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greetings, programs: vol.2..

When we last talked, THE DARK KNIGHT (2008, Christopher Nolan) was about to be unleashed to the public.. 

 

..and lord almighty, did it kick my ass into a ‘blog coma’.. 

 

But now i’m back in the final days of November and the current cinematic obsession of the masses is a little something called TWILIGHT (2008, Catherine Hardwicke).. 

Based on the best selling books by Stephenie Meyer, the story concerns a teenage girl named Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), who has always been a bit different, never caring about or fitting in with the trendy bitches at her Phoenix, Arizona high school. When her mother Renee (Sarah Clarke, the great Nina Myers from 24) remarries and decides to move with her new husband to Florida, and Bella decides to go live with her father, Charlie (Billy Burke), in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she doesn’t expect anything to change. Then she meets the mysterious and beautiful Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), a boy unlike any she’s ever met. Intelligent and witty, his piercing eyes see straight into her soul. Soon, the both of them are swept up in a passionate and decidedly unorthodox romance. Edward can run faster than any cheetah, he can stop a moving car with his bare hands and he hasn’t aged since 1918. But most importantly, he’s a vampire. Like all vampires, he’s immortal. He doesn’t drink human blood (they’re vampire “vegetarians”), which is rare among the vampire population. Instead, they go on regular “hiking” trips, where they feed on prey such as grizzly bears and mountain lions. For Edward, Bella is the thing he has waited ninety years for – a soul mate. But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy.. 

To sum it up, Ain’t It Cool News critic Massawyrm says it best when he says:  ”If Bela Lugosi’s DRACULA (1931, Tod Browning) was the cool, stark single malt scotch of vampire films, and NEAR DARK (1987, Kathryn Bigelow) its Kentucky sour mash, then Twilight would be its Zima, or perhaps the Bartles & Jaymes of undead filmmaking..” 

But enuff about that ‘71million dollar-making‘ shite, i wanna talk about what is coming up THIS week, which will undoubtedly a major OSCAR contender.. 

 

Opening this friday is MILK (2008, Gus Van Sant).. 

Mr ’broody, no-sense-of-humor, yet extremely awesome’ Sean Penn plays the ‘always positive and happy-go-lucky’ Harvey Milk, and according to early reviews of the film, this shit is the force to be reckoned with come award season.. 

It concerns a certain middle-aged New Yorker who, after moving to San Francisco, became a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he was elected to San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors in 1977, making him the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the USA. The following year, both he and the city’s mayor, George Moscone, were shot to death by former city supervisor, Dan White, who blamed his former colleagues for denying White’s attempt to rescind his resignation from the board.. 

 

Well, folkies.. it’s good to be back.. 

 

and i promise not to go so far ever again.. (FAMOUS LAST WORDS!!!!)

so ’til next time, end of line..

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