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Yeah, I wrote September's cover story on Robert Pattinson but it seems from the internet, people only really want to look at him. I can't blame them. He's one handsome dude. Here are the images, taken by the astonishingly talented Autumn De Wilde in the totally wild Moonlight Rollerway in Glendale, CA. 

The heart of the world's biggest heartthrob weighs in on the life of a young man caught in the flashbulbs and the pages of glossy magazines.

When David Cronenberg’s repressed psycho-sexual snoozefest A Dangerous Method was released, I was disappointed to find the only presence of his signature fascination with body horror was limited to Keira Knightley’s jutting jaw. For a moment there, I felt saddened that the man who gave us Videodrome and Dead Ringers and is known for visually-striking and mind-melding thrillers had ventured into the world of the cerebral in a way that seemed stifling, as if he left himself behind and made someone else’s film. However, when I heard he was adapting Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis, my cinema-sense perked up and I thought this was something he would really be able to take a bite out of. 

You guyyyyys! It's almost time for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part Two: How Many Colons Can We Fit Into One Title! Are you super duper excited? I mean, at least for the fact that this international crisis is ALMOST OVER? I'm not going to lie: I have seen the last three Twilight films in the theater (usually drunk). I will see this one! It will be great / a nightmare, per usual! And thank God there's now a teaser featuring a brief glimpse of that vampire baby!

Some people judge a movie based on reviews, other will go see something just because it features a favorite actor. Here, we're judging this weekend's offerings based solely on what we see in the trailers and ranking them accordingly.

Every day there are some topics that are trending. Since many of them don't make sense, we provide easy contextualization. Also, this way, you won't actually have to know anything about anything.

Today the 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival kicks off, meaning gorgeous people are spending time watching movies and frolicking on French beaches while you sit in the office and read about it. Glamorous, no?

The latest Tim Burton-Johnny Depp collaboration, Dark Shadows, won’t open until May 11, but today a featurette on the film hit the web, showing off some never-before-seen footage and giving us a glimpse into Collinwood, the mansion Depp’s movie family, and the characters played by a supporting cast that includes Michelle Pfeiffer, Chloe Moretz, Eva Green, and Jonny Lee Miller.

● For what it's worth, KISS frontman and condom purveyor Gene Simmons has officially endorsed Mitt Romney. "Hindsight is 20/20,” he explained in an interview with Fox News' Gretchen Carlson yesterday. "I have some real issues with the economy and how it's being done. America should be in business and it should be run by a businessman."  [Huff Post]

You wouldn't expect Twilight's Robert Pattinson to star in a David Cronenberg movie, no? And yet, here he is, indulging in such Cronenberg-ian excesses like shooting a gun through his hand, stabbing someone in the face and having angry sex with a string of beautiful women. What better way to cast off the shackles of tween-dom? Adapted from a Don DeLillo novel (!), Cosmopolis follows a multi-millionaire for a day as he makes his way around Manhattan, having all sorts of adventures. (If you squint your eyes, it has some loose parallels to James Joyce's Ulysses.) The trailer is slightly NSFW, but the images flash so quickly that you can probably get away with it.