Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 review

Riddled with the same problems which have plagued the earlier films, Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 does little to convince Mark to come back for Part 2...

This might seem an odd place to start, but I was struck by the unusual end credits of Breaking Dawn Part 1. A sudden cut to sans-serif lettering and blaring rock music, reminiscent of the ending of Watchmen, might have fazed me, if it hadn't been prefaced by a two-hour salvo of WTF-ing hysteria.

For one thing, it confirms that David Slade's Eclipse, the previous instalment in the Twilight saga, is highly likely to be as good as the series will ever get. If you don't care about the series by now, you never will, but Breaking Dawn Part 1 is definitely the point at which you'll be left behind if you don't really, really want to know how it all wraps up.

With respect to fans of the films who aren't into Stephanie Meyer's execrable novels, it's only fair to recommend that you wait until after you've seen it before reading any more of this review. The film is pretty critic-proof, and if you already have your mind made up to see this, nothing I can say will influence you. Then again, perhaps you should be warned, that this is the one where the series takes a long walk off a short pier, into the depths of Gothic romance and body horror.

Having endlessly deliberated for the previous

Hailee Steinfeld on for Ender's Game

Now that the lead in sci-fi Ender's Game has been cast, his leading lady has been announced as True Grit star Hailee Steinfeld...

Actorly types have been lining up for Gavin Hood's adaptation of Ender's Game, with True Grit star Hailee Steinfeld set to join the project alongside fellow child actor Asa Butterfield (Hugo) and a rumoured Harrison Ford.
Steinfeld is up for the role of Petra Arkanian, a close ally of Ender (Butterfield) and one of few girls at the Battle school, where most of the story takes place. This could potentially be a new franchise