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Article by Cliff Saxton

Cliff Saxton is the Archivist for Micds (Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School), known as St. Louis Country Day School when Vincent Price attended in the 1920’s. In 2011 I asked Mr. Saxton to write an article about Vincent Price’s days at Country Day in honor of Vincentennial, the Vincent Price 100th Birthday Celebration, which we were preparing. There is information here I have never seen in any biographies of Vincent Price and I thank Mr. Saxton for taking the time to research and write this article. In honor of it being Vincent Price week here in St. Louis with Victoria Price in town for three fun events (read about the details of those Here), We Are Movie Geeks has decided to re-post Cliff Saxton’s article.

In 1922, St. Louis Country Day School welcomed a young man who would become one of the school...

Air crash investigators have discovered that Andreas Lubitz deliberately accelerated Germanwings Flight 9525 moments before it crashed in the southern French Alps. The evidence comes from the airplane's second flight data recorder, which was brought to the offices of the French Bea air accident investigation agency on Thursday. The Bea team started opening operations as soon as it arrived. "The initial readout shows that the pilot present in the cockpit used the autopilot to put the aeroplane into a descent towards an altitude of 100 ft," a statement from the Bea reveals. "Then, on several occasions during the descent, the pilot modified...

Superheroes and fairy tales dominated the midseason lineup at ABC’s upfront presentation, with shows like Galavant and Marvel’s Agent Carter coming soon. “We may be a terrible network,” joked Jimmy Kimmel, “but we are a great birthday party for a 6-year-old.” But for fall, ABC stuck to the basics: broad comedies, police procedurals, and Shonda Rhimes, whom ABC Entertainment Group president Paul Lee described as the Charles Dickens of our generation. Her latest show, How to Get Away With Murder, isn’t exactly Great Expectations, but it might be the only new ABC series worth watching. Quick takes on the others follow below.

Do lead-ins still matter? Will ABC -- after pulling limited series The Assets -- stick with the short-order series? How will the network's Marvel series differ from Netflix?  These and many other questions were fair game Friday as ABC presented at the Television Critics Association's semi-annual press tour. ABC's Paul Lee also addressed questions about the international hit Rising Star's U.S. format and its approach to pilot season as part of its daylong presentation that also included panels for Resurrection, Mixology, Suburgatory, The Black Box and Mind Games. Here's a look at what we learned: 1. Lead-ins

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I started writing this piece a little over two years ago when, wondering if this was a debate whose terms I wanted to propagate, I thought twice. After the recent Godard retro in New York, however, thinking thrice, I've decided not to think about it again. With very special thanks to Sam Engel, Matthew Flanagan, Danny Kasman, Andy Rector, Gina Telaroli, who provided so much of the source code for this piece. There's no greater fount of wisdom in the world for a guy to plagiarize.

And so:

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“Pauvres choses! Elles n’ont que le nom qu’on leur impose.”

“Poor things! They have nothing but the name imposed upon them.” — Film Socialisme

“You can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll.

Very sorry baby, doesn’t look like me at all.” — Leonard Cohen, “Tower of Song”

"Three Jewish characters, it's a lot for a single film. The fourth...

Roger and Paul were reportedly going ‘at least twice’ the speed limit of 45 Mph on Nov. 30, when they died in a fiery car crash, authorities said.

The results from the autopsies are not yet available, but Paul Walker and Roger Rodas were reportedly going approximately 90 miles per hour, according to a statement Los Angeles County Sheriff’s detective Jeff Maag gave to People.

Paul Walker Speeding: Going Twice The Speed Limit

“For that car to disintegrate the way it did, speed, of course [was a factor], but something went wrong and it put them at an angle to the curb. There’s not a shadow of a doubt in my mind, it wasn’t driver error,” Antonio Holmes, a friend of both Roger and Paul and a car enthusiast told the mag.

Paul Walker Car Crash Video Surfaces

According to the detective, there was no doubt that speed was a factor. It was...

