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So now Bella (Kristen Stewart) is not just vamp, but super-mega-ultra-vamp, the smartest, strongest, most beautiful, most morally pristine vamp there ever was. Meanwhile, her brand-new and rapidly growing daughter, Renesmee (Mackenzie Foy) is blessed with the psychic ability to melt even the coldest heart with the power of L-O-V-E, not that that matters to [...]

There are good and bad aspects about a film series, such as HARRY POTTER or THE TWILIGHT SAGA. The bad aspect is that the story has to be stretched over multiple installments that create a deadening sense of inertia: it’s a bit like reading a lengthy novel that forces you to wade through pages and [...]

Hollywood Reporter’s Todd McCarthy gives what at first appears to be a favorable review of THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2, but it turns out that he is referring to the film’s potential to yield huge box office returns by playing to the base:
Anyone who has seen even one of the previous cinematic installments [...]

This brief promotional featurette THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART is essentially an extended trailer with soundbites from the cast. The final chapter in the TWILIGHT film franchise hits theatres on Friday, November 16.

This clip from THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2 showcases the mystical powers of brother-and-sister vampires Jane and Alec.  The final installment of the TWILIGHT film franchise opens on Friday, November 16.

Summit Entertainment releases the final chapter in the TWILIGHT film franchise on Friday, November 16. The story line pits the Cullen clan against the vampire overlords the Volturi, over the fate of Bella and Edward’s child, Renesmee. The Cullens are outnumbered and the odds look bad, but the veggie vampires manage to wrangle in some [...]

It’s vampires! And werewolves! And the most romantic wedding ever! Annnnd… actually it’s mostly about that wedding, and the repercussions thereof (in other words, somebody’s winding up with a bloodsucking bun in the oven). For those already enamored by the ongoing travails of blushing heroine Bella (Kristen Stewart) and her sensitive vampire beau Edward (Robert [...]

Special guest Judith Furnari joins Steve Biodrowski, Lawrence French and Dan Persons in an exploration of the cinematic vampire past, present, and future (during which all take a bold, controversial stand against moody, glittery teen).

Get a sneak peak at SUPER 8, the upcoming science fiction film from J.J. Abrams, on this edition of the Cinefantastique Round Table Podcast, the weekly round-up of news and views focusing on horror, fantasy & science fiction films. Also on the menu this week: Dan Persons and Steve Biodrowski explore the questions of whether [...]

It’s a double-dose of photodramatic discussion, disputation, and dissention on this week’s episode of the The Cinefantastique Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction Podcast, as Dan Persons, Steve Biodrowski, and Lawrence French take on romantic vampires, macho werewolves, and elemental airbenders. Does THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE deliver? Can the post-production 3-D conversion process add depth to M. [...]

So many summer blockbusters pander to their audience in the most excessive way that it is quite a relief to note that THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE is something of a formal experiment – a sort of Anti-Summer Movie. While films like JONAH HEX and PRINCE OF PERSIA work overtime to give the audience what it [...]

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON has to be the most anticipated film of the year, at least by high-school girls. I’ve read the Stephanie Meyer books on which this film and its predecessor, TWILIGHT, were based, and thought they told a great story. The first film, however, left me disappointed:TWILIGHT was not gritty enough, and the actors [...]

Rather like the HARRY POTTER movies, TWILIGHT is not really designed to be great cinema; it is designed to appeal to a pre-sold target audience emotionally invested in seeing their favorite literary characters rendered on the big screen in a way that conforms to their fantasies. In fact, the adaptation tries so hard to please [...]