Priest (2011)

Based on a Korean comic Priest is entertaining. So picture this a post apocalyptic world run by… dom dom dom the church but not just any church the roman catholic church! Yikes. After centuries of Vampire vs Humans action, the Humans quarantined the Vamps. The people live in cities ruled/protected by the church or on their own terms out in the wastelands.

Paul Bettany is a Priest a Warrior trained as part of an elite team to eradicate the Vampires… or stupidly enough put them in detention centres. Now he’s stuck being a human relic of a war that once was, forgotton, unappreciated and lost. When his family are attacked by Vampires in the wasteland he declares war.

I was so happy squeely to see Maggie Q as a Warrior Priestess. She is awesome, my Friend Ryzu says Maggie Q is more Jedi in this than any female Jedi he’s seen in a Star Wars movie. The casting of Bettany in a sci fi as a warrior would have been a stretch, he’s scrawny at best. But the guy has a lot of soul, he brings so much depth and believability to the role.

And of course there is a mountain of room for a sequel.

The CG is great, the vampires are super ugly looking more like mutants than the pretty boys we all know so well. The special effects and fight scenes are fun. The bottom line, its a lot of fun, its entertaining. There were the rants about derivative this, cliche that. Is it cliched and derivative yes but will the average b-grade action movie fan care – hells no!

Note: Originally Gerard Butler was picked Bettany’s for the role I’m glad that didn’t work out!

Teen Wolf (2011)

So funny if you remember the orginal teen wolf which was funny, cheesy, light and wholesome. The ‘wolf’ a hairy Michael J Fox complete with big 80′s hair, a beard and hairy arms but you know loveable, cheesy and wholesome.

Well this version has been grunged up to appeal to the youth audience of now, following the example of Supernatural, Vampire Diaries etc. Though less angsty than The Vampire Diaries. Thank God!

Scott McCall (Tyler Posey) and his best friend Stiles (Dylan O’Brien) decide to go into the woods, to search for a body… or technically half a body. While the police have found one half – these two crack unit SAS types (cough cough) decide to investigate themselves. Armed with a cheap torch and an iphone for light, its little wonder when it all goes wrong.

Inevitably Scott gets left in the woods to get scratched by a werewolf. But at least he’s good at La Crosse now. The other players Crystal Reed is Allison (the love interest), Tyler Hoechlin is Derek (the broody yet brotherly shadow type). The main downsides to being a werewolf as in ‘Being Human’ are the problems associated with ‘that time of the month’, and of course girl troubles. Not to mention Allisons dad not only believes in Warewolves… He hunts them.

Lets hope it stays less angsty and moochy than Vampire Diaries or i’m out.

Lost Girl (2010)

This Canadian show mixes up every kind of supernatural you can imagine. Faries, Demons, Warewolves all get lumped into one group called Fey of which there are two factions Light and Dark.

The main character is Bo (Anna Silk) who looks like a younger version of Mary Louise Parker. She is a Succubus and enjoys thieving the life from unsuspecting men via kisses.

She eventually kills one too many and is tracked by the Fey and told to choose a side.

Its not a great show. It basically features Bo and her sidekick Kenzie (Ksenia Solo) doing dramery ‘detective work’.

The overarching storyline is Bo struggling as a single Succubus (as you do) and trying to find the truth about who she is.

The production quality is good, the acting hit and miss and way too dramery for my liking. The girl power fest gets annoying fast.

Warehouse 13 (2009)

Plot: In the middle of South Dakota is a government warehouse filled with mysterious and supernatural objects of ancient origins.

Two secret service agents are posted there, their mission to retrieve missing articles, investigate reports of new ones and protect the objects and the country (of course).

So its ok, I’d put it with the closest movie comparison of ‘The Librarian’. Its probably ok for 14 year old kids or to watch as a family. The plot is slow to move, the characters are pretty flat, they both seem way too dumb to be SS agents and would be better trying to pass as cops. Its very B grade and really didn’t grab me.