Blood: The Last Vampire (18)

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.

The Last Thakur (15)

An intense contemporary Western, which takes place in a remote town in the

marshlands of Bangladesh!

It’s a novel idea, but that’s the only appealing aspect of this muddled

movie.

A mysterious young man dressed as a private guard and armed with a rifle

arrives in the town of Doulathpur.

This stranger, Kala (Tanveer Hassan) finds himself caught up in a feuding

community.

He attracts the attention of two rival leaders: the ruthless and powerful

Chairman (Rubel Ahmed) who runs the place and the one man that stands in his

way: the local Thakur (Tariq Anam), one of the last Hindu landlords.

Broke and hungry, gunman Kala begins to bargain with them.

He’ll take their money, but he also wants information. He has his own mission

– to find the man who raped his mother.

UK film-maker Sadik Ahmed directs and co-wrote this (with Heather Taylor)

disjointed tale. You will soon be lost and bored.