David Cronenberg is a film director with a flair for the visually abstract (Scanners, Videodrome, eXistenZ, Crash), and a particular talent for bringing tilted landscapes and disturbing concepts to life. There was a period when a single Cronenberg film could be guaranteed to have enough oozing/dripping/undulating appendages (human or otherwise) for at least ten regular movies, […]
The Criterion Collection professes to bring together “important classic and contemporary films,” and it doesn’t discriminate based on genre snobbery. Recognizing a great many science fiction and fantasy films among its carefully curated collection, Criterion understands that SFF movies can be as brilliantly thoughtful and entertaining than their non-genre counterparts. (Often more so, if you ask […]