Tag: brandoncronenberg
2024 Canadian Screen Awards: BLACKBERRY, HUMANIST VAMPIRE, And INFINITY POOL Rack up Massive Nominations
I'm a bad Canadian. Technically, I'm a bad Canadian resident, but that's a story for another day. I'm a bad Canadian because until today I've not really given much attention to the Canadian Screen Awards. I can always say that...
Sundance 2023 Review: INFINITY POOL, Brutal, Bloody, Effective Satire
Watching your own execution can change you, sometimes irrevocably. Being forced to watch said execution after paying for the one-time creation of a body double (clone) to serve as your surrogate can cause a debilitating existential crisis with apparently no...
Friday One Sheet: INFINITY POOL
I rarely do character-style posters in this column; however, Mia Goth is having a moment, so here we are. Design house AVPrint did a series of posters for Brandon Cronenberg's Infinity Pool, in ultra-tight closeup with a very high grain. This one,...
Sundance 2023 Lineup Features New Names and Old Faves
We've been here before, excitedly discussing the Sundance Film Festival lineup announcement promising a return to in-person indie film goodness in the snowy setting of Park City. Let's all hope this time we'll really make the trip. Regardless, the full...
Review: POSSESSOR UNCUT, Provocative, Shocking, Disquieting Horror
Christopher Abbott Andrea Riseborough, and Jennifer Jason Leigh star in writer/director Brandon Cronenberg's subversive and disquieting thriller.
Friday One Sheet: POSSESSOR
This disturbing key art for Brandon Cronenberg's latest film, Possessor, comes in 'industrial warning yellow.' It is a striking improvement from the orange-red teaser poster. Something about this shade of yellow, which is typically reserved for easy-viewing 'Sundance-hit' indie films,...
Sundance 2020 Review: POSSESSOR Confirms Brandon Cronenberg's Status As a Singular Talent
Andrea Riseborough stars in Brandon Cronenberg's horror picture, which will leave even the most jaded, cynical audiences shattered, shook, and devastated.
Fantasia 2016: Kickass Jurors, Phenomenal Frontieres & Fantastic Works-in-Progress
The beast that is Fantasia 2016 has awoken. Today brings the program launch and the schedule which is now live on the website. That means that very soon, thousands of film fans will line up around the block of Concordia...
Watch The Brandon Cronenberg Directed Video For Animalia's Little Earth
While we continue to await news of Brandon Cronenberg's follow up to Antiviral the director remains busily working away in the music video world. We posted a collaboration between Cronenberg and Toronto musical act Animalia back in June of 2014...
Watch The Brandon Cronenberg Directed Video For Sook Yin-Lee And Adam Litovitz's JOOJ
Outside of Canadian borders artistic polymath Sook-Yin Lee is likely best known as an actor and director thanks to her appearances in John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus and Hedwig And The Angry Inch. But up here north of the border? Well,...
Crowdfund This! Indie Horror Comic GATES OF MISERY Brings Together Cronenberg, Konstanski And Knautz!
Got a craving for some classically styled horror comics? So does artist Matthew Therrien. So he's gathering up a few friends and making them himself.While you may not know Therrien by name there's a fighting chance you may have seen...
Watch The Brandon Cronenberg Directed Video For Animalia's Stifling
Things may have been quiet on the Brandon Cronenberg front since the release of Antiviral but that doesn't mean he hasn't been hard at work. No, Cronenberg's hard at work developing future feature ideas and while those are percolating he...
The Stack: HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN, THE FOG, Danny Boyle's TRANCE, STREET TRASH, And Much More
Films mentioned this week in our video review roundup include Sony's Magic Magic, West of Memphis and Shout Factory's Ralph Bakshi's Heavy Traffic, Swamp Thing, The Incredible Melting Man, Kentucky Fried Movie, and The Producers. 20th Century Fox catalogue titles...
Joshua Chaplinsky's Favorite Films of 2012
Another year older and what do you get? Another crop of kick ass movies, that's what. And if the crop is where celluloid images are stored prior to digestion, this column is the gizzard where their contents are broken down...
TIFF 2012 Review: ANTIVIRAL is Imaginative and Often Clever, But Not Mind-Blowing
As a stomach-churning, jet-black satire of modern culture, Brandon Cronenberg's Antiviral is a resounding success, and is directed with precision and conviction. However, for these very reasons, it's also cold, sterile and mostly void of humanity or even emotion....
Riveting Trailer for Cronenberg's ANTIVIRAL
"Have you started bleeding yet? From your mouth..." Brandon Cronenberg's film Antiviral certainly carries the families DNA. It feels very much in the vein (pun intended) of either his father's Shivers or Rabid. Only here, the plot involves buying...
IFC Midnight Picks Up Brandon Cronenberg's ANTIVIRAL
Though specific release plans are not yet known, Brandon Cronenberg's Antiviral has found itself a distribution home in the USA. Bloody Disgusting bring word that IFC Midnight have picked up the scifi thriller which means that if they hold to...
Watch A Clip From Brandon Cronenberg's ANTIVIRAL
Brandon Cronenberg's Antiviral has proven to be one of the more challenging and divisive titles at Cannes this year - check the links below for Brian Clark's positive take on it - and those wondering what the chatter is all...
Cannes 2012 Review: Brandon Cronenberg's ANTIVIRAL
As a stomach-churning, jet-black satire of modern culture, Brandon Cronenberg's Antiviral is a resounding success, and is directed with precision and conviction. However, for these very reasons, it's also cold, sterile and mostly void of humanity or even emotion. It's...
Cannes 2012 Interview: Brandon Cronenberg talks ANTIVIRAL
Antiviral marks the feature debut of the scion of one of the world's most esteemed genre filmmakers. The film will be competing as part of the Un Certain Regard series, an immesely prestigious honor for this young filmmaker.Brandon Cronenberg's name...
