High-Def Digest: The Bonus ViewDavid Cronenberg Archives - High-Def Digest: The Bonus View https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tag/david-cronenberg/ A High-Def Digest Blog Wed, 13 May 2020 15:26:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Weekend Roundtable: Screen Legends Who Never Won Oscars https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-screen-legends-no-oscars/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-screen-legends-no-oscars/#comments Fri, 01 Mar 2019 17:00:51 +0000 Josh Zyber https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=96751 Earlier this week, Glenn Close was denied the Academy Award that everybody thought she’d win. The actress can take comfort that this puts her in good company with plenty of other veteran actors and filmmakers who also somehow went without ever winning an Oscar in competition. Maybe Close will get an honorary or lifetime achievement...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-screen-legends-no-oscars/feed/ 16 Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Sci-Fi Horror Movies https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-scifi-horror-movies/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-scifi-horror-movies/#comments Fri, 14 Sep 2018 19:00:02 +0000 Josh Zyber https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=93563 Countless movies have attempted to blend the science fiction and horror genres, but not many have done it as well as the original Predator. (Witness, for example, most of its sequels and spinoffs.) With that franchise returning to theaters, let’s call out some other movies that pulled off the trick successfully. One note: The Alien...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-scifi-horror-movies/feed/ 16 Blu-ray Highlights: Week of November 20th, 2016 – Hell to Pay https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-nov-22-2016/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-nov-22-2016/#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2016 13:00:36 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=81592 This week’s new Blu-ray releases include some real dogs, but come hell or high water we’ll dig through them until we find something interesting to watch. (It won’t be that hard. Honest.) New Releases (Blu-ray) ‘Hell or High Water‘ – Chris Pine and Ben Foster play brothers from rural Texas who go on a bank...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-nov-22-2016/feed/ 12 Blu-ray Highlights: Week of October 11th, 2015 – The Fault in Our Backyards https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-oct-13-2015/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-oct-13-2015/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2015 12:00:25 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=73238 For a holiday week (admittedly, a minor holiday), the Blu-ray release schedule is surprisingly packed with new discs this week. Just looking at the huge list makes my eyes glaze over. How can we pick out the few titles possibly worth buying? New Releases ‘San Andreas‘ – In the event that the biggest earthquake in...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-oct-13-2015/feed/ 46 ‘Maps to the Stars’ Review: Showbiz Satire Too Bitter to Swallow https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/maps-to-the-stars-review/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/maps-to-the-stars-review/#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2014 19:00:53 +0000 Philip Brown http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=65405 Hollywood is one of the easiest cultures to satirize, which is why it seemed so interesting that David Cronenberg of all people would want to take a crack at it. Surely he’d have some sort of twisted, horrific and psychosexual take on La-La-land that would be worthy of one more scrape from the bottom of...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/maps-to-the-stars-review/feed/ 2 TIFF Journal: ‘Maps to the Stars’ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tiff-maps-to-the-stars/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tiff-maps-to-the-stars/#respond Thu, 04 Sep 2014 19:00:32 +0000 Philip Brown http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=64788 David Cronenberg is a filmmaker with predictably singular cinematic fetishes and obsessions. Yet beyond those ticks that mark his unique directing style, his interests have been hard to pin down over his last few movies. Seemingly disinterested in the genres that once defined his career, he’s now on a quest to define himself as a...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-jul-13-2014/feed/ 5 Weekend Roundtable: Sibling Rivalry https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-sibling-rivalry/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-sibling-rivalry/#comments Fri, 08 Nov 2013 20:00:23 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=57926 As both brothers and enemies, Thor and Loki have a complicated relationship. So it goes with many siblings, though perhaps not often to that extreme. In honor of ‘The Dark World’ opening this weekend, today’s Roundtable explores other fictional sibling relationships, across any media from movies to TV, books, comics, videogames and more. Luke Hickman...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-sibling-rivalry/feed/ 8 Blu-ray Highlights: Week of April 7th, 2013 – Exterminate All Rational Thought https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-apr-7-2013/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-apr-7-2013/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:00:38 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=49610 So far, April has turned out to be a pretty slow time for new Blu-ray releases. While this week doesn’t have a whole lot going on, fans of cult movies may find something of interest. New Releases Despite casting Bill Murray as a philandering Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and despite reuniting the actor with his ‘Rushmore‘...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-apr-7-2013/feed/ 12 Blu-ray Highlights for January 2nd, 2013 – You Look Familiar https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-jan-2-2013/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-jan-2-2013/#comments Wed, 02 Jan 2013 14:00:55 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=45596 Welcome back from another long weekend, and welcome to 2013! As you recover from your holiday hangovers, the new year begins mostly with a lot of reissues of old Blu-ray titles. However, mixed in here somewhere may be a few new discs worth looking at. As part of the new distribution deal between the two...

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