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Tag: Robert Pattinson
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‘Mickey 17’ Overstuffed Plot Makes Satire Misfire
With a standout performance from Robert Pattinson, director Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17 has great ideas at its core, but the bloated storylines and one-note political commentary prevent it from being worth the wait.
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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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Trashwire returns to Comic Con for the third year
We’re back! Trashwire has made the annual pilgrimage to San Diego for Comic Con and we’re taking pictures, recording video, and posting all over Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Flickr. We’ve got costumed superheroes, a gallery of all the Batmobiles in cinematic history, a couple glimpses of the Twilight gang, the hottest werewolf in the biz and a…
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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…
