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Films: From Dusk Till Dawn, Sinners, & Naza

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Last Thursday, the Prince Charles (PCC) did a vampire day ! So I said I'd take the day off for that.. and with the first two days of the week off as well, why, I said I might as well take the whole week off! so I did. This vampire day had a variety of vampire films.. I started with From Dusk till Dawn , because I'd never seen it - stars Harvey Keitel , George Clooney , Juliette Lewis , Tarantino (would you believe), who also co-wrote it, and Salma Hayek .. it's about a couple of criminals who hole up in a truck stop that turns out to be populated by vampires! With Salma Hayek's character name of Santanico Pandemonium, I had to wonder whether she wasn't one of them..  I was slightly late for the advertised start time, arrived during the ads. And wow, did this ever turn out to be a classic Tarantino.. he and George Clooney play a couple of hardened robbers, Tarantino a sex-crazed psychopath, George the older, more sensible one. The bodies ratchet up nearly from the ...