[TW: This article discusses the general topic of sexual assault and how it is portrayed in Byzantium.] The 2010s gave us many sacred pop culture moments and movements; most notably a worldwide frenzy ...
Currently a features writer at Collider, Elisa Guimarães is an arts and entertainment journalist and a critic with over a decade of experience. Passionate about movies and TV shows as a whole, she ...
The human-vampire romance at the center of “Byzantium” has less in common with the emotional roller coaster that is “Twilight” than with the sweetly creepy relationship in “Let the Right One In.” Like ...
In Byzantium, debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival, we’re introduced to Eleanor (Saoirse Ronan) who can’t help but want to share her story of living as a 200-year-old vampire. She ...
The marketplace has long been flooded with vampire movies, but there are at least as many anti-vampire movies — ones that try to hide, however coyly, that they’re about immortals with a bag for blood.
That would be Eleanor, Clara's compatriot in blood. More thoughtful and reflective, Eleanor, played by Saoirse Ronan ("Atonement," "The Lovely Bones"), writes down the history of her bizarre journey ...
Immortal, teenage vampires. Tragic love. A walking blood bank of unsuspecting humans. And a secret society of bloodsuckers that hunts down their own kind, whenever they dare transgress. Wait — didn’t ...
Last week Neil Jordan’s Byzantium arrived in limited theaters, and we had the opportunity to chat exclusively with the acclaimed Irish filmmaker about his involvement in the project, how it related to ...
There’s no need to interview the vampire from Interview With the Vampire director Neil Jordan’s second (and arguably stronger) romantic drama of the undead. In Byzantium, the goodhearted Eleanor ...
Nearly 20 years after “Interview with the Vampire,” Irish filmmaker Neil Jordan returns to the bloodsucking well with “Byzantium,” a moody tale of two female vampires in present-day England. Clara ...
We’ve already talked about Byzantium as one of the most promising flicks of the year, thanks to the lovely Gemma Arterton, who takes a more dramatic look at the world of the supernatural than she did ...