River shows it's an unpredictable creature
COLUMBUS - Like Busch beer, fishing and NASCAR, swimming in the Chattahoochee River was a part of life for Steven E. Brookins, a salt-of-the-earth tree cutter from Bibb City.
Too real means too creepy in new Disney movie
LOS ANGELES - Computer animation has a problem: When it gets too realistic, it starts creeping people out.
Shearer: Del Toro helps save werewolf flick
With all the horror remakes being produced lately, I suppose we should be glad someone went back to the 1940s to mine for material instead of the '70s or '80s. Universal Studios released the original "The Wolf Man," starring the legendary Lon Chaney Jr., just three years after the Oscar-winning "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," and audiences reportedly felt the stories were a bit too similar. But in the decades since, dozens of werewolf movies have come and gone, always trying to reinvent the character and do something we haven't quite seen before. A return to the classic story was a much-welcome change, despite the requisite CGI flourishes we've come to expect from modern-day Hollywood.
Cinema File: Breathing new life into the undead
Watch out, zombies. You're next on the hit list for Hollywood screenwriters who want to reinvent you by making you not scary anymore.
English professor presents his latest revamp of Count Dracula
A new variety of sex symbol has invaded pop culture in the past few years.
Cinema File: Cage brings the freaky back with 'Bad Lieutenant'
Do today's audiences even remember the crazy Nicolas Cage? Before he became an action star sometime in the mid-'90s with films such as "The Rock," "Con Air" and "Face/Off," Cage was known primarily for playing extremely weird guys. The nasal-voiced boyfriend in "Peggy Sue Got Married" and the skinny weasel of a kidnapper in "Raising Arizona" are memorable examples. In "Vampire's Kiss," he ate a live cockroach on screen (which reportedly took three takes to pull off), and went completely off the rails as an Elvis-obsessed outlaw in David Lynch's "Wild at Heart."
