The funniest, sexiest and most stylish Dracula film ever! Made by Andy Warhol's sidekick, Blood for Dracula follows the tortured, vegetarian Count as he and his menacing manservant set forth for Italy in the early 19th century, complete with coffin on roof-rack, searching for juicy Catholic virgins. Visually stunning and deliciously deadpan.
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CHINATOWN (1974)
Certification18 Our Rating
Polanski has a go at the film noir detective thriller, very bleak, very twisted and very menacing it is to. Nicholson plays a private-eye in pre-war LA who is hired to pursue an adultery case, but finds himself embroiled in a complicated murder investigation.
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JULIE AND JULIA (2009)
Certification12 Our Rating
'Julie and Julia' tells the story of 2 women; Julia Childs, who wrote 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' and 'My Life in France', the latter of which is adapted for one half of this film, and Julie Powell, a present day New Yorker who, to escape the tedium of her own life, decided to cook her way through Julia's 524 recipes and writes a blog about doing so. The parallels and the differences between their two lives are highlighted.
In the more interesting of the 2 stories Meryl Streep contin
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RAN (1985)
Certification15 Our Rating
Ran, Kurosawa's last great epic, is a Jidaigeki (Japanese period drama) depicting the fall of Hidetora Ichimonj, an ageing Sengoku-era warlord who abdicates as ruler in favor of his three sons. His kingdom slowly disintegrates as the sons struggle for power, murdering rivals and laying waste to the land, and Hidetora goes insane after watching his retainers slaughtered in an epic massacre, the centrepiece of the film. As the kingdom crumbles and rival warlords move in for the kill, the Ichimonji
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SWEENEY TODD THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (2007)
Certification18 Our Rating
Tim Burton brings Stephen Sondheim's musical prodigy to the big screen and as you'd expect he does a beautiful and atmospheric job of it. Both Depp and Carter revel in the opportunity given to them and the tale has a gloriously dark, gruesomely humourous tone, which brings me on to my own personal issues… the modern musical; much of the the of dialogue in Sweeney Todd is sung and there is just so much lilting 'mockney' cockney I can take. I can accept this is hugely entertaining film, it's just
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