Here’s a fun challenge – find a decently-sized, retrospective piece of critical or appreciative writing about Videodrome that doesn’t use words like “prophetic” or “prescient” or more generally ascribe those qualities to it. I can tell you right now that...
In the opening moments of David Cronenberg‘s Crimes of the Future, we see a capsized cruise ship abandoned and half-submerged in coastal waters. In the following scene, we see a small boy biting off chunks of a small plastic wastebasket,...
What with all the recent press around Ewan McGregor playing brothers on this season of Fargo, the whole idea of an actor in dual roles feels a bit like a gimmick at the moment. I wonder if it felt the...
In many ways, A Dangerous Method, an adaptation of Christopher Hambert’s play The Talking Cure (itself an adaptation of John Kerr’s book A Most Dangerous Method), seems an odd fit for director David Cronenberg. Having first made his name as...
