*This review contains minor spoilers* Crimes of the Future – the 22nd film from the godfather of body horror, David Cronenberg – has been described as a science fiction body horror drama. It tells the story of Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen), and his partner, Caprice (Léa Seydoux) – a performance […]
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Debbie Harry & Videodrome – Pop Screen 40
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – Halloween, obviously – and Pop Screen is convening Graham, Rob and Mick to discuss one of the all-time great horror movies featuring a pop star – David Cronenberg’s Videodrome, featuring Blondie’s Debbie Harry as a media psychotherapist who discovers a conspiracy […]
Possessor (2020) Escaping the Shadow of Horror Royalty (Review)
Cinema Eclectica 210 – Jules & Jim Up A Mountain
S16E08 – Cronenberging Your Tamagotchi
After establishing our status as award-winning swimmers (25 metres), The Geek Show returns for another dip in the shallower end of science and technology news, and kicking things off this week is the backlash against the poorly-written final season of Game of Thrones, which has culminated in a petition for […]
Cinema Eclectica 160 – Smurf Bloody Smurf
The Grifters (1990) Punk-ish Neo-Noir that kick-started one of the best eras of crime cinema (Review)
101 films co-produced a new making-of documentary for Stephen Frears’ The Grifters. In which, a producer states that Martin Scorsese believed Jim Thompson’s novel of the same name was among the best crime novels that hadn’t been adapted and so sought to amend that fact. With the legendary Taxi Driver […]
Cinema Eclectica 46 – Pete Best of the Apocalypse
This week we go full fan-theory. Brave waters indeed. In Off the Shelf we have a body-horror masterclass with David Cronenberg’s “Videodrome”, Jules Dassin’s “Thieves Highway” – the film-noir that’s totally not a western, Wong Kar Wai’s “The Grandmaster” and a surprise aided the randomizer, which became “The Ecstasy of […]