The Twilight Saga

One Of The Most Delayed Air Routes In The Country

If you've ever worked on a movie, it's usually a matter of hurry-up-and-wait, but that's a joy compared to flying, which has become a case of wait-and-wait-and-wait-and-wait-some-more-then-hurry. But some air routes are more delayed than others. A recent report says that Chicago has two of the most ... More >>

The Host: Like Twilight, But With, Uh, Aliens

The Men Get Out of the Gutter

Brooklyn's post-hardcore noise addicts clean up but won't turn it down

Pazz & Jop: Miguel Is Living The Dream

Sex takes center stage on his sophomore album

Kristen Stewart's New Costar Wasn't Intimidated By The Sex Scenes

There's a lot of sex in On The Road, director Walter Salles' adaptation of Jack Kerouac's classic semi-autobiographical post-war drifter novel from the Beat generation. It's in cars, in fields, and even in beds. It's with men, women, and men and women. They're Beating it, all right. At a special ... More >>

A Legendary James Bond Reveals What He Thinks of Daniel Craig

Bond & Bella

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn—Part II

Kristen Stewart: "I'm A Miserable C-Word"

I recently told you that Kristen Stewart is one of the best interviews out there, because she'll actually spill what she's feeling at the moment, sometimes in rather graphic terms. And what she's feeling right now--as she told Marieclaire UK--is like a big c word.

Falling Man: David Cronenberg's Vision of Cosmopolis

Bel Ami: A Tepid Adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's Novel

Battlefield Earth: Still Making the World Safe From Scientology Nearly 12 Years Later

Last night, I noticed this excerpt from a Canadian interview show, and boy, did it bring back memories. It's a priceless reaction by actor Kim Coates when he's asked about Battlefield Earth by CBC show host George Stroumboulopoulos (who mercifully goes by "Strombo"). I mean, imagine having that mov ... More >>

Anne Rice On Her New Gothic Horror Novel, The Wolf Gift

​It's been almost nine years since Anne Rice ventured into the world of Gothic horror. Today, she brings back her trademark dark prose with the release of The Wolf Gift, a book about a young reporter in Northern California that transforms into a werewolf. The Wolf Gift is Rice's first novel i ... More >>

Three Artists Guide the Way for NYC's Aesthetics of Decline

Get ready for the ruins

R.L. Stine: The Lost Interview

Sometimes in the nonstop world of blogging you do something that takes a little more time, and which you're very excited about. But because of the nonstop world of blogging, and because you want to do it right, and because it takes more time to do that, the idea or scoop or interview you were so exc ... More >>

817 Jaydens Were Born in New York City Last Year

It's that time of year again! Let's look at what we all named our babies in New York City in the last year, and figure out which name is the "most popular," which really means your kid is just going to get called by a first and last name, or some other nickname, all his or her life, so as to differe ... More >>

A Warrior's Heart

Budget Deal Stalls; Second Mile Mulls Future; 'Twilight' Rakes it in

​Yesterday, a bipartisan congressional committee was unable to come to an agreement on a new budget. The New York Times reports Democrats rejected the Republican deal because they said it did not contain enough new revenue. "Central to the impasse is a fundamental disagreement over how much r ... More >>

Blood is Thicker Than Blood

Bella and Edward lock it down in Breaking Dawn–Part 1

Today It Will Be 11:11:11 on 11/11/11

Mind further blown.​Today in mind-blowing but otherwise completely immaterial news (we think): Today is 11/11/11. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity to see all those ones together in one date! Also! When your clock turns 11:11:11 it will be particularly moving, especially when you realize ... More >>

Comments of the Week: Claim Your Village Voice T-Shirt, Winners!

​It's time for our weekly Comments of the Week roundup. Here's what we do: we choose the funniest or most thought-provoking or least asinine comments and reward the authors of those comments with a tasteful Village Voice t-shirt. If you're a winner, email our Web Editor Francesca Stabile (fsta ... More >>

71 Things to Do While You Wait for Breaking Dawn to Finally Be Out in Theaters

​Unless you are a fan of the Twilight saga (and if you're not, what is WRONG with you?), you may not be aware that Breaking Dawn, the finale of the series, in which Bella and Edward actually make a vampire-human baby, will be out in theaters on November 18. This is only part one of the finale, ... More >>

Taylor Lautner: Can He Be A Film Star?

​Yes, I know he is a film star, thanks to a little something called the Twilight franchise. But can Taylor Lautner make it as a bonafide movie star apart from that? If you can't pull that kind of thing off, then you might as well be Francis the Talking Mule. And face it, it hasn't been all ... More >>

NFL Lockout No Joke — Or Is It? Let's Go to the Video.

