Question: I doubt you can name this movie, but it was made in the '60s or '70s and is about an all-girls school where the female schoolmaster's preteen son is killing the girls. The movie ends with a scene in which the son is admiring an old skeletal corpse — with hair — of one of his victims while the mother is screaming in the background. It might have been European.
Answer: Oh ye of little faith! You're describing the 1969 Lilli Palmer film La Residencia, released in the U.S. as The House That Screamed; it's also played under the titles The Boarding School and The Finishing School, which give a clue as to the setup: The German-born Palmer, who began her career in European mainstream films but quickly slid into a long run in horror and exploitation pictures, is the strict he
read more
Now, I'm not one to say "I told you so," but… for several weeks I've been yelling from the rooftops that C.J. definitely wasn't the source of the military shuttle leak. Granted, that was a slightly easier call than, say, the mysterious Mr. Frost predicting the assassination of the president of Kazakhstan. (Word to the wise: Never get into a dead pool with that guy.) It just had to be Toby, didn't it? It's perfect. His brother's an astronaut, his new job as press secretary has him around reporters all day and, mostly, because a woefully underused Richard Shiff has to be looking for the Oval Office exit after seven years. Did anyone else think it looked like President Bartlet already knew it was Toby? That whole exchange about Leo being in trouble felt a little weird. Speaking of a little weird, are we to believe that Kristin Chenoweth's Annabeth has a thing for Leo? Sure seemed
read more
