David Cronenberg

CRIMES OF THE FUTURE: The Beautiful & Revolting Human Form
CRIMES OF THE FUTURE: The Beautiful & Revolting Human Form

In Crimes of the Future, the horrors and beauty of the human anatomy, both inside and out, are a work of grotesque art and performance.

CRIMES OF THE FUTURE Trailer
CRIMES OF THE FUTURE Trailer

A deep dive into the not-so-distant future in which humankind is learning to adapt to its synthetic surroundings.

CRASH Criterion Review: Love In The Dying Moments Of The Twentieth Century
CRASH Criterion Review: Love In The Dying Moments Of The Twentieth Century

Celebrating its Blu-Ray, courtesy of Criterion, Crash remains one of Cronenberg’s most fascinating and daring cinematic provocations to date.

VIDEODROME: Its Prescience Still Reaches Beyond The Screen
VIDEODROME: Its Prescience Still Reaches Beyond The Screen

Videodrome’s feverish portrayal of the seductive allure and caustic bite of media indulgence and hyperreality remains to-the-minute.

Video Dispatches: Holiday Gift Edition Vol. 2

In this second holiday edition of Video Dispatches, Shawn Glinis shares a number of great holiday gift ideas for the devoted cinephile.

RABID: A Remake With An Identity Of Its Own
RABID: A Remake With An Identity Of Its Own

The Soska Sisters film Rabid honors the basic premise of David Cronenberg’s original while meticulously crafting an identify of its own.

Screenplays With Unconventional Connections
Screenplays With Unconventional Connections

The screenplays of A History of Violence and Rambo: First Blood share similarities in their stories, such as centering on violent men who are confronted by their past, and how each of them deal with this collision of their two worlds.

The Beginner's Guide: David Cronenberg, Director
The Beginner’s Guide: David Cronenberg, Director

In this beginner’s guide, we discuss David Cronenberg’s work – an influential director who is particularly known for his body horror films.

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The 10 Greatest Movies Never Made

In the fast-paced world of show business, projects are announced before swiftly being cancelled every day. Yet there are some film projects that obsess their creators for years, always on the verge of getting made, before the cinematic powers that be decide otherwise. This article is a celebration of the best movies never made – films that would have been surefire masterpieces, that generations of film fans have had to resort to merely imagining existing.

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Satirizing The Media’s Madness: 12 Movies That Did It Right

Some films parody the media, others predict what effect it will have on us in the future, other movies just have fun with the subject. Whether its a streaming network, printed journalism, television or radio transmissions the media is massive, and inescapable, so why not make movies about this oppressive facet of life? These films vary in years, themes, genre’s and that’s why they are so important.

Maps to the Stars
MAPS TO THE STARS: A Brilliant Warped Satire

Maps To The Stars is about the aspects of Hollywood that, as a film fan, I‘d rather not think about. Written by the acerbic Bruce Wagner, it is about the cynicism of the industry, about the actors who are motivated by vanity and the money-minded executives who exploit them. These people’s heads have been long removed from their shoulders, their molly-coddled lives are run by other people as they incessantly try and top up their serotonin through drink, drugs, sex and bastardised spiritualism with increasingly less success.