What it's about: Amanda Ripley, daughter of Ellen , is on a quest to find her mother. Set after the 1979 classic film.
Actors and production staff have descended on Rivington Pike and Horwich to film parts of A Monster Calls, starring Schindler's List and Taken actor Liam Neeson and Alien series star Sigourney Weaver. While the Hollywood stars were not in town, dozens of the film's staff were spotted near the Pigeon Tower, at the top of Rivington Pike, on Monday.
The only sub-genre of Horror that I've ever felt to be rightfully maligned is so-called "Torture Porn". Films where the plot is nothing more than an excuse for gruesome, sometimes elaborate, scenes of extended pain.
Unless your mom's been keeping you locked away in a closet reciting quotes that may or may not actually be found in The Good Book, you are no doubt familiar with what is easily Stephen King 's most famous scarytale, "Carrie" , but did you know there was "Carrie: The Musical"? Leave it to Cathy Street, artistic director of Nashville's Street Theatre Company to bring this oddly entertaining anomaly to Nashville for the first time, and by no coincidence, just in time for the Halloween season.
Near-death and out-of-body experiences are often dismissed as the mind playing tricks due to trauma or the side-effects of medicine. But after a worldwide study sponsored by the University of Southampton , scientists have found that some could really have happened.
Cary Elwes had help from some old friends for the audio of his memoir "As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride." Among the friends, announced Monday by Simon & Schuster Audio: Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest and Robin Wright.
But "Sorcerer" was a bomb, grossing only $6 million worldwide - short of its $21 million budget - and receiving tepid initial reviews. The existential thriller follows four criminals from around the globe as they accept a lucrative but deadly contract to transport gallons of explosive nitroglycerin across a South American jungle.
The offbeat TV series, created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, will be returning to television in 2016, according to a strange video posted on Showtime's YouTube channel. The original show ran on ABC in 1990 and 1991 and spawned a 1992 theatrical film directed by Lynch, "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me."
Edgar Allan Poe gets statue in Boston, the city he dissed The city of Boston on Sunday erected a statue of Poe, who was born in the city in 1809. Check out this story on thenewsstar.com: http://usat.ly/1xhFiLh No hard feelings, though.
