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Is Bella Swan an independent and sort of daring young lovesick renegade...or a doormat? A good role modelor a godawful role model? Or should she be considered a role model at all? And what of the Twilight saga itself: Is it liberating the fantasy life of a new generation of young women by inviting them to wallow in the kind of stormy-skies, ...

Bitter humor, swashbuckling action and classic animation light up the big screen in the LOC Packard Campus Theater on Mount Pony this weekend.

Obama releases World AIDS Day proclamation . "Most wanted" celebs get portrait treatment .

The president's cool and his advisers' skill at building his serene image have created a power vacuum in Washington.

"Never get involved in a land war in Asia," said Vizzini , the villain in The Princess Bride .

The Mercedes-Benz S400 BlueHybrid combines a modified V6 gasoline engine with a compact hybrid module with lithium-ion batteries to give the luxury sedan fuel economy of 26 mpg on the highway.

Gordon Willis Showcase Harvard Film Archive Pennies from Heaven, The Parallax View, The Purple Rose of Cairo, The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, The Landlord Through November 30 Last night, Bostonist had the pleasure of watching the Woody Allen classic Manhattan open up the HFA's Gordon Willis series, featuring Willis live and in person.

When you're thinking of some of the greatest actors of all time, Meryl Streep would most likely be seen on your list at the number one spot.

Comedian Kumail Nanjiani will host IFP's Gotham Awards ceremony on Nov. 30. Nanjiani writes for and is featured on Comedy Central's "Michael and Michael Have Issues," and has appeared on the cabler's "The Colbert Report." He has a role in upcoming comedy "Life as We Know It," starring Katherine Heigl.

The characters used in the making of the stop motion animation film 'Fantastic Mr.

Today is Friday, Nov. 13, the 317th day of 2009. There are 48 days left in the year.

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Andrea Martin will read 'Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang' at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts Saturday to launch TD Canadian Childrena TMs Book Week.

"WHAT DO I consider is good for gossip? It depends on the year. One year -- Mariah Carey was the gift that kept on giving.

Dree Hemingway , a New York model whose mother is the actress Mariel Hemingway, has posed topless in a series of moody black and white photographs for the US glossy magazine V . Ernest Hemingway's books include For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea , for which he won the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes.

I'm only one-seventh of the way through Sony's wonderful new Sam Fuller Collection, out today on DVD.

It's just three days to go until Halloween, and if you've got your act together, you've already figured out the perfect costume that will wow the ladies/gentlemen and convince people not only that you're creative, but that you have good taste in pop culture.

A Danish movie about a gay love affair between two members of a neo-Nazi group won top honors Friday at the Rome Film Festival, while Helen Mirren won the best actress award.

KURT VILE stood at the back of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Manhattan this month, fidgeting.

Jonathan Parker's acutely witty art-world satire, " ," carries off a tricky balancing act.