It’s fitting that the first good movie to meaningfully incorporate AI into its aesthetic should be about an undead bloodsucker that feeds on humanity in order to seem alive. And yet, for a three-hour film that opens with a chorus of computer-generated Vlad the Impalers staring into camera and demanding that we suck their cocks, Radu Jude’s gleefully stupid “Dracula” …
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From posthumous footage of a cloaked Bela Lugosi stumbling through graveyards in “Plan 9 From Outer Space” to David Niven appearing in blackface at the end of “Vampira,” Dracula has endured far worse over the years than anything director Radu Jude can do to the character. But that doesn’t stop the cinematic prankster from trying to make his epically sloppy, …
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AMC is making a big change to Interview With the Vampire for the show’s third season. The core cast remains, as does showrunner Rolin Jones, but the series is being retitled as The Vampire Lestat. The change, announced Saturday at Comic-Con, marks a shift in the series based on Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles novels. Seasons one and two of Interview …
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Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire is getting a new name and some new cast members as it enters its third season. The AMC drama series will be known as The Vampire Lestat for season three as it focuses on the second book in her Vampire Chronicles series. The announcement was made at San Diego’s Comic-Con where cast and crew …
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In Praise of the Emmy Nominations’ Hidden Gems, from ‘Ren Faire’ to ‘Interview With the Vampire’ Variety ‘The Pitt’ Receives 13 Emmy Nominations, Including Noah Wyle’s First Nod Since ‘ER’ The New York Times Commentary: Why the Emmys still matter in a time of turmoil Yahoo Noah Wyle on his Emmy nomination for ‘The Pitt’: ‘This time around, it’s much more gratifying’ Los Angeles …
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Astronomers have been aware of cosmic vampires, dead stars that hungrily strip plasma from victim stars, for some time. New research suggests that some of these cosmic fiends could have accomplices, Renfields to their Draculas, in the form of a third star in their systems, facilitating their fateful encounter. These systems are known as cataclysmic variables, and their occupant vampire …
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