It's been 20 years since Twilight first graced bookstores across the country-17 since the first film-but the vampire series's fame has yet to wane, and many curl up with the story annually in the fall and winter months. Famously set in Forks, Washington, a small town in the Olympic Peninsula with an average rainfall of 10-12 feet a year, the beauty of the Pacific Northwest is well depicted in the pages and on screen.
The movie played for an unprecedented 14 months, and local parents quickly discovered that the theater doubled as the cheapest babysitter in town. They dropped us off with Maria and the von Trapps at least six to eight times that year, knowing we were in good hands for a few hours of show tunes. Somewhere between "Do-Re-Mi" and the escape from the Nazis over the Alps, I fell hard for musicals, for Austria, and the very handsome Christopher Plummer.
In "Highest 2 Lowest," Denzel Washington plays David King, a music mogul thrust into a dangerous moral predicament when a kidnapping plot spirals out of control. The recent release blends a unique social commentary with director Spike Lee's cinematic flair, marking the duo's fifth joint venture since 2006's "Inside Man." It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 2025, earning a nearly six-minute standing ovation, as Reuters reports.