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Pop 20: What’s next for paranormal pop culture

by Aaron Sagers

[5.Nov.09] :. When “New Moon,” the second film installment of “The Twilight Saga,” premieres on Nov. 20, the weekend and possibly a couple weeks after, will belong to vampires and...

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Obsessed ‘Twilight’ fans sink their teeth into sequel

by Barry Koltnow [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[28.Sep.09] :. Right now, there are only three kinds of movie fans in the world. First, there are the normal people who just live their lives. They go to school, work hard at a job, raise their families, shop for...

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Vampires, zombies, the occult: When life is in tumult, pop-cult goes undead

by John Timpane [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[5.Aug.09] :. Pop culture is dripping, dripping, with the occult. The book and movie of “Twilight” have become instant megahits, HBO’s “True Blood” is one of the biggest shows on...

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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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‘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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The wolves are at the multiplex door

by David Hiltbrand [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[12.Feb.09] :. “Even a man who is pure in heart And says his prayers by night May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms And the autumn moon is bright.” —Legend from “The Wolf Man,”...

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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.

 

Meet the soon-to-be famous cast of ‘Twilight’

by Rick Bentley [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[30.Nov.08] :. No one can accuse “Twilight” director Catherine Hardwicke of casting famous actors just to lure their fans to the theater. The “Twilight” cast is a collection of relatively...

 

Twilight

by Cynthia Fuchs

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

 

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...

 

Stephenie Meyer’s saga about young love and vampires heads to the big screen

by Rick Bentley [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[19.Nov.08] :. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Stephenie Meyer did what many professed to be impossible. She convinced millions of teens and tweens to read something other than a text message or a computer screen. She got...

 

Hit or miss, ‘Twilight’ is actress Kristen Stewart’s big break

by John Anderson [Newsday (MCT)]

[17.Nov.08] :. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - The love-after-death movie “Twilight” is going to be so huge it would take a stake through the heart to stop it. And the reasons seem so obvious they make you say,...

 

Will ‘Twilight’ bring dawn or dusk to movie season?

by Russ Britt [MarketWatch (MCT)]

[13.Nov.08] :. LOS ANGELES - It seems like a lot to ask, but the fate of the entire holiday movie season that begins this weekend may hinge on whether one film can live up to its pre-release hype:...

 

Talk, Talk, Talk: November 2008

by Bill Gibron

[11.Sep.08] :. Like the sainted sigh of relief that comes after another shriek-filled All Hallow's Eve, November usually means the start of the 'nominate me' process for the proposed prestige pictures of 2008.

 

Pop 20: ‘Twilight’ vampires don’t play by the rules

by Aaron Sagers [(MCT)]

[20.Aug.08] :. Growing up in a Catholic household taught me to have a healthy appreciation of rules. No meat on Fridays, go to confession at least before Easter Sunday, Christmas service before opening presents....

 

‘Twilight’ series successfully walks fine line

by Patrick T. Reardon [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[8.Aug.08] :. It’s the yearning. In an American culture drenched in sexually charged ads, movies, music and books, the “Twilight” series of romance novels by Stephenie Meyer are surprise hits,...

 

Fans eagerly await last ‘Twilight’ book

by Felicia Cousart Matlosz [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[1.Aug.08] :. For the uninitiated, there’s a phenomenon out there called the “Twilight” series, which has grabbed a lot of teen and adult fans by the throat. If you haven’t noticed, there...

 

Fans of popular vampire series pumping new blood into Forks, Wash.

by Marc Ramirez [The Seattle Times (MCT)]

[30.Jul.08] :. FORKS, Wash.—“We think Bella’s bedroom is up there,” Mike Gurling says, pointing to a second-story window. “When you read the book, this is the perfect image of how you...

 

Baskervilles: Twilight

by Jason MacNeil

[15.Jul.08] :. Sugar-coated power pop from a great highbrow pop band.

 

The Handsome Family: Twilight

by Fred Kovey

[24.Sep.01] :. As I was thumbing through the liner notes to the Handsome Family’s new album Twilight, I came across the following two sentences. “I don’t know where any of these photos came...