4 articles from 2008
15 May 2008 12:13 PM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news
Genius Products has officially announced the DVD release of The Killing Gene (aka Waz), which stars Stellan Skårsgard, Melissa George, Ashley Walters, and Selma Blair. DVD Active reports that the Tom Shankland directed film will be available to own on August 12, and should retail at around $19.97. The film itself will be presented in anamorphic widescreen, along with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround track. According to the folks at Fangoria, the disc will include 3 deleted scenes, a Making of featurette, a Torture featurette, and an in-depth interview with the director, producer and screenwriter.
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7 March 2008 12:11 PM, PST | From Watcher | See recent Watcher news
Between Dr. Drew Pinsky on VH1's reality hit "Celebrity Rehab" and the fictional Dr. Paul Weston on Hbo's highly addictive "In Treatment," we're awash in TV therapists .
"These shows are a way of people getting back in touch with the soul, and the audience wants that," Baylor College psychiatry professor Glen Gabbard, author of “Psychiatry and the Cinema,” told Broadcasting & Cable.
But TV’s fascination with the therapist’s couch is nothing new. Here’s a highly subjective look at a few of the fictional tube shrinks — past and present — who have captured my imagination.
Dr. Jennifer Melfi (Lorraine Bracco) of HBO’s “The Sopranos” (1999-2007)
Nobody knew more about New Jersey’s top mobster, Tony Soprano (except perhaps the FBI agents who kept tabs on him). But toward the end of the series, she began to wonder how much she’d helped the mobster, who first visited after suffering a panic attack.
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23 February 2008 12:02 AM, PST | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news
While we still wait for a Us DVD release date from Dimension Extreme, Tom Shankland's Waz (trailer) continues to get released across the world. Today a new international poster was discovered for the film, which stars Stellan Skarsgård, Melissa George, Selma Blair, Ashley Walters and John Sharian. Read on to take a look and cross your fingers that Dimension gives a date soon.
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14 February 2008 10:03 PM, PST | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news
Australian actress Melissa George (Amityville Horror, 30 Days of Night, Turistas) is in final negotiations to star in the supernatural thriller Triangle for Icon Entertainment. Christopher Smith (Severance, Creep) is directing. The story revolves around the passengers of a yachting trip in the Atlantic Ocean who, when struck by mysterious weather conditions, jump to another ship only to experience greater havoc on the open seas. George will play a woman with a mental disorder who relives the harrowing experience through each of her three personalities. Shooting begins this April ion Australia.
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4 articles from 2008