Shadow of the Vampire movie review: being Nosferatu
What if the dude who played Nosferatu in that great old 1922 silent German horror movie was actually really a vampire? Cool.
2000 releases
Nurse Betty movie review: the power of fantasy
Like a millennial Wizard of Oz, Nurse Betty is about the power of an all-consuming fantasy to help us cope with life’s disasters. Alternately startling and funny, melancholy and bizarre.
The Perfect Storm review: following bliss
An intense and terrifying man-against-nature action movie, and also an unsentimental and unclichéd drama about following your bliss: doing what you’re made to do even to the point of risking your life.
American Psycho movie review: bonfire of the inanities
Opens with Hitchcockian strings warp-warping as sticky red blood drips down a white screen… or is it blood? This touch of black whimsy isn’t the only one to be found here…