ABC's new drama, "The Black Box," has found its lead actress. Kelly Reilly has been cast to play the titular role of Dr. Elizabeth Black on the limited series, TheWrap has learned. The series follows Dr. Elizabeth Black, a world-renowned neuroscientist who's famous for her skills in working with patients at The Center for Neurological Research and Treatment Aka "The Cube." But, Elizabeth deals with her own mental illness that she keeps secret from those around her, including her family and fiancé. See video: Comic-Con Quickie: 'Once Upon a Time' Gets Peter Pan,...

ABC has found its latest leading lady. Sherlock Holmes' Kelly Reilly has landed the starring role in the network's limited series The Black Box, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The series will revolve around Elizabeth Black (Reilly), a famed neuroscientist who seems to have it all, but struggles with mental illness -- one of many secrets she keeps from her fiancé and family. Photos: ABC's 2013-14 Season: 'S.H.I.E.L.D.,' 'Once Upon a Time in Wonderland,' More For the English actress, this is her first stateside series television part following a string of features including

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Ah, the police drama, it is perhaps the most watched type of series on television, in league with the soap and the medical drama. So, it comes as little surprise that Amazon wants in on the procedural goodness. The streaming service has given Bosch the green light.

Based on the New York Times Best Selling novels by Michael Connelly, the pilot will center on Harry Bosch, a veteran police homicide detective who works in the city of angels for the Los Angeles Police Department. I have a soft spot for Lapd tales! And the field is wide open with Southland not getting renewed again.

Our friends over at Deadline say that the Bosch pilot was written by Connelly and the co-creator of Treme, executive producer Eric Overmeyer. Both men share executive producing duties with Fabrik’s Henrik Bastin and Mikkel Bondesen. HBO’s Treme has some Emmy nominations to its...

Exclusive: Amazon Studios is moving quickly to expand its original slate. After focusing on comedies and kids programming in its first batch of 14 pilots, five of which — two comedies and 3 kids shows — were picked up to series three weeks ago, the company is already setting its sights on the next target — launching a drama series. I’ve learned that the streaming service has greenlighted its first drama pilot, Bosch, a police procedural based on Michael Connelly‘s novels about Harry Bosch, a veteran police homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. I hear the pilot was written by Connelly and Treme co-creator/executive producer Eric Overmeyer, who are executive producing with Fabrik’s Henrik Bastin and Mikkel Bondesen. Bosch has been at the center of or featured in 20 novels by Connelly, starting with the 1992 The Black Echo and most recently, last fall’s The Black Box. This marks Fabrik...

New York City is once again the setting for Gotham noir as the International Thriller Writers (Itw) brings ThrillerFest VIII to town from July 10-13, 2013, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel to celebrate the "art of the thrill."

What exactly is ThrillerFest? It's a four-day celebration of thriller books, the authors who write them, and the fans who read them. Below are all the details you need if you plan to attend:

From the Press Release:

Spines are already tingling for the legendary Anne Rice (pictured above), Queen of the Gothic Thriller, who will make a rare appearance to serve as the 2013 ThrillerMaster. Rice is the author of 31 novels, including The Vampire Chronicles, Songs of the Seraphim, and the new Wolf Gift Chronicles.

New this year at ThrillerFest is FanFest, an opportunity for thriller writers to give back to their most loyal fans. These lucky readers will join such big-league talent as Joseph Finder,...

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Deadline says that ABC is close to ordering a series from Bryan Singer and The L-Word creator (which I believe is when AfterEllen readers and contributors tell us to run). The Black Box follows a successful neuroscientist who hides her mental illness from the world.

I was able to go with season two as the “Our judges were smoking crack

when they aufed Anthony Ryan” season, I don’t know what they can offer this season.

Buzzeed asks if there are enough worthwhile Project Runway designers to justify a third season of Project Runway All Stars. Since their answer includes suggestions like Vincent Libbretti and Angela Keeslar (but my all-time fave Diana Eng only gets an honorable mention), I’d say the answer is no.

