Radha Mitchell In Every Dreamkatcher a Nightmare By Jay S. Jacobs There is a whole world out there which we barely remember and hardly understand. Dreams and nightmares are a place where our imagination goes wild, where normal logic or real-world conventions hold no sway. It is a world that fascinates actress Radha Mitchell – who was born in Australia but has been based out of the US since the mid-1980s. She has put together a diverse and impressive body of work, from arty fi

THE INVISIBLE MAN (2020) Starring Elisabeth Moss, Aldis Hodge, Storm Reid, Harriet Dyer, Michael Dorman, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Benedict Hardie, Amali Golden, Sam Smith, Zara Michaels, Anthony Brandon Wong, Myles Rice, Nash Edgerton, Dennis Kreusler, Michael Knott, Randolph Fields, Serag Mohamed and Bianca Pomponio. Screenplay by Leigh Whannell. Directed by Leigh Whannell. Distributed by Universal Pictures. 110 minutes. Rated R. Occasionally as a film reviewer – hell, as a fil

Rose Byrne and Chris O’Dowd at the New York press day for “Juliet, Naked” at the Crosby Street Hotel in SoHo on August 13, 2018. Rose Byrne and Chris O’Dowd Get Unplugged with Juliet, Naked by Jay S. Jacobs Rose Byrne and Chris O’Dowd play a long-time couple coming to the end of the road in the music-oriented romantic comedy Juliet, Naked. However, you wouldn’t have been able to tell that when we recently met up with the two at the Crosby Street Hotel in New York to discuss t

Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare TRUTH OR DARE (2018) Starring Lucy Hale, Tyler Posey, Violett Beane, Landon Liboiron, Sophia Taylor Ali, Nolan Gerard Funk, Sam Lerner, Brady Smith, Hayden Szeto, Morgan Lindholm, Aurora Perrineau, Tom Choi, Leslie Stratton, Carlo Sciortino, Tim Neff, Lisa Catara, Ezmie Garcia, Alexis Jacknow, Bradley Snedeker and Gary Anthony Williams. Screenplay by Michael Reisz and Jillian Jacobs & Chris Roach & Jeff Wadlow. Directed by Jeff Wadlow. Distributed by

A Haunted House 2 A HAUNTED HOUSE 2 (2014) Starring Marlon Wayans, Jaime Pressly, Essence Atkins, Gabriel Iglesias, Ashley Rickards, Affion Crockett, Steele Stebbins, Rick Overton, Missi Pyle, Hayes MacArthur, Dave Sheridan, Cedric the Entertainer, Kurt Carley, Tom Virtue, Kym Whitley and Gregg Wayans. Screenplay by Marlon Wayans and Rick Alvarez. Directed by Michael Tiddes. Distributed by Universal  Pictures.  87 minutes.  Rated R. The state of the parody film is in distress

Rose Byrne Returns to a Place That Is Insidious by Jay S. Jacobs Australian actress Rose Byrne has done just about everything in her young career – TV, movies, comedy, drama, period pieces, blockbusters, indies, horror – but Insidious: Chapter 2 is the first time she has revisited a character in a sequel. It's rather shocking that an actress who is so young has been working for almost 20 years and done well over 40 roles, including such diverse smashes as Bridesmaids, Star Wa

Patrick WIlson at the New York press day for “Insidious: Chapter 2” at the Waldorf-Astoria. Photo copyright 2013 Jay S. Jacobs. Patrick Wilson Conjuring Up Something Insidious by Jay S. Jacobs If Patrick Wilson has been looking a little haunted lately, it is not just a coincidence. In the last few years, Wilson and horror director James Wan (Saw, Death Sentence) have teamed up on three films in which Wilson has played a family man who must deal with ghosts, demons and spirits