![]() “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” (Now Streaming) Few vampire epics hold a candle to the film’s scrumptious period details, but “Interview” is best remembered for the star-making turn of a then-10-year-old Kirsten Dunst as a child vampire who suffers tragically for her transformation. Here, he plays centuries-old vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac, reincarnated as a New Orleans vampire by Tom Cruise’s Lestat de Lioncourt after a bloody attack. ![]() While not quite introducing heartthrob Brad Pitt to the world after supporting but searingly impressive turns in “Thelma and Louise” and “True Romance,” Neil Jordan’s cemented his position on the marquees with the best of them. courtesy Everett CollectionĪnd speaking of vampires… 1994’s “Interview with the Vampire” is also hitting the platform, rightly timed in honor of author Anne Rice’s death on December 11. “Interview with the Vampire” (Now Streaming) A reimagined take on the teen vampire classic is reportedly in the works with Noah Jupe (“A Quiet Place”) and Jaden Martell (“It”) starring, but it’s hard to imagine anybody topping the original. Barrie’s tales of Peter Pan and Neverland, but what makes “The Lost Boys” endure is its ensemble of mostly unknown young actors, as director Joel Schumacher was best known for his canny eye for spotting fresh talent. The film delivers a vampiric spin on J.M. Speaking of the 1980s, Joel Schumacher’s “The Lost Boys” served up a bloody delicious buffet of now-iconic actors in 1987: Corey Haim, Jason Patric, Kiefer Sutherland, and Corey Feldman, to name a few, but we’d be remiss not to mention Jami Gertz and Dianne Wiest as well. Image Credit: Warner Bros./Everett Collection ![]() They play four friends who, in 1959, embark on a hike to find the dead body of a missing boy - and confront a bully played by Kiefer Sutherland. The film most importantly served as a breakout vehicle for actors like Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman, Jerry O’Connell, and River Phoenix. Rob Reiner’s 1986 film “Stand by Me” remains a touchstone coming-of-age classic 35 years later, and certainly one of the best Stephen King adaptations, here from his 1982 novella “The Body.” It’s a film that, for many of us, exists in the memory and is easily accessed without having to rewatch it - as key moments in our coming-of-age often are. ![]() It’s stacked with a cast of ’90s icons, many of whom give their best performances, from Winona Ryder and Clea DuVall, to Brittany Murphy and Elisabeth Moss, to, of course, Angelina Jolie, who won her Oscar for playing the sociopathic Lisa Rowe, who riles up the institution into rebellion and panic. If you’re seeking reprieve from the traditional January dumping ground for shoddy horror movies and zombified IP pulled out from the dead, Netflix has alternatives for you, with a few bona fide horror hits that have endured via nostalgia for the ’80s and ’90s, namely Joel Schumacher’s “The Lost Boys” from 1984 and Neil Jordan’s “Interview with the Vampire” from 1994.īut this year’s Netflix movie lineup also includes one of the indisputably greatest films of all time, and one that is sure to rank among them in the decades to come.ġ999 is historically recognized as one of the great years for American cinema, “American Beauty” notwithstanding: “Magnolia,” “Eyes Wide Shut,” “The Matrix,” “The Virgin Suicides.” Often left out of the mix is “Girl, Interrupted,” James Mangold’s wistful and haunted adaptation of Susanna Kaysen’s memoir about her stay in a psychiatric hospital in the 1960s American Northeast. (Even as the film leaves much to the viewer’s own making.) Many of which are on Netflix, including the Christmas weekend streaming smash “Don’t Look Up” (which both irked and wired viewers for either its bracing assault on climate change denial or too tepid treatment of the same you pick), as well as Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Lost Daughter,” a directorial debut that, in some ways, reduces the bursting historical context of its Elena Ferrante source novel to a Hollywood-friendly adaptation. Still, a new year means a fresh start for streaming content, even if the awards season is far, far from over, and we’ll still be talking about the same dozen movies for the next three months. (Except that we lost Betty White, Sidney Poitier, and Peter Bogdanovich in barely seven days.) New year, new… us? A week into the year, 2022 doesn’t feel totally different than the last one. ![]()
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