Lifetime’s been having success in turning media-frenzy crimes into movies, so wny not take on a classic trial of the century? The channel...

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Ilene Chaiken returns to television with The Black Box. ABC has ordered 13 episodes of the drama that centers on a neuroscientist named Elizabeth Black. Chaiken will serve as showrunner and one of the executive producers. X-Men director Bryan Singer will also executive produce the series, which is set to premiere in January 2014.

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Nurse Jackie has been renewed by Showtime for a sixth season.

Olivia Munn graces the cover of July’s Flare magazine.

The Walking Dead doesn’t return until this fall, but the team behind the gory AMC hit is already hard at work in the following Season 4 sneak peek.

The premiere will be penned by new showrunner Scott Gimple and directed by VFX mastermind Greg Nicotero, who promises “some great character turns and a lot of really good twists that will really delight the fans.”

Related | Walking Dead Season 4 Spoilers — Andrew Lincoln on New Romance for Rick

The season opener is “bigger than any script we’ve ever done before,” he adds.

Press Play to watch the preview, and then hit the comments with your thoughts.

ABC has picked up its eighth drama series for 2013-14. The network on Friday added The Black Box, with a 13-episode straight-to-series order. Black Box revolves around Elizabeth Black, a famed neuroscientist who seems to have it all, with a job at the Center for Neurological Research and Treatment (otherwise known as The Cube), but struggles with mental illness -- one of many secrets she keeps from her fiancé and family. The drama hails from Mystic Pizza and The Relic writer Amy Holden Jones, who will executive produce alongside The L Word's Ilene Chaiken, X-Men director

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ABC is finalizing deals for a thirteen-episode, straight-to-series order for the drama "The Black Box" from Bold Films.

Amy Holden Jones ("The Relic," "Mystic Pizza") is penning the project which also involves "The L Word" creator Ilene Chaiken, "X-Men" director Bryan Singer, and producers Oly Obst ("The Invention of Lying") and Anne Thomopoulos ("Borgia").

The story follows a world renowned neuroscientist who appears to have it all but is constantly haunted by her own struggle with mental illness. There's also another secret she has kept locked away from her family and her new fiancé.

The series is being eyed for a potential midseason debut.

Source: Deadline...

Exclusive: I’ve learned that ABC is finalizing deals for a 13-episode, straight-to-series order to The Black Box, a drama project written by The Relic and Mystic Pizza scribe Amy Holden Jones. She is executive producing with The L Word creator Ilene Chaiken, who will serve as showrunner, X-Men director Bryan Singer, 3 Arts’ Oly Obst (The Invention Of Lying), and Anne Thomopoulos (Borgia). The Black Box centers on Elizabeth Black, world renowned neuroscientist who appears to have it all but is constantly haunted by her own struggle with mental illness. And that is not the only secret she’s kept locked away from her family and her new fiancé. The series is produced by independent film finance and production company Bold Films (Legion) in its first foray into TV production, with Sierra Engine handling international distribution. No premiere date has been set yet but I hear the series is being eyed for midseason,...

Division was decimated with a skeleton crew left, the black box was for sale, and it was only a matter of how long before the President realized what was going on and gave the kill order. The situation for those left at Division was desperate until a surprising ally walked through the door to save the day.

In "High Value Target," Cyrus paid back Nikita for saving his life by providing the crucial intelligence they needed to prevent the black box from getting into enemy's hands and used for nefarious purposes. He picked the perfect time to pop in and save the day, well, until his life was put in danger once again.

Nikita season 3 has done an amazing job of using the past to inform and influence the present. While Amanda's mission at the beginning of the season was a little weak, it's grown into a nice driving force for the characters.

