C Categories Movies Reviews June 3, 2022 Crimes of the Future offers up the human body as grotesque & beautiful art David Cronenberg returns to form in an elliptical and fascinating look at a dystopia where self-mutilation replaces sex
S Categories Recap TV February 24, 2022 Star Trek: Discovery fixes a key character upon piercing “The Galactic Barrier” Highlighting a roguish scientist’s backstory buoys a journey into the unknown.
T Categories Recap TV December 30, 2021 This week’s Star Trek: Discovery measures the distance between ourselves and the unknown "...But to Connect" expands Trek's definition of life in tidy but heartening ways.
T Categories Anniversaries Movies August 15, 2021 The romantic tragedy of David Cronenberg’s The Fly On its 35th anniversary, a look back at both the gold standard in body horror, & an affecting love story.
C Categories Columns Criterion Corner Movies December 14, 2020 Criterion Corner: “Crash”, “Amores Perros”, “Symbiopsychotaxiplasm” William Greaves' avant-garde meta-doc, David Cronenberg's work of grand theft autoerotica, and Innaritu's dizzying debut mark this month's Criterion entries.
I Categories Features Movies October 6, 2020 In celebration of horrific bodies: Disability & the films of David Cronenberg How the body horror of David Cronenberg helped me come to terms with my own disability.
& Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies May 27, 2020 “Jason X” goes to space and sucks on so many levels New Line sends Jason to the final frontier, and sends all the thinly-drawn characters and low-budget kills of the franchise with him.
C Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies September 9, 2019 Christopher Walken Sees Death in “The Dead Zone” David Cronenberg's psychological thriller stands as one of the best Stephen King adaptations of the '80s.