Field of Dreams 2: NFL Lockout with Taylor Lautner from Taylor Lautner Funny or Die, the comedy film company co-started by Will Ferrell, almost makes the NFL lockout worthwhile with Field of Dreams 2: NFL Lockout, a deadly little spoof that combines the oh-so-easy-to-parody Field of Dreams with the ... More >>

Robert Pattinson Is Hot For Betty White

​Blurbed on the cover of Betty White's new book If You Ask Me is none other than vampy, scampy Robert Pattinson, who offered: "Betty White is one of the sexiest women in America." Take that, Kim Kardashian. Well, at Betty's TimesTalk last night, critic Frank Bruni asked the Hot in Cleveland ... More >>

Robert Pattinson Looks Smoochable as Reese Witherspoon Emotes in Water for Elephants

Rightbloggers on Atlas Shrugged: It's the Feel-Good, Piece-of-Crap Movie of the Year!

When best-selling books like The DaVinci Code or the Twilight series become movies, their fans take to the internet to share their excitement. They argue over the film's fidelity to their favorite characters and scenes, and revel in their love-object's moment in the cinematic sun. So too it has bee ... More >>

The 10 Best Original Songs From 21st Century Films

Earlier today, the National released a video for the song "Think You Can Wait," from the "quirky" Paul Giamatti film Win Win. The video is a misguided combination of film dialogue transposed over a staged performance (the YouTube comments have already begun trashing it, and Matt Berninger's voice ... More >>

A Masterful Jane Eyre Stresses Independence

Red Riding Hood: Trying to Cash in on Twilight's Success

Q&A: The Gregory Brothers on Auto-Tuning the Oscars

photo by Nate "Igor" SmithThe Gregory Brothers at the Village Voice Web Awards in December 2010 Among the rusty Web 2.0 jokes, Anne Hathaway's cornball hooting, and all the precious air Oprah breathed, there were a few redeeming aspects to last night's Oscars. Coincidentally (or not?), they tended ... More >>

Corin Tucker, Seeking Her Own Twilight

The Sleater-Kinney howler goes solo and identifies with Bella big-time

New York City Baby Names Hail from Twilight, Brittany Spears

​ The New York City Health Department has announced the city's favorite baby names for 2009, and despite Twilight falling off the top 50 of USA Today's Best-Selling Books list, Stephenie Meyer's characters (at least one of them) will live on in posterity for the next 80-some years. Isabella, t ... More >>

Vampires Suck Sucks

A movie not meant to be watched so much as texted through.

Enough With Vampires Already!

​The Twilight series keeps sucking the energy out of wallets and souls. True Blood continues drawing blood on HBO. Vampires Suck, a reputed spoof, will bite down on August 20.

Has Lady Gaga Finally Gone Too Far?

​That's the title of this abcnews.com story detailing the way Lady Gaga seems more desperate to shock nowadays now that her music hasn't evolved enough and her public antics have gotten more needy. I'm quoted saying that Gaga was better off when there was a divide between her onstage behavior ... More >>

Live From Last Night's New Twilight Movie Premiere: Death Cab for Cutie is "Team Jacob," Apparently

They brought dolls.​ We all have our opinions on whether or not a group of abdominal-flaunting werewolves should be getting their thang on to Grizzly Bear via Twilight, but it's time we hear it straight from the fans themselves. Thus, I ventured to Union Square's Regal Cinema last night; ther ... More >>

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Serves Fans and Brand

Newcomers, not so much.

Vampire-Playing Actor Maybe Sort of Distantly Related to Guy Who Inspired Dracula Character

​Vampire movies and real life... Where does one stop and the other begin? Reporters desperate for another Robert Pattinson headline (see "R. Patz Sports Sweaty Pits" in 2008, and...yesterday) have dug deep into the fascinating and soulful family tree of the guy who plays Edward and uncovered a ... More >>

Most Popular Baby Names of 2009 Hail from Twilight Franchise

​Yeah, yeah, yeah, the books were... um... compelling. But seriously, must we now name our children after vampires, girls who love vampires, and werewolves who hate vampires yet can't help loving girls who love vampires?

Now Passing For Nostalgia on the Billboard Charts: Circa-2007 Rock-Radio Staples

​The No. 4 album on this week's Billboard albums chart, which is topped once again by soft-underbelly country act Lady Antebellum's Need You Now (93,000 sales, down 11% from previous week), is The Edge, a compilation of songs that you might hear on your local "active rock" station or at your l ... More >>

Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart in The Runaways

Sex, drugs, and feminist thought

BLOOD SUCKERS

We're into biting, but a support group for vampires? Come on!

Whatshername from Twilight Celebrity Nude for PETA

​Christian Serratos of Twilight has done one of those PETA ads in which a celebrity appears nude to attract interest in the organization, which has to do with children in Darfur or something. Full poster after the jump; alternatively, you can see footage of her nude photo shoot interspersed w ... More >>

How to Be

Cleaning the Mirror

Rallying the Troupes

Young Directors Take Charge