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From its opening moments, of a girl jumping rope while counting and naming the stars in the nighttime sky, Peter Greenaway’s Drowning by Numbers is perhaps the most direct illustration of the filmmaker’s key thematic and aesthetic interest in ascribing structure to a chaotic universe. Throughout, the film slowly counts from one to 100 via a combination of character dialogue and visual markers sprinkled in frames like an elaborate game of I Spy. In deadpan voiceovers, a young boy also elaborates the byzantine rules of made-up games whose goals seem altogether too banal to be worth their complexity.

The plot that strings together these playful games involves three women, each named Cissie Colpitts, who drown their husbands and enlist the help of a coroner, Madgett (Bernard Hill), to cover up the crimes. In a relatively light preamble to the darker feminist revenge drama of Greenaway’s subsequent The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover...

Director Doug Aarniokoski begins filming Nurse 3D this month, and we have a new list of cast members that will be joining Paz De La Huerta, Corbin Bleu, and Katrina Bowden.

Boris Kodjoe, who horror fans may recognize from Resident Evil: Afterlife, will be playing Detective John Rogan. Adam Herschman (Accepted), Neal McDonough (Captain America), Niecy Nash (Reno 911!), and Nick Turturro (NYPD Blue) are also believed to have joined the cast. We should have an official press release announcing the full cast list shortly after filming begins.

“By day Abby Russell is a dedicated nurse, someone you wouldn’t hesitate to trust your life with. But by night, her real work begins…using her smoldering sexuality she lures cheating men to their brutal deaths and exposes them for who they really are. When a younger nurse starts to suspect Abby’s actions and compromises her master plan, Abby must find...