Movie Meltdown – The Videodrome is the Message This episode, Sam Drog returns as we try to wrap our heads around just how ahead of its time David Cronenberg’s Videodrome truly was back in 1983. And as we plug into the network...
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...
