In Review: 'Benediction,' 'Crimes of the Future'
Two veteran directors, Terence Davies and David Cronenberg, continue to find exciting new ways to revisit longtime obsessions.
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Dialogue: A Cronenbergian Conversation Part 3 — The Unadaptables: 'Naked Lunch' and 'Crash' ✦
Taking on two screen-resistant novels by William S. Burroughs and J.G. Ballard, David Cronenberg found his own path forward.
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Is the Greg Stillson scandal survivable?
In the climax to 'The Dead Zone,' Christopher Walken succeeds in derailing the campaign of a populist outsider. But would he have succeeded in 2022?
Dialogue: A Cronenbergian Conversation Part 2 — David Goes to Hollywood: 'The Fly' and 'Dead Ringers'
As our Canadian hero ventured south to Tinseltown, he didn't abandon his obsessions or his uncompromising style.
In Review: 'Men,' 'Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers'
Alex Garland's latest puts its heroine through hell (but delivers its harshest blows to those who torment her) and a pair of DIsney characters get a meta revival in this week's new releases
Dialogue: A Cronenbergian Conversation Part 1 — Uncut Cronenberg: ‘The Brood’ and ‘Videodrome’
A series discussing highlights from the Cronenberg filmography kicks off with a look at two of his earliest, ickiest, most-Canadian films