The Haunting in Connecticut (movie, 2009)

Django Unchained Weinstein/Anchor Bay, $29.98; Blu-ray, $39.99 Available on VOD beginning Tuesday Typical of Quentin Tarantino, this Deep South "western" is strong stuff, telling the epic story of an escaped slave (played by Jamie Foxx) on a quest...

Lest there be confusion from the title, Georgia is the state where this very familiar sequel to the earlier horror film unfolds. Chad Michael Murray ("One Tree Hill") and Abigail Spencer ("Oz the Great and Powerful") play a couple who relocate with...

BIRTHDAY GUY: Actor Elias Koteas was born in Montreal on this day in 1961. This birthday guy is known for his roles in films such as "Fallen" "The Prophecy," and "Some Kind of Wonderful." More recently, he's appeared in smaller roles in films such as...

Fans of paranormal reality shows may have gotten a little bummed in the last week, with the season ends of Syfy's School Spirits on Aug. 1, and Haunted Highway last night. But don't give up the ghost! Syfy has all your creepy needs ready to be fulfilled...

It's Tuesday morning at the Netflix Hartford Distribution Center. Time to hand-sort 90,000 DVDs that were played over the weekend and mailed back on Monday. Surprisingly, it's not all that high-tech. There are actually people there. Just an average-size,...

Thanks to strong gains in its television production business, new revenue from its TV Guide Network and reduced movie marketing costs, Lions Gate Entertainment swung to $31.7 million in net income during its second fiscal quarter compared with a net......

There's an unfussy confidence to Zac Efron's acting, a physical ease on camera that doesn't require mannerisms or tricks. He is slipping the bounds of high school musicals and dramas right before our eyes, and his screen presence is already more adult-...

A family gets a lot more than expected – and you can guess from the title what it is – in this thriller reportedly based on actual events. Moving near a clinic where their son (Kyle Gallner) is being treated for cancer, a couple ( Virginia Madsen, Martin...

It would be easy to just write off the nasty ongoing battle between Wall Street speculator Carl Icahn and Lions Gate chieftains Jon Feltheimer and Michael Burns as yet another example of hand-to-hand combat in the Hollywood shark tank, where......

Demonic attack -- now there's something that Hollywood animation crews have realized in vivid, awful detail in film after film. Check out the trailer for the new movie "The Haunting in Connecticut" and you'll see a perfect recent example. Shadowy figures,...

Freddy Krueger has his next victim: a "Veronica Mars" star. Kyle Gallner has signed on to the "Nightmare on Elm Street" remake, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He'll play Quentin, a podcast DJ that THR claims is a role analogous to Glen Lantz,...

Never play hide-and-seek in a haunted house. Isn't that one of those motherisms handed down at the same time as "Look both ways before crossing the street" and "Don't swim after eating"? But kids will be kids, especially in the movies. And even if though...