Michael Carmen Pitt Night of the Hunted By Jay S. Jacobs We’ve been watching the long, winding road that actor Michael Pitt (he’s been going by his full name, Michael Carmen Pitt for the last few years, starting with the film Ghost in the Shell) has been following. The one thing that is most notable about his career is that he almost never has done what was expected of him. He came up in the ranks from the theater world, a smart handsome kid who was fascinated by extreme pers

Angeline-Rose Troy in New York. Photo ©2016 Mark Doyle. All Rights Reserved. Angeline-Rose Troy The Perils of Angeline by Jay S. Jacobs It isn’t easy being a young aspiring actress.  The fantasy is that you arrive in Hollywood, fresh-faced and talented, park yourself on a bar stool at some soda fountain (or coffee shop) on the Boulevard and wait for someone to come along and discover you.  Reality is much grimmer; a frantic whirl of blind auditions, call sheets, surly casting

Levi Miller, Hugh Jackman and Rooney Mara in PAN. Hugh Jackman, Rooney Mara, Garrett Hedlund, Levi Miller, Jason Fuchs and Joe Wright Give A New Life to Peter Pan In Prequel by Brad Balfour Ever since Scottish novelist/playwright J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan first appeared over a hundred years ago, the play and novel became source material for a slew of retellings. No wonder, it’s a classic story about a boy who flies, doesn’t grow up, has his gang of “lost boys” and lives in plac

Donald Sutherland, Rachel Hurd-Wood, James D’Arcy and Courtney Solomon A Haunting Tale by Jay S. Jacobs An American Haunting is a new film version of a classic supernatural mystery, the Bell Witch of Tennessee in the early 1800s. This true story looks at the Bell family, which was bedeviled by a poltergeist for years, eventually leading to the only case of a human dying because of a haunting. A few days before the film was set to open, film stars Donald Sutherland, Rachel Hur

An American Haunting AN AMERICAN HAUNTING (2006) Starring Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, Rachel Hurd-Wood, James D’Arcy, Matthew Marsh, Thom Fell, Sam Alexander, Gaye Brown, Zoe Thorne, Miquel Brown, Shawna Shim, Lila Bata-Walsh and Howard Rosenstein. Screenplay by Courtney Solomon. Directed by Courtney Solomon. Distributed by After Dark Films.  84 minutes.  Rated PG-13. An American Haunting is the story of the Bell Witch case in Tennessee in the early 1800s, one of the mos