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Daybreakers
Dir: Michael Spierig & Peter Spierig
Writ: Michael Spierig & Peter Spierig
Ethan Hawke … Edward Dalton
Sam Neill … Charles Bromley
Claudia Karvan … Audrey Bennett
Willem Dafoe … Lionel ‘Elvis’ Cormac
Isabel Lucas … Alison Bromley
IMDb ; Official Site ; MetaCritic
This film is utterly meh-worthy. It isn’t entertaining enough to be enjoyable, but isn’t bad enough to merit a walk-out. [...]
Tagged: 5 Stars, blood and gore, Claudia Karvan, Daybreakers, Ethan Hawke, forgettable, Isabel Lucas, Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig, R16, Sam Neill, sff, The Sperig brothers, vampires, Willem Dafoe
The historian
Author: Elizabeth Kostova
ISBN: 0316730319 DDC: 813.6
In 1972 I was sixteen – young my father said to be travelling with him on his diplomatic missions.
The one word that sprang into my mind, more than any other, when I finished this book was “unsatisfying”. And really, in a nutshell, that is how I feel about this [...]
Tagged: 1970s, 6 Stars, 813.6, diary fiction, Dracula, Elizabeth Kostova, first person narrator, gothic, horror, interesting rather than great, multiple narrators, Prince of Wallachia, sff, The historian, unsatisfying, vampires, Vlad III
links for 2008-11-03
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Sunshine, by Robin McKinley « Blogging for a Good Book
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BlookityBlook: The (Almost) Daily Book Blog: The Hero and the Crown
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Robin McKinley
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Bookworm Nation: The Hero and the Crown
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medieval bookworm » [...]
Tagged: ask metafilter, body image, metafiler, Newberry Award winner, Robin McKinley, Sunshine, The hero and the crown, vampires
I am legend
Author: Richard Matheson
DDC: 813 – eBook
LibraryThing ; More reviews ; RIP III
On those cloudy days, Robert Neville was never sure when sunset came, and sometimes they were in the streets before he could get back.
There is nothing like a vampire story to get in the right move for the RIP challenge. I suppose [...]
Tagged: 8 Stars, 813, horror, I am legend, Richard Matheson, RIP 3, RIP Challenge, sff, vampires
30 Days of Night
Dir: David Slade
Writ: Steve Niles, Stuart Beattie, Brian Nelson. Based on the comic by Steve Niles & Ben Templesmith
Josh Hartnett … Eben Oleson
Melissa George … Stella Oleson
Danny Huston … Marlow (Head Vamp)
Ben Foster … The Stranger
Mark Boone Junior … Beau Brower
Mark Rendall … Jake Oleson
I’ll admit that I was a little disappointed that when IFCO’s rating came up this [...]
Tagged: 30 Days of Night, 7 Stars, based on comic, Ben Foster, bloody, Brian Nelson, Danny Huston, David Slade, gore, horror, Josh Hartnett, Mark Boone Junior, Mark Rendall, Melissa George, R16, Steve Nils, Stuart Beattie, vampires, violence
Moonlight 1.01
No Such Thing as Vampires
Dir: Rod Holcomb
Writ: David Greenwalt, Ron Koslow, & Trevor Munson
Alex O’Loughlin … Mick St. John
Sophia Myles … Beth Turner
Jason Dohring … Josef Konstantin
Shannyn Sossamon … Coraline
James Black … Lt. Carl Davis
Shoshana Bush … Chloe
James Black … Lt. Carl Davis
Look, this is a new series with a vampire detective, so I hereby promise that there will [...]
Tagged: 6 Stars, Alex O'Loughlin, crime, Daivd Greenwalt, James Black, Jason Dohring, Moonlight, Moonlight 1.01, murder, No such thing as vampires, Rod Holcomb, Ron Koslow, sff, Shannyn Sossamon, Shoshana Bush, Sophia Myles, Trevor Munson, vampires
Daywatch
aka Dnevnoy dozor sequel to Nightwatch
Dir: Timur Bekmambetov
Writ: Timur Bekmambetov, Alexander Talal, Vladimir Vasiliev based on the book by Sergei Lukyanenko
Konstantin Khabensky … Anton
Mariya Poroshina … Svetlana
Vladimir Menshov … Geser
Galina Tyunina … Olga
Viktor Verzhbitsky … Zavulon
Valeri Zolotukhin … Kostya’s Father
Aleksei Chadov … Kostya
This film starts off pretty much exactly where Nightwatch finished up, there is a quick voice over recap [...]
Tagged: 7 Stars, Aleksei Chadov, Alexander Talal, based on book, Dark Others, Daywatch, Dnevnoy dozor, Galina Tyunina, Konstantin Khabensky, Light Others, Mariya Poroshina, myth, Russian, sequel, Sergei Lukyanenko, sff, shape-shifters, subtitled, Timur Bekmambetov, Valeri Zolotukhin, vampires, Viktor Verzhbitsky, Vladimir Menshov, Vladimir Vasiliev
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