Director David Cronenberg (1943)

David Cronenberg’s science fiction body horror drama, Crimes of the Future (2022), takes place in an unspecified future where biotechnology has advanced greatly. This has resulted in the creation of machines and computers that can directly interface with and control bodily functions, making them commonplace. As a result, humans have also undergone unexplained biological changes. These include the disappearance of physical pain and infectious disease for a majority of people, allowing for safe conscious surgery in regular settings. However, some individuals have experienced more radical alterations to their ...

To Each His Own Cinema (2007) is a French comedy-drama anthology film created for the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival. It showcases 34 short films, each 3 minutes long, by 36 renowned directors from various parts of the world. The filmmakers were invited to express ‘their state of mind of the moment as inspired by the motion picture theatre’. The film’s subtitle, ‘a declaration of love to the big screen’, captures its overall theme. Many of the shorts touch on similar topics such as paying tribute to classic European art cinema, reflecting on the decline of movie-going, recollecting childhood awe, and exploring the ...

The Dead Zone (1983), an American sci-fi thriller directed by David Cronenberg, is based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King and written by Jeffrey Boam. After experiencing a headache from a roller coaster ride in Castle Rock, Maine, Johnny Smith, a schoolteacher, declines his girlfriend Sarah’s offer to spend the night. However, after getting into a car accident on his way home in stormy weather, he ends up in a coma. When he wakes up under the care of neurologist Dr. Sam Weizak, he learns that five years ...