Tag: Catherine McCormack

  • Shadow of the Vampire (2000, E. Elias Merhige)

    Shadow of the Vampire opens with some title cards explaining the setup. Well, it opens with some title cards explaining the setup after what feels like nine minute opening titles. In reality… it’s six. Vampire ostensibly runs ninety-five minutes. Anyway. The title cards setup the making of Nosferatu, F.W. Murnau’s highly influential 1922 vampire film.…

  • The Tailor of Panama (2001, John Boorman)

    While The Tailor of Panama is on firm ground in and of itself, it’s difficult not to think about in the context of James Bond. Pierce Brosnan plays a brutal, womanizing British secret agent and sort of gives cinema it’s only realistic Bond movie. Of course, mentioning James Bond is something to get out of…

  • 28 Weeks Later (2007, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo)

    If 28 Weeks Later weren’t executive produced by Danny Boyle and Alex Garland and produced by Andrew Macdonald, it would not be any better (in some ways it would be worse) but it certainly would be less offensive. Before seeing the film, I remarked to friends about what made 28 Days Later, in the end,…