Talking Big

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David Cronenberg

  • On Crimes of the Future (2022)

    “Just another epiphany. Art triumphs once again.” There is a strange absence of menace in David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future (2022). My personal alarms go off any time a sharp thing cuts or threatens to cut human flesh. I can’t bear to watch the scene when Jack Nicholson gets his nose sliced in Chinatown.… Continue reading