What are you going to do? The undead are hot these days, especially when you soften the edges and target them at a younger set. You cannot deny the Twilight craze, no matter how much the fanatical fan base hurts the film in the process. So, what is someone to do if they want to get a piece of the pie? Well, find another series to adapt to the big screen. Enter the Cirque du Freak series, it spans a...
Some people remember “Red Dawn” as an Eighties classic powered by Cold War paranoia. Others think back to recent events and recall that it was one of the greatest films in the career of recently-deceased Patrick Swayze. Still others may remember it as the first movie to ever be released with a PG-13 rating. The [...]
Seen on: October 19, 2009 The players: Director: Paul Weitz, Writers: Brian Helgeland, Paul Weitz, Cast: John C. Reilly, Ken Watanabe, Josh Hutcherson, Chris Massoglia, Ray Stevenson Facts of interest: Based on the books by Darren Shan. The plot: A teenager visits a freak show and decides to jump on board and become a vampire, which really pisses off his best friend. A rivalry ensues... Our thoughts:...
This is the first look at the 2009 film, directed by Paul Weitz, and based on the books written by Darren Shan. Now, if you tried to look for the Darren Shan books on the blog you’ll have noticed an absence of them. In truth I have only read the first book – though I have the second as it was given to me as a gift for the collection. Why haven’t I read the second or bought any more...
[Our thanks to Peter Galvin for offering his review to the Twitch readership.] Releasing in what has become the year of the vampire, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) is another film aimed squarely at the teen crowd, but it's one that takes itself far less seriously than some of its peers. Cirque du Freak , the first novel in The Saga of Darren Shan (by Darren Shan )--succeeded in turn...
**It was a good movie Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) (http://www.80millionmoviesfree.com)and I love to see most of the movie fans join the movie adventure with this movie. *John C. Reilly, Ken Watanabe, Josh Hutcherson, Chris Massoglia, Ray Stevenson joins in the cast of the movie...
We are here for your woman! | Photo courtesy of Universal Pictures Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant is the story of 16-year-old Darren (Chris Massoglia), an average high school student whose best friend Steve (Josh Hutcherson) gets into trouble when a traveling freak show comes to town. Trying to make things right, Darren trades in the normal life he had to become an assistant to an...
Up Where The Wild Things Are In the US : Spike Jonze's children's adaptation WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE makes a decent debut with $32m to nab #1, but it'll be interesting to see where it ends up next week (as many people have complained it's not quite the kid-friendly film it's being sold as)... Death Wish is essentially remade (yes, again) with Gerard Butler in LAW ABIDING CITIZEN , which underperforms...
The first movie of the Cirque du Freak series, The Vampire's Assistant, hit theaters today and J-14 exclusively sat down with star Jessica Carlson to dish on everything from vampires to her cute costar Josh Hutcherson. To read Josh's...
Considering that "Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant" is little more than a melange of "Twilight" and "Harry Potter" with a dash of the children's horror series "Goosebumps," it is far, far more entertaining a movie than it has any right to be. Best friends Darren (Chris Massoglia) and Steve (Josh Hutcherson) are a little odd: Darren's really into spiders,...
We know what you're thinking: "Oh, God, not another one." Seems like every vampire book is being adapted as a movie or TV series, and Darren Shan's saga is the latest: Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant . Shan has written 12 books in the Darren Shan saga (yes, the hero is named after the author), and the first film incorporates the first three stories. Chris Massoglia plays Darren...
If you can't see this email, click here. Hi john! Here's your Flixster movie update for the week of October 22nd, 2009. OPENING THIS WEEK Saw VI Tobin Bell , Betsy Russell , Shawnee Smith 52% want to see Agent Strahm is dead and Hoffman (Mandylor) has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. However, when the FBI's involvement forces Hoffman to set a game into motion, Jigsaw's grand...
Little Manhattan, RV, and Bridge to Terabithia star Josh Hutcherson's all grown up -- and starring in the first film from the Cirque du Freak Saga called The Vampire's Assistant. He chats exclusively with J-14 about evil vampires, werewolves,...
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