Odds: Alex Gibney on torture, Stephen King on - hey! - horror.

2008-07-10 21:00:01

Alex Gibney, whose Hunter S. Thompson doc "Gonzo" opened last week, writes about his last film, "Taxi to the Dark Side," at the Guardian Film Blog: "If you torture people they will tell you anything, and that way you get what you want to know, regardless of whether it's true or not. At first I rejected that idea. Now I believe it. We've entered Orwellian territory." Stephen King reasons why "most really good horror films are low-budget affairs with special effects cooked up in someone's basement or garage" at Entertainment Weekly. Kevin Maher interviews director Nicolas Roeg, writer Fay Weldon and her son and film producer Dan Weldon on the subject of their film "Puffball" at the London Times: "We have to show people that we're all parts of the same story. We'll all go off and enact our endings differently, but our lives are all part of the one...

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