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Weekend Movie Forecast: <em>Twilight, Were the World Mine</em>


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John Del Signore

Published Nov 21, 2008

Modified Nov 21, 2008


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The vampire romance novel series The Twilight Saga is now a major motion picture that's getting some mixed reviews from critics and preliminary OMG raves from the target demographic. Jeffrey Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere is an unlikely champion, and even the Vulture crowd seems enamored. And Richard Corliss at Time writes, "Defiantly old-fashioned, the film wants viewers to believe not so much in vampires as in the existence of an anachronistic movie notion: a love that is convulsive and ennobling...It revives the precept that there's nothing more cinematic than a close-up of two beautiful people about to kiss."
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John Del Signore

Published Nov 21, 2008

Modified Nov 21, 2008


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Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.

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