This week sees the release of Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan,” a psychological thriller revolving around a possibly delusional ballerina (Natalie Portman) having either a nervous breakdown or a ...

For its part, 'THR' called the British-made pic "serious and artful" but described it as "one of the bloodiest films ever made" and said it should be "forbidden to children." By Bill Higgins In 1965, ...

Yvonne Furneaux, the 1950s and 1960s actress who appeared in Federico Fellini’s "La Dolce Vita" and Roman Polanski’s "Repulsion," has died. She was 98. "Yes, sadly it’s true, my mother did pass away," ...

A band pours its heart and soul into its music. Not many people give a shit. Band breaks up and its members decides to pursue other paths in life. Fast forward some years, key people discover this ...

Roman Polanski’s Repulsion (1965) has been the subject of much critical analysis in an effort to ferret out exactly what the hell is wrong with the film’s main character. When we first meet Carol ...

This finding corroborates the 'radial unit hypothesis', with the mechanism at play being lineage-dependent repulsion between sister neurons. The researchers first looked at the evolution of neuron ...

Ordinarily, water is used to clean off the layer of dust that continuously accumulates on solar panels. In arid regions, however, doing so can be challenging. A new system addresses this problem, by ...

There is no sensible way you could describe this as a pop album, and yet, how to explain the infectiousness of the lyric, "You came in my mouth: I smiled at you!" sung repeatedly and with deranged joy ...

At the first Show Your Scars metal festival this Saturday, Jan. 9 at the Regent Theater, L.A.’s underground metal community will be out in full force. Virginia beer-thrashers Municipal Waste headline, ...

We consider the lattice version of the free field in two dimensions (also called harmonic crystal). The main aim of the paper is to discuss quantitatively the entropic repulsion of the random surface ...