Sleep Awake has a great premise and certainly knows its creepy imagery, but its fiction is too dense and the mechanics feel a bit played-it-all-before. Compared to contemporaries like Still Wakes the ...

Morgan Neville’s documentary argues for the importance of the year in the history of Hollywood—when ‘Nashville’ and ‘Jaws’ ...

I know what it feels like to desperately want to sleep. A medication mishap left me unable to sleep for three or four days. I laid in bed each night trying to make it happen, then drifted through the ...

In recent years, I've noticed a lot of people saying they become extremely bored or frustrated anytime a friend tries to recount a dream they've had recently. Personally, I can't relate — dreams ...

Director Andre Gaines shifts playwright Amiri Baraka’s 1964 Civil Rights Era critique to present-day New York City.

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Filmed in a half-dozen RI locations, 'Sleepwalker' follows a mom's descent into madness after a family tragedy makes sleep elusive.

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Whether it’s a movie or a game, a good horror experience is almost entirely driven by sound. Audiences react to jump scares, body horror, and skin-crawling nightmarish imagery, but all work in tandem ...

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Awakenings, 1990. Directed by Penny Marshall. Starring Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, John Heard, Julie Kavner, Penelope Ann ...