George W. Bush's premature projaculation of victory last May notwithstanding, the real objective of the Potomac Empire's invasion of Iraq was finally achieved last weekend.

Though vampires, werewolves and the creatures of various mad doctors continue to appear in horror movies, they've taken a back seat to the more modern, psychopathic human monsters initiated by Alfred Hitchcock's ""Psycho"" (1960) and institutionalized by Jonathan Demme's ""Silence of the Lambs"" (1991).

The combination of Maxim Kurochkin and Mikhail Ugarov sounds like a marriage made in heaven. Especially when what brings them together is the story of a voyage to hell.

Before I arrived in Hilo, Hawaii, I considered myself to be a connoisseur of rain.

""Four eggs! Oh, no, no, no, that's far too much cholesterol for me. But you go ahead and eat, I'll just sit here and watch ...""

Singer Mariah Carey will give her first ever Moscow performances at the Kremlin Palace this week.

The Dance Inversion Festival of Contemporary Dance is a month-long event that will bring dance ensembles from 13 countries to stages all over Moscow. Meanwhile, Tibetan Monks will sing at the Moskvich Palace of Culture.

The Soviet musical ""Svadba Soek"" is enjoying a revival complete with new musical arrangements, scores of artists and a very unusual venue: a circus arena.

At the Sept. 6 closing ceremony of the Venice Film Festival, top awards – including for best film and for best debut -- went to Andrei Zvyagintsev for ""The Return"".