The Black Box TV YouTube Original Channel has seen an impressive growth since joining Google's slate of funded channels; it now has more than 365,000 subscribers. Still the horror channel hasn't let popularity go to its head. It continues to produce top-notch content, which is probably why one of the channel's writers, Tony Valenzuela, won the Streamy Award for Best Writing in a Drama. But Valenzuela has his sights set on bigger, scarier, more thrilling heights. In an interview with Shira Lazar on What's Trending, he revealed that Black Box TV will release a feature film-length production sometime in 2013. He also discussed why he loves the Internet, so check out the entire nine minute interview if you enjoy watch excitable filmmakers discuss the craft they love. Valenzuela was purposefully vague about the project, and I'm pretty sure he used the word "maybe" over 9,000 times during his discussion of the feature. Still,...

Next week, crime writer Michael Connelly’s 18th Harry Bosch book, “The Black Box,” comes out, telling the story of a female photojournalist who is found shot, execution style, amid the mayhem of the 1992 La Riots. Twenty years later, Bosch tries to solve the cold case as Lapd higher-ups, recalcitrant witnesses, and time all conspire against him. Before Michael Connelly sold 45 million books about Bosch and other Los Angeles characters, he was a student at the University of Florida, where...

When Season 2 of "Nikita" began, Percy's (Xander Berkeley) sadistic right-hand woman, Amanda (Melinda Clarke), had ousted her boss and taken control of Division -- but by the end of the year, Nikita (Maggie Q) had dethroned the queen bee and forced her to go on the run. Luckily for Amanda, she's still in possession of Percy's remaining black box, which holds enough incriminating information to decimate several governments.

Amanda makes her first appearance of Season 3 in the Friday, Nov. 9 episode, "Consequences," (9 p.m. Et on The CW) and it's no coincidence that the episode also marks the return of fan-favorite Guardian Owen (Devon Sawa), since their stories are inextricably linked. Earlier this week, HuffPost TV caught up with Melinda Clarke to preview Amanda's long-awaited return, her evil scheme to get even with Nikita, and what exactly she's planning to do with Owen if she manages to sink her claws into him.

When Season 2 of "Nikita" began, Percy's (Xander Berkeley) sadistic right-hand woman, Amanda (Melinda Clarke), had ousted her boss and taken control of Division -- but by the end of the year, Nikita (Maggie Q) had dethroned the queen bee and forced her to go on the run. Luckily for Amanda, she's still in possession of Percy's remaining black box, which holds enough incriminating information to decimate several governments.

Amanda makes her first appearance of Season 3 in the Friday, Nov. 9 episode, "Consequences," (9 p.m. Et on The CW) and it's no coincidence that the episode also marks the return of fan-favorite Guardian Owen (Devon Sawa), since their stories are inextricably linked. Earlier this week, HuffPost TV caught up with Melinda Clarke to preview Amanda's long-awaited return, her evil scheme to get even with Nikita, and what exactly she's planning to do with Owen if she manages to sink her claws into him.

Just about everybody loves gossip. It can make you make you smile, it can hurt, it can destroy and yes, even cause death. That is probably why Scandal (TV) is a success. Politics, scandal, mystery, intrigue, murder and forbidden love are all included in this fast paced series. Beautiful people combined with good writing has melded into a show that has kept viewers interested. Created by Shonda Rhimes, Scandal (TV) is about an intelligent young woman Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington), a former White House Communications Director for the President, who wants to make a change in her life. Olivia starts her own crisis management firm, Pope and Associates. Olivia is a woman of character with strong beliefs and can annihilate a person with her whip hard intellect, but can also show compassion. She's a woman deeply in love, but this must be hidden and locked inside of her. She knows...

Just about everybody loves gossip. It can make you make you smile, it can hurt, it can destroy and yes, even cause death. That is probably why Scandal (TV) is a success. Politics, scandal, mystery, intrigue, murder and forbidden love are all included in this fast paced series. Beautiful people combined with good writing has melded into a show that has kept viewers interested. Created by Shonda Rhimes, Scandal (TV) is about an intelligent young woman Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington), a former White House Communications Director for the President, who wants to make a change in her life. Olivia starts her own crisis management firm, Pope and Associates. Olivia is a woman of character with strong beliefs and can annihilate a person with her whip hard intellect, but can also show compassion. She's a woman deeply in love, but this must be hidden and locked inside of her. She knows...

