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FILE - Jack Nicholson attends the NBA All-Star Game 2018 at Staples Center on Feb. 18, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.

TRENTON, N.J. - The New Jersey Supreme court has overturned a man's bank robbery conviction because of a prosecutor's reference to a classic horror movie. During closing arguments in the case against Damon Williams, the prosecutor showed jurors a photo from the movie "The Shining" depicting a character played by Jack Nicholson telling his terrified wife and son, "Here’s Johnny!" moments after breaking through a door with an axe. The reference was meant to illustrate that actions can speak louder than words, and to support the prosecutor's contention that Williams should be convicted of a more serious offense even though no threatening words were spoken to the bank teller in Camden County in 2014. The jury convicted Williams of second-degree

For his lucid and perceptive look at Stanley Kubrick's unparalleled body of work, Gregory Monro excerpts a number of archival clips. It's not the filmmaker who's at the center of most of them but his collaborators, testifying to his exacting methods.

Roger Corman, the prolific film director and producer credited with discovering talent like Jack Nicholson, Francis Ford Coppola and Peter Bogdanovich, on Wednesday launched a self-named Quarantine Film Festival to judge short films made while would-be Hollywood directors shelter in their homes. Corman on his Instagram page billed the film competition as "the first (and hopefully last) Corman Quarantine Film Festival." The rules call for filmmakers to make a short film inside their home or backyard with what they have at hand as they isolate from the coronavirus pandemic.