Posts Tagged ‘David Cronenberg’
Film Review – Together
It goes without saying: Relationships are hard. Sure, that initial courtship is all roses and butterflies, where everything is exciting and new – that part is easy. But once you move past that phase, when you become comfortable and know each other’s ins and outs,…
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Episode 126 – The Fabelmans & Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
For this week’s podcast, we review Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio and Steven Spielberg‘s semi-auto-biographical film, The Fabelmans. For our streaming homework, we also catch up with David Cronenberg‘s latest sci-fi horror movie, Crimes of the Future. Download the episode here.
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Episode 120 – Hellraiser (2022) & David Cronenberg Retrospective
For this week’s podcast, we review Hulu‘s reboot of the classic Clive Barker horror film, Hellraiser. We also do a deep dive into the career of the Canadian master of body horror, David Cronenberg. These deep cuts include individual reviews of Rabid (1977), Dead Ringers…
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Film Review – Possessor
Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor (2020) plays like a nightmare. There is a story here, and from a distance it contains elements that look familiar. But with Cronenberg’s writing and direction, it’s constructed with a dark and twisted vision. It’s a sci-fi/horror film that aims not to…
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Film Review – Raw
Julia Ducournau’s French/Belgian horror film Raw reinterprets the emotional and physical strains of post-adolescents into a grisly genre masterwork. Within her gory exploration of common coming-of-age tropes, such as peer group hierarchies, the awkward discovery of sexuality and the love/hate whirlwind of sibling rivalry, Ducournau…
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Film Review – Closet Monster
Is it actually possible to dislike a movie in which the great Isabella Rossellini voices a pet hamster called Buffy? Well, I don’t think so. That’s why Stephen Dunn‘s coming-of-age tale Closet Monster (2015) had me after a few minutes. That, however, doesn’t mean that…
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Film Review – High-Rise
Our comfortable little lives are built on waste, corpses, and ecosystem-destroying carbon emissions. Those words are as easy for you to read on your slave-built mobile phone as it is to write from my own slave-built machine, the horror amplified all the more by the…
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Episode 249 – Ed Harris
In honor of the release of Pain & Gain, Spencer and Greg discuss Ed Harris.
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