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In the genre of fantasy, there have been some fantastic female characters. Some inspire viewers to emulation, and some to detestation. Either way, they have left their mark on the realm of imagination. No matter if their intentions were good or evil, they are a force to be reckoned with. As William Congreve put it in his play The Mourning Bride, "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

Stars: Nina Bergman, Louis Mandylor, Daniel Bernhardt, Timothy V. Murphy, Dominiquie Vandenberg, Charles Fathy | Written by Katharine Lee McEwan, Romain Serir | Directed by Jesse V. Johnson

English playwright William Congreve wrote that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned back in 1697. Now Jesse V. Johnson and writers Katharine Lee McEwan (Solitary) and Romain Serir (The Girl with Two Faces) are out to prove it’s still true with Hell Hath No Fury, a World War II set story of a woman forced to fight against both sides in order to survive.

World War II is drawing to a close and Marie is about to receive summary justice as a collaborator. She wasn’t, but that’s besides the point. She’s saved from them by a quartet of American G.I.s led by Major Maitland. They’re not doing it out of a sense of justice though, it...

Restoration wit William Congreve opined that music had charms to soothe the savage breast, but in “The Sonata,” it has power to summon the savage beast — you know, the one usually depicted with horns, tail, and a pitchfork. This handsome horror meller set primarily in France benefits considerably from location shooting in cheaper, but picturesque Latvia. It’s Looks 10, Personality 4, however, as director Andrew Desmond and collaborator Arthur Morin’s screenplay doesn’t quite provide enough incident to properly milk its own premise, making for a supernatural thriller that ends just as it’s beginning to work up a sweat.

Opening on 11 U.S. screens Jan. 10 (simultaneous with on-demand release), it’s a watchable if ultimately underwhelming exercise. Perhaps the most notable element here is one of the late Rutger Hauer’s final performances, though he completed several other projects after this late-arriving import, which has played festivals and theatrical...

Folger Theatre continues its 201718 season with The Way of the World, a new comedy freely adapted from the classic play by William Congreve. Written and directed by renowned author Theresa Rebeck Mauritus and Seminar and Broadway creator and head writer of TV's Smash, the production will star Tony Award nominee Kristine Nielsen Present Laughter, You Can't Take It With You, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike on Broadway.

Folger Theatre continues its 201718 season with The Way of the World, a new comedy freely adapted from the classic play by William Congreve. Written and directed by renowned author Theresa Rebeck Mauritus and Seminar and Broadway creator and head writer of TV's Smash, the production will star Tony Award nominee Kristine Nielsen Present Laughter, You Can't Take It With You, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike on Broadway.

Unforgettable Warner Bros Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: C Director: Denise Di Novi Written by: David Leslie Johnson, Christina Hodson Cast: Katherine Heigl, Rosario Dawson, Whitney Cummings, Cheryl Ladd, Geoff Stults Screened at: AMC Lincoln Square, NYC, 4/19/17 Opens: April 21, 2017 In 1697 a play by William Congreve, “The Mourning Bride,” has the […]

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The actress is mostly remembered for her good looks, but what about her impressive performances?

In Richard Dyer’s book Heavenly Bodies: Film Stars and Society, he writes that Marilyn Monroe was “the most visible star”: an actress whose life was put on display, and remains so over 50 years after her death. She is one of the most iconic Hollywood stars of all time, her face instantly recognizable to even those who have never seen any of her movies. She is a symbol of beauty, glamor, cinema, femininity, blondness, sexuality, and tragedy. While the world speculates about her personal life — who was she romantically involved with? How did she die? What was she really like? — her career as an actress is overshadowed by her fame.

While she may not have been the greatest actress of all time, she certainly had her fair share of talent and intelligence, and always worked incredibly hard to bring her...

Bored with the regurgitated, repurposed urban legends of our time, Hugo Award-winning fiction editor Ann Vandermeer sought to create a bestiary that would once again delight and intrigued minds with superbly fanciful creatures. Vandermeer brought together some of the most respected fantasists from around the world including Karen Lord, Dexter Palmer, Brian Evenson, Felix Gilman, and Rikki Ducornet to contribute a bizarre beast. The end result is a beautifully illustrated compendium of fantastical creatures that could only be imagined into life by equally fantastical minds. I found myself pouring over the pages of The Bestiary as I poured over the pages of my Greek or Egyptian mythologies books as a child. Each story pulls you in with detailed descriptions and “eye-witness accounts” that are so well written, you almost forget the creatures are made-up. And Serbian illustrator Ivica Stevanovic compliments the text with her strange, yet alluring images of each beastie.

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It all started with a text…and now we have a couple Scorned Blu-ray's to give away thanks to the kind peeps at Anchor Bay.

Scorned was directed by Mark Jones, director and writer of the genre favorite Leprechaun and stars AnnaLynne McCord and Billy Zane.

To enter for a chance to win a copy of Scorned on Blu-ray, simply email scornedgiveaway[at]morehorror.com with the subject title Scorned Giveaway along with your full name and physical address. You must be 18 or over, live in the Us and sorry no Po Boxes to qualify. Winners will be chosen at random. Check out the full details below about the release of Scorned, coming February 4, 2014. Good luck!

