US – Friday, November 20

Photo: KIMBERLEY FRENCH/SUMMT
Movies
The saga continues with rush of ‘New’ blood
REVIEW. No matter how this review of ‘New Moon’ ends, whether this critic loves or loathes the film, is irrelevant. If you’re one of the legions of “Twi-Hards,” you’ll be stepping on heads to see it this weekend anyway.
 
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Dark side of the ‘Moon’
With their characters entangled in such a deep, passionate love affair, it’s only natural that fans would project the same emotions onto “Twilight” stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, and no one understands that better than the actors themselves. “I completely understand why they want us to be together and all of that,” says Stewart, referencing the endless tabloid stories about their supposed real-life romance. “I just have to not think about it.”
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Bobcat is ‘World’s Greatest’ director
If you put together pot brownies, autoerotic asphyxiation, suicide sensationalism and Robin Williams as a high school poetry teacher, it may sound like the makings of an ill-advised sequel to “Dead Poets Society.”
 

Movies
The great ‘New Moon’ disrobing
Taylor Lautner wants to clear something up: He has no problem with going shirtless onscreen. “One thing that I have heard recently, which is not true and I didn’t say, was that I will never take my shirt off for a movie again,” says the 17-year-old actor, whose abs and pecs have been under an unprecedented amount of scrutiny since he packed on 30 pounds of muscle for “New Moon,” the second film in the “Twilight” series. “I didn’t say that,” he insists. “If the character requires it, I will.”
 
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Too much spin makes for a messy ‘Planet’
REVIEW. Like most kid flicks, “Planet 51” is aware that it must entertain the little ones and please their rides to the theater. It takes this  mission seriously, cramming adult winks and parent-approved morals into the story: It’s OK to be different, don’t fear the unknown, the burnout in the VW bus doesn’t score the girl, and neither does the nerd who works at the comic book store (get a job with benefits, kiddos).
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It’s fun to watch Cage on crack
REVIEW. The buzz about how great “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans” is has been quite loud, but it’s not deafening enough to block out how utterly uneven and bizarre it is.
 
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Telling the wrong ‘Side’ of the story
REVIEW. At about what feels like three quarters of the way through “The Blind Side,” massive, mild-mannered high school football phenomenon Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) finally takes the field. (In reality, you’re only halfway through.)
Movies
From a squid to a ship’s captain
Bill Nighy has played a plethora of different characters — and species — over his long career, and it’s something he’s rather proud of. “I’ve been a vampire, a zombie, a squid. I’ve been a stoned-out rabbit who sings ‘You’ve Really Got Me’ by the Kinks. I’ve been an albino ex-lab rat with brain damage. I get around,” he says. “I don’t mind when it gets a bit stupid. I kind of like it. And I feel very blessed that I’m able to play a range of parts. Often you don’t.”
 
 
 

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Movies
Actor Kellan Lutz on the less sullen Cullen
Kellan Lutz didn’t want it anyway, the role of Edward in the “Twilight Saga” series, that is.
 
Movies
A ‘Dynasty’ built entirely of snow
Show them the corporate money
A comedian and a ‘Gentleman’
Shining a light in ‘The Darkness’
Scaring up a horror film
A sequel took the patience of a ‘Saint’
Ortega: Startin’ something
‘This Is It’ and it is good
Different from what you ‘Saw’
‘Cirque du’ freaking terrible
Movies
Hilary Swank is living her dream
‘Amelia’ biopic is just a lot of hot air
Unholy crap
Revealing her ‘Private Lives’
White is ‘super bad’
Wild Things,’ I think I love you
‘Wild’ child’s play
BOOM goes the ‘Black Dynamite’
‘New York’ falls to beautiful pieces
Penn Badgley takes it off in ‘The Stepfather’
 
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MMMpod
The November MMMpod features interviews and music with a band called Girls, a band of girls called Supercute, and a supercute vampire. Yes, listeners, we have Pattinson!



 
 
 
Metro Life Panel
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