Sentences with phrase «touch vampire stories»

I confess, I'm now wary of female authors in general, until I get to know them — I'm not a big romance fan, and I don't touch vampire stories in general, and I'll never read Twilight.

Not exact matches

For example, Buffy the Vampire Slayer dies and comes back from the dead not once but twice, and this heroine's story touches upon the same trope and informs the same moral intuitions and moral imagination in us.

At the film festival: Bruce LaBruce's subversive masterpiece, Gerontophilia, a lovely rom - com in which everybody fucks one another across all age and gender borders — desire shall bind us together; Juno Mak's Rigor Mortis, a touching albeit grim look at loss and damnation in the form of a Chinese hopping - vampire movie, with many a nod to the subgenre's clichés and conventions; Jealousy, Philippe Garrel's latest tale of love ground down by the mill of daily life, raw and naked even by his ascetic standards; Hayao Miyazaki's troublesome The Wind Rises, which frames the story of a fighter - plane designer as a grand romance of struggle and failure, with animation's supreme living master contemplating the price mankind can sometimes pay in the name of one dreamer's self - fulfillment, and the willful blindness and egocentricity it takes to realize one's vision; and finally to Yorgos Lanthimos's Necktie and Athina Rachel Tsangari's 24 Frames Per Century, their contributions to the Venice 70: Future Reloaded omnibus, not to mention the untitled pieces by Jean - Marie Straub, Monte Hellman, Amit Dutta, and Haile Gerima.

Speaking of draining, this book's got it all: vampires, werewolves, zombies — a story destined to be a bestseller once you add your personal touch to it.