From The Press Release

William Congreve once wrote: “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” Bill, hang on to your plume because you’re about to meet Sadie… On February 4, 2014, Anchor Bay Films releases Scorned,...

Title: The Patience Stone Sony Pictures Classics Director: Atiq Rahimi Screenwriter: Jean-Claude Carriére, Atiq Rahimi from his novel Cast: Golshifteh Farahani, Hamidrez Javdan, Hassina Burgan, Massi Browat, Hamid Djavadan, Massi Mrowat Screened at: Sony, NYC, 8/8/13 Opens: August 14, 2013 The expression “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” applies mightily in Atiq Rahimi’s “The Patience Stone.” In fact while that bon mot might best apply to the women of oppressive countries like Iran and Afghanistan, the quote comes strangely enough from William Congreve’s “The Mourning Bride,” written in 1697, from a country where compared to what women undergo in much of the profoundly sexist world, Britain must have [ Read More ]

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I already know the answer is no, Adam Lambert fans do not at all care whether Adam Lambert’s new tattoo is a misquote, because once he has said/written/sung any words, they are his and therefore completely right. And we actually rather like his “Musica delenit bestiam feram” tat, as celebrity ink goes. But just as a public service, in case you were about to run to your local parlor to copy it, we wanted to mention one tiny little detail. The words, translated to “Music soothes the savage beast,” are a common alteration to the original quote, from English poet William Congreve‘s 1697 play The Mourning Bride, which actually says, “Music has charms to soothe a savage breast.” Then again, modern-day people would feel pretty weird about inking themselves with anything about soothing breasts, even if you know no one means it that way. This is just...

Huge scientific breakthrough today! Important discovery and stuff! And of course you know how pop culture reacts to such things: Shakespeare’s 1597 play The Fabled Orbit gave us the romantically comedic figure of “Copernica, Lady of Warmia,” her love of the poor but noble foreigner Helio, and her quest for acceptance by her family and society of their marriage. William Congreve’s 1702 Restoration comedy What Goes Up made a hero of Sir Horace Gravity and a villain of Lord Newton Killjoy for imprisoning Gravity in a prison made of paper. The 1947 MGM classic Sayonara, Nippon cast Clark Gable as the explosive but daring army officer Harry “Little Boy” Oppenheimer who -- along with his sidekick Ned “Fat Man” Teller (Humphrey Bogart) -- singlehandedly wins the war in Japan. And then there’s the classic episode of I Love Lucy in which Lucy and Ethel unravel the genetic code. So we...

Actor of poise and beauty who enjoyed a rich and productive career on both sides of the Atlantic

Faith Brook, who has died aged 90, was an actor of remarkable elegance, poise and beauty. She was the daughter of Clive Brook, a pillar of the so-called Hollywood Raj, the British acting community that settled in Los Angeles in the 1930s. He appeared opposite Marlene Dietrich in Shanghai Express. Even if she was never a star on the scale of her father, Faith enjoyed a rich and productive career in theatre, film and television on both sides of the Atlantic.

She was born in York and moved with Clive and her mother, Mildred, to California, where her father had already put down roots. Her brother, Lyndon, was born four years after Faith and also became a successful actor.

She was educated in Los Angeles, London and Gstaad, Switzerland. She made her stage...

The WikiLeaks founder seems to veer towards the conclusion that the accusations against him were a case of revenge for his boorish behaviour

In Julian Assange's "unauthorised autobiography", which was published yesterday against his wishes, the world's most famous computer hacker goes into lurid detail about the encounters that led the Swedish authorities to seek his extradition from Britain to face charges of rape. There were two women involved – woman "A" and woman "W" – with each of whom he says he had casual, consensual sex.

At the time of his visit to Sweden in the summer of last year Assange believed that the Us was seeking to prosecute or otherwise punish him for publishing thousands of state secrets on his WikiLeaks website, and he says he was then under such stress that he welcomed the attentions "of these smiling and affectionate women". He says he had sex "several times...

William Congreve must be smiling in his grave, knowing somehow that "The Music Never Stopped" enunciates a theme of which he spoke in "The mourning bride" in 1697: "Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast, To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak. I've read, that things inanimate have mov'd, And, as with living Souls, have been inform'd, By Magic Numbers and persuasive Sound."...

William Congreve must be smiling in his grave, knowing somehow that "The Music Never Stopped" enunciates a theme of which he spoke in "The mourning bride" in 1697: "Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast, To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak. I've read, that things inanimate have mov'd, And, as with living Souls, have been inform'd, By Magic Numbers and persuasive Sound."...

Lawsuit provides details on Fusari's version of Gaga's early career.

By Gil Kaufman

Lady Gaga

Photo: F Micelotta/American Idol 2009/Getty Images

The introduction to the $30.5 million lawsuit lodged by producer/songwriter Rob Fusari against his former collaborator and girlfriend Lady Gaga opens with the most famous quote from English playwright and poet William Congreve.

"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned/ Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned," reads the intro, which includes another lyrical flourish with the added emotional argument, "All business is personal. When those personal relationships evolve into romantic entanglements, any corresponding business relationship usually follows the same trajectory so that when one crashes they all burn. That is what happened here."

What follows is page-upon-page of legal argument from Fusari's lawyer detailing the producer's claims of having discovered and nurtured Gaga (then an unknown singer by the name of Stefani Germanotta, spelled...