Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, 2013)

There was no need for Jarmusch as well to hop on the vampire bandwagon, but the results are nevertheless entertaining.Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton make an engaging pair of louche immortals and the film oozes style as well as humour, with their core problem reduced to run-of-the-mill domestic disputes. Most refreshingly, not only are the usual religious or super-powered stock ingredients completely absent, but so too is gore, as the couple have seized on the availability of black-market blood with evident relief, so they no longer have to do something as uncivilised as killing people. It's a shot in the arm to a tired genre.

7/10