Game systems made out of mutated frogs. Guns crafted from bone and flesh. Now more than ever, I can't forget Cronenberg's immersive vision. I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I explore ...
A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...
I’ve started and stopped this essay about the 20th anniversary of David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ more times than is polite to admit. Cronenberg’s film, which employs his first screenplay since 1983′s ...
Every few months, RollingStone.com shines a spotlight on a forgotten, neglected, overshadowed, underappreciated and/or critically maligned film that we love in a series we call “Be Kind, Rewind.” Our ...
The Wachowski's The Matrix film franchise is one of the most influential and beloved series in contemporary science-fiction history. Even though the two sequels, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix ...
Released fresh after The Matrix, Existenz sees Jude Law and Jennifer Jason Leigh pursued by assassins in a virtual reality game that toys with the subconscious “I’m very worried about my body,” says ...
Who's in it? Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Ian Holm, Willem Dafoe, Don McKellar. And the director? Everyone's favourite Canadian, David Cronenberg. What exactly is "eXistenZ", and why the silly ...
Phillip's a busy man these days (he's hard at work in the lab trying to top his Search Engine Belt Buckle), so Josie Fraser is taking over Movie Gadget Friday for us: I'm kicking off with eXistenZ, ...