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Tag: Kristen Stewart
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‘Twilight’ finally comes to a close with ‘Breaking Dawn Part 2’
Twi-hards everywhere are shedding a collective tear with the release of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2, the fifth and final film in the Twilight series, adapted from the massively best-selling young adult book series by Stephenie Meyer. The series, which began with a mousey teenager falling in love at first sight with a…
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Hemsworth and Stewart show range in ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’
Snow White and the Huntsman takes a Lord of the Rings-ish darker twist on the classic tale of Snow White with more dastardly deeds, more CGI effects, more rousing battle speeches and some spectacular costumes by Colleen Atwood. The film also shows us that Kristen Stewart can be more than a wooden, one-dimensional vampire girlfriend…
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Sex and morality collide in ‘Breaking Dawn’
If you have eyes and ears, chances are you’re familiar with the Twilight film series, adapted from the hugely successful books. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part I, the fourth of five films, is the beginning of the end for our sparkly vampire and his clumsy fiancée. This time, Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Bella…
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Twilight: Eclipse is like True Blood for tweens
When I want to watch sexy vampires and werewolves, I choose True Blood, but if I was ten years younger, I’d be swooning over the sparkly vampires and ab-tastic werewolves in the Twilight movies. If the first film and its sequel New Moon were burgeoning with sexual undertones masquerading as tween-friendly melodrama, then Eclipse is…
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New Moon is no Romeo + Juliet but it’s still teenage fun
You might find this hard to believe because I’m such a classy, dignified lady, but I was once a giggling teen with a major crush on a young Leonardo DiCaprio. Like so many girls (and some guys) of my generation, I was convinced that there was no greater heartthrob than Leo. Today, it seems the…
