With Halloween coming next week and the fall chill in the air, this is the perfect weekend to curl up with a good scary movie. , starring Tim Robbins and Derek Luke. Set in South Africa during apartheid, Luke plays a family man politicized by the injustice in his country and Robbins is a police officer on the other side. more ›

Wow. The Post today points to one of those crazy stories, broken Thursday in the Staten Island Advance, that just makes you scratch your head in wonder. Last month a young woman from Newburgh, NY woman named Shonelle Melvelle-Grant was charged with trying to hire a hit man to kill a former friend, Jessica Liriano, so that she could take custody of the Liriano's 8-year-old daughter Kiki. She allegedly even went so far as to pay a hitman a $50 down payment for the hit (is that seriously the going rate for hit these days?), though unbeknownst to her the hitman was an undercover cop! more ›

It seems many film critics think Burton’s “darker” Willy Wonka bears an uncanny resemblance to Michael Jackson clad in Austin Powers’ wardrobe. E! reports that “a PG-rated kids' fantasy--linked to a fallen pop star with longish black hair, pale skin, a whisper for a speaking voice, a penchant for military garb and a recent acquittal on child-molestation charges is likely not what the Hollywood studio had in mind when it turned Burton.” Depp insists his Wonka’s look and demeanor was not inspired by Michael Jackson, but by Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Rogers (??) and that “everyone is entitled to think what they want, even while being violently wrong.” While we agree Jacko-Wonka is slightly creepy, we find the connection odd as anyone who even skimmed Amazon’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory customer feedback would know that Dahl’s Wonka dislikes children and would sooner grope a balding Oompa Loompa before sharing his marshmallow-fluffed bed with little boys. more ›