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Polls of the most “important” films made during the silent era consistently rank Fritz Lang’s Metropolis at or near the top (alongside Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin and Murnau’s Nosferatu). There’s a reason for this: seemingly ...

Vampire. It is perhaps one of the few words capable of raising the hackles on the necks of both grownups and children alike. Tales of the un-dead date back centuries, but the most famous vampire of all was not born until the late 1800s (1897, to ...

Wildling starts out strongly but the qualities that make the first 20 minutes engrossing and harrowing drain away and the movie morphs into a thoroughly unsatisfying excursion into fantasy-tinged horror. As directed by first time feature film...