Misery News

Obama's sweeping ambitions for quelling climate change and creating a clean energy economy have so far remained largely unfulfilled.

October 31st, 2009 This week The Couch Potato Report peels some classic and new movies that will thrill and chill you this Halloweekend!! Today is the one day of the when almost all of us love to be scared...and so, I have put together a list of new and old releases to tell you about.

Let's get this out of the way immediately: Antichrist , Danish director Lars von Trier's new sylvan horror film, contains graphic scenes of a penis ejaculating blood, a self-inflicted clitorectomy and a hobbling that rivals James Caan's in Misery .

The Weather Channel plans to show movies for the first time in its 27-year history and it's easy to guess which one is leading off.

So the Weather Channel has announced that they're going to start showing movies with weather themes.

"The Perfect Storm," of course. The George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg movie about a horrific storm off the New England coast will air on Oct.

Stephen King is a one-man, book-making , movie -adapting, money-printing machine who's provided Hollywood with nearly four decades of bankable material.

Paul Sheldon has made his reputation as a writer thanks to a character named Misery, the star of his series of historical romance novels.

TheatreWorks New Milford will present a free staged reading of Stephen King's Misery by playwright Simon Moore on October 22 at 8:00 pm at the Theatre, 5 Brookside Ave, in New Milford.

He is a charming and funny gentleman. We went for drinks and had a lovely time getting reacquainted.

Fall Frights: MISERY Friday, October 02, 2009 12:42 AM Glenn Kay DVD & Blu-Ray Anyone who remembers the early 80's knows that one couldn't throw a rock without hitting a movie theater playing a horror title.

One of the "classier" Stephen King adaptations hits Blu-Ray and, man, does it ever hold up.

"The rain. Sometimes it gives me the blues. When you first came here, I only loved the writer part of Paul Sheldon.

Lauren Bacall, producer-executive John Calley, producer-director Roger Corman and Gordon Willis will all be honored at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' inaugural Governors Awards event on Nov.

Not only is Misery the best adaptation of a Stephen King book ever made, it's the only good one ever made.

Sydney Bristow, Lara Croft, Sarah Connor . . . I get them. I really do. They kick butt, and they take names.

As a couple is about to get a divorce, their story unfolds in reverse: Starting with one of their final meetings, it goes back to the womanA's pregnancy, their wedding and the moment they first met and started dating.

You can relive Kathy Bates' Oscar-winning performance in 1080p this September. Misery will be released on Blu-ray on September 15.

You can relive Kathy Bates' Oscar-winning performance in 1080p this September. Misery will be released on Blu-ray on September 15.

This set houses four martial arts films - The Legend of Drunken Master, Hero, Iron Monkey and Zatoichi - and will arrive with 1080p transfers, DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio sound mixes, and these bonuses: On Hero , three featurettes and a storyboards gallery, on Iron Monkey , two interviews, on Drunken Master , an interview, and on Zatoichi , two ...