eXistenZ (1999)

Continuing the cyber-punk run I’m on by firing up a rewatch of David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ (1999), which is up there with Dark City with cult movies overshadowed by The Matrix’s box office success. Pre-millennium video-game inspired noirish narratives about the nature of reality and its confusion with fiction; the type with strong fans who will […]

The Nest (2020)

The Nest (2020) is not a horror movie but it feels like one. It’s like The Shining but if The Overlook Hotel was haunted by the spirit of Reaganomics. Set during the 1980s, the film charts an American family placed under pressure by the father’s plan for a new wealthy life in his homeland, the […]