eXistenZ Hey, somebody wrote an article about eXistenZ! You can read it here. Wow. I didn’t think anybody remembered that movie other than me. I remember it really well, since I saw it four times in theaters and bought the DVD the day it was released. My excitement at seeing the article aside, I think […]
Similar to The Matrix in that it deals with virtual reality, but since this is a David Cronenberg movie nothing is sleek, fancy or electronic. The guns are made from gristle and shoot teeth instead of bullets, and the “game pod” looks like sexualized stomach. Many of the people getting off on The Matrix would […]
Actually, I wrote an entire blog post, but something was wrong. I had accumulated a list of URLs of articles (well, three) which I was going to use to illustrate my points (about why the articles were, in terms of their main points, wrong), but something wasn’t right, so I didn’t press the big, blue […]
Okay, this is exciting: “David Cronenberg’s Sci-Fi Movie Crimes of the Future Begins Production in Greece“ I’m not completely sure why I’m so excited, but this is intriguing: “As we begin filming Crimes of the Future, just two days into this new adventure with David Cronenberg, it feels like we’ve entered a story he collaborated […]
I’ve bought a few DVDs from the Criterion Collection over the years, so I get their email announcements when new films are available, but I seldom buy any (money, mostly, and for many movies a regular DVD is more than sufficient). But this one was irresistible It’s been a while since I’ve seen Ghost Dog, […]
I wrote movie reviews for a few years in the late 1990s, mostly on BBSs (bulletin board systems). They’re all still up at the movie review site (Movietown), but I wanted to post some of them here. Most of the reviews were short, basically just “See this movie!” plus a few details. But then I […]