Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
June 6, 2026
Not the thrill of immortality, not the hunt, not the gothic romance. What it offers instead is two ancient lovers, the crumbling cities they haunt, and the slow pleasure of their company.
Tag: Immortality
Immortality is fiction’s oldest bargain, and the price is always the point. This tag collects reviews and essays on stories about living forever: vampires, elixirs, uploads, and the loneliness at the end of every version.
1980sThe Hunger (1983)
June 6, 2026
The film looks extraordinary. The Hunger earns its 6.5 the way a fashion shoot earns a magazine cover.
2010sByzantium (2012)
June 6, 2026
Neil Jordan returns to vampires with a feminist story of a mother and daughter surviving two centuries. The film's mythology is explicitly gendered.
1940sThe Bishop’s Wife (1947)
May 19, 2026
An Episcopal bishop praying for help with his cathedral project receives an angel who arrives to assist, though not in the way expected. David Niven plays Bishop Henry Brougham.
1990sInterview with the Vampire (1994)
May 19, 2026
Neil Jordan's 1994 Anne Rice adaptation. Cruise as Lestat, Pitt as Louis.
2010sThe Mummy (2017)
May 18, 2026
2017 Alex Kurtzman action horror with Tom Cruise unleashing an ancient Egyptian princess. Universal's failed Dark Universe launch.
2010sThe Last Witch Hunter (2015)
May 18, 2026
2015 Breck Eisner fantasy action with Vin Diesel as an immortal witch hunter protecting modern New York from witches. The Last Witch Hunter is Breck Eisner's 2015 American fantasy action film.
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1990sMeet Joe Black (1998)
May 17, 2026
Brest's 1998 three-hour fantasy drama. Anthony Hopkins plays William Parrish, a media mogul approaching his sixty-fifth birthday.
1990sGhost (1990)
May 16, 2026
Jerry Zucker's 1990 supernatural romance. The pottery scene, the subway ghost.
1980sHighlander (1986)
May 15, 2026
Highlander is one of the strangest mainstream studio films of the 1980s and one of the most influential fantasy films of the decade. Clancy Brown plays the Kurgan, the giant Mongol-Russian immortal who killed Ramirez and has spent four hundred…
1990sThe Prophecy (1995) Review
May 15, 2026
The Prophecy is one of the most underappreciated theological horror films of the 1990s and one of Christopher Walken's most committed performances. It grossed approximately sixteen million dollars in its initial theatrical release on a production budget of approximately eight…