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Teacup: Robert McCammon’s Creepy Novel Comes to Peacock

In “Mending Wall,” Robert Frost wrote: “good fences make good neighbors,” but it is unclear whether the poet laureate truly agreed with the sentiment. For the Chenoweth Family and their neighbors, the border a gasmask-clad man draws around and through their properties represents a deadly sinister invisible barrier. The mystery man certainly looks creepy—presumably that…

Crimes of the Future : Q&A with Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Scott Speedman

Synopsis : As the human species adapts to a synthetic environment, the body undergoes new transformations and mutations. With his partner Caprice (Léa Seydoux), Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen), celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. Timlin (Kristen Stewart), an investigator from the National Organ Registry, obsessively tracks their movements,…

Film Review: “Crimes of the Future” is a Return to Form for David Cronenberg

Though the style of his work has varied through-out the years, the lasting memory of David Cronenberg’s work for many has always been met with one very specific descriptor; body horror. As he may very well be the king of the body horror genre, his last six films– while maintaining an overall sense of Cronenbergian…

CRIMES OF THE FUTURE – Official Redband Trailer : Directed by David Cronenberg / Starring Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart

Serendipity Point Films Telefilm Canada Ingenious Media Present A Film by David Cronenberg A Robert Lantos Production Produced in association with Argonauts Productions S.A. Crave CBC Films ERT Rocket Science with the participation of EKOME The Greek Film Center Ontario Creates Crimes of the Future is a Canada-Hellenic Republic Co-Production and was filmed on location…

Sundance Film Festival Review- The blunt end of “Sharp Stick”

Around 5 minutes into Sharp Stick 26 year old Sarah Jo (Kristine Froseth) goes to put a “pre-eviction” note on the door of a tenant her mother is about to evict from the apartment complex they run. Or, so it seems it is an apartment complex. They refer to him as the tenant in 1-A, but…