Infinity Pool.In the early 2000s, American filmmaker Eli Roth landed on a dark web page offering so-called “murder vacations,” an idea which became the key for his 2005 gore-fest Hostel, in which overseas tourists find themselves abused and killed in Bratislava. While the concept sits neatly within the “torture-porn” genre conventions for excessive, brutal violence, transposing an abstraction—or a scam premise—onto a real place has material consequences. Hostel, a controversial landmark of noughties horror cinema, had Slovaks complaining to the Ministry of Culture and has certainly reinforced already existing stereotypes of Eastern Europe as depraved, fraught with danger, and vengeful towards foreigners. What David Rimanelli and Hanna Liden in jest call “the evil New Europe” encompasses both the anxieties about the ex-Eastern Bloc that have germinated in the mass imaginary since WWII and the Cold War, and the latent fear of the Other which sits at the...
- 9/19/2023
- MUBI
Christchurch (Nz), Aug 23 (Ians) New Zealand enhanced its coaching roster in the lead-up to the 2023 Odi World Cup with former England internationals Ian Bell and James Foster set to join the set-up for the next four months, where the team will have a hectic schedule.
Former skipper Stephen Fleming and Saqlain Mushtaq are among others to their coaching staff for the next four months and will take up different roles in the coaching staff.
Bell, a five-time Ashes winner who has been coaching since finishing his playing career in 2020, will join the BlackCaps as assistant coach for the upcoming T20I series against England starting later this month.
He will then step into Luke Ronchi’s position as batting coach for the four-game Odi series (September 8 – 15) and continue in the role for the three ODIs in Bangladesh (September 21 – 26).
Ronchi will grant head Coach Gary Stead a brief respite by stepping...
Former skipper Stephen Fleming and Saqlain Mushtaq are among others to their coaching staff for the next four months and will take up different roles in the coaching staff.
Bell, a five-time Ashes winner who has been coaching since finishing his playing career in 2020, will join the BlackCaps as assistant coach for the upcoming T20I series against England starting later this month.
He will then step into Luke Ronchi’s position as batting coach for the four-game Odi series (September 8 – 15) and continue in the role for the three ODIs in Bangladesh (September 21 – 26).
Ronchi will grant head Coach Gary Stead a brief respite by stepping...
- 8/23/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
The Halloween season is almost here, which means a hectic Fall release schedule filled with horror looms just around the corner. Some of the year’s biggest horror releases are still ahead, including The Nun II, Saw X, The Exorcist: Believer, and Five Nights at Freddy’s.
Of course, they join countless movies already released these past eight months. As always, many titles might’ve slipped through the cracks, despite being available to stream now.
Whether you’re looking to get ahead on curating Halloween watchlists or catching up on 2023 horror before the year is through, here are twenty 2023 releases you can stream right now.
65 – Netflix
A high concept sci-fi effort from Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, the writers behind A Quiet Place and writers/directors of Haunt. Adam Driver and Ariana Greenblatt star as the unlucky pair that find themselves on a hostile planet filled with creatures and obstacles. Driver...
Of course, they join countless movies already released these past eight months. As always, many titles might’ve slipped through the cracks, despite being available to stream now.
Whether you’re looking to get ahead on curating Halloween watchlists or catching up on 2023 horror before the year is through, here are twenty 2023 releases you can stream right now.
65 – Netflix
A high concept sci-fi effort from Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, the writers behind A Quiet Place and writers/directors of Haunt. Adam Driver and Ariana Greenblatt star as the unlucky pair that find themselves on a hostile planet filled with creatures and obstacles. Driver...
- 8/16/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Welcome to June, a hefty month for horror on streaming. As we rapidly approach the halfway point of 2023, this month’s new additions to various streaming platforms lean heavily on recent releases. That means an extra packed month, giving you plenty of time to catch up on many of 2022 and 2023’s biggest releases.
Here are thirteen noteworthy horror titles available for streaming in June 2023 on some of the most popular streaming services, along with when/where you can watch them.
Baby Ruby – Hulu (June 3)
Writer/Director Bess Wohl’s debut feature, Baby Ruby, uses psychological horror to put viewers in the shoes of a new mother unraveling after giving birth. Jo (Jumbo’s Noémie Merlant) exudes style and perfection. She’s an influencer with a blog so successful that she has a staff, including a close assistant. But her carefully curated idyllic life unravels when newborn Ruby enters the world.
