It’s been nearly two years since the kerfuffle when Faye Dunaway made the admittedly unfortunate, off-hand remark on hearing that Hilary Duff (who calls herself an actress) was playing Clyde’s moll Bonnie Parker, a role Faye after all originated. Her reaction: “Couldn’t they at least cast a real actress?” Rather than rise above it, Hilary, a performer who has every … More Details

Truthfully, Halloween is even more fun now that all the juvenile fuss is behind me, because all I need worry about is which movie will do the best job of petrifying me this year.
My own personal exploration along these lines inspired me to compile a fresh list of skin-crawling entries that in my view do full justice to the spirit of Halloween.
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As the most barbaric event of the twentieth century, the Nazis’ mass extermination of Jews during World War 2 has served as the basis of countless books, plays, and films over the past sixty years. No surprise there, since we humans have always drawn our most powerful, memorable stories from the most tragic events of our time. In great tragedy … More Details