In case you somehow haven’t been paying attention, vampires are kind of a big deal right now. But this is not the cold, irredeemably evil, and occasionally camp vampire of years gone by. Generally speaking, modern vampires have taken the form of sensitive but slightly edgy romantic heroes, the type that feature in the fast expanding subgenre of paranormal romance films, TV shows and books.
So, we bid farewell to the sexiest beard in television history and hope Craig McLachlan gets his gear off in season two as well as continuing to solve murderers in his own unique way. It’s The Power Of Craig (TPOC) that will always win us over in the end.
Equal parts exciting, amusing, frightening and spectacular, this is how it’s done. Go and see it on the big screen because the television doesn’t do it justice.
Based on his one-man show of the same name and winner ‘Best of NEXT audience Award’ at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, Sleepwalk with Me is a stylised account of director Mike Birbiglia’s early days as a would-be stand-up comedian.
Now Is Good, writer/director Ol Parker’s follow-up to Imagine Me and You with a script adapted from Jenny Downham’s novel, sees grown up Dakota…
Courtesy of Icon Films, Film Blerg is giving away 5 double passes and posters to see the new Zombie comedy WARM BODIES, out in cinemas from Thursday…
The story was moving a bit quicker this week in the second last episode of The Doctor Blake Mysteries titled ‘All That Glitters’. It was wonderful to see a very drunk Lucien (Craig McLachlan) tell the whole town what he thought of the visiting British Consul.
Rust and Bone is emotionally raw film, contrasting aggression with genuine intimacy and stays with you long after you have left the cinema.
In all seriousness, what really elevates this movie is the attention to detail and visual splendour we have come to expect from big budget animation. Every hair, eye-twitch, leaf and breeze has been accounted for in this spectacular 98-minute action reel/nature documentary.
Bill Murray is an absolute God of the film world, a Mecca of Cool, the King of Kings, and he’s developed into quite the actor in his old age. In Hyde Park on Hudson Mr Murray tackles FDR in an interesting time in his life, a week in 1939 when the King and Queen of England (Elizabeth and Bertie) make the first trip to America of any royal, to ask for support in the looming war.