The Bob Clark film A Christmas Story has in its 35 years entered into the yuletide pantheon of movies that everyone knows, whether by viewing it or just sheer cultural osmosis. It serves as a nice holiday companion piece to another Bob Clark work, the proto-slasher film Black Christmas .
Anna Faris waves at photographers on the red carpet of Monday's premiere of her new comedy "Observe and Report." The actress says she has only recently begun to get attention from the paparazzi.
Varun Dhawan says he always functions in extremes - either happy or sad. He also says since he has done mostly happy films recently, he would soon want to do one in other space.
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Welcome back to Nostalgia Lane and our weekly romp down the path of yesteryear. Okay, for some of us it is more of a limp but that is life.
Scream Factory went deep on urban legends this week with three new releases including a beautifully loaded Collector's Edition of Urban Legend - seriously, the feature length doc on here is aces - and a Blu-ray of its sequel Urban Legends: Final Cut . Fans will be very pleased with both, but the label's triumph this week is their Collector's Edition of Clive Barker's Candyman .
Scientists say they have discovered that for seconds after the heart stops, brain activity still functions. Experts say this means a patient would be fully aware of what was happening to them as their consciousness keeps working.
THE WOMAN IN BLACK is a prime example of the power of live theater: relying on evocative language, simple yet effective sound and lighting design, and skilled acting, this two-man gothic thriller easily surpasses any high-budget horror film in its ability to create a communal sense of fear among an audience. When I saw this play at London's Fortune Theatre, where it has been running continuously since 1989, the audience actually screamed in unison at key moments.
It's a debate as old as everyone born in 1993: is The Nightmare Before Christmas a Halloween movie, or does it belong on the holiday-season shelf beside Bad Santa , It's a Wonderful Life , and Here Cumz Santa . Sure Jack Skeleton has a thing for red fleece and synthetic white beards, but he also spends a good chunk of the movie strutting around a place called Halloween Town looking like someone raised on Vincent Price, John Carpenter films, and everything ever recorded by the Misfits.