Sigh… so Eclipse (or as they’re pretentiously referring to it The Twilight Saga: Eclipse) has set some sort of box office record for mid-week openings.  If this was something solely confined to tweens, like Hannah Montana, maybe I wouldn’t be so disheartened by it.  But this is a huge culture-spanning thing.  They’re not even good [...]

After making his third film The Sixth Sense, M. Night Shyamalan quickly developed a reputation as a master storyteller with a penchant for delivering the unexpected in his twist endings.  He followed The Sixth Sense with the unconventional superhero film Unbreakable and the alien suspense thriller Signs.  After that, Shyamalan’s career itself had an unexpected [...]