Sam Riley

Director Neil Jordan returns to vampire cinema with Byzantium, a stylish fantasy thriller that explores the overlooked idea of just how hard it can be for a couple of female vampires to stay alive in a male vampire dominated world. An excellent performance from Saorise Ronan is the highlight of this atmospheric gothic horror drama. The film begins with Eleanor (Saorise Ronan) relating the tale of ...[Read More]

It’s the Mods versus the Rockers in Rowan Joffe’s glossy update of Graham Greene’s canonical 1937 literary thriller Brighton Rock. Transposing the setting from pre-war England to the era of “teddy boys” on scooters, director Joffe graduates from BBC television movies to his first feature—an assured effort masking a lack of suspenseful drive and only scratching the surface of Greene’s ponderings on...[Read More]