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Director Rob Savage’s adaptation of the Stephen King short story The Boogeyman (read our review Here) just had a solid opening weekend of $20 million, and there could be more King adaptations in Savage’s future. If so, he has already picked out the story he wants to bring to the screen next. It’s a story that already received a mini-series adaptation back in 1995, but that one didn’t go over well. It’s the novella The Langoliers, which was featured in King’s story collection Four Past Midnight.

Written and directed by Tom Holland (the one who made Child’s Play and Fright Night), the mini-series adaptation of The Langoliers told the following story: On a red-eye flight to Boston from Los Angeles, 10 people wake up to a shock. All of the other passengers and crew have vanished. When they try to contact the ground they make no connections.

Reviewed by Amy R. Handler

(February 2011)

Directed by: Elizabeth Canner

Featuring: Andrilla Chakrabarti, Nan Cochran and John Griesemer

The provocative brainchild of documentary director Elizabeth Canner, “Orgasm Inc.” will leave you wondering what just happened and why it continues. Born as a gently graphic byproduct, “Orgasm Inc.” emerged when Canner was invited by the biopharmaceutical company Vivus Inc. to create erotic videos to be used with its clinical drug trials. The trials in question concerned the development of Alista, a topical gel for the treatment of female sexual dysfunction (Fsd). While making what amounted to pornography for the good of science, Canner discovered that all was not necessarily beneficent at Vivus, and she asked if she could make a documentary of her own. Considering what Canner unearthed, it is a wonder she was allowed to make such a project at Vivus headquarters and live to talk about it.

Strategically disguised as a black comedy,...

Reviewed by Amy R. Handler

(February 2011)

Directed by: Elizabeth Canner

Featuring: Andrilla Chakrabarti, Nan Cochran and John Griesemer

The provocative brainchild of documentary director Elizabeth Canner, “Orgasm Inc.” will leave you wondering what just happened and why it continues. Born as a gently graphic byproduct, “Orgasm Inc.” emerged when Canner was invited by the biopharmaceutical company Vivus Inc. to create erotic videos to be used with its clinical drug trials. The trials in question concerned the development of Alista, a topical gel for the treatment of female sexual dysfunction (Fsd). While making what amounted to pornography for the good of science, Canner discovered that all was not necessarily beneficent at Vivus, and she asked if she could make a documentary of her own. Considering what Canner unearthed, it is a wonder she was allowed to make such a project at Vivus headquarters and live to talk about it.

Strategically disguised as a black comedy,...

LONDON -- Under the glare of a glacier, Jason Biggs joined Natascha McElhone and Jeremy Northam, as Guy X began shooting in Iceland on Monday. The black comedy is set against the backdrop of a secret Arctic military base in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. Produced by the U.K.'s Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME), Spice Factory and Movision with the Film Consortium and international sale house the Works, Guy X is an adaptation by Steve Attridge and John Paul Chapple of John Griesemer's debut novel, No One Thinks of Greenland.