Tag Archives: True Blood

Film review | Battleship – Taylor Kitsch & Rihanna get that sinking feeling

Posted on 13 April 2012 by Jason Best

If you reckoned the Transformers movies were dumb, catch a load of Battleship, an alien invasion movie whose stupefying idiocy will leave you shell-shocked. For Hollywood the notion of turning a set of shape-changing toys into a blockbuster film franchise … Continue reading →

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Film review | Straw Dogs – Watch it get bloody when the bookworm turns

Posted on 3 November 2011 by Jason Best

Sam Peckinpah‘s notorious 1971 thriller Straw Dogs saw Dustin Hoffman’s weedy intellectual find his inner savage when pushed to defend hearth and home against murderous yokels. James Marsden is the bespectacled wimp in writer-director Rod Lurie’s brutally efficient Hollywood remake, … Continue reading →

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Pete’s Peek | You’re invited to an Open House where horror is your host

Posted on 30 January 2011 by peter

I couldn’t help using the tagline from 1963′s The Haunted Palace to entice you into reading this review, as that’s what the film-makers have done by promoting this home invasion horror as ‘starring’ True Blood‘s Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings | Did Hammer Horror take the dread out of Dracula?

Posted on 18 October 2010 by Beth Williams

When I was a kid I had this well-thumbed book about mysteries and the unexplained. From UFOs to the Bermuda Triangle, Nessy to the Yeti, and werewolves to vampires, it showcased an exciting range of spooky myths and legends. At … Continue reading →

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Pete’s Peek | Old school Vampire vs The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Posted on 4 July 2010 by peter

  Fans of bloodsucking fare like The Twilight Saga and TV shows like The Vampire Diaries and True Blood should beware, this DVD release might be about a modern-day vampire, but it’s definitely old school. Babylon 5 actor Jason Carter … Continue reading →

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News Muse Special – The Oscars Experience

Posted on 6 March 2010 by Adele Craciun

News Muse is wishing she belonged to the Hollywood glitterati and could get a seat next to some hottie at the Oscars ceremony. Instead, the reality is that she got rejected off the bleachers and doesn’t have access to the … Continue reading →

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News Muse – Heading towards a New Moon and feeling darn fangtastic!

Posted on 30 October 2009 by Adele Craciun

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Devastation and despair! Haven’t you heard? Hugh Jackman has turned down hosting the 2010 Academy Awards. ‘Whyyy,’ you howl? ‘But, he was such a brilliant host,’ I wail. … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings | Fly Away Home

Posted on 4 October 2009 by Beth Williams

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video I’ve been waiting patiently, and finally my wait is over – True Blood, the vampire series everyone’s been buzzing about starts on Channel 4 on Wednesday. Am I … Continue reading →

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