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,...
In a making-of documentary included on the new Film Movement Classics Blu-ray of 1990’s The Reflecting Skin, writer and director Philip Ridley reveals that his screenplay was originally titled, simply, American Gothic. The final title is an improvement (not least...
With the current rise of white supremacy in America and the repulsive violence it brings with it, this is either an opportune time or a very inappropriate one to tell the true, heartwarming story of a white man and a...
With the current rise of white supremacy in America and the repulsive violence it brings with it, this is either an opportune time or a very inappropriate one to tell the true, heartwarming story of a white man and a...
Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher talk about The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. This is the one that won a zillion Oscars. Covering a third of The Two Towers and all of Return of the King, this...
Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher talks about The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the middle film in the popular live-action trilogy. Director Peter Jackson only covers two thirds of the novel here, keeping himself busy with juggling three different...
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...