“I always hoped to find someone I was deeply in love with, someone to spend the rest of my life with. Silly, isn’t it?” It isn’t, really, but I would never say this. Not even if my fiancé left me in ...

Take something creepy and gruesome like maggots, disembodied heads, severed eye balls and corpses, transform them into puppets, and they’re slightly less disturbing for those of us who don’t like that ...

In Michael Almereyda’s funny, ardent and moving vampire picture, “Nadja,” the title character, a downtown-Manhattan descendant of Count Dracula’s, sums up the exquisite suffering of her lot: “Life is ...