Biswapriya Purkayastha

As someone who loves the source story, I can't think why they even bothered to name this "Carmilla". Joseph Sheridan le Fanu's Carmilla was an aristocrat, a Countess. This Carmilla is a slob. That Carmilla was disturbing, enthralling, and frightening by turns. This Carmilla is just annoying. That Carmilla fed on peasant girls while slowly draining Laura dry of her life forces. This Carmilla drinks blood in chocolate milk cartons. That Carmilla was passionate. This Carmilla wouldn't know passion if it was handed to her on a plate. Add to that appalling acting, a script of which the less said the better, and a filmography centred around "Don't show, tell", and it's an insult to every lesbian vampire out there, and to Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Why does anyone sane and educated like it?

Carmilla

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Holocaust

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The story is very good, from back when Martin was still an author and not a celebrity hack. The 4 issue comic is pretty terrible *even though it follows the story almost exactly*. Reasons: 1. The artwork with its universally white characters - in a far distant age when humanity has not just gone to the stars but disintegrated into a state where its further colonies are isolated and have long forgotten who they ever were. 2. The covers, every one of which lies about the contents therein. 3. The depiction of the grouns, as albino humanoids. The original story makes no attempt to show they are humanoid, and in fact says that they were the original inhabitants of the planet (the First People). If the comic wants to say that the only logical explanation is that the grouns are like the Morlocks - a species evolved from humanity, one that went underground - it fails to do so, and even repeats the story's claim that the grouns were the First People. Read the story. As for the comic, ignore.

In the House of the Worm

A Fortunate Life

Ruby Tanya

Animal

Uderzo really should have ended the series at Asterix and Son. Ever since, with one possible exception - Asterix And The Magic Carpet, also by Uderzo - the series has fallen off a cliff. For one thing, it makes no sense for Caesar to be still trying to get rid of the Gaulish village after making friends with them in Asterix And Son. For another, the humour is completely missing, as is the investment the reader had in Asterix and Obelix as they used to be. So, what's the story? Ostensibly it is a parody of political correctness and liberal woo-woo, but it also seems that said PC/woo-woo is just a cover for a destructive force (in this case Caesar) getting to take over your society? Anyway, it is a pale shadow of stories like Asterix And The Roman Agent, Obelix and Co, or The Mansions Of The Gods, where far more interesting and competent Caesar minions attempted to subvert and take over the village. This particular villain makes no sense in any shape or form and the denouement even less. Avoid.

Asterix and the White Iris

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EMERGENCY EMERGENCY EVERYONE TO GET FROM STREET BECAUSE THEY WON'T EVER AGAIN MAKE ANYTHING LIKE THIS MOVIE Can anyone imagine anyone in Hollywood making this film today? Made in 1965 - the middle of the Cold War - and dedicated to the bizarre concept that Russian submarine crew members are human beings like anyone else, live and laugh and fall in love just like Americans, and can join with them to rescue a child...today, any Hollywood producer, director or actor who dared promote any such heretical idea would be denounced as a "Putin apologist" by Amerikastani liberal warmongers, and probably never work in (that) town again. It's not really funny, despite the promise on the poster*. It is, however, a great film, deeply moving, and deserved its Oscar. And back then an Oscar meant something. *In fact I only found one scene laugh out loud funny, as I recall (it's been a few years since I watched this movie). Lt Rozanov steals a car, then, next scene, stops it in the middle of the road. Opens door, drags out a huge St Bernard dog, closes door, and drives off, all delivered totally deadpan and without a word.

The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming

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Breathless

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