Postcards from the Edge
Meryl Streep stars as Susanne, an actor approaching middle age and recently out of rehab, trying to navigate her way through the turbulent waters of the Hollywood film industry under […]
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Single White Female
Single White Female is a 1992 thriller about a New York woman (Bridget Fonda) whose new flatmate (Jennifer Jason Leigh) turns out to be the roommate from hell. And I don’t mean she steals […]
Scanners
David Cronenberg, the Canadian King of Venereal Horror, writes and directs Scanners – a sci-fi/horror film about individuals with telekinetic powers, weaponised by the ConSec corporation. Let’s call it The Canadian Candidate. Released in […]
Maps to the Stars
Incest, abuse, Julianne Moore with constipation… it’s all here in David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars, a psychological satire about Hollywood and its horrific inhabitants. Cronenberg has always been obsessed with disease but […]
On iPlayer: Eastern Promises
David Cronenberg is one of my favourite directors and now you have no excuse for ignoring my recommendations, because 2007’s Eastern Promises is currently on iPlayer. After a Russian teenager dies […]
Doubt
At a solemn, grey Catholic school in 1960s America, the feared principal Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep) suspects the parish priest, Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman), of behaving inappropriately towards a student, […]
