2020: The Year in Bedlam
2020 was a hell of a year
TITANE
The major shock film of 2021 was this bizarre exercise in body horror from France’s Julia Ducournau
CRIMES OF THE FUTURE (1970)
An hour long mini-feature that’s required viewing for any David Cronenberg completest
THE BROOD (Film)
The horror movie inverse of KRAMER VS. KRAMER?
DEADLINE
A halfway worthwhile film, meaning its first half is provocative and compelling, and its second not so much
THE MATRIX
Yes, children: 1999’s THE MATRIX was once the coolest thing around
2020: Bedlam in Print
Here, in the early days of 2021, is the latest edition of my annual Bedlam in Print overview
2020: The Year in Bedlam
2020 was a hell of a year
POSSESSOR
The second feature by Brandon Cronenberg, who as in his first (2012’s ANTIVIRAL), created a film that’s heavily informed by the work of his father David
RED HEDZ, SZMONHFU and JANE’S GAME
It’s been said of TOMIE that there is “nothing in Western horror literature, cinema and comics quite like it.” Not unless you take into account the 1989 novella RED HEDZ, revised as SZMONHFU and JANE’S GAME