Here are thirteen noteworthy horror titles available for streaming in June 2023 on some of the most popular streaming services, along with when/where you can watch them.
Baby Ruby – Hulu (June 3)
Writer/Director Bess Wohl’s debut feature, Baby Ruby, uses psychological horror to put viewers in the shoes of a new mother unraveling after giving birth. Jo (Jumbo’s Noémie Merlant) exudes style and perfection. She’s an influencer with a blog so successful that she has a staff, including a close assistant. But her carefully curated idyllic life unravels when newborn Ruby enters the world.
- 6/2/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Infinity Pool.
Media criticizing the upper class is about a dime a dozen these days, truth be told. From Best Picture nominee Triangle of Sadness and the popular Netflix original Glass Onion, to HBO’s fascinating series The White Lotus, there’s no shortage of media criticizing those who have too much time and money on their hands. On that note, Brandon Cronenberg just unleashed Infinity Pool to the masses this year. Bringing his unique spin of cyberpunk dystopia to the class criticism genre, Cronenberg crafts a world that is a warped reflection of our own while looking into the mirror on himself and people that come from a place of privilege.
Infinity Pool opens up in an unnamed country where struggling author James Foster and his wife Em (Alexander Skargard and Cleopatra Coleman) are on vacation. It’s your typical lavish resort that...
Media criticizing the upper class is about a dime a dozen these days, truth be told. From Best Picture nominee Triangle of Sadness and the popular Netflix original Glass Onion, to HBO’s fascinating series The White Lotus, there’s no shortage of media criticizing those who have too much time and money on their hands. On that note, Brandon Cronenberg just unleashed Infinity Pool to the masses this year. Bringing his unique spin of cyberpunk dystopia to the class criticism genre, Cronenberg crafts a world that is a warped reflection of our own while looking into the mirror on himself and people that come from a place of privilege.
Infinity Pool opens up in an unnamed country where struggling author James Foster and his wife Em (Alexander Skargard and Cleopatra Coleman) are on vacation. It’s your typical lavish resort that...
- 3/8/2023
- by Reyna Cervantes
- bloody-disgusting.com
It's only February, but Infinity Pool is already a key contender for 2023's wildest horror. Empire asks director Brandon Cronenberg why he makes such unhinged cinema.
Read an extract from our exclusive Infinity Pool feature from our April 2023 issue below, or read the full article here.
Faces peeling away from skulls. A syringe containing a deadly virus piercing the skin. A man vomiting blood livestreamed across the world. Few filmmakers have burst onto the big screen with such strange and agitating creations as Brandon Cronenberg.
The first mental challenge for audiences came in the form of his body-horror debut Antiviral (2012), in which celebrities’ illnesses are sold to rabid fans. In his second film, 2020’s Possessor, an assassin takes control of other people’s bodies via brain implants before encouraging suicide. But the horror, lust and disquieting feeling that envelops you watching those has nothing on the nightmarish new sci-fi Infinity Pool.
Read an extract from our exclusive Infinity Pool feature from our April 2023 issue below, or read the full article here.
Faces peeling away from skulls. A syringe containing a deadly virus piercing the skin. A man vomiting blood livestreamed across the world. Few filmmakers have burst onto the big screen with such strange and agitating creations as Brandon Cronenberg.
The first mental challenge for audiences came in the form of his body-horror debut Antiviral (2012), in which celebrities’ illnesses are sold to rabid fans. In his second film, 2020’s Possessor, an assassin takes control of other people’s bodies via brain implants before encouraging suicide. But the horror, lust and disquieting feeling that envelops you watching those has nothing on the nightmarish new sci-fi Infinity Pool.
- 2/22/2023
- by Hannah Ewens
- Empire - Movies
As much as he is indebted to his father, David Cronenberg's legacy as one of cinema's most beloved horror directors, Brandon Cronenberg has still managed to forge a path as a sleek and stylish modern provocateur in his own right. His newest outing, "Infinity Pool" has pretty much everything you're looking for from the Cronenberg name — it's a sexy, bloody, and debaucherous satire of the upper class and their nihilistic amount of apathy.
