Tod Browning’s 1931 horror film Dracula is one of the all-time-great, ultimate vampire movies. Bela Lugosi re-creates his theatre role magnificently, with great eerie, other-worldly authority. One of the all-time-great, ultimate vampire movies, director Tod […]
Director Neil Jordan’s commanding, all-embracing 1994 romantic vampire movie Interview with the Vampire, based on Anne Rice’s 1976 bestselling novel, is a dark, swirling homoerotic meditation on love, death and the hereafter. Along with Dracula […]
Based on the 1981 novel by Whitley Strieber, this enchanting 1983 erotic vampire movie is one of cinema’s most crucial of its perennially popular kind. It is perhaps even more remarkable for its iconic characters […]
Director Frank Capra’s deliciously playful romantic comedy took all the big prizes at the 1935 Academy Awards. It made history as the only film to scoop all five main Oscars (best picture, actor, actress, screenplay, […]
Jack Nicholson’s barnstorming performance dominates Stanley Kubrick’s superlative 1980 chiller The Shining, based (remotely) on the Stephen King novel. Shelley Duvall is also admirable in a tour-de-force as his highly-strung wife in peril. Jack Nicholson’s […]
‘Good evening, Clarice.’ ‘A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.’ Director Jonathan Demme’s gut-wrenching 1991 serial killer thriller mesmerises throughout thanks to […]
Actors Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci (again playing canny and crazed gangsters), director Martin Scorsese and writer Nicholas Pileggi take up where they left off in Goodfellas, taking a gamble on retreading old ground, […]
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