucks the narrative trend and tries for something bizarre, either in pacing, storyline, visuals or all of the above.
You'd think that a guy like Norman Reedus would crush on a butt-kicking babe who could hold her own during the zombie apocalypse.
Hollywood actor Tom Skerritt is coming back to where his remarkable 50-year career began.
Orson Bean , Austin Butle r , David Clayton Rogers , and Lyndon Smith have been announced as the cast of Death of the Author, a world premiere by Pulitzer Prize nominated playwright, Steven Drukman, directed by Bart DeLorenzo , to be performed at the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater at the Geffen Playhouse beginning May 28. DeLorenzo returns to the ... (more)