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So much of modern horror is entwined with the twin serpents of grief and trauma, but the way filmmakers rely on distancing effects or project a tone of ironic detachment onto their characters often prevents the horrors at the center of their works from truly resonating. That detachment, not to mention the propensity for metaphor, endemic to the works of so many of horror’s most promising luminaries in recent years can be probing and evocative, but really it exists to allow audience to look at tragedy from a safe vantage point.

With Danny and Michael Philippou, however, you’re in the bleeding thick of it. That was as true of Talk to Me, the Australian twin filmmakers’ feature directorial debut, as it is of their follow-up, Bring Her Back, an unreservedly soul-sick portrait of grief that comes from a place of such inflamed, naked vulnerability that it becomes almost unbearable to sit with.

Rainn Wilson, along with his co-stars Steve Carell and Angela Kinsey, held an "unofficial" dinner party to raise money for the LIDÈ Haiti Foundation, which aims to empower at-risk adolescent Haitian girls. The dinner party was not a reenactment of the infamous Dinner Party episode from The Office, but it went much smoother and was for a good cause. Rainn Wilson is a co-founder of LIDÈ Haiti and has been involved in supporting the foundation's mission to empower adolescent girls through arts, education, and health.

The Office didn't get much funnier than its season four episode, Dinner Party. The world's best boss, Michael Scott (Steve Carell), decides to hold a couples' dinner at his condo, and he invites Jim (John Krasinski) and Pam (Jenna Fischer) along with Andy (Ed Helms) and Angela (Angela Kinsey) to join the intimate festivities. Dwight (Rainn Wilson) is incredibly hurt when Michael snubs him, but...

A swift piano riff warms the heart, and suddenly you're smiling as the faces of The Office appear on the screen — Michael, Jim, Pam, Dwight, Angela, and so many more. It's an experience shared by millions, as The Office became one of the premiere American sitcoms of this century, influencing the comedy landscape with its compassionate mockumentary style. To this day, people are still touched by the rich characters and ebullient humor of the great TV series.

It's been a decade since The Office took its final bow and we bid adieu to Dunder Mifflin. However, for passionate fans who'd like to splurge on an unforgettable experience, or audience members with deeper pockets than most people, there is a way to revisit the series, and this time, in person.

CharityBuzz is at it again with yet another enticing, one-in-a-kind charity auction. This time, you can spend an evening with three...

Amy Adams inherited her acting talents from her mom.

As the 91st Academy Awards approach, Jimmy Kimmel recruited the mothers of the best acting nominees to re-create the roles their children are nominated for on his ABC late night show.

"Every mother we asked wanted to be a part of this, but one mom shone brighter than all of them. Her name is Kathryn Adams. She's the mother of Amy Adams," said the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host. "She gave the performance of a lifetime playing the same part her daughter played."

The host explained that in ...

Amy Adams inherited her acting talents from her mom.

As the 91st Academy Awards approach, Jimmy Kimmel recruited the mothers of the best acting nominees to re-create the roles their children are nominated for on his ABC late night show.

"Every mother we asked wanted to be a part of this, but one mom shone brighter than all of them. Her name is Kathryn Adams. She's the mother of Amy Adams," said the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host. "She gave the performance of a lifetime playing the same part her daughter played."

The host explained that in ...

Reel-Important People is a monthly column that highlights those individuals in or related to the movies that have left us in recent weeks. Below you'll find names big and small and from all areas of the industry, though each was significant to the movies in his or her own way. Kathryn Adams (1920-2016) - Actress. She starred in Bury Me Not on the Lone Prarie and Blonde for a Day and also appears in Hitchcock's Saboteur, the 1939 version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Fifth Avenue Girl, Spring Parade, The Invisible Woman and Hellzapoppin'. She died on October 14. (THR) Jane Alderman (c.1929-2016) - Casting Director. She was instrumental in the acting careers of John Cusack, Jeremy Piven, Jennifer Beals, Gary Cole...

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Kathryn Adams, an actress who appeared in such notable films as Alfred Hitchcock’s Saboteur and the Charles Laughton-starring The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and who retired from Hollywood upon her marriage to Leave It To Beaver‘s Hugh Beaumont, died October 14 at 96. Other film credits include 1939’s Fifth Avenue Girl, 1940’s The Invisible Woman and 1946’s Blonde For a Day. In 1942, she played Mrs. Brown, a young mother, in Hitchcock’s Saboteur. In 1942, Adams married…...

Virginia Bruce: MGM actress ca. 1935. Virginia Bruce movies on TCM: Actress was the cherry on 'The Great Ziegfeld' wedding cake Unfortunately, Turner Classic Movies has chosen not to feature any non-Hollywood stars – or any out-and-out silent film stars – in its 2015 “Summer Under the Stars” series.* On the other hand, TCM has come up with several unusual inclusions, e.g., Lee J. Cobb, Warren Oates, Mae Clarke, and today, Aug. 25, Virginia Bruce. A second-rank MGM leading lady in the 1930s, the Minneapolis-born Virginia Bruce is little remembered today despite her more than 70 feature films in a career that spanned two decades, from the dawn of the talkie era to the dawn of the TV era, in addition to a handful of comebacks going all the way to 1981 – the dawn of the personal computer era. Career highlights were few and not all that bright. Examples range from playing the...