Trailer: Byzantium

Vendetta Films will be releasing Neil Jordan's Byzantium on October 9 on DVD and Blu-ray. This stylish, atmospheric vampire tale, starring Gemma Arteton and Saoirse Ronan as a mother-daughter pair of nomadic bloodsuckers, marks a great return-to-form for Jordan (Interview with the Vampire), and has secured a place in my Top 10 films of the year so far. Worth a rental for fans of the genre looking for a fresh, revisionist take on vampire lore. Check out the trailer below...

Trailer: Hanna

I'm not really a Joe Wright advocate - there are a few cool visual moments in Atonement (the beach tracking shot, primarily); The Soloist was just Oscar-baitin' pap - but I'm getting pretty hyped for his forthcoming hitman thriller Hanna. Starring Atonement's Saoirse Ronan as a teenage girl who is trained to be assassin by her father (Eric Bana), the film, according to Wright, will have a less conventional approach to its action scenes. He said he looked Robert Bresson's Pickpocket for inspiration, and if you know Bresson, he doesn't, by any means, do "action". The only thing I'm not too keen on is the Chemical Brothers soundtrack (and maybe Bana's Irish accent)... Here's the trailer: