'True Blood' vs. 'Twilight': Who's the Better Vampire Boyfriend? While sitting through an early screening of Twilight yesterday, I came to a not-so-stunning realization: teen girls are obsessed with vampires. The love story between Edward Cullen and Bella Swan had many young ladies in the audience squealing with delight, which is something I haven't experienced since I donned a disguise and crept into a showing of High School Musical 3. If you walk by a theater this weekend, there's a good chance you'll hear shrieks of ecstasy as Twilight melts the hearts of girls around the country. Read more...


Women are falling for Twilight's hunky vampire Angela Vicencio is happily married, but there’s another man.

He’s younger and hotter than her husband and his chiseled porcelain skin and chivalrous old-world manners make her heart race.

He’s also a vampire.

He’s Edward Cullen, the teenage protagonist of The Twilight saga, the four-book literary sensation that has sold more than 17 million copies worldwide.

Vicencio is among the throngs of adult women who’ve fallen hard for Twilight, and, along with their teen — mostly female — cohorts, are expected to fill theaters and send box-office receipts soaring when the film version debuts today. Read more...
Movie review: Dreamy undead in 'Twilight' Twilight: Romantic horror drama. Starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Billy Burke. Directed by Catherine Hardwicke. (PG-13. 122 minutes. At Bay Area theaters. To see complete movie listings and show times, and to buy tickets for select theaters, go to sfgate.com/movies.)
"Twilight" will probably be a huge disappointment to those expecting a horror film, a lot of good special effects, a kinky, sexual vampire picture or any combination of the above. More time during this movie is spent talking about going to the prom than drinking human blood. The climactic battle takes place in a ballet studio. Read more...


Casting for vampire movie 'Twilight' may disappoint book purists As the credits came up at a recent screening of "Twilight," I heard a deep sigh to my right. It was my 15-year-old date, Libby. "I had such high expectations," she mumbled.

And that's a problem director Catherine Hardwicke is likely to encounter with girls all over America (and beyond): Stephenie Meyer's young adult novel is so beloved, it's much easier to see what went wrong with Hardwicke's adaptation than what she got right. Read more...