Hammer Films, the studio which brought us last year’s excellent remake Let Me In, has unleashed a new trailer for its next horror movie entitled The Resident (originally given the much more interesting title Invasion of Privacy).

The Resident stars Hilary Swank as a “single woman” (as the trailer not-to-subtly states) who moves into a new apartment that appears too good to be true – maybe because, not long after she moves in, she starts to notice strange things happening in the apartment. Eventually she begins to suspect that it may have something to do with her new landlord, played Jeffrey Dean Morgan (reuniting Swank with him for the first time since the romance drama P.S. I Love You).

The premise is as basic as this sort of thing can get. Unfortunately the trailer doesn’t do much to inspire confidence in ...

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This week:

We look at the box office and Mickey Rourke sees Broken Horses; a Watchmen star watches women; Puss in Boots shuffles forward and Bryan Singer says Logan’s Run is slow.Box Office

Liam Neeson’s Taken surpassed expectations and shot up an impressive $24 million over the weekend – despite the Super Bowl.

Paul Blart: Mall Cop arrested another $14 million bringing its total to $84 million.  I’m guessing that at some point somebody will start talking sequel.

The Uninvited grabbed $10 million, while New In Town was pretty much ignored with a $6.5 million weekend. Looks like Rene Zellweger will be talking about Bridget Jones 3.

Gran Torino crossed the $100 million milestone and made another $8.5 million. Looks like Clint is going  out on a career high.

Oscar hopeful Slumdog Millionaire made $7 million and managed to come within spitting distance of ...

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