The Soap Myth Written by Jeff Cohen Directed by Arnold Mittelman Produced by National Jewish Theater

Great theater is not always a comfortable experience -- indeed, a measure of unease might be a requirement for compelling drama. The Soap Myth, a superbly written, acted, and directed play, richly compensates the audience for whatever discomfort they might experience along the way to this play's conclusion. The action of this chamber drama is carried forward by a series of amazingly crisp, powerful, and natural conversations among the four-person cast. There are various pairings and groupings of the four, with two players portraying additional characters. The topic is one man’s passionate and relentless quest to conclusively answer what has become a lingering question: Did the Nazis actually manufacture soap from the body fat of their Jewish victims?

The man with the answer is Milton Saltzman (Greg Mullavey), a camp survivor, a witness...

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Content Collection #1 will be released on Xbox Live on March 20. Content Collection #1 will make the existing Call of Duty: Elite Dlc available to all users. It will include four new multiplayer maps and two new Spec Ops mission. The multiplayer maps consist of Liberation, Piazza, Overwatch and Black Box. Elite premium subscribers saw the release of Liberation and Piazza in January, while Overwatch was released in February. Black Box is a new map where players will battle around a crashed Air Force One plane in a suburban neighborhood in Southern California. The Spec Ops missions, Black Ice and Negotiator, will take players snowmobiling to infiltrate a diamond mine and extracting hostages in India. Activision has not yet announced a price for Content Collection #1. The Black Box map and the Black Ice and (more)...

The second annual Buffalo Screams Horror Film Festival has announced its film selections and schedule. In all, 48 films will screen at the five-day festival, which runs from Wednesday, October 26th through Sunday, October 30th at the Screening Room Cinema Cafe in Amherst, New York.

From the Press Release:

The festival will host a 30th anniversary screening of the slasher classic The Burning, which was filmed in North Tonawanda. Other non-competition, showcase features include Street Trash, The Definitive Document of the Dead, and Swirlee, all hosted by special guest Roy Frumkes; the stoner comedy Trippin’, which will be introduced by Alternative Cinema’s Paige Davis; and the world premiere of the zombie anthology Decayed, written and directed by Emil J. Novak, who co-founded Buffalo Screams with author and filmmaker Gregory Lamberson (Slime City Massacre, “The Jake Helman Files”).

Features competing for awards include Absentia, which just won the top prize at...

by Michael Pickle, MoreHorror.com

Evil Kitty Productions brought Horror to Big Bear Lake California last weekend for the 3rd year with the ever expanding Big Bear Horro-Fi Film Festival. Held in the beautiful mountain community of Big Bear Lake with a brand new name thanks to the decision to make Sci-Fi films a part of the festival selection this year.

MoreHorror attended the red carpet kick-off party in Hollywood last week before the festival and the energy, excitement and anticipation was at a fever pitch. Heather Langenkamp from the original Nightmare on Elm Street whose autobiographical feature documentary I Am Nancy headlined the opening night of the festival.

Amanda Wyss who played Tina in the Wes Craven classic and many other stars, filmmakers and fans of the genre gathered at a club in Hollywood to celebrate the young festival that provides a forum for both established and up-and-coming filmmakers.

The busiest month of the year for horror fans started with multiple events to choose from, including the Big Bear Horro-Fi Film Festival in beautiful Big Bear Lake, California. The mountain location, with its vast forested areas, is perfect for telling campfire tales or watching horror movies. The festival itself took place in the Big Bear Lake Performing Arts Center with nighttime activities held on a ship, at a local nightclub, and in a restaurant, all great locations to have fun and be spooked.

