Reviewing Robert Pattinson's Little Ashes, The Washington Times noted, "Teenage girls -- or their mothers -- drawn to Little Ashes by the prospect of devouring with their eyes brooding Twilight star Robert Pattinson have a few surprises in store -- tortured sexuality, life-and-death politics and slice eyeball, for starters... The film's emphasis on the personal relationships comes at the expensive of the professional. Dali was a visionary, but we never discover how he actually created himself. We get little sense of Bunuel's vision, either. Here, the director of L'Age d'or comes off as a rather obtuse reactionary. Still, these men are enaging enough to carry the film on their own. Matthew McNulty is commanding as Bunuel, but the sensitive Javier Beltran consistently steals the show as the tormented Lorca. Mr. Pattinson has taken on a much bigger challenge than playing a vampire -- bringing a legend to life. He does an admirable job playing one of the strangest and most imaginative men to walk the earth. He's shy and trembling when he arrives at the dorm, bombastic and determined when he leaves it. The transformation is striking."
Entertainment Weekly offers up a piece on New Moon, discussing, among other things, the break-up of Edward and Bella and teh challenges it represents. Offers director Chris Weitz, "When you get broken up with, it really is the worst thing in the world. Meyer gives a kind of supernatural context to people's real feelings, which sums up what we all go through." In terms of Edward's minimized role in the film, Weitz added, "Rob was the first guy to say to me, 'You know, you don't really need to have too much of me in this film.' I don't want him too present, so his apparition will be a subtle, flitting effect, clearly a reflection of Bella's will and desire to see him."
Library Journal Reviews raves about David Wellington's 23 Hours: A Vengeful Vampire Tale (coming in June from Crown), "Strange as it may seem, the key to good supernatural fiction is realism. Readers have to believe in the world that has been created in order to suspend their disbelief of the creatures set loose in it, and Wellington (Monster Planet) excels here. Most of the action takes place inside a women's prison, where vampire hunter Laura Craxton has been incarcerated and is being stalked by Earth's last vampire, Justina Malvern. This could easily have dissolved into B-movie stereotype but instead seems intensely researched and utterly believable. The characters are likewise fully formed and consistent. VERDICT: Since this is the third book in a series (after 13 Bullets, full-text available on the author's web site, and 99 Coffins), series readers may expect the principals to escape, but the cleverly managed ending avoids predictability. Wellington's voice continues to grow. Highly recommended for horror and vampire fiction fans."
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