Tom Jolliffe takes a look at directors following in their parents’ footsteps… Undoubtedly the influence of your parents plays a big part in shaping you as a person. In the almost surreal world of cinema and movie-making, there will be a kind of magical allure at the power a film director can wield. Offspring of […]
The Art of Ambiguity in Cinema
Tom Jolliffe looks at the finest in ambiguous cinema, and asks ‘how do you pull it off?’… Often in the law books of screenwriting there’s a section which might tell the studious aspiring writer that a film must have clarity. Plot threads must lead to resolution. Each act and your central character arcs should be […]
David Cronenberg’s Videodrome gets new 4K Ultra HD release from Arrow Video
Arrow Video has announced that David Cronenberg’s 1983 cult classic Videodrome is coming to 4K Ultra HD this October with a brand new 4K restoration of both the theatrical and director’s cuts, approved by Cronenberg himself. Check out the details here… Max Renn (James Woods) is looking for fresh new content for his TV […]
Marvelous Tech-Horror Movies You Should Track Down
Marvelour Videos presents tech-horror films you should track down… We often don’t think about technology being scary. After all, these pieces of tech are something we interact with on a daily basis. But isn’t that the idea? That something as simple as a television or a phone has managed to create a symbiotic relationship with […]
The Best David Cronenberg Movies of All Time
Marvelous Videos presents Cronenberg nightmare fuel… David Cronenberg is one of the most iconic horror directors of all time. His name has come to be synonymous with a subgenre of terror that focuses on the degradation of the human body by internal and external sources. And boy that does that get to us! The natural […]
Blu-ray Review – Videodrome (1983)
Videodrome, 1983. Directed by David Cronenberg. Starring James Woods, Deborah Harry, Sonja Smits, Les Carlson, Peter Dvorsky and Jack Creley. SYNOPSIS: A cable TV channel owner wants to broadcast ‘Videodrome’, the most extreme programme on the network, but discovers that the show is front for a sinister global conspiracy. Videodrome was the right film at […]