The festival hosted workshops by some of the horror business’ greatest such as writer, magazine publisher, director, and producer Kerry O’Quinn; composer Harry Manfredini; and Friday the 13th screenwriter Victor Miller. Feature films (classic and new), shorts, and medium-length films were all shown as part of the festival’s film competition and special screenings. Once the workshops and screenings stopped at night, pass-holders were treated...

We have some really exciting news for fans of Hammer’s Dracula (1958). Hammer has revealed that a longer Japanese cut of the the film has been located and they are planning to restore the additional footage into a future release of the film. Included in the extended scenes is extra footage from Dracula’s disintegration.

“In 2007 Hammer and the BFI collaborated on a restoration of Dracula that resulted in the creation of a new HD master of the classic film. The version that was restored was the American print, which is slightly longer than the British version, but the re-master has the original title card added to the beginning (the Us version of the film carried the title Horror Of Dracula).

However, for many years historians have pointed to the fact that an even longer, more explicit, version of the film played in Japanese cinemas in 1958. Up until now, efforts...

The 4th annual Minneapolis Underground Film Festival, which is now open for submissions, is mixing things up a little bit this year. The fest has appointed a new Director, Mark Hanson, to inject some new blood into the proceedings. And if there’s something Muff usually likes, it’s a little blood with their cinema.

It’s not known yet what new visions Hanson will bring to the table, but Muff has previously been known to enjoy the exploitation side of underground filmmaking, as one can tell from last year’s lineup, which included gruesome and spooky fare such as Drew Bolduc and Dan Nelson‘s over-the-top offensive The Taint.

The fest also screened the female vampire film Camilla Hyde, directed by Dave de Vries; John Ervin’s Vixen Highway, Carlos Atanes‘ Maximum Shame and Bill Cooper’s Hunting Buddies. But, they also screened lighter documentaries such as Michael Peterson...

Article by Cliff Saxton

Cliff Saxton is the Archivist for Micds (Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School), known as St. Louis Country Day School when Vincent Price attended in the 1920′s. I recently asked Mr. Saxton to write an article about Vincent Price’s days at Country Day in honor of Vincentennial, the Vincent Price 100th Birthday Celebration. There is information here I have never seen in any biographies of Vincent Price and I thank Mr. Saxton for taking the time to research and write this article, which is making its premiere here at We Are Movie Geeks

In 1922, St. Louis Country Day School welcomed a young man who would become one of the school’s most illustrious graduates — and whose celebrated acting career would be encouraged on the stage of the school’s auditorium. In the fall of that year, Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. was among 30 boys...

Meet the taxi meter that would take over the world. World Moto wants to bring meters--durable, advertising-enabled, black-box-housing, tamper-proof meters--to the 200 million motorcycle taxis that are so popular in the developing world.

As gadgets go, it's hardly the sexiest. It's a meter. For taxis. For motorcycle taxis, to be precise. And yet it might just be a $3 billion dollar idea.

Paul Giles, President of World Moto, whose new Moto-Meter hits the streets of Bangkok in March, remembers when he first got the idea for his product. An American ex-pat in Bangkok, Giles was hanging out with some motorcycle taxi drivers. It's a common profession in Thailand, where traffic often clogs the path of cars, leading some 700,000 Thai men and women earn their living by weaving moto-taxis in and out of traffic. In recent years, moto-taxis have become wildly popular not only in Thailand but across the cities and towns of Asia,...

To celebrate the Jan 31 release of 22 Bullets on DVD and Blu-ray, we are giving 5 lucky winners a copy of the film on DVD.

22 Bullets, starring Jean Reno (Leon, Ronin) and directed by Richard Berry (The Black Box), is a thriller inspired by the real-life events in the world of the Marseille Mafia. Reno plays Charly Matteï, a man who has turned his back on his life as an outlaw. For the last three years, he’s led a peaceful life devoting himself to his wife and two children. Then, one winter morning, he’s left for dead in the parking garage in Marseille’s Old Port, with 22 bullets in his body.

