'New Moon' lighter, goofier, better directed

The "Twilight" soap opera continues with a lighter, goofier and far less erotically charged sequel, "New Moon," a movie directed by a man and not a woman. Thus, the sex and the threat of it are gone in this golden-hued ...

• Scientists: World’s end not in 2012
  As moviegoers across the nation watched the end of the world with the opening of “2012” last week, news of Earth’s demise spread quickly across the Web. Scientists, fed up with the misleading prophecies, quickly set the record straight with their own series of articles and a YouTube video.
• Late-night moviegoers flock to 'New Moon'
  More than 500 people had good reason to carouse into the creepy early-a.m. hours Friday morning: The midnight release of a vampire movie, of course.
• ‘2012’ a suitable disaster
  Nothing like a dandy evening’s apocalypse to take the edge off recession, unemployment, Afghanistan and Glenn Beck.
• Visually ornate ‘Carol’ still needs human touch
  he new Disney “A Christmas Carol” is another epic achievement in motion-capture animation, advancing the art form closer to photo-realism than “The Polar Express” or “Beowulf.”

• Energetic documentary offers backstage access to Michael Jackson
• A thrilling end: ‘Paranormal Activity’ cast takes long detour in finding stardom
• ‘Amelia’ goes on autopilot
• Michael Moore offers scalding critique on U.S. culture of greed
• ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ is not much fun
• King Kong figurine used in movie for sale
• There’s nothing cut and dried about what’s in vogue in Vogue
• Stars of new movie talk about their own ‘Fame’
• ‘Zombieland’ doesn’t scare fans, has $25M opening