Per the Reporter, Scarlett Johansson has joined the ensemble cast of He's Just Not That Into You (playing a pilates instructor who has an affair with a married man), will play a femme fatale in Frank Miller's adaptation of Will Eisner's The Spirit, and will don a crown as Mary Queen of Scots.... Chris Evans, Djimon Hounsou, Dakota Fanning and Camilla Belle are on board for the supernatural thriller Push.... Jamie Foxx is biopic'ing again, playing homeless musician Nathaniel Anthony Ayers in The Soloist.
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Question: Got a good one for you: I remember a movie from a while back about a baby-sitter. The phone rings and the caller is in the house; she's also getting calls at, I think, her dorm room or apartment. This movie was so scary but I can't remember what it was!
Answer: I'd say it was probably When a Stranger Calls (1979), with Carol Kane as Jill Johnson, a teenaged baby-sitter who keeps getting calls asking whether she's "checked on the children." The first 20 minutes is a truly scary retelling of the classic campfire story, but it drags seriously in the middle, when the focus shifts to the psycho killer. It picks up again years later when he places a new phone call to Jill, who's having dinner with her husband at a fancy restaurant, to ask if she's checked on her children. But no one even remembers
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