Tag Archive - vampire

Twilight

25 December 2008 by John, No Comments

I have been trying to get my head around the prospect of “Twilight” for some time. The movie which is based on Stephenie Meyers book, has received a huge amount of fanfare, primarily from its “target audience” (and I use that term loosely) of teenage girls. I will come back to the problem I have [...]

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Cronos

2 July 2008 by John, 1 Comment

Can someone explain to me why Guillermo del Toro’s Cronos is in part English, and part Spanish? I dunno…weird. Enjoyed it though! Very much. And Ron Perlman looks like a monkey.

The Historian a.k.a. Dracula 2 a.k.a. Crap

15 April 2007 by John, 1 Comment

Something intrigued me about Elizabeth Kostova’s “The Historian “. I am not a big horror fan, but a good story is something you cannot argue with. I will, however, argue with this one… The book started so well, and in fact trucked along at a fantastic pace for about two thirds of it’s length. But [...]