Tag: Gary Oldman

Dracula: Francis Ford Coppola’s Risky Vision Remains As Poignant Over 30 Years Later

February 14, 2023.Reading time 10 minutes.

At the time of its release, Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a risky venture. Coppola was coming off the disappointment of The Godfather Part III, which capped off his mafia trilogy on a somewhat sour note. And Dracula hadn’t been on the big screen since the moderately success 1979 adaptation starring […]

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The Unborn: Jumby Wants a Better Movie

January 24, 2020.Reading time 8 minutes.

Amidst the tide of remakes, ‘Torture Porn’, and found-footage horror in the 2000’s, demonic possession movies made a quiet comeback. Yes, there was the surprisingly successful The Exorcism of Emily Rose. And then Hollywood took a couple stabs at resurrecting The Exorcist franchise. Somewhere in between we got some generic efforts like Lost Souls, The […]

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