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‘New Moon’ lighter, goofier, better directed
The "Twilight" soap opera continues with a lighter, goofier and less erotically charged sequel. The threat of sex is gone in this golden-hued virginity metaphor. But it's a funny film, a movie in on the joke that the most luscious girl in rural Forks, Wash., might be fought over by pale vampires and buff Native-American werewolves.
- ‘New Moon’ lighter, goofier, better directed
- November 20, 2009
- The “Twilight” soap opera continues with a lighter, goofier and far less erotically charged sequel, “New Moon,” a movie directed by a man and not a woman…
- Scientists: World’s end not in 2012
- November 20, 2009
- As moviegoers across the nation watched the end of the world with the opening of “2012” last week, news of Earth’s demise spread quickly across the Web. Scientists, fed up with the misleading prophecies, quickly set the record straight with their own series of articles and a YouTube video.
- Late-night moviegoers flock to ‘New Moon’
- South Wind 12 theater sold $4,525 in advance tickets to two showings
- November 20, 2009
- More than 500 people had good reason to carouse into the creepy early-a.m. hours Friday morning: The midnight release of a vampire movie, of course.
- ‘2012’ a suitable disaster
- November 13, 2009
- Nothing like a dandy evening’s apocalypse to take the edge off recession, unemployment, Afghanistan and Glenn Beck.
- Visually ornate ‘Carol’ still needs human touch
- November 6, 2009
- he new Disney “A Christmas Carol” is another epic achievement in motion-capture animation, advancing the art form closer to photo-realism than “The Polar Express” or “Beowulf.”
- ‘This Is It’ tops box office with $101M worldwide
- November 2, 2009
- “Michael Jackson’s This Is It” pulled in $101 million worldwide in its first five days, and distributor Sony is extending the farewell performance film beyond its planned two-week run.
- Energetic documentary offers backstage access to Michael Jackson
- October 30, 2009
- “This Is It” looks beyond the reconstructed face and spindly body of the late King of Pop and basks in his meteoric light.
- A thrilling end: ‘Paranormal Activity’ cast takes long detour in finding stardom
- October 30, 2009
- Just a few weeks ago, Katie Featherston was balancing plates brimming with spaghetti and baked ravioli, working as a waitress at a local Buca di Beppo restaurant.
- ‘Amelia’ goes on autopilot
- October 23, 2009
- “Amelia” has magnificent period settings and airplanes and majestic aerial photography. It boasts the two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank, perfectly cast as Amelia Earhart, with Richard Gere as Earhart’s promoter-publisher husband, George Putnam.
- Michael Moore offers scalding critique on U.S. culture of greed
- October 16, 2009
- With “Capitalism: A Love Story,” Michael Moore delivers his liveliest, most radical film to date.
- ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ is not much fun
- October 16, 2009
- The author of “Where the Wild Things Are” picked Spike Jonze (“Being John Malkovich”) to direct the long-planned film of the much-loved children’s book.
- King Kong figurine used in movie for sale
- October 10, 2009
- A tiny King Kong figurine that helped launch the career of one of cinema’s biggest monsters is going up for sale, Christie’s auction house said Friday.
- There’s nothing cut and dried about what’s in vogue in Vogue
- October 9, 2009
- Anna Wintour’s eyes are green, we learn from the documentary “The September Issue,” in which she actually takes off her trademark, oversized sunglasses and even lets a smile slip loose from time to time.
- Stars of new movie talk about their own ‘Fame’
- October 5, 2009
- The new movie “Fame” takes place in a high school and features lots of catchy music and dancing by students — a formula that has been pretty successful at the movies recently.
- ‘Zombieland’ doesn’t scare fans, has $25M opening
- October 5, 2009
- The undead were alive and well at movie theaters as Woody Harrelson’s horror comedy “Zombieland” opened on top with $25 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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