An extravagant suspense cocktail of wacky and lascivious ingredients that goes down fine, Brian De Palma’s “Femme Fatale” gives Rebecca Romijn-Stamos a chance to shine as the duplicitous title broad, ...

In thrillers from "Carrie" (1976) and "Dressed to Kill" (1980) to "Snake Eyes" (1998) and now "Femme Fatale," director Brian De Palma has taken psychiatrist Carl Jung's definition of movies as his ...

Rating: R (restricted) for strong language, sexuality, some violence and drug use. What it’s about: A young rapper struggles to find his place with friends and family. The Kid Attractor Factor: It’s a ...

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- In "Femme Fatale," writer-director Brian De Palma ("Carrie" and "Dressed to Kill") tries to create a new kind of heroine combining the alluring but cruel bad girls of ...

Directed and written by Brian De Palma; photographed by Thierry Arbogast; edited by Bill Pankow; produced by Tarak Ben Ammar, Marina Gefter. Opens Wednesday. Running time: 1:50. MPAA rating: R ...

MAYBE THE plot in Brian De Palma's "Femme Fatale" would "scan" before a panel of experts all working round the clock and well supplied with flow charts, esoteric film reference books, No. 2 pencils ...

In Hollywood’s never-ending quest for the next big female star, producers often look to the fashion world for a model to pluck from the runway to transform into the next Julia or Halle. Lucille Ball, ...

“Femme Fatale” opens with a long “quote” from Billy Wilder’s classic film noir “Double Indemnity,” in which Barbara Stanwyck cynically sums up her betrayal of Fred McMurray before she shoots him. As ...

Flaky film noir. In English and French, with English subtitles. Running time: 110 minutes. Rated R (strong sexuality, violence and language). At the Empire, the Lincoln Square; the Battery Park City ...

Or — you just knew there was an or, didn’t you? — maybe not. ”Double Indemnity” may flicker on a TV as ”Femme” opens, but ”Fatale”’s twists and turns owe just as much to recent head scratchers like ...

He’s playing dress-up Barbie. If you look hard, you can make out a story in ”Femme Fatale,” but it has nothing to do with the senseless pileup of jewel thievery, shutterbug voyeurism, and leggy sex ...

A $10-million diamond rip-off, a stolen identity, a new life married to a diplomat. Laure Ash has risked big, won big. But then a tabloid shutterbug snaps her picture in Paris, and suddenly, enemies ...