The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

The Inanity Triangle returns, in this follow-up to last November’s New Moon, the second installment in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga novels, adapted for the big screen.  Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson, resembling James Dean with a bad case of dysentery—hunched over and squinting throughout the better part of the film’s two hours.), Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart, reading [...]

Up In The Air

“I feel like the people I worked with were my family and that I died,” says one of countless employees laid off by Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) of Career Transition Counseling, an intermediary hired to administer employee layoffs on behalf of corporate cowards. The nomadic Mr. Bingham lives in his carry-on—with rollers, very important; on [...]

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

So rarely in cinema has romance revolved around two more detestable characters than the pernicious Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and Edward Sullen—er, Cullen (Robert Pattinson). The film adaptation of the second chapter in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series catapults us headlong into two hours and ten minutes of abjectly ponderous territory with the first of Bella’s [...]