Set in an idyllic resort in the fictional country of Li Tolqua, "Infinity Pool" follows a novelist named James Foster (Alexander Skarsgård) and his wealthy wife Em (Cleopatra Coleman) who are on vacation searching for inspiration. They are soon joined by Gabi (Mia Goth), an aspiring actress (who coincidentally is a huge fan of James's only published novel), and her husband, Alban (Jalil Lespert). Together, the two couples go to dinner and spend time by the...
Set in an idyllic resort in the fictional country of Li Tolqua, "Infinity Pool" follows a novelist named James Foster (Alexander Skarsgård) and his wealthy wife Em (Cleopatra Coleman) who are on vacation searching for inspiration. They are soon joined by Gabi (Mia Goth), an aspiring actress (who coincidentally is a huge fan of James's only published novel), and her husband, Alban (Jalil Lespert). Together, the two couples go to dinner and spend time by the...
- 2/16/2023
- by Tyler Llewyn Taing
- Slash Film
Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Mia Goth, Cleopatra Coleman | Written and Directed by Brandon Cronenberg
Looking to get inspiration for his next novel, writer James Foster and his wife Em take a holiday to a fenced-off resort on the fictional isle of Li Tolqa. They soon meet Gabi and her husband Alban, who convince them to leave the compound one day to visit a secluded beach. After getting into a car accident on their return, James soon learns the truth behind Li Tolqan law.
When you have a surname like “Cronenberg,” there’s automatically a lot riding on your ability to make a good movie. With his father casting cinematic shadows with films such as Crash, Videodrome, and Crimes Of The Future, Brandon Cronenberg has inadvertently been set up to be a sought-after nepo baby. Though two feature films are already under its belt, the 2023 hedonistic horror Infinity Pool proves exactly why...
Looking to get inspiration for his next novel, writer James Foster and his wife Em take a holiday to a fenced-off resort on the fictional isle of Li Tolqa. They soon meet Gabi and her husband Alban, who convince them to leave the compound one day to visit a secluded beach. After getting into a car accident on their return, James soon learns the truth behind Li Tolqan law.
When you have a surname like “Cronenberg,” there’s automatically a lot riding on your ability to make a good movie. With his father casting cinematic shadows with films such as Crash, Videodrome, and Crimes Of The Future, Brandon Cronenberg has inadvertently been set up to be a sought-after nepo baby. Though two feature films are already under its belt, the 2023 hedonistic horror Infinity Pool proves exactly why...
- 1/31/2023
- by Jasmine Valentine
- Nerdly
At this year’s Sundance, the hills were alive with the sound of fucking.
Though mainstream movies have devolved into a sex-free enterprise, where superheroes and Xenu’s chosen one vie for maximum profit, the premier showcase for independent cinema is still letting its freak flag fly. Yes, the 2023 Sundance Film Festival — running from Jan. 19 to 29 — was delightfully horny, serving as a rebuke to an industry that has for years treated onscreen sex as a sin more damning than all matter of corporal violence; one dominated by striking Marvel and...
Though mainstream movies have devolved into a sex-free enterprise, where superheroes and Xenu’s chosen one vie for maximum profit, the premier showcase for independent cinema is still letting its freak flag fly. Yes, the 2023 Sundance Film Festival — running from Jan. 19 to 29 — was delightfully horny, serving as a rebuke to an industry that has for years treated onscreen sex as a sin more damning than all matter of corporal violence; one dominated by striking Marvel and...
- 1/28/2023
- by Marlow Stern
- Rollingstone.com
The Snow Girl (La chica de nieve) is a thriller series created by Jesús Mesas Silva and Javier Andrés Roig. It stars Milena Smit and José Coronado. Based on the novel by Javier Castillo.
Today this thriller comes to Netflix with José Coronado as main actor and very well matched with Milena Smit, they are a good team of veteran journalist and budding crime investigator.
This series has six episodes and it is about a disappearance, broken families and intrigue that will guide us along the streets in Málaga in a thriller with dark places in which we have a “revelation”: Milena Smit, who we already knew of in Libélulas and, of course, Almodóvar’s, film, Parallel Mothers . She is the real star of this series and just to watch her, the series is worth viewing.
This is a thriller with pauses, dialogues, discoveries and content that is more...
Today this thriller comes to Netflix with José Coronado as main actor and very well matched with Milena Smit, they are a good team of veteran journalist and budding crime investigator.
