Based on a true story. Isn't it always? Emily Rose (Jennifer Carpenter) is a college freshman who dies while a priest (Tom Wilkinson) performs an exorcism. Now the good father is being tried for homicide. Laura Linney plays his lawyer, an agnostic. Campbell Scott plays the prosecutor, a man of faith. Oh, the irony. Oh, how good actors can trap themselves in drivel. Director and co-writer Scott Derrickson thinks he's not ripping off the 1973 Exorcist, presumably because his effects are too tacky to work up a scare or a convincing case for possession. At one point, Scott raises an objection. "On what grounds?" asks the judge. "How about silliness, your honor?" Amen to that.

“Youth Knows No Pain”

“Like on 'Youth Knows No Pain' — we are the ones that should demonstrate, because we can take it,” Likke Li said. “We can pierce ourselves, take Ecstasy, dance all night and still go to work at our McDonald's jobs.” Despite the hedonistic sentiment in the song, the Swedish singer also admitted in hindsight her youth had repercussions. “I remember when I was 18-19 and feeling that I know it all,” Li said. “I always feel that I know it all. But that song is about realizing you don’t, and reflecting, ‘Boy, if I only knew what would follow.’”