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Film Review: ‘Bite Me’ – Not Your Average Vampire Rom-Com
A vampire rom-com which will make you care about the characters. And you'll learn that vampires can text and use YouTube.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: ‘Universal Classic Monsters: Complete 30-Film Collection’
Universal Studios Home Entertainment brings out the classic creature features once more, this time in beautiful High-Definition.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Dracula’
Devised by playwright Patricia Lynn and director Geordie Broadwater, this hybrid or mutant entertainment is told in old-style cinematic fashion, but updated storywise to the present day, while hewing largely to the plot of the original novel. I found its curiosities just right for Halloween season.
Read More »‘Dracula Untold’ Presents Most Interesting Version of The Count Since ‘Van Helsing’
The most interesting Draculas of the 2000s are Jonathan Rhys Meyers' principled, love-sick, brilliant inventor/entrepreneur in the short-lived NBC TV series; Richard Roxburgh's rattled, sardonic, paternal, philosophical, yet ultimately villainous portrayal in the vastly underrated Van Helsing; and Luke Evans' family man and conscientious prince who must sacrifice his own humanity to protect his people from the rapacious Ottomans in the 15th century of Dracula Untold.
Read More »Halloween Films – Go To List For Chills and Thrills
It wouldn’t feel like Halloween this year if I didn’t get a chance to view as many of these flicks as possible before the goblins, ghouls, and ghosts start their sinister shenanigans.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: ‘Dracula Untold’ Starring Luke Evans
Ultimately feels like a lackluster episode of 'Game of Thrones' with a vampiric subplot thrown in.
Read More »Frankenstein, Dracula, and Eight More Early Tales of Terror for Halloween Reading
Celebrate Halloween with one or two of the earliest examples of the horror novel.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Dracula Untold’
If Legendary Pictures and Universal really want this new monster universe to work, they’re gonna have to step up their game.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Secret Dublin: An Unusual Guide by Pól Ó Conghaile – Jonglez Publishing’
A vacationing traveler could wander Dublin for months and not encounter half of the great resources in this guide
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