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Taylor Lautner goes solo in Abduction trailer
By joewest
20th April 2011 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
The trailer for lupine meathead Taylor Lautner’s first lead role in a movie away from the Twilight series has been released.
Abduction sees him dicking around with an iPad before discovering that he is not the typical American boy that he had always thought. Instead he is some kind of Bourne-lite spykid or something, abducted as a child and raised by imposters. Learning this leads to him being chased by a shady government agency while he tries to find his real parents and pop his cherry with a token female sidekick.
It seems like the kind of film which might have featured Shia LaBeouf a couple of years ago and the whole thing is not likely to win Lautner any new fans. See if you think it will appease his teen and twentysomething female audience by watching the trailer here.
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Eclipse Review: The Unresolved Rivalry Continues
By Leo Owen
6th December 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Director: David Slade
Writers: Melissa Rosenberg, Stephanie Meyer
Release Date: December 6 2010
Studio: E1 Entertainment
Number of discs: Available as a solo or double DVD
Price: From £9.99-£14.93
Running Time: 124 mins
Certificate: 12
Starring: Kirsten Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Dakota Fanning, Ashley Greene, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Kellan Lutz, Billy Burke
To non-Twilight fans and perhaps followers of the book alike, Eclipse is the cheesy mildly disappointing drawn-out anti-climax it proved difficult not to expect.
Headlines speak of murders and disappearances in Seattle that are possibly the work of a serial killer; the vampires and werewolves remain bitter foes faithfully sticking to their own territories; Victoria is Bella blood-hungry and Jacob and Edward continue to fight for Bella’s affections. “I’m tired of this” complains one of the lovestruck and so are we – the continuous personal rivalry drawn out across the trilogy and particularly in Eclipse has become extremely tedious.
Bella and Edward remain like magnets drawn together – the convincing sexual tension between the two could be cut with a garrote as Edward still insists sex is dangerous. For much of the film they have the “marry me”/ “turn me” argument, while a ripped Jacob stubbornly insists: “You feel something else for me – you just won’t admit ,“ as he parades around topless with burgeoning muscles, even on a snowy mountain-top. Risking losing Bella as a friend, Jacob knows time is short so tactlessly fires lines like: “Better you really be dead than one of them” amid vomit-inducing cheesy slush: “Imprinting on someone is like when you see her, everything changes. All of a sudden, it’s not gravity holding you to the planet.”
Almost a backdrop to this romantic rivalry is the threat of a “New Born” vampire army marching on Cullen territory. Some of Eclipse’s most interesting footage is presented in flashback - Rosalie’s flashbacks reveal her thirst for missing possibilities while Jasper’s give insight into his past experiences with “New Borns” during the Civil War when a vampire called Maria “turned” him in order to win land territories.
There are plenty of sigh-inducing scenes that reek of unoriginality like the scene disturbingly familiar to that of Land of the Dead with vampires crossing over the water, or the tiresome repeat of vampire history originally involving Japsper and Maria and now featuring Victoria and Reilly or Bella’s painfully obvious brazened copy of werewolf tribal stories.
The script is also torturously “teen deep” from the outset as Bella’s introductory monologue begins: “Some say the world will end in fire and some say ice, I prefer fire,” but later main characters equally gush: “I’m exactly right for you Bella – it would be as easy as breathing” and “You will always be my Bella… just less fragile.”
Amid all the cliches and elongated resolve, Eclipse borders on pain while teetering on pleasure. Although the tent scene drags out when Edward and Jacob spend a night together sitting out a freezing storm, their hypothetical banter and communal teasing is one of the most genuinely amusing parts of the film – only rivalled by the kick arse graduation speech and the optimistic prospect that every time a cast member says “something’s coming – bigger than any of us alone,” they’ll break out into West Side Story song and dance.
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Special Features:
DVD
- Deleted & Extended Scenes
- Audio Commentary with Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart
- Audio Commentary with Stephenie Meyer & Wyck Godfrey
- Photo Gallery
- Six-Part “Making of” Documentary
- Music Videos
- Edward Fast-Forward: Jump to all your favourite Edward scenes
- Jacob Fast-Forward: Jump to all your favourite Jacob scenes
Blu-ray/ DVD Combo
- Audio Commentary by Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart
- Audio Commentary by Stephanie Meyer & Wyck Godfrey
- Six-Part “Making Of” Documentary (PIP mode on Combo only)
- Deleted & Extended Scenes
- Photo Gallery
- Music Videos
- Edward Fast-Forward
- Jacob Fast-Forward
- Fast-Forward: Love Triangle
- Fast-Forward: The Cullens
- Fast-Forward: The Wolfpack
- Fast-Forward: The Humans
- Fast-Forward: Victoria’s Army
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A Star-studded Saccharine-filled Valentine’s Day
By Leo Owen
13th July 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Director: Garry Marshall
Writer: Katherine Fugate
DVD and Blu-ray release date: July 12 2010
Studio: Warner Home Video
Number of discs: 1, 2 (Blu-ray)
Region: 2
Price: From £10.99
Running Time: 119/ 125 mins
Certificate: 12A
Starring: Jessica Alba, Julia Roberts, Kathy Bates, Jessica Biel, Shirley MacLaine, Bradley Cooper, Eric Dane, Patrick Dempsey, Hector Elizonda, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Topher Grace, Anne Hathaway, Ashton Kutcher, Queen Latifah, Taylor Lautner, George Lopez, Taylor Swift, Kristen Schaal
Garry Marshall, the director of The Princess Diaries, Runaway Bride and Pretty Woman, serves up more feel good romantic slush. With a dizzying all star cast, the imaginatively named Valentine’s Day, explores the loves, trials and losses of Los Angeles couples and singles facing the pressures and expectations of Valentine’s Day.