Against all the odds, he doesn’t die…

22 Bullets comes to DVD & Blu-ray 31 January 2011. Pre-order your copy now on Amazon or rent it here.

To enter, simply answer the following question using the form below:

In which city is 22 Bullets set?...

Here at Dread Central we love seeing the indie filmmaker make good. You just never know where the next big director is going to come from. We can tell you, however, what one of the craziest is up to next. Get ready to open Jonathan Lewis' The Black Box!

From the Press Release:

Black Sunday Films presents The Black Box, a new horror anthology with four crazy tales brought to you by the director of Black Devil Doll, Jonathan Lewis; the great gore hounds at Infested Films; and Andrew Kasch and Buz Wallick from the Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy documentary!

Tune in for The Black Box premiere at The New Beverly Cinema on Friday night, October 29th, 2010 at Midnight!

Eight-year-old Bobby is a strange boy. Between spying on his teenage sister's sexual exploits and peeping at his prostitute mother in the nude, Bobby loves to watch the midnight horror shows.

Directed by: Paul Scheuring

Written by: Paul Scheuring, Mario Giordano, Mario Giordano, Christoph Darnstädt, Don Bohlinger, Oliver Hirschbiegel

Cast: Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker, Cam Gigandet, Clifton Collins Jr., Ethan Cohn, Fisher Stevens, Travis Fimmel, David Banner, Jason Lew, Damien Leake, Maggie Grace, Rod Maiorano

The Experiment, written and directed by Paul Scheuring, is the American remake of the 2001 German thriller/horror film Das Experiment. Oliver Hirschbeigal was behind the lens for the original with Mario Giordano having written both the screenplay and the novel it was based on, The Black Box. These works are based on true events that transpired during the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment in 1971 at Stanford University under the charge of Psychology Professor Dr. Philip Zombardo, Ph.D. The goal of The Experiment was to study the psychological effects of becoming either a guard or a prisoner in prison.

The film opens with an all too familiar...

The final results for the 2010 Black Weblog Awards are in, with a reported 27,000+ ballots submitted…

Shadow & Act won the Judges Vote in the Best Film Blog category.

We actually split the award with our comrades at The Black Box Office, who won the Popular Vote. So which one of you punks guys forgot to vote, or didn’t vote for us? I’m coming after you

To see the full list of winners in all categories, Click Here.

Thanks to everyone who participated and who submitted ballots. It’s been a good first year for S&A, and we’ll see ya at the 2011 Black Weblog Awards next year!

Director Jonathan Lewis (Black Devil Doll) is readying a new anthology film for release called The Black Box, which is set to offer up four tales of horror and absurdity plus a nice little wrap-around to tie everything together. Ready for the teaser trailer of one of the segments starring one really familiar face?

Below you'll find your first look at Wax Off directed by our very own Buz "Danger" Wallick, produced by Lindsay Woodcox, and starring none other than Captain fucking Rhodes himself, Joe Pilato. While we'll keep the gist of the story under wraps for now, we couldn't resist giving you a peek at what's to .... come!

Look for more on The Black Box really, really soon!

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Shorts

Directed by: Robert Rodriguez

Cast: Jimmy Bennett, Trevor Gagnon, Jolie Vanier, Jon Cryer, Leslie Mann, James Spader.

Running Time: 1 hr 15

Rating: PG

Plot: A wishing rock wreaks havoc in the hi-tech community of Black Falls.

Who’s It For? The cynic in me wants to say dim ten-year-old boys.

Expectations: The previews didn’t look too promising, but I do like kid’s movies. So maybe…

Scorecard (0-10)

Actors:

Jimmy Bennett as Toe Thompson: Bennett has his very own gawky, awkward charm and it mostly works. He was fantastic as the young James T. Kirk in Star Trek and in Shorts he floats along with the rest of the movie without much incident. There are some periods in his narration that are physically, painfully bad, and therefore…

Score: 3

Trevor Gagnon as Loogie: Someday, Gagnon may learn to act, but alas, that day is still in the distant future.

Score:...