Upon watching the above trailer, you’d be forgiven for thinking that new Australian horror flick, The Loved Ones, is actually going to be the story of Lola Stone — a plain yet pretty, somewhat shy and possibly much maligned schoolgirl with a bad cases of the unrequiteds. Maybe a cross between Carrie and Pretty in [...]
1 August 2010
Categories: Movies & TV . Tags: reviews, The Loved Ones . Author: kirstynmcdermott . Comments: Leave a Comment
I saw Daybreakers yesterday. Written and directed by Michael and Peter Spierig, the Australian film-making duo who brought us the entertaining zombie/alien film Undead a few years ago, Daybreakers was a movie I have been quite looking forward to seeing. The Spierig Brothers have been given a decent budget and some actual production values and [...]
10 February 2010
Categories: Movies & TV . Tags: Daybreakers, Film, vampires . Author: kirstynmcdermott . Comments: Leave a Comment
I’ve been fairly disappointed by most of the movies I’ve gone to the trouble to see on the big screen lately. Avatar, Holmes, The Lovely Bones, among others … all big budget productions with effects up the whazoo but all falling down, to greater and lesser extent, in terms of plot and execution. (You remember [...]
9 February 2010
Categories: Movies & TV . Tags: Film, post-apocalypse, The Road . Author: kirstynmcdermott . Comments: Leave a Comment