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Uncovering Curiosities: Fred Dekker’s NIGHT OF THE CREEPS

Fred Dekker’s 1986 directorial debut, Night Of The Creeps is a gloriously bonkers horror-comedy which blends 1950s B-movie/sci-fi with 1980s frat-boy comedy. You’d think the whole thing would buckle under the silliness of it all, but Dekker [...]

September 5, 2021

2020 BFI London Film Festival Review: POSSESSOR

Written and directed by Brandon Cronenberg, Possessor is a tricksy and complex thriller which takes a potentially commercial concept and gives it an arthouse spin. At times it’s a little too convoluted for its own good, but this sci-fi [...]

October 18, 2020

Uncovering Curiosities: Brian Yuzna’s SOCIETY

Brian Yuzna’s Society plays like a warped episode of Beverly Hills 90210 directed by David Cronenberg. It’s a paranoid body-horror filled with black comedy and gruesome practical effects. It’s icky, creepy and funny yet it lacks any real [...]

September 25, 2020

DVD Review: BAD MILO Is Not A Good Body Horror Comedy

Bad Milo is an body-horror comedy that riffs on the classic creature features of the 1980s. Ken Marino plays Duncan, a stressed-out accountant who grows a creature deep inside his bowls. When the creature is unleashed it begins to murder those who [...]

October 18, 2014

John Cusack Tells Us What’s Wrong With Hollywood

Not content with being a damn fine actor, John Cusack is also a man who likes to tell it like it is. He’s currently doing publicity for David Cronenberg‘s Maps To The Stars, a biting Hollywood satire that holds a microscope up to [...]

September 28, 2014

Book Review: Don DeLillo’s COSMOPOLIS

Don DeLillo’s 2003 novel, Cosmopolis was a very prophetic piece of literature. It foresaw the 2008 financial crisis and the Occupy Wall Street movement of 2011, and while it makes for timely reading today (hot on the heels of David Cronenberg’s [...]

November 21, 2012

Robert Pattinson Listens To ‘The Band’

Robert Pattinson has been doing the Cannes thing, out shilling his latest non-Twilight release Cosmopolis. It’s looks good (it’s David Cronenberg, what do you expect?). That’s not the news-the news is that Pattinson has said that he’s [...]

May 25, 2012