Articles tagged "catherine hardwicke"

Film DVD Review

Twilight

by J.M. Suarez

[23.Mar.09] :. While Meyers’ books tend toward formulaic characterizations, Hardwicke takes the material and successfully transforms it into a subtle, layered atmospheric film.

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News

‘Twilight’ descends at midnight Friday night

by Sharon Hoffmann [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[18.Mar.09] :. After months of hype and screaming fangirls and barrels of newspaper ink dumped on Robert Pattinson and “Twilight,” there was bound to be some backlash. But who’d have thought that...

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Column: The Box Office Belletrist

Twilight Takeover

by Jennifer Makowsky

[7.Jan.09] :. The film is a successful adaptation of the book not only because Pattinson is so talented and dreamy, but also because Hardwicke knows a thing or two about filming adolescents.

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Film Review

Twilight

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Nov.08] :. Fantasy rules in Twilight, fantasy simultaneously delicate and ravishing, chaste and utterly bloody.

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Short Ends and Leader

Vamp-Ire: ‘Twilight’ vs ‘Let the Right One In’

by Bill Gibron

[20.Nov.08] :. Blame Anne Rice. Blame her for being the literary stake in the original vampire’s heart. If it wasn’t for her spinster prose take on the entire horror fiction fallacy, we wouldn’t...

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Column: Out of Context

Z-Boys, Cool Losers

by Ryan Smith

[13.Jun.07] :. The underlying motivation to save Horizons West was about Sticking It to The Man. Us versus Them. Punk culture versus conformist culture. Poor against rich. All, interestingly enough, attitudes heavy in the subtext of the Z-Boys movies.

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The Nativity Story (2006)

by Matt Mazur

[9.Apr.07] :. Unlike the story from which it derives, there is no "oomph". There is no sense of danger. There is no excitement.

 

The Nativity Story (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Dec.06] :. When word of Catherine Hardwicke's attachment to The Nativity Story first surfaced, the possibilities swirled: what if the film reimagined the about-14-year-old Mary as a recognizable teenager?

 

Lords of Dogtown (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Jun.05] :. The most thrilling moments in Lords of Dogtown involve skateboard wheels.

 

Thirteen (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Feb.04] :. As the kids have picked up from every cultural sign around them, sex is a route to adulthood, but it's also an ordeal, a hard test of their young mettle.

 

Thirteen (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Aug.03] :. As the girls have picked up from every cultural sign around them, sex is a route to adulthood, but it's also an ordeal.