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If you've seen a Kubrick movie, you already know that his directing style is atypical.

Earlier today , a most extraordinary group of people sent a letter to Capitol Hill, in the latest round of the fight over the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act , telling Congress it was time to reject the well-worn lobbying of the big media companies.

A lot of the heat surrounding everything and anything related to Charlie Sheen has died down since the fall.

Junior, a male great horned owl admired for his resemblance to Jack Nicholson, at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx last January.

"You can't handle the truth," an exasperated Colonel Jessep yells out at Lieutenant J.G. Kaffee in a famous courtroom speech of A Few Good Men .

The Yankee Pedlar Inn is a real hotel in Torrington, Conn., that is rumored to be haunted.

Paramount Home Entertainment have announced the US Blu-ray Disc release of Chinatown on 3rd April 2012.

I cannot remember the exact case, but I remember the "a-HA moment." And I've never forgotten that day, when I was sitting in one of the front "pews" in the courtroom in Rockford's courthouse.

In the 1974 classic Roman Polanski neo-noir film Chinatown , private detective Jake Gittes discovers one of LA's dirty secrets.

This sweet, sad new film from Alexander Payne holds a promise of gentleness that is fulfilled, and a promise of complexity that isn't. Starring George Clooney as a wealthy Hawaiian lawyer whose wife is in a coma, The Descendants has a kind of surface difficulty, but is distinctly soft-centred, lenient and sentimental compared to the three scabrous ... (more)

A House panel cleared its chamber's version of a South Florida prison privatization plan on Tuesday with a party line vote.

Editor's note: Craig Champlin submitted a number of shorts for our annual Pure Fiction issue, writing "Pick any of them.

Sanjay Dutt has now admitted that the laughter of his Kaancha Cheena character in Agneepath has been inspired by Jack Nicholson's cackling as the Joker in Batman.

Starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway and John Huston, the film follows an intricate web of deception as private investigator Jake Gittes unravels a mystery involving water rights that are critical to the development of Los Angeles, as well as unspeakable family secrets.

He's the author of a series of eight novels set in Albany, called The Albany Cycle, beginning with Legs and Billy Phelan's Greatest Game .

How much does FX President and General Manager John Landgraf know about his network's upcoming Charlie Sheen comedy Anger Management ? Something he calls "a snippet of a story line." The show, a loose adaptation of the 2003 Adam Sandler-Jack Nicholson movie of the same name, will premiere in June.

An Anchor Bay Films release of an A&E IndieFilms presentation and Far Hills Pictures Stick N Stone Production in association with Gallant Films.

Teeming with murder, corruption, greed and sex, director Roman Polanski's unforgettable classic CHINATOWN arrives for the first time ever on Blu-ray April 3, 2012 from Paramount Home Media Distribution.

Some might argue that Jack Nicholson already has, in "The Departed" . But the news that Dorchester native Mark Wahlberg, whose new film "Contraband" opened yesterday, wants to meet with Southie's own Whitey Bulger at Plymouth House of Correction to get the rights to a Bulger biopic shines a fresh light on the relationship between gangsters and ... (more)

Many of us remember the renowned film "Chinatown," starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, which was based in part on real events that fostered water wars when William Mulholland acted on behalf of Los Angeles interests to secure water rights in Northern California.