The Shape of Rage – Catharsis and the Cyclical Trauma of The Brood
“Go all the way through with it”, is a line repeated more than once throughout David Cronenberg’s The Brood, alwaysContinue Reading
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2021 Fantasia Film Festival: Don’t Say Its Name ★ ½
A horror film is a horror film, except when it’s not. Directed by Rueben Martell, Don’t Say Its Name isContinue Reading
2021 Long Distance Film Festival: Future
The 2021 Long Distance Film Festival concluded with ‘Future’, a category that saw disparate quarantine themes cohere to resolution. ItContinue Reading
Discussing Rabid
Ben McDonald: It’s October again, and given the abundance of excellent films available on the Criterion Channel’s new ’70s Horror’Continue Reading
Possessor ★★½
Brandon Cronenberg‘s Possessor shares much in common with the horror films of his father, iconic body horror legend David Cronenberg,Continue Reading
The Prescient Technophobia of Videodrome
Since his very first feature Shivers (also known under the much better title They Came From Within), David Cronenberg hasContinue Reading
Anne at 13,000 ft ★★★½
Anne at 13,000 ft is Canadian writer/director Kazik Radwanski’s sharp and energetic character study of a woman teetering around theContinue Reading
Most Anticipated of December 2019
Henry Baime: This month we’ll finally be getting some of the films it feels like everyone has been talking about allContinue Reading
eXistenZ: A Game Everybody is Already Playing
David Cronenberg‘s 1999 science fiction horror amalgamation eXistenZ is a strange beast composed of teeth, gristle, bone and flesh asContinue Reading
1999 in Film
In the ninth month of the year, we look at a number of the films released twenty years ago atContinue Reading
