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Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated Willem Dafoe is brilliant in Shadow of the Vampire (2000) as Max Schreck, the weird and wonderful looking German actor who starred in the 1922 iconic vampire film Nosferatu, and was, […]
Producer-director Robert Aldrich gets his big knife out to stab Tinseltown in the back. He fancies – and really relishes – the idea of biting the hand that feeds him in this sly and superlative […]
Heat, the 1972 final part of director Paul Morrissey’s trilogy for producer Andy Warhol, provides a great role for a brilliant Sylvia Miles as a fading actress who falls for a breathtakingly handsome former child […]
Director Stuart Rosenberg’s ambitious 1970 drama is a painstaking, involving and intelligent political allegory, with meaty roles for Paul Newman, his wife Joanne Woodward and Anthony Perkins, who reward audiences with careful, winning performances. Newman […]
Co-writer/producer/director Brian De Palma’s 1984 soft-core Alfred Hitchcock-style crime mystery suspense thriller focuses on a resting actor called Jake Scully (Craig Wasson), just dumped from a grotty horror movie, who then comes home to find […]
Debut film director Peter Duffell’s effective 1971 four-segment Amicus compendium chiller, set around a murderous mansion, is written with knowing glee by Robert Bloch, author of Psycho. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Denholm Elliott lead […]
In Stuart Heisler’s 1952 romantic and Hollywood drama The Star, Bette Davis boldly takes on a role written for her arch-rival Joan Crawford, who then turned it down, about Margaret ‘Maggie’ Elliot, a has-been star […]