Posts Tagged ‘Twilight’
Film Review – Fifty Shades of Grey
In Fifty Shades of Grey (2015), virginal literature student Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) enters into a BDSM relationship with billionaire Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan). The main point of tension is the negotiation of a contract. This contract outlines the dominant/submissive sexual arrangement that Christian will…
READ MOREFilm Review – The Rover (Second Take)
David Michôd’s follow-up to the award-winning Animal Kingdom is The Rover. Like Animal Kingdom, it is also set in Australia, but the film is bleaker and has less characters. The Rover is set ten years after “the collapse.” It is never explained more than that…
READ MORESXSW TV Review – Showtime’s Penny Dreadful
Penny Dreadful is Showtime’s newest original series. Episode 1 had its world premiere at SXSW for a crowd at the Vimeo Theater. Having seen the show’s trailer, I was intrigued enough to take a break from the many films I had seen for an hour…
READ MOREInterview – Miles Teller and Jai Courtney – Divergent
On a stop in Dallas on the Divergent press tour, The MacGuffin had the chance to participate in a small press conference with Miles Teller (Peter) and Jai Courtney (Eric). The previous night they had walked the red carpet for press and fans at a…
READ MOREFilm Review – Winter’s Tale
Sometimes movie adaptations of something popular comes along way too late. The excitement and momentum a given phenomenon has at times has to be capitalized upon while everyone still passionately cares. Admittedly, books or plays that are classics have a timeless quality that makes them…
READ MORENYCC 2013 – ‘Vampire Academy’: Just Another High School Vampire Flick or More?
Vampires have become vogue for teenagers and young adults, seemingly since the release of the Twilight books. There were other books and films about vampires before that, but never before had young teenage girls been so enraptured with these creatures until Stephanie Meyer instilled a…
READ MOREFilm Review – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The Hunger Games was a huge box office success, the only young adult novel adaptation since Twilight to achieve that title. I read the trilogy by Suzanne Collins before seeing the film, and I really enjoyed it. Like many others, I was excited to see…
READ MOREFilm Review – The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
In the quest for the latest, greatest female-driven-based-on-a-young-adult-novel franchise, Cassandra Clare’s book City of Bones, the first in her Mortal Instruments series, takes its turn in the theaters. (Thus the name of the movie, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.) After the success of Twilight…
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