If you find David Cronenberg’s cinematic philosophy on bodily abjection/assimilation and the artistic process intellectually stimulating, then you’re in for an intoxicating return to form from the man whose name is synonymous with the body horror genre.
Nicole Veneto
Film Review: “Neptune Frost” – Power to the People
This Afrofuturist cyberpunk musical is a sprawling political manifesto poetically transcribed into a visual symphony of music and images.
Film Commentary: “Inland Empire” — The Dreamer Who Dreams
David Lynch’s Inland Empire is a provocative challenge to filmmaking as a medium of visual storytelling that’s largely gone unmatched in the sixteen years since its initial release.
Book Review: “The Poetics of Cruising” — Imaginative Acts of Capture
By exploring the historical and artistic significance of cruising throughout poetry, photography, and visual culture, the book produces a rich and exciting topography of queer culture that posits a reflexive relationship of vicarious cruising between “cruising texts” and their consumers.
Film Reviews: A Not-So Short Dispatch on Short Films at the Boston Underground Film Festival
I’m happy to report that the local scene has lost none of its eccentricity thanks to a deluge of talented filmmakers and animators with a taste for the offbeat. Stay weird Boston!
Film Review: “X” – The Texas Grindhouse Massacre
X takes the right lessons from Chainsaw: it is both an adoring homage and a much needed rejuvenation of the slasher genre.
Film Review: “The Spine of the Night” – The Rape of the Land
Recommending The Spine of the Night depends on how much you’d like to see things like head decapitations, eye-gouging, and people being disemboweled in your high-fantasy animated features, in which case Spine is everything you could hope for and a whole lot more.
Film Review: “Strawberry Mansion” — Strawberry Dreams Forever
Strawberry Mansion‘s biggest asset is that it employs so many different artistic techniques to create a world as wildly inventive as it is heart-achingly sincere.
Film Review: “The Pink Cloud” — Love During Lockdown
The Pink Cloud is a fascinating watch by sheer virtue of its accidental prescience.
Film Review: “Mad God” – God’s in His Heaven, All’s Forsaken With the World
Think Ray Harryhausen by way of the Quay brothers or Jan Švankmajer and you’ll have a vague sense of the sort of magnificent black magic that animatesMad God.