2022 Atlanta Film Festival: “Salma’s Home”, “Hands That Bind”
Life is tricky sometimes. We find ourselves in inexplicable situations, often not by our own doing. Both films that closeContinue Reading
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2022 Atlanta Film Festival: “Do Not Hesitate”, “Quickening”
Next in my viewing of the virtual titles for the Atlanta Film Festival is the Dutch war film Do NotContinue Reading
The Films of David Cronenberg
In March’s Retrospective Roundtable, we turn to the master of body horror himself, David Cronenberg. Boasting more than a dozenContinue Reading
Ashgrove ★
It was inevitable that an event that had such a global impact as the COVID-19 pandemic would give rise toContinue Reading
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
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
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