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David Cronenberg

A collection of 3 posts
Crimes of the Future (2022)
Film Review

Crimes of the Future (2022)

In Cronenberg's latest sci-fi nightmare, human bodies are evolving and surgeons are bringing brand new organs out into the spotlight... in public, as performance art. It's unsettling. It's meaningful. And it's hilarious.
23 Jun 2022 10 min read
Eastern Promises (2007)
On Movies & Media

Eastern Promises (2007)

[This review was originally published at Christianity Today.] • In 2004, screenwriter Stephen Knight went prowling in the London underworld and found one of the year's best big-screen stories—Dirty Pretty Things. In that film, illegal immigrants accepted laborious, thankless, humiliating jobs just to scrape up enough cash to
18 Sep 2007 5 min read
On Movies & Media

Violence's Spirituality

Is A History of Violence a "spiritual film"? The Revealer takes a look at the spiritual questions of A History of Violence. Thank goodness somebody's taking a look (besides the various Christian film critics I've quoted in tomorrow's Film Forum).
05 Oct 2005
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