We went to see the movie Transsiberian this weekend on the name alone, and it was totally awesome. We're hardly the first to compare it to a Hitchcock thriller, but the parallels couldn't be more apparent.

Woody Harrelson does a tremendous job as the overly loud, not-quite-with-it American tourist and Emily Mortimer ("Lars and the Real Girl") is wonderful as his more worldly wife. Shortly after the pair boards the train from Beijing to Moscow, a mysterious young couple joins them in their cabin. It's not much longer before things get super creepy. (Ben Kingsley shows up later as a Russian detective.)

The Brad Anderson film premiered at Sundance earlier this year and so far is in a very limited release in New York City. We tried to get distribution info from the studio, but haven't heard anything back just yet. For now, you can check updated showtimes at Moviefone.

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That little taste of summer vacation you had this weekend just wasn't enough! You've just got to get away before that Croc tan line fades. That's what Woody Harrelson must have been thinking when he told a reporter he wants to do a 40-day fast on an uninhabited island--when he has time in his work schedule, of course.

Harrelson already lives on Maui but that isn't deserted enough for his swimming and surfing sojourn. Nor, apparently, did biking from Seattle to LA or winning this weekend's Cannes celebrity poker charity challenge do it for him: Nothing will work except a full fast:

I mean, I don't take it lightly. I know it's gonna be hard. But can you imagine? Eating nothing for 40 days? Swimming and surfing every day in a remote place? Where does the mind go?

He should know--he did a 38-day fast two years ago.

Give Woody a hand: What remote island, besides the one from "Lost," would be the perfect getaway for a fasting actor?

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