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Widescreen: 10 great screen performers from 2017

Posted by Horror Movies News on December 26, 2017

The line between film and television continued to blur in 2017 -- just look at this year's edition of the much-vaunted Sight & Sound film poll , which names all 18 hours of David Lynch's third season of "Twin Peaks" as the second-best movie of the year. Widescreen's year-end best list reflects that blur, with my 10 favorite performers from the big and small screens, presented in alphabetical order: We've seen her play Diana Prince before, but Israeli-born Gadot became a superstar this summer when she walked across a Belgian battlefield, deflecting enemy fire as the Allied forces liberated a village full of innocents.

Screencap from the 1973 trailer for ‘The Exorcist’, December 26, 2017 – ryy79 Youtube/Channel

Posted by Horror Movies News on December 26, 2017

The film is derived from a 1971 novel titled "The Exorcist" by author William Peter Blatty, who also produced the film and wrote the screenplay. A New York Times bestselling novel, the book recounted the supposedly true events of a catholic priest's attempts to exorcise a possessed American teenage boy named Roland Doe in the late 1940s.

New Bob Hope, Alfred H…

Posted by Horror Movies News on December 26, 2017

Kathy Bates and Jennifer Jason Leigh play mother and daughter in the film version of Stephen King's novel "Dolores Claiborne" . If you have a fan of Bob Hope or Alfred Hitchcock on your Christmas list, you may want to consider a couple of new DVD sets with Hope's movies and TV specials, or a new Blu-ray set of Hitchcock's most popular films.

Angela Lansbury: Little Women may be my final TV role

Posted by Horror Movies News on December 26, 2017

"The day we sailed from Liverpool, it was bombed," recalls Dame Angela Lansbury, her voice crisp and precise, yet with a distinct air of mischief, as we share a pot of coffee at her dining room table in Brentwood, Los Angeles. "But we escaped! On a Canadian Pacific Line steamship called the Duchess of Atholl.

Ho ho no! Films show dark side of Christmas

Posted by Horror Movies News on December 25, 2017

Anti-Christmas movies, intentionally not meant to uplift or point out the benefits of seeing the goodness in everyone, flourished in years gone by. This season there's a void.

Why Dickens plays so well at Christmas

Posted by Horror Movies News on December 25, 2017

It can be argued that movie adaptations of works by Charles Dickens are popular any time of the year, but seemingly more so during the Christmas holidays. And it's not just that any yuletide season is incomplete without a showing of one of the numerous versions of "A Christmas Carol."

Light Coorporation: 64:38 Radio Full Liv(f)e

Posted by Horror Movies News on December 25, 2017

Few musicians or bands exhibit imperturbability to the degree that the ensemble Light Coorporation does. The Polish band, founded by guitarist Mariusz SobaA ski in 2007, has released its fifth recording 64:38 Radio Full Liv e .

Heather Menzies Dead: ‘Sound Of Music’ Star, 68,…

Posted by Horror Movies News on December 25, 2017

Actress Heather Menzies sadly died at the age of 68 on Christmas Eve after her short battle with cancer. The star, best known for playing Louisa Von Trapp in the award-winning film The Sound of Music , was recently diagnosed with cancer, according to her son Ryan Urich .

Bob Tamasy: When All Has Been Said, What Else Can You Say?

Posted by Horror Movies News on December 25, 2017

Let's see, it's been an estimated 2,000 years since the first Christmas. There were no Christmas carols then, no one rockin' around the Christmas tree yet, and the first Christmas cards were centuries away.


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