This series has six episodes and it is about a disappearance, broken families and intrigue that will guide us along the streets in Málaga in a thriller with dark places in which we have a “revelation”: Milena Smit, who we already knew of in Libélulas and, of course, Almodóvar’s, film, Parallel Mothers . She is the real star of this series and just to watch her, the series is worth viewing.
This is a thriller with pauses, dialogues, discoveries and content that is more...
- 1/27/2023
- by TV Shows Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid - TV
This post contains major spoilers for "Infinity Pool."
In Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises," war veteran Jake Barnes, who has suffered an injury leaving him unable to have sex, tells a friend who's sleeping with his beloved, "You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another." In Thomas Wolfe's 1940 novel "You Can't Go Home Again," protagonist George Webber, a novelist, returns to his hometown after writing about it in a successful book. The novel's contents have outraged his old neighbors and family, appalled by what had secretly laid within George's psyche.
In Brandon Cronenberg's latest film, "Infinity Pool," writer James Foster (Alexander Skarsgård) learns about being caught between these two literary extremes in the most disturbing, humiliating, and embarrassing way possible. Now three films into his directing career, "Infinity Pool" further cements Cronenberg's auteurist signature style, his tropes, themes, and aesthetic.
In Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises," war veteran Jake Barnes, who has suffered an injury leaving him unable to have sex, tells a friend who's sleeping with his beloved, "You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another." In Thomas Wolfe's 1940 novel "You Can't Go Home Again," protagonist George Webber, a novelist, returns to his hometown after writing about it in a successful book. The novel's contents have outraged his old neighbors and family, appalled by what had secretly laid within George's psyche.
In Brandon Cronenberg's latest film, "Infinity Pool," writer James Foster (Alexander Skarsgård) learns about being caught between these two literary extremes in the most disturbing, humiliating, and embarrassing way possible. Now three films into his directing career, "Infinity Pool" further cements Cronenberg's auteurist signature style, his tropes, themes, and aesthetic.
- 1/27/2023
- by Bill Bria
- Slash Film
It’s easy to imagine certain socially conservative audience members sitting in the audience for filmmaker Brandon Cronenberg’s latest, clutching their pearls until their knuckles bleed. But fans of extreme cinema like “Infinity Pool” are more likely to find it merely disappointing. It’s violent, sure, and it’s sexual, but it’s not a controversial exploration of challenging ideas. It’s a Souplantation salad bar of half-developed plot points and superficial graphic imagery, in service of a theme that’s about as generic as anything you’d find in a mainstream studio film.
The film starts the way so many films do, with a writer who has writer’s block, in search of inspiration. Alexandar Skarsgård (“The Northman”) plays James Foster, who wrote one book years ago and hasn’t published a damned thing since, even though he’s married to Em, the daughter of a publishing magnate.
The film starts the way so many films do, with a writer who has writer’s block, in search of inspiration. Alexandar Skarsgård (“The Northman”) plays James Foster, who wrote one book years ago and hasn’t published a damned thing since, even though he’s married to Em, the daughter of a publishing magnate.
- 1/26/2023
- by William Bibbiani
- The Wrap
I won’t be the first or last person to observe that Infinity Pool is pretty much The White Lotus with thick dollops of gore, hallucinatory visions, orgiastic sleaze, queasy cloning and state-sanctioned psychosis. If that sounds like your thing, dive right in. Though the family imprimatur is still very much in evidence, writer-director Brandon Cronenberg steps out from the shadow of his father more than usual with a sci-fi satire in which wanton violence, depravity and zero accountability are perks of the wealthy. Bound to be a gleefully warped thrill ride for some and an unpleasant ordeal for others, it’s not for the squeamish.
Cronenberg’s new film is less formally inventive and icy than Possessor, more narratively straightforward if no less disturbingly weird and grisly. But the go-for-broke extremity lacks the substance to make it more than an aggressive but shallow provocation. So many movies have needled...
Cronenberg’s new film is less formally inventive and icy than Possessor, more narratively straightforward if no less disturbingly weird and grisly. But the go-for-broke extremity lacks the substance to make it more than an aggressive but shallow provocation. So many movies have needled...
- 1/26/2023
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Writer/director Brandon Cronenberg returns to the silver screen with the twisted Infinity Pool after the stunningly violent and innovative Possessor. He once again blends horror and sci-fi in a fictional society with no shortage of heightened ferocity with a shift to a bit of a more personal focus. Infinity Pool has no shortage of style, but it falls short of his previous efforts.
