He may have started off on things like BBC4’s The Haunted Airman, but Robert Pattinson is now best known throughout the world as Edward the vampire in the Twilight series of movies. Now, Twilight has taken a lot of criticism over the years on all sorts of grounds – being badly written, nothing much happening, promoting violent and abusive relationships, endorsing abstinence before marriage et al – so the question is, what does Robert Pattinson think of the books and the movies? Turns out, he’s quite a critic himself.
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
