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Kristen Hager
Kristen Hager is a Canadian actress. She co-starred in films '' Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem'' (2007) and '' Wanted'' (2008), and played Leslie Van Houten in the independent film ''Leslie, My Name Is Evil'' (2009). From 2011 to 2014, Hager starred as Nora Sergeant in the Syfy supernatural comedy-drama series, '' Being Human''. Life and career Hager made her first television appearance in the Lifetime mini-series where she gained a role on the '' Beach Girls'' in 2005. The following year, Hager had the recurring role on the short-lived The CW series, '' Runaway''. In 2007, she had a small part in the biographical drama film ''I'm Not There'', and in the same year played one of the female leads in the science-fiction action horror film '' Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem'', the sequel to ''Alien vs. Predator''. In 2008, she played James McAvoy's character's girlfriend in the action thriller, '' Wanted''. In 2009, Hager played the leading role in the independent film ''Leslie, My Name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Diego Comic-Con International
San Diego Comic-Con International is a comic book convention and nonprofit multi-genre entertainment event held annually in San Diego, California since 1970. The name, as given on its website, is Comic-Con International: San Diego; but it is commonly known simply as Comic-Con or the San Diego Comic-Con or SDCC. The convention was founded as the Golden State Comic Book Convention in 1970 by a group of San Diegans that included Shel Dorf, Richard Alf, Ken Krueger, Ron Graf, and Mike Towry; later, it was called the "San Diego Comic Book Convention", Dorf said during an interview that he hoped the first Con would bring in 500 attendees. It is a four-day event (Thursday–Sunday) held during the summer (in July since 2003) at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego. On the Wednesday evening prior to the official opening, professionals, exhibitors, and pre-registered guests for all four days can attend a pre-event "Preview Night" to give attendees the opportunity to walk the exhi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valemont
''Valemont'' is an American supernatural television miniseries on MTV that premiered on September 21, 2009. Two episodes premiered on Tuesdays during '' The Hills'' and '' The City''. For six consecutive weeks, two and a half minute episodes of ''Valemont'' premiered in the commercial pods directly preceding '' The Hills'' and following '' The City''. The concluding 23 episodes of the series (35 episodes in total for season 1) were made available online at MTV.com and on V Cast Video from Verizon Wireless, along with other bonus footage. Description The show follows Maggie Gracen (Kristen Hager), who after visiting the morgue to help identify the supposed burnt body of her brother Eric (Eric Balfour), decides to infiltrate Valemont University, an exclusive, historic and secretive college in rural Massachusetts from where some of the world’s greatest leaders have graduated, that her brother attended before disappearing mysteriously. Taking the identity of Sophie Fields (a stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beach Girls (American TV Series)
Beach Girls was a six-part 2005 American limited series produced by Fox Television Studios and Robert Greenwald Productions and broadcast by Lifetime. The teleplay by Edithe Swensen, Elle Triedman, and Eric Tuchman was based on the 2004 bestselling novel by Luanne Rice. The Beach Girls were three teenagers who spent their summers in the small, quiet beach town of Hubbard's Point. The trio grew apart and eventually went their separate ways, but the death of one of them reunites the surviving two, Stevie and Maddie, when her widower Jack and daughter Nell arrive in town. Paul Shapiro, Sandy Smolan, and Jeff Woolnough shared directing credits. The cast included Rob Lowe as Jack, Chelsea Hobbs as Nell, Julia Ormond as Stevie, and Katherine Ashby as Maddie, with Chris Carmack and Cloris Leachman in featured roles. The opening credits theme song was "Dreams," written by Dolores O'Riordan and Noel Hogan and performed by The Cranberries. The series was filmed in Chester, Crystal Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blood And Money
