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Our US correspondent popped into his multiplex to see what the Twilight fuss was about. He still doesn’t know… Twilightstunned box office analysts by having a gigantic opening weekend. That is a testament to the many rabid fans of Stephenie Meyers wildly successful teen vampire romance franchise. Its second weekend sawTwilights box office numbers sink faster than… hell, I dont know. Something that sinks fast. Id come up with a great simile or metaphor there, but I thinkTwilightgave me brain damage....

It’s as if it’s supposed to be along the same lines as The Da Vinci Code. Only Lucy isn’t very impressed… This review is hideously overdue. However, in my defence, I have a good reason. This book is very, very hard work. Or something like that. I basically got to the stage where I kept abandoning the book because I stopped caring what was happening. Maria and Miguel must use their combined knowledge to solve the puzzles before time runs out....

Rob takes a look at a pair of horror sequels, and is truly terrified. But not for the right reasons. Now we all know that the originalOmenmovie is one of the best and creepiest horror films of the 70s. Even the remake that came out a few years ago had an edge to it. So why then are the second and third films in the series so blooming dull? By todays standards the horrific effects are all a bit laughable....

The movie that rebooted Bond finally gets the special edition it deserves… This might not be an entirely popular view, but I wasnt entirely bowled over byCasino Royale. So whats my problem withCasino Royale? The movie comes on one disc and the extras on another. So what did they do with the extra space that shifting the extras away gave them? The original audio was uncompressed PCM 5.1, which is now being delivered as a Dolby TrueHD mix....

Frost tells his tale with a sense of growing fear and irony. He acts as the readers eyes and ears, asking questions while we contemplate the answers. Much of the narration, like the action itself, is far from clear-cut and open to interpretation. Ad content continues below Azzarello, however, makes fine use of other assorted misfits. Yet, stomach churning as the thing is, it really is beautiful. Ultimately, Azzarello weaves his tale together with a common theme....

The director who always comes out fighting - sometimes literally - chats with us about Postal and more… For me,Postalwas a big opportunity to go back to that dark, black humour. So did you turn to Bryan Knight at this point to help formulate a script? Then I wrote a full script; but Im German, right? So I found it hard to write the English dialogue. And, we can go way further than we could go with a normal film, in a way....

First up: the Unisphere, located in Flushing Meadows Park (sometimes known as Flushing Meadows-Corona Park). This led me to believe the Unisphere wasnt all that large or awe-inspiring. I was wrong on both counts. Walking up to this junk in person is just jaw-dropping. The amount of negative space between all that curved steel really gets you. The globe is so friggin big you cant even see Europe or North America....

The film tells the story of Jack Skellington, Pumpkin King of Halloween Town. Naturally, all hell breaks loose come Christmas Eve and its up to Jack to puts things right. His work in this film must rank as some of his best ever. The extras are mightily impressive though. A fantastic 5.1 soundtrack and wonderful, crisp colours finish things off perfectly. Christmas has never looked, or sounded, so dark. Feature:...

Fallout 3is, unsurprisingly, a continuation of theFalloutseries, originally developed by RPG veterans, Black Isle. But Im confident the overwhelming majority of players will love whats on offer here. Youre also shown basic combat, and character interaction. Eventually youre nineteen, and something has gone horribly wrong n the vault. Your dad has left, somehow, for reasons unknown, and guards are looking for you. Your only option is to escape into the great, wide world of the Capital Wasteland, Washington DC....

How does the Red Queen work on the blu disc? As a collection, movies based on games are uniform only in just how abysmal they are. Helming this one is game conversion specialist Paul W.S. Anderson, after zombie expert George A. Romero exited stage left over creative differences. In this, they team up when a super-computer intentionally infects an underground complex with a zombifying virus. There are many gruesome deaths, much screaming, running and uncontrolled mutating....

Continued frompart 2… Off the back ofNostrodamus, there were three very quick films in succession after that. The money fell out and it was another brilliant idea it would have been an amazing film. This is whats coming at us. And they couldnt get it made. They couldnt get Denis Leary to actually attach to it. And [they] said, Would you just do this? Right on the back ofFinal Cut....

Er, youd better sit down… Starship Troopers 3: Marauderis a bad, bad movie. Its not even entertaining in aMystery Science Theaterso-bad-its-good way. to convey how the Federation have cynically employed Christianity as a public relations machine. at the other characters, its fairly useless. Theres also Sunrises 1988Starship Troopersanime series, which presents a slightly more faithful adaptation of the original novel. Rating: 1 out of 5

When there’s no more room in hell, the dead will…invade reality TV? But its a populist show. The model was a horror version of24. And then they all die. So quite quickly we set up the hunk guy as a fucking idiot. I think people in the media who recognise my name will be expecting a certain thing. Primarily we wanted this to be nasty a horror thriller. The original scripts were very straight; there were no jokes in them at all....