Jeff Goldblum in The Fly Noni Ford digs into her first viewing of The Fly, its practical effects, Jeff Goldblum’s fantastic performance, and questions like, “Just where did Brundle get all of those monkeys?” I had no idea what I was in for when I began watching David Cronenberg’s adaptation of The Fly and I’m… Read more »
Our first glimpse of Debbie Harry as Nicki in Videodrome Chris Forrester considers the role of Nicki Brand and the icon who plays her, Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry, in David Cronenberg’s prescient examination of media. “The television screen has become the retina of the mind’s eye.” So says the wonderfully named Professor Brian O’Blivion early… Read more »
Guest post by Chris Forrester. The king is back, they say, with Crimes of the Future, and he’s promising walkouts. Eight years after his last feature film — Maps to the Stars (2014), then thought of as something of a frustrated sign-off from the once horror titan — just shy of two-and-a-half decades after his… Read more »
Much of the discourse surrounding David Cronenberg’s recently released Crime of the Future (2022) has attempted to contextualize the film as an exemplary “late work” by its director. Seeing as Cronenberg has been active as a filmmaker since the 1970s, it’s not too much of a stretch to assume that Crimes and any other films… Read more »
Full transparency: all Blu-rays reviewed were provided by Criterion and Kino Lorber. We’re going to try and get a little more focused on Physical Media Isn’t Dead and highlight a couple of distributors at a time instead of making you listen to an hour of stream-of-consciousness rambling — now you’ll only have to listen… Read more »
Full transparency: all Blu-rays reviewed were provided by Kino Lorber and Criterion. Sometimes technology just doesn’t cooperate the way it’s supposed to. This month’s review round-up was all typed and set to go, but due to a computer error, I lost everything but the notes I jotted down in a notebook as I watched this month’s films…. Read more »