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The Shrouds

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Post date July 3 2025
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Director – David Cronenberg – 2024 – Canada, France – Cert. 15 – 120m ***** An entrepreneur who has created graveyard corpse-viewing technology to cope with his late wife’s death by cancer finds his inner world disrupted when his creation is vandalised and hacked – The Shrouds is out on UK digital from Monday, August […]

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Crimes
Of The Future
(2022)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 29 2022
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Of The Future
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Director – David Cronenberg – 2022 – Canada – Cert. 18 – 107m ***** Even as two performance artists enact bizarre public rituals exploring the unlikely boundaries between sex, surgery and mutation, a young boy who eats plastic is murdered by his mother – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 9th Back in 1970, […]

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Eastern Promises

Director – David Cronenberg – 2007 – Canada, UK – Cert. 18 – 100m **** After a London midwife delivers a dying woman’s baby she finds herself attracting the attention of the Russian mafia – reviewed in Third Way, 2007; on BBC iPlayer until Thursday, October 6th 2022 An immediately recognisable, ethnically diverse London unseen […]

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Crash

Director – David Cronenberg – 1996 – Canada – Cert. 18 – 100m ***** This review was originally published in the Arts Centre Group‘s member’s newsletter. See also my review for What DVD. All stills from Crash apart from the one from Videodrome. Canadian film director David Cronenberg has a reputation for filming the unfilmable. […]

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Naked Lunch

Director – David Cronenberg – 1991 – Canada – Cert. 18 – 115m ***** UK PAL laserdisc review. Originally published in London Calling Internet. See also my reviews in Film And Video – The Magazine and What’s On In London. Distributor Pioneer LDCE Cat No: PFLEB 30781 £9.99 BBFC Certificate 18 Running Time 85 min […]

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Naked Lunch

Director – David Cronenberg – 1991 – Canada – Cert. 18 – 115m ***** Originally published in What’s On In London. See also my reviews in Film And Video – The Magazine and London Calling Internet. INSECT POLITICS Watching David Cronenberg’s film of William Burroughs’ novel The Naked Lunch, it becomes clear that the two […]

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Dead Ringers

Director – David Cronenberg – 1988 – Canada – Cert. 18 – 116m ***** Originally published in Samhain. When David Cronenberg was in the UK to promote The Fly late in 1986, he talked about a project called Twins which concerned two identical twins who fall in love with the same woman. At the time, […]

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Crash

Director – David Cronenberg – 1996 – Canada – Cert. 18 – 100m ***** This review of the UK DVD was originally published in What DVD. See also my review for the Arts Centre Group’s member’s newsletter. Sold as a sex and car crash (and by implication action) movie, Crash is in reality something very […]

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Videodrome

Director – David Cronenberg – 1983 – Canada – Cert. 18 – 87m ***** This review originally appeared in What’s On In London during the film’s revival at the ICA. See also my review for London Calling Internet. In a career-defining performance from 1983, the young James Woods is Max Renn, glutted on the diet […]

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Videodrome
(Director’s Cut)

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Post date January 8 1997
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(Director’s Cut)

Director – David Cronenberg – 1983 – Canada – Cert. 18 – 85m ***** UK PAL laserdisc review. Originally appeared in London Calling Internet. See also my review for What’s On In London during the film’s revival at the ICA. Distributor Pioneer LDCE Cat No: PFLEB 36041 £19.99 BBFC Certificate 18 Director David Cronenberg (1982) […]

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