‘Infinity Pool’ finds surreal horrors in an all-inclusive beach resort L-r: Alexander Skarsgård as James Foster and Mia Goth as Gabi | Neon
Writer James Foster (Alexander Skarsgård) and his wife, Em (Cleopatra Coleman), arrive at an all-inclusive beach resort for a vacation on the fictional island of La Tolqa. It’s a must-needed trip in the pursuit of inspiration for his next book after having an artistic crisis. There, James and Em meet vacation friends in Gabi (Mia Goth) and her husband, Alban (Jalil Lespert...
‘Infinity Pool’ finds surreal horrors in an all-inclusive beach resort L-r: Alexander Skarsgård as James Foster and Mia Goth as Gabi | Neon
Writer James Foster (Alexander Skarsgård) and his wife, Em (Cleopatra Coleman), arrive at an all-inclusive beach resort for a vacation on the fictional island of La Tolqa. It’s a must-needed trip in the pursuit of inspiration for his next book after having an artistic crisis. There, James and Em meet vacation friends in Gabi (Mia Goth) and her husband, Alban (Jalil Lespert...
- 1/25/2023
- by Jeff Nelson
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
By now the Cronenberg surname has become synonymous with bodily obsession. Like his father David’s wealthy oeuvre of anatomical grotesquerie, Brandon Cronenberg has taken the torch and developed his own small, corporeal-minded canon, blending a gory imagination with sharp socio-economic fables. More than his chilling, futuristic narrative concepts, it’s his sensory details that overwhelm and entrance, grounding science fiction in the earthly vulgarities and excretions that deliver genuine shocks instead of cheap thrills. That he can keep twisting the knife and warrant an appreciation for his detail and dexterity is a rare gift.
After all, it’s still hard to erase Sean Bean’s bludgeoned and oozing face (or the squishing sounds of his flattened eyeball) in Possessor, Cronenberg’s recent film about corporate assassins using mind transfer to eliminate their enemies. The abstracted, bright-colored flourishes and chamber-thriller structure––not to mention its punctuated moments of extreme carnage...
After all, it’s still hard to erase Sean Bean’s bludgeoned and oozing face (or the squishing sounds of his flattened eyeball) in Possessor, Cronenberg’s recent film about corporate assassins using mind transfer to eliminate their enemies. The abstracted, bright-colored flourishes and chamber-thriller structure––not to mention its punctuated moments of extreme carnage...
- 1/25/2023
- by Jake Kring-Schreifels
- The Film Stage
For this writer, one of my favorite filmmakers working today is Brandon Cronenberg. Sure, comparisons to his father’s creative output are always going to happen (and their emboldened nature as storytellers is certainly a connective tissue between the two), but with just three features under his proverbial belt, Brandon has demonstrated time and time again that he’s blazing a path unlike anyone else—past or present—including his own dad. And with Infinity Pool, Cronenberg has crafted one of the most intoxicatingly perverse films of the last decade, a cinematic achievement that is shockingly audacious, completely unhinged, and excessively violent, and I could not have loved it more.
At the start of Infinity Pool, we are introduced to James Foster (Alexander Skarsgård) and his wife, Em (Cleopatra Coleman), while they are on vacation at a hoity-toity private resort on the fictional island of Li Tolqa. Something of a failed writer,...
At the start of Infinity Pool, we are introduced to James Foster (Alexander Skarsgård) and his wife, Em (Cleopatra Coleman), while they are on vacation at a hoity-toity private resort on the fictional island of Li Tolqa. Something of a failed writer,...
- 1/23/2023
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Jg Ballard meets Ben Wheatley in Brandon Cronenberg’s latest. Which is a bit of a surprise, since the two have already met: in 2015, in the latter’s dystopian satire High-Rise. There are (literal) shades of Nicolas Winding Refn, too, and a healthy smattering of body horror inherited from the old man, whose filmography Cronenberg Jr. raids to make an unlikely fusion of Videodrome and A History of Violence, two very opposing milestones in his father’s career.
Unexpectedly, so much mixing and matching has resulted in the younger director’s most original and ambitious film so far; seeming to ditch the intellectually intriguing but dramatically sterile precision of his debut film Antiviral, Cronenberg is now going all-in for the cinema of nightmares, with a film that gets under the skin and itches, invades the brain and plays havoc with the synapses.
