Top Ten Reasons Why You Should See ‘The Hobbit’ (Even If You’re Not a LOTR Fan)

While I am not a fan of franchise spin-offs or basically just plain milking things, I actually found The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey entertaining. And although I’m not really a fan of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, I did find…

Gaby’s Movie Review: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2

Note: This is a SPOILER-FREE review! (And written by a Twilight fan.) Seven years ago, I walked into a bookstore and spotted Stephenie Meyer’s debut novel, Twilight. Since then, I was enamored with the world and characters she created. Despite…

Top 10 Favorite Scenes From The Twilight Saga

I remember it just like yesterday. I had just left a concert with friends, and we were excitedly heading to the theater to catch Twilight at midnight. We were all totally and gleefully obsessed with everything sparkly vampire and shape-shifting…

This Month in Film: November New Releases

November is a great movie month. It’s almost like prep for the onslaught of films to expect in December. November is full of major awards contenders (hyped indies and big budgets) and blockbusters. It also rings the end of the…

Books to Movies: Which of Your Favorite YA Reads Might/Will Hit the Big Screen?

  Hollywood is gobbling up movie rights to almost every best-selling Young Adult novel to hit book stands in the past few years. Can you blame them? Every studio is looking for the new Harry Potter, Twilight and now Hunger…

The Avengers and the Survival of the Cinema

Every few weeks, an article entitled “Death of the Cinema” or “Death of Film Criticism” materializes on some film blog. “The cinema is dying! Young people don’t go to the movies! They’re not made like they used to be,” they…

SDCC ’12: Breaking Dawn Part II recap

The place where everything began. Four years ago the cast of what they thought was an indie movie were exposed to pop culture frenzy at San Diego Comic-Con, and this year with the final installment of The Twilight Saga: Breaking…