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At a time when, however deliberately or consciously, we live our lives in public online, access to our privacy is the new currency of value. Just because you can keep track of your friends via Facebook, post and tag photos on MySpace, and spew out your every waking thought on Twitter - all easily and...

The past isn't past for a group of Wisconsin-born 60-somethings in A Dark Matter, the new novel from horror maestro Peter Straub. An encounter with a vagrant in a corner bakery touches off the quest of the narrator a successful writer and former 1960s kid to reconnect with a group of friends...

The end of the world has been a largely American phenomenon in film and television. Sure, the Australians got their Mad Max and we got a look at England in 28 Days Later, but the usual I...

The past isn't past for a group of Wisconsin-born 60-somethings in A Dark Matter, the new novel from horror maestro Peter Straub. An encounter with a vagrant in a corner bakery touches off the quest of the narrator a successful writer and former 1960s kid to reconnect with a group of friends from his college days, each of them now far flung and living...
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It takes a lot for a producer to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but that's how influential Mike Medavoy has been in the movie business. From his time as a hotshot agent in the mid-70s, when he spent his days nurturing the careers of new...

The end of the world has been a largely American phenomenon in film and television. Sure, the Australians got their Mad Max and we got a look at England in 28 Days Later, but the usual I Am Legend, The Road, The Book of Eli and Roland Emmerich spectacles have focused on U.S. wastelands.

The BBC really gets their say with the...
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At the time much of the footage for the Oscar-nominated documentary Burma VJ was being shot, its director, Anders stergaard, wasnt even in the same hemisphere. Wanting to open a window on the closed country of Burma (a.k.a. Myanmar), the Danish-based filmmaker struck up a groundbreaking remote collaboration...

It takes a lot for a producer to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but that's how influential Mike Medavoy has been in the movie business. From his time as a hotshot agent in the mid-70s, when he spent his days nurturing the careers of new artists like Steven Spielberg, Jane Fonda and Francis Ford Coppola, to his stint at...
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Growing up in the shadow of Disneyland, artist and illustrator Camille Rose Garcia spent a lot of time contemplating the reality of fantasy and the fantasies that make reality palatable...

Getting Academy Award winner Benicio del Toro to play The Wolfman was a big coup for the horror remake. It was in fact the star and producer's clout that convinced Universal Pictures...