The Wheatley connection is not as far-fetched as it sounds,...
Unexpectedly, so much mixing and matching has resulted in the younger director’s most original and ambitious film so far; seeming to ditch the intellectually intriguing but dramatically sterile precision of his debut film Antiviral, Cronenberg is now going all-in for the cinema of nightmares, with a film that gets under the skin and itches, invades the brain and plays havoc with the synapses.
The Wheatley connection is not as far-fetched as it sounds,...
- 1/23/2023
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
In “Infinity Pool,” what happens in Li Tolqa stays in Li Tolqa, an impoverished country where, if they’re rich enough, foreign guests can literally get away with murder. But that’s not the half of it. Visitors hold grotesque, drug-addled orgies at which their genitalia appear to morph before your eyes. The locals host sick rituals, too, wherein miscreants are cloned and then forced to witness their own executions. And then there are the macabre Li Tolqan skin masks, which suggest generations of inbreeding, or maybe they’re just the half-salvaged faces of botched doubling experiments.
It would all be quite shocking were the film signed by anyone other than Brandon Cronenberg, the demented son of “Scanners” director David Cronenberg. I’m sure he’s a perfectly nice guy in real life, but hoo boy, if you’ve seen “Antiviral” or “Possessor,” you know: The kind of images Kid...
It would all be quite shocking were the film signed by anyone other than Brandon Cronenberg, the demented son of “Scanners” director David Cronenberg. I’m sure he’s a perfectly nice guy in real life, but hoo boy, if you’ve seen “Antiviral” or “Possessor,” you know: The kind of images Kid...
- 1/22/2023
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Dubai, Jan 22 (Ians) Aggressive knocks from Chris Lynn and Shimron Hetmyer helped Gulf Giants chase down Desert Vipers’ mammoth score of 195/4 and extend their winning streak in the Dp World International League (Il) T20 at the Dubai International Stadium on Sunday.
The Gulf Giants recorded their fourth successive victory with a five-wicket win while Desert Vipers crashed to their first defeat despite Alex Hales’ scintillating knock of 99 off 57 balls with 10 boundaries and five sixes. Lynn cracked 71 off 42 balls with eight boundaries and three sixes while Hetmyer smashed 70 off 35 balls with five boundaries and five sixes to win the match with three balls to spare.
Gulf Giants had won the toss and elected to bowl. Desert Vipers openers Rohan Mustafa and Alex Hales scored steadily with Mustafa scoring two boundaries off the second over from Liam Dawson. Hales, after hitting Richard Gleeson for two boundaries in the third over, went on...
The Gulf Giants recorded their fourth successive victory with a five-wicket win while Desert Vipers crashed to their first defeat despite Alex Hales’ scintillating knock of 99 off 57 balls with 10 boundaries and five sixes. Lynn cracked 71 off 42 balls with eight boundaries and three sixes while Hetmyer smashed 70 off 35 balls with five boundaries and five sixes to win the match with three balls to spare.
Gulf Giants had won the toss and elected to bowl. Desert Vipers openers Rohan Mustafa and Alex Hales scored steadily with Mustafa scoring two boundaries off the second over from Liam Dawson. Hales, after hitting Richard Gleeson for two boundaries in the third over, went on...
- 1/22/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
For his third feature outing, Writer/Director Brandon Cronenberg returns to the deep well of surreal, grotesque sci-fi horror. Cronenberg doles out heady, warped horror at the resort-set Infinity Pool, with its title a clue to the vanishing edges of reality. While more accessible and linear than the filmmaker’s previous effort, it’s no less compelling, audacious, and extremely violent.
James Foster (Alexander Skarsgård) hopes to find inspiration for his second novel at the all-inclusive resort in Li Tolqa with his wife Em (Cleopatra Coleman). Instead of jump-starting his writer’s block, the couple winds up lazing around the pool and enjoying the comforts of the resort nestled in a country dangerous for tourists. That is until he meets Gabi (Mia Goth), a massive fan of James’ sole novel. Gabi and her husband Alban (Jalil Lespert) entice James and Em on a day trip beyond the barbed wire fences of the compound,...
