Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.

Are vampires kinky? I didn't know.

One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.

There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their lover that only disappointment can follow.

We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.

Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.

Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.