Tag Archives: Twilight

DVD review | Cosmopolis – Cronenberg puts Robert Pattinson in a stretch limo & takes the viewer for a ride

Posted on 12 November 2012 by Jason Best

Robert Pattinson’s legions of Twilight fans could surely dream of nothing better than being trapped in a stretch limo with their idol. David Cronenberg’s screen adaptation of Don DeLillo’s 2003 novel Cosmopolis simulates this experience for the viewer, but it’s … Continue reading →

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DVD review | LOL – Miley’s txt-speak gets lost in translation

Posted on 15 October 2012 by Jason Best

Disney princess Miley Cyrus, star of the Hannah Montana series, plays a stroppy Chicago teen at odds with single mom Demi Moore in LOL, a glossy but shallow Hollywood adaptation of the hit French film Lol: Laughing Out Loud. The … Continue reading →

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Win Robert Pattinson’s seductive costume drama Bel Ami on Blu-ray

Posted on 23 July 2012 by Adele Craciun

Temptation and obsession sweep turn of the century Paris in sizzling sexual drama Bel Ami. Bel Ami tells the story of down-on-his-luck Georges Duroy (Robert Pattinson), who travels through 1890s Paris, from its cockroach ridden garrets to its opulent salons, … Continue reading →

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Film review | Cosmopolis – Cronenberg puts Robert Pattinson in a stretch limo & takes the viewer for a ride

Posted on 15 June 2012 by Jason Best

Robert Pattinson’s legions of Twilight fans could surely dream of nothing better than being trapped in a stretch limo with their idol. David Cronenberg’s screen adaptation of Don DeLillo’s 2003 novel Cosmopolis simulates this experience for the viewer, but it’s … Continue reading →

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Film review | The Hunger Games – Smile! You’re on TV in a bloodcurdling fight to the death

Posted on 22 March 2012 by Jason Best

Suzanne Collins’ best-selling Hunger Games trilogy has been seized upon by Hollywood as the next, big, teen-friendly franchise – and it’s terrific: smarter and tougher than Twilight – and with a heroine who couldn’t be further removed from drooping, love-struck … Continue reading →

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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

Posted on 28 February 2012 by Dean & Ellen

Johnny English Reborn Secret service… Rowan Atkinson’s hapless spy gets a second big screen outing in this action comedy, which sees the titular secret agent tasked with preventing the assassination of the Chinese premier. If you can see this, then … Continue reading →

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DVD review | I Am Number Four

Posted on 20 June 2011 by Jason Best

Replace Twilight’s hunky vampire with an equally hunky extraterrestrial and you have the selling point for dizzy sci-fi action thriller I Am Number Four. Bidding for some of Robert Pattinson’s heartthrob status, chisel-jawed young English actor Alex Pettyfer plays the … Continue reading →

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Water for Elephants – Animal magnetism in the circus for Robert Pattinson & Reese Witherspoon

Posted on 4 May 2011 by Jason Best

Robert Pattinson proves there’s life beyond Twilight’s vampire heartthrob Edward Cullen with this heady period romance based on the best-selling novel by Sara Gruen. He plays veterinary-school drop-out Jacob Jankowski, who takes to the road in the midst of the … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato’s Tuesday Trivia: Thirteen – Auditions for this movie took place in a bed.

Posted on 22 March 2011 by Beth Williams

And it happens to be the very same bed where R-Patz kissed K-Stew for the Twilight screen test. And that’ll be because the 2003 drama Thirteen was directed and co-written by Catherine Hardwicke – director of the first Twilight movie. … Continue reading →

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I Am Number Four – Sci-fi thriller is explosive fun (but take care the wooden leads don’t give you splinters)

Posted on 23 February 2011 by Jason Best

With the Twilight screen series fast approaching its sell-by date, Hollywood is clearly itching to find the next movie franchise that will set teen hearts a-fluttering and teen fingers a-twittering. Replace Twilight’s hunky vampire with an equally hunky extraterrestrial and … Continue reading →

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