''Blood and Money'' (formerly titled ''Allagash'') is a 2020 American thriller film directed by John Barr and starring Tom Berenger. It is Barr's feature directorial debut. Plot Jim Reed lives in an RV near the woods of Maine during the winter. He is a former Marine who served in the Vietnam War and a recovering alcoholic, being a year sober. He is divorced and his ex-wife is now dead, while his daughter died in a freak accident at a young age (which Jim is thought to have caused due to drunk driving). He is also estranged from his son. One afternoon, while changing a tire, he begins to spit up blood and passes out, indicating he may have cancer. Jim hunts "game" (deer) for meat, and goes into town for his other supplies. Having few relationships, he eats breakfast regularly at a diner where he shares a friendship with Debbie, a waitress and working class mother unhappy with her marriage and general life. One night, after going to the local bar and considering drinking, he goes t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Turkey Bowl
''The Turkey Bowl'' is a 2019 American sports comedy film directed by Greg Coolidge, and starring Ryan Hansen and Matt Jones. The film was released by Lionsgate in the United States on November 15, 2019, through theaters and on conventional and digital video on demand platforms. Synopsis Tricked into returning after being falsely told his high school buddy Mitchell (Jones) died in a car accident, Patrick Hodges (Hansen)—a former high school quarterback-turned-Chicago businessman who is (unofficially) engaged to Ashley Sinclair (Bomar), the daughter of a U.S. Senator considering running for president—is lured back to his Oklahoma hometown of Putnam over Thanksgiving weekend to help his old friends finish The Turkey Bowl, a legendary football game between his alma mater Putnam Badgers and the crosstown rival Noble Knights (who went on to win the state championship that year) that was suspended in the second half during a freak snowstorm 15 years before. He is forced to do this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clara (2018 Film)
''Clara'' is a 2018 Canadian-British science fiction film and the second feature film directed by Akash Sherman. The film stars husband and wife actors Patrick J. Adams and Troian Bellisario, playing astrophysicist Isaac and itinerant artist Clara, who become close while searching for signs of intelligent life in the universe. The film received divided or mixed reviews from critics. Plot Dr. Isaac Bruno holds a postdoctoral research fellowship in astrophysics at (fictional) Ontario University, in Toronto. His goal of finding signs of intelligent life in the universe has become an obsession, linked to an unspecified trauma in his personal life two years earlier. He has become increasingly antagonistic towards his students and has taken to misappropriating time on ground-based telescopes in Chile, intended for a colleague's research. His department head suspends him, denying him any access to the school's research facilities. The TESS orbiting telescope is launched, providing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Life (2015 Film)
Life is a quality that distinguishes matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from that which does not, and is defined by the capacity for growth, reaction to stimuli, metabolism, energy transformation, and reproduction. Various forms of life exist, such as plants, animals, fungi, protists, archaea, and bacteria. Biology is the science that studies life. The gene is the unit of heredity, whereas the cell is the structural and functional unit of life. There are two kinds of cells, prokaryotic and eukaryotic, both of which consist of cytoplasm enclosed within a membrane and contain many biomolecules such as proteins and nucleic acids. Cells reproduce through a process of cell division, in which the parent cell divides into two or more daughter cells and passes its genes onto a new generation, sometimes producing genetic variation. Organisms, or the individual entities of life, are generally thought to be open systems that maint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Barber (2014 Film)
''The Barber'' is a 2014 American thriller film directed by Basel Owies and starring Scott Glenn. It is Owies's feature directorial debut. Cast *Scott Glenn as Eugene Van Wingerdt / Francis Allen Visser *Chris Coy as John McCormack *Kristen Hager as Audrey Bennett *Stephen Tobolowsky as Chief Gary Hardaway *Max Arciniega as Luis Ramirez *Olivia Taylor Dudley as Kelli *Lydia Hearst as Melissa *Tim Dezam as Capt. Phil Baroni *Valorie Hubbard as Grace *Thomas Calabro as Thomas McCormack Release The film premiered at the Busan International Film Festival on October 3, 2014. It was then released in limited theaters and on VOD on March 27, 2015. Reception The film has a 20% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Oktay Ege Kozak of IndieWire graded the film a D. Tirdad Derakhshani of ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' awarded the film two and a half stars out of four. Dennis Harvey of ''Variety Variety may refer to: Arts and entertainment Entertainment formats * Variety (radio) * Variety s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Textuality (film)
