There is an air of Celtic melancholy running through the, ahem, deadpan humor of THE BOYS FROM COUNTY HELL. That touch elevates the, further ahem, stakes in this horror comedy that takes a few swipes at fraught family relationships, a sinking economy, and Bram Stoker’s relevance when a real vampire resurfaces. The supernatural is almost… Read More »
VAN HELSING
VAN HELSING is a film that does not do things by halves. One might, in principle, admire the way it pulls out all the stops early on, but the results, a hemorrhaging husk that eventually dissolves into the same sort of dust as the staked vampires that people its running time, prevents admiring it in… Read More »
Robert Pattinson Enters the TWILIGHT
When I talked with Robert Pattinson on November 10, 2008, about playing Edward, the hunky vampire in TWILIGHT, that film had just sold out around 100 of its first screenings almost two weeks before its opening. He modestly refused to take any personal credit for that, even though he had been mobbed more than once… Read More »