Review: ‘What We Do in the Shadows’

The myth of the modern vampire is admittedly a very fascinating one. Their existence is one of great power, but great loneliness–a need to be accepted by humanity, despite their deadly inhibitions against them. For the most part of the last decade, the mythic race has been defined by Edward Cullen’s brooding angst–morphing this generation’s perspective into a more romantic than fearful vision.…

Tilda Swinton on ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’

 In celebrated indie film auteur Jim Jarmusch's newest film, Only Lovers Left Alive, he employs two undying vampires, Eve (Tilda Swinton) and Adam (Tom Hiddleston), who've lived through the Renaissance and Middle Ages, to offer his own thoughts on the modern age. The Detroit rock-n-roll deadness that makes up the film is brought to life by the incredible Tilda Swinton, as the joyous and…