''Textuality'' is a 2011 Canadian romantic comedy film, directed by Warren P. Sonoda. An exploration of the impact of social media on romance, the film stars Jason Lewis and Carly Pope as Breslin and Simone, a financial advisor and an artist in Toronto who meet and begin to date while each is still navigating multiple casual relationships through e-mail, texting and social networking platforms.Norman Wilner"Textuality" ''Now'', April 21, 2011. The cast also includes Eric McCormack, Kris Holden-Ried, Kristen Hager, Holly Elissa, Supinder Wraich, Anna Cyzon and Renee Percy. The film premiered in Toronto in April 2011. Critical response The film was not well received by critics. Norman Wilner of ''Now'' wrote that "No point mincing words: Textuality is a sorry excuse for a romantic comedy. The characters are one-dimensional, the script is banal, and the social media angle the movie works so hard to establish in its opening reel isn’t even relevant to the plot in the end. In th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Might As Well Live
''You Might As Well Live'' is a 2009 Canadian comedy film directed by Simon Ennis. The film stars Joshua Peace as Robert Mutt, an unsuccessful slacker who has just been released from the hospital following a suicide attempt and is on a quest to transform his life after experiencing a vision of baseball legend Clinton Manitoba telling him that the three keys to success in life are to "get money, a girlfriend and a championship ring." The film’s title comes from the poem "Resumé", by Dorothy Parker. Cast Release Critical reception On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 67% based on 6 reviews, and an average rating of 5.5/10. ''Variety'''s Dennis Harvey gave the film a mostly positive review, remarking that the film was "a promising first-feature collaboration for director Simon Ennis and co-writer/star Joshua Peace", and noted that " ile it's seldom uproarious, there's steady amusement". Katherine Monk of the ''Edmonton Journ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry O'Quinn
Terrance Quinn (born July 15, 1952), known professionally as Terry O'Quinn, is an American actor. He played John Locke on the TV series ''Lost'', the title role in '' The Stepfather'' and ''Stepfather II'', and Peter Watts in ''Millennium'', which ran for three seasons (1996–1999). He has also hosted ''Mysteries of the Missing'' on The Science Channel. For his role in ''Lost'', he won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Early life O'Quinn was born at War Memorial Hospital in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, one of 11 siblings, and grew up in nearby Newberry, Michigan. He is of Irish descent, and was raised Catholic. He attended Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, and the University of Iowa in Iowa City. He changed his surname from Quinn to O'Quinn as another registered actor already had the name Terrance Quinn. In the 1970s, he went to Baltimore to act in the Center Stage production of ''Tartuffe''. He remained at Center Stag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Lahti
Christine Ann Lahti (born April 4, 1950) is an American actress and filmmaker. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1984 film '' Swing Shift''. Her other film roles include '' ...And Justice for All'' (1979), ''Housekeeping'' (1987), '' Running on Empty'' (1988), '' Leaving Normal'' (1992), and ''A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood'' (2019). For her directorial debut with the 1995 short film '' Lieberman in Love'', she won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. Lahti made her Broadway debut in 1980 as a replacement in ''Loose Ends'', and went on to star in the Broadway productions of ''Present Laughter'' (1982) and ''The Heidi Chronicles'' (1989). An eight-time Golden Globe nominee and six-time Emmy Award nominee, she won a Golden Globe for the 1989 TV movie ''No Place Like Home'', and won a Golden Globe and an Emmy in 1998 for her role as Kate Austin in the CBS series '' Chicago Hope'' (1995–99). She returned to Broadway in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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