Look, no one's expecting Catherine Breillat-level insight from the new Red Riding Hood, but I'll totally see it. It looks potentially fun and a touch dark — and so was the premiere.

Catherine Hardwicke didn't go to film school. She was an architecture student. But a gritty movie called Thirteen earned Hardwicke the directing award at Sundance in 2003, and suddenly, she was the "hot new filmmaker," at age 47. She cast Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson in a little film called Twilight, and now…

Director Catherine Hardwicke, who directed the first SparkleVamp film, has created a dark fairy-tale mystery in Red Riding Hood. Someone wrote it's "just Twilight with a cape." No way! It looks so much better.

[Vancouver, July 29. Image via Bauer-Griffin.]