A pumped-up remake of the same-named 1984 vampire horror-comedy, “Fright Night” represents a well oiled machine of goosed senses that unfortunately has no clearly defined motivating purposes, even within genre confines of its own story. Fun and engaging performances carry the movie a great distance, but it eventually bogs down courtesy of loosely defined stakes (no pun intended) and poorly incentivized action. The story centers on Las Vegas high school senior Charley Brewster (Anton Yelchin), who lives with his single mom real estate agent, Jane (Toni Collette), and has successfully pivoted away from his geeky past enough to bag a popular girlfriend, Amy (Imogen Poots). Things get turned upside down…

Title: Catch .44 Directed by: Aaron Harvey Starring: Malin Akerman, Nikki Reed, Deborah Ann Woll, Brad Dourif, Forest Whitaker and Bruce Willis Running time: 94 minutes, Rated R, Available on Blu-ray Tess (Malin Akerman) and her two friends Kara (Nikki Reed) and Dawn (Deborah Ann Woll) are given a task to intercept a drug shipment for crime boss Mel (Bruce Willis), but the job turns out it’s not as simple as anticipated. This film is fast paced, but confusing as hell. Director Aaron Harvey (who provides the commentary as the only special feature on the disc) does an homage to non-linear storytelling much compared to Tarantino films, and the film…

Title: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 Director: Bill Condon Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Billy Burke, Sarah Clarke, Ashley Greene, Jackson Rathbone, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Kellan Lutz, Nikki Reed, Booboo Stewart, Chaske Spencer, Julia Jones About 4 of the 117 minutes that make up “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1″ will capture your attention. Those 4 minutes are nearly ruined, too, when some opens their mouth; which ends up being a frequent, and indirectly funny, occurrence. The story is quite simple in this installment: Vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson) and human Bella (Kristen Stewart) are finally getting hitched. Everyone is happy about this….

Title: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 Directed By: Bill Condon Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Billy Burke, Sarah Clarke, Ashley Greene, Jackson Rathbone, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Kellan Lutz, Nikki Reed, Booboo Stewart, Chaske Spencer, Julia Jones After three immensely successful productions, why would Summit Entertainment change their formula now? Of course the studio wouldn’t, but you’d think bringing aboard an Oscar-winning director would almost naturally warrant some changes for the better, but sadly, Bill Condon’s prowess was entirely consumed by the drone of The Twilight Saga and he actually winds up delivering a piece that’s rather sub par to two of the previous installments….

While promoting the anticipated “Twilight” sequel “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1″ in Rome on October 30, 2011, actress Nikki Reed sported black lace and suede Casadei booties throughout the day. She first matched the Fall 2011 peep-toe pumps with a pink Jenni Kayne Fall 2011 mini-dress to promote the fourth film in the series at Lancia Cafe. She attended the event with co-star Jackson Rathbone during the 6th International Rome Festival. Later in the day, Reed matched the Casadei heels while attending the “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1″ photocall. She matched the booties with a three quarter sleeve Ghana embellished shift dress from Alice…

Breaking Dawn’s Nikki Reed shared some details surrounding her upcoming wedding with American Idol finalist and fiance Paul McDonald, while attending the launch of Ubisoft’s Just Dance 3. Reed, who plays the abrasive vampire Rosalie, who eventually softens towards Kristen Stewart’s Bella, has announced that she has picked out her dress for the big day, but unfortunately she’s keeping tight lipped about who designed it. “I haven’t even told Paul yet, he is super traditional, and wants to be surprised, and all of that.” Nikki Reed also told Hollywood Life that although Breaking Dawn’s Bella and Edward may have had “a beautiful wedding, Paul and I are just not Edward…

Nikki Reed celebrated her new Twitter account by tweeting to her fans this picture of her and fellow “Twlight” vampire Peter Facinelli as two superheroes that are awesome or awesomely bad, depending on how you view them. The superheroes they masqueraded as : The Wonder Twins. “@peterfacinelli directed a skit for @collegehumor…here’s a pic of us on set as The Wonder Twins! It comes out in a wk-keep you posted,” Reed tweeted. Since I’m actually a Wonder Twins fan (mostly for the cheesy factor), I think they look really good. Reed makes a very good Jayna. I’m really excited to see what the College Humor skit will be about. We’ll…

Happy Sunday, Shockya.com readers! Yes, another weekend has come to an end, but we’ve got quite the list of movie news to send you back to work with. The biggest of the bunch is certainly all of the updates pouring out of Disney’s D23 Expo. The event revealed details on a number of projects including The Muppets, The Avengers, Monsters University and so much more. We’ve also got some extensive casting news from some non-Disney productions like the G.I. Joe sequel as well as Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike. There are even some inspirational stories in the mix this week; not only did Tom Hanks step up and make amends for…

I can’t believe it, but this is officially it; my coverage of San Diego Comic Con 2011 has come to a close. For five incredibly long days, the experience went by in a flash. The action was non-stop from the moment I touched down in San Diego and while it was extremely exhausting and probably one of the most trying working experiences I’ve ever gone through, it was beyond worth it. So, what’d you think? Did you like my coverage choices? Were the formats I chose to report in effective? Do let me know because I’m thrilled to say, it looks as though I’ll be returning to Comic Con next…

And that’s a wrap on my first full busy day at San Diego Comic Con. I kicked things off at the press conference for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, which featured Elizabeth Reaser, Ashley Greene, Nikki Reed, Julia Jones and Booboo Stewart after which Bill Condon, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner took the stage. Before wrapping up things with Summit Entertainment, I spoke with the writer of one of the studio’s next book-to-film adaptations, Warm Bodies author Isaac Marion. Keep an eye out for that interview later this week. From there it was off to the convention center where I spent some time checking out the…