A saccharine first half hour makes the film’s over the top representation of Valentine’s Day almost unbearable with repeated shots of gift exchanges, babies kissing each other and even air stewards shown giving out heart-shaped lollies during a flight.
Thankfully amid all the big names, the clever intertwining of enough convincing characters with engaging stories, gives viewers something to care about. Shirley MacLaine as Estelle and Hector Elizonda as her husband, Edgar, appeal to older audiences while Felicia (Taylor Swift) keeps teen viewers happy with her on-screen boyfriend, Willy (Taylor Lautner), baring less than his Twilight role. Bryce Robinson keeps mothers and children sweet with his cutesy performance as the love-struck and apparently motherless, Edison.
Reed (Ashton Kutcher), the owner of a family florists shop, is the thread between many of the character relationships explored as they conveniently order flowers and gifts to be sent to loved ones from his shop. After Reed’s girlfriend, Morley (Jessica Alba), backs out of their engagement, he discovers, his best friend, Julia (Jennifer Garner), is unknowingly in a relationship with a married man (Patrick Dempsey). Reed sets out to warn her and discovers something else about himself in the process.
Meanwhile Kara (Jessica Biel) prepares for an anti-Valentine’s Day party, Captain Kate undergoes a fourteen hour flight for her first and only night home for 11 months, Sean Jackson (Eric Dane) acknowledges his sexuality and Jason (Topher Grace) learns to accept his new girlfriend, Liz’s (Anne Hathaway) side job as an adult entertainer.
“It’s Valentine’s Day, you do not think, you just do”: the same philosophy you must follow when watching this film. Gushing with cheesy lines and heart-warming happy endings, Valentine’s Day is essentially Love Actually released in perfect time for that obligatory yearly romance.
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Special Features:
DVD:
- Deleted Scenes
- Widescreen
Blu-ray:
- The Stars Confess their Valentine’s Day Stories
- Gag Reel
- Deleted Scenes with on-camera intros by Garry Marshall
- Music Video
- Audio Commentary
- The Pros and Cons of Love
- The Garry Factor
- Valentine’s Day: Love Conquers Most
- Valentine’s Day Goes Green
- Jewel: A Look Inside the Studio
- Sex and the City 2 Sneak Peak
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Twilight Eclipse Review: Critics say it’s got some bite
By Natalie Wotherspoon
2nd July 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
The new Twilight film, Eclipse has done pretty well with the critics considering it’s a film which is directed at teenage girls full of hormones with a thing about vampires or more precisely Robert Pattinson and the wolf played by Taylor Lautner. Whilst the fans clearly adore it, the critics have given it a consistent rating of 3 out of 5. The general consenus is that it is the film’s emotion and seriousness which makes it better than your average teenage romance.The Metro gave Twilight 3 out of 5 stars saying “True, Eclipse is at times ridiculously cheesy, but it’s well made (apart from the odd dodgy CGI wolf) and there are knowing – and humorous winks to the film’s penchant for over-egged melodrama. The three leads are all fantastic delivering committed performances which are probably better than the material demands. The saga shows no signs of letting up just yet – thank God, there are two more to come.”
The Guardian rated the film the same starring but said ” But that would be to detract from the operatic, high-voltage kick that its occult stuff supplies. It’s not often you find yourself commending a contemporary teen-oriented franchise for sticking to the old values of character and narrative, but Eclipse, in its sulky, lip-biting way, manages it.” The review also mentions that it is the films seriousness which makes it successful.
This is concurred by the Telegraph who say that “It’s easy to knock the Twilightfilms, with their taste for cheesy special effects and teenage hyper-ventilation, but the feelings that course through them are honest enough — just your average old-fashioned romantic-masochistic teen-dream rapture. Only with sharper teeth.”
Digital Spy, thinks that the makers of Twilight knows what its fans want and said that thankfully for die hard fans the film has susbstance “it’s a definite step up from New Moon and might even leave the harshest critics just a teeny bit excited about what’s in store come the two-part Breaking Dawn… The countdown to November 2011 begins…” Indeed it does Digital Spy, indeed it does.
The new Twilight film, Eclipse has done pretty well with the critics considering it’s a film which is directed at teenage girls full of hormones with a thing about vampires or more precisely Robert Pattinson and the wolf played by Taylor Lautner. Whilst the fans clearly adore it, the critics have given it a consistent rating of 3 out of 5. The general consenus is that it is the film’s emotion and seriousness which makes it better than your average teenage romance.
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No aftertaste: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner Eclipse Poster
By Becca Hutson
24th March 2010 | 2 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Hmm…So yesterday saw the release of the official poster for forthcoming Twilight film, Eclipse due for release in June 2010.
The third installment following the love triangle between Bella, Edward and Jacob, will see K-Stew make the biggest decision of her life as she choices between (the equally delectable) R-Patz and Taylor…but who will she choose?
Salty or Sweet can’t help but feel a tad underwhelmed by the whole thing…we were expecting Victoria to feature SOMEWHERE, not that we would have noticed anyway…we were slightly distracted by K-Stews pretty unconvincing wig…we think the Joan Jett mullet would probably have looked better…
But of course, lame poster or not – we still can’t wait for June 30th..
What do you think about the Eclipse poster? Over hyped? Over airbrushed? Over it?
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