Hollyblood: Raucously amusing and silly Spanish spoof vampire rom-com.

https://youtu.be/R0kYjcvRyMo (Spanish)

This was great fun. Tightly written and with good narrative drive without feeling rushed, it made deserved fun of many tropes and genres, including a very funny ‘Twilight’ parody – and although that is very easy, it was well done here.

The teens were the usual mixture of types (bullying jock/outsider girl/nerd etc.) and the performances were done with a little twinkle in the eye which made it clear the ac tors knew exactly what was going on but it did not become self-consciously arch.

Good light fun. And eve n in jokey pieces like this, the hotness of the actors is again, considerable and admirable!

Inside Man: A smartly funny, well-plotted bank robbery heist with excellent touches of social commentary.

Taking Lives: A flat and unoriginal serial killer procedural