Review: Blood - The Last Vampire (18)
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:: BLOOD: THE LAST VAMPIRE
Certificate: 18
Length: 1hr 28mins
THE live action, English-language version of Hiroyuki Kitakubo’s revered animated film centres on beautiful 17-year-old Saya (Gianna Jun), who conceals a terrible secret.
She is a halfling, the product of a marriage between a human father and vampire mother, doomed to suffer the same bloodlust as the creatures of the night she detests.
Armed with her trusty samurai swords, Saya now works for a clandestine organisation, eradicating the world of the fanged fiends in the hope that one day she will be granted a showdown with the vampire matriarch, Onigen (Koyuki).
For her latest mission, the teenager is dispatched to an American military base in Japan to clear up a deadly infestation of her foes.
In the process, Saya strikes up an unlikely friendship with Alice (Allison Miller), the young daughter of the base’s commanding officer (Larry Lamb), whose humanity profoundly touches the halfling and compels Saya to look within.
:: RUDO & CURSI (RUDO Y CURSI)
Certificate: 15
Length: 1hr 41mins
Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, the stars of road movies Y Tu Mama Tambien and The Motorcycle Diaries, reunite for this footballing drama, playing siblings who are destined to meet in one of the biggest televised championship matches in Mexico’s history.
Brothers Tato (Garcia Bernal) and Beto (Luna) sweat blood and tears on the banana plantations to keep a roof above the head of their mama (Dolores Heredia).
They spend any spare time on a dustbowl football pitch as striker and goalkeeper of the village team.
A talent scout happens to see them play and offers Tato a spot at the prestigious Deportivo Amaranto club, where he becomes a minor celebrity.
Beto fades into obscurity until he gains notoriety as the unbeatable goalie for Atletico Nopaleros, poised to break the league record for clean sheets. The only person standing in his way is cocksure Tato.
:: THE LAST THAKUR
Certificate: 15
Length: 1hr 23mins
A mysterious young man called Kala (Tanveer Hassan) arrives in a small town in the marshlands of Bangladesh, armed with a rifle.
He seeks revenge on the fiend who raped then killed his mother.
However, Kala soon becomes embroiled in a feud between the Thakur (Tariq Anam Khan), a Hindu landlord who reclaims land to settle unpaid loans, and the Chairman (Ahmed Rubel), who controls the hearts and minds of the masses through intimidation.
