HOLLYWOOD actor Liam Neeson has revealed he has reconsidered plans to move home to Ireland since the Government introduced new water charges. The 62-year-old star, who hails from Ballymena, Antrim originally but has lived in New York for 20 years, said he had planned to return to Ireland now his two teenage sons Daniel and Michael have left home for university.
Yes, it is time once again to push aside the popcorn and presents and plunk down in front of the big-screen TV for another showing of that Canadian Christmas classic -- BLACK CHRISTMAS. Filmed in Toronto and released in 1974, BLACK CHRISTMAS is generally seen as on of the first-ever slasher films.
Back in November, splatstick horror fans were blown away by the groovy news that Bruce Campbell would return to his cult franchise with the ten-episode half-hour Starz series "Ash vs. Evil Dead," and now the big-chinned one has given Entertainment Weekly the skinny on the new show. Apparently, when we find one-handed hero Ash 23 years after the events of Army of Darkness , he's still working a big-box store job and living in a trailer park when a Deadite resurrection prompts him to take a road trip with two young co-workersa and his boomstick.
Fairytale mashup 'Into the Woods' stars Meryl Streep as the witch; and James Corden plays the baker. Image courtesy of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.
Fugitive filmmaker Roman Polanski, who pleaded guilty in 1977 to raping a 13-year-old girl and then fled the U.S. before sentencing, failed in an attempt to reopen the case. Judge James Brandlin, of the superior court of Los Angeles, turned down a request from Polanski's lawyers, who wanted a new hearing to try and close the case on procedural grounds.
Surviving the horrors of a genocidal civil war does not necessarily lead to living happily ever after. The challenges of carrying on, as experienced by four survivors of a 1983 war that split Sudan in two, are not well-known, especially to Americans, who tend to not pay much attention to atrocities that happen far away.
In the four days before Rob Marshall was connected to Pittsburgh, by phone, he had been in London, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Pittsburgh, where the director grew up and graduated from Allderdice High School and Carnegie Mellon University, was not on his travel itinerary.
"Where's Papa going with that axe?" wrote E.B. White at the very beginning of "Charlotte's Web." The line is so simple.
What is the greatest slasher ever made? That is an unanswerable question. We've all got our favorites.