Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

If there's one thing we learned from 2008's first film in the "Twilight" series, it's that vampire flicks don't have be bloody, gory messes. And if there's one thing to be learned by "Cirque du Freak: ...

A fresh attempt is being made to bring Larten Crepsley and his vampiric protégé to the screen. The author didn't elaborate any further on who had done the optioning (or who would write the scripts for ...

“Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant” has one of the most beautiful, and most promising, opening-credits sequences I’ve seen in ages, an extended animated reverie in which wandering vines and ...

It’s getting downright batty trying to keep all these vampires straight. You have your traditional vampires (“Nosferatu”), your blond slayer foils (“Buffy: The Vampire Slayer”), your sexy vamps (“True ...

When you watch as many movies as I do, it’s not often that you’re caught totally off guard and captivated by one that you were sure from the get-go you weren’t going to enjoy very much at all. I know ...

Two directors—who happen to be brothers—are each responsible for bringing a hot vampire book property to life this fall on the big screen. Twilighters are anxiously awaiting New Moon, directed by ...

Like the ominous fingernail moon early on in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, the bloodsucker trend is again in a waxing phase thanks to the mass cult followings of the Twilight saga and ...

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The first (and likely the last) cinematic adaptation of the popular Brit neck-biter series. Attempting to do for the vampire set what J.K. Rowling did for wizards, Darren Shan’s 12-book “Cirque du ...