HBO’s True Blood

I love books. Worked in a bookstore for 11 years, so needless to say, I've heard the name Charlaine Harris, and knew she wrote a vampire series.  The problem is that I typically don't like female authors because no matter how gritty their novels can be, there is always an element of romantic love that rings too much like a Barbara Cartland romance novel. Not that I am opposed to romance and love, just not the sappy "he looked at me as though he... [Read More...]

It’s Prom Night…

The original Prom Night, filmed from start to finish on one whooping month, stars Jamie Lee Curtis in another role that helped earn her status of being one of Hollywood's "scream queens." Only in this movie, Jamie doesn't play so much of a damsel in distress as she does a damsel who takes action. Cause & Effect All 10 year old Robin wanted to do was play with Kelly, Jude, Wendy, and Nick. She didn't care that they were older than her. They did... [Read More...]

Bloodsucking Fiends – A Vampires Love Story

I was doing my usual blog hopping as per the alphabetical listing on my blogroll (although I don't visit them alphabetically since I like to "mix it up" most days) and noticed on Ryne's blog over at The Moon is a Dead World that he is compiling a really cool gathering of sorts for those with a certain affinity to vampires, called the "Review A Vampire Movie/Talk About Vampires for An Unstated Length of Time Blog-A-Thon" (Ryne fully admits this is... [Read More...]