Holy Hell! Interview with the Vampire Turns 20 It is easy to blame novelist Anne Rice for having paved the road for weirdly moralistic, mopey vampires (and also inadvertently causing Fifty Shades of Grey) to exist in our culture. Her 1977 novel, Interview with the Vampire, is Patient Zero for the cultural sea change that has morphed vampires from figures of fear into objects of adoration. To be … Read More
Byzantium [xrr rating=2.75/5]It’s notable to see director Neil Jordan return to vampires. Following the surprising breakthrough success of his 1992 film, The Crying Game, which was thanks largely to the shrewd marketing of the Weinstein brothers’ Miramax Films, Jordan was lobbed the keys to a project that Hollywood had long felt had blockbuster potential. Anne Rice’s 1976 novel, Interview with the … Read More
Ondine Ondine Dir: Neil Jordan Rating: 2.5/5.0 Magnolia Pictures 101 Minutes Neil Jordan’s body of work runs the gamut from small, critically acclaimed films like Breakfast on Pluto and The Butcher Boy to big budget films starring the likes of Tom Cruise and Jodie Foster. While the director will probably never again receive the accolades his surprise hit The Crying Game … Read More