James Foster (Alexander Skarsgård) hopes to find inspiration for his second novel at the all-inclusive resort in Li Tolqa with his wife Em (Cleopatra Coleman). Instead of jump-starting his writer’s block, the couple winds up lazing around the pool and enjoying the comforts of the resort nestled in a country dangerous for tourists. That is until he meets Gabi (Mia Goth), a massive fan of James’ sole novel. Gabi and her husband Alban (Jalil Lespert) entice James and Em on a day trip beyond the barbed wire fences of the compound,...
- 1/22/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Like his father before him, Brandon Cronenberg makes uncomfortable movies about characters descending into flesh-soaked circles of hell. But I'm not here to say that the two Cronenbergs make the same kinds of films. There are distinctions that separate their movies and prove that the younger Cronenberg is a filmmaker working on his own terms. Unlike father David, there's a distinct cosmic coldness to Brandon's work — the sense that everyone, and I mean everyone, is completely doomed. Sex and even romance play a part in David Cronenberg's films, but romance doesn't seem to be a concept that even exists in Brandon Cronenberg's worlds, and the sex on display is detached and sickly. It feels less about pleasure — something the older Cronenberg's films revel in — and more about distraction. It's as if there's no trace of humanity to be found anywhere in the younger Cronenberg's worlds.
Brandon Cronenberg made his...
Brandon Cronenberg made his...
- 1/22/2023
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
The rich, they are not like you and me. They treat the world as their oyster and, except for their fellow modern-day aristocrats, its occupants as their servants and playthings. They summer in private estates or swank five-star hotels, spending the gross national product of a small nation on vacations. They have a weakness for not only cloning themselves when they run afoul of little things like manslaughter laws — it turns out some countries offer this perk if you’ve got six figures to spend on it; be sure to check with your local embassy!
- 1/22/2023
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Dubai, Jan 14 (Ians) Spin-bowling all-rounder Dhruv Parashar has been named as a replacement player for the Desert Vipers’ Dp World ILT20 campaign, replacing his injured UAE U-19 teammate Ronak Panoly.
Panoly’s left shoulder injury restricts his ability to field, which means he would not be able to operate at the capacity necessary for the tournament.
Desert Vipers Director of Cricket Tom Moody expressed his disappointment for Ronak and said: “Obviously a big setback for him. He was full of excitement as you would expect as an exciting young player out of the UAE, to join the Desert Vipers. But unfortunately, from a fitness standpoint, and for his own assurance to get his shoulder back in order the decision was made to release him.
“Ronak will stay with the squad to receive treatment and to feel part of the group. He is an impressive young man, and we hope to...
Panoly’s left shoulder injury restricts his ability to field, which means he would not be able to operate at the capacity necessary for the tournament.
Desert Vipers Director of Cricket Tom Moody expressed his disappointment for Ronak and said: “Obviously a big setback for him. He was full of excitement as you would expect as an exciting young player out of the UAE, to join the Desert Vipers. But unfortunately, from a fitness standpoint, and for his own assurance to get his shoulder back in order the decision was made to release him.
“Ronak will stay with the squad to receive treatment and to feel part of the group. He is an impressive young man, and we hope to...
- 1/14/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
One of the firms has been USA-based private equity firm Lancer Capital, who picked a franchise in the ILT20 and named it ‘Desert Vipers’. Its chairman, Avram Glazer, is part of the family which owns the American football team Tampa Bay Buccaneers and English Premier League side Manchester United, marking it the firm’s first foray into the cricketing world.
To ensure that the side puts up a good show in their first outing in ILT20, the Vipers have roped in two-time Odi World Cup-winner and highly-experienced coach Tom Moody as the Director of Cricket. Moody, the former coach of Ipl 2016 winners Sunrisers Hyderabad, speaks exclusively to Ians on ILT20, building a team from scratch and much more.
Excerpts
Q. How do you think the upcoming ILT20 can boost the growth of cricket in the UAE?
A. I think it’s a very important step that’s been taken by...
To ensure that the side puts up a good show in their first outing in ILT20, the Vipers have roped in two-time Odi World Cup-winner and highly-experienced coach Tom Moody as the Director of Cricket. Moody, the former coach of Ipl 2016 winners Sunrisers Hyderabad, speaks exclusively to Ians on ILT20, building a team from scratch and much more.
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Q. How do you think the upcoming ILT20 can boost the growth of cricket in the UAE?
A. I think it’s a very important step that’s been taken by...
- 11/16/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Today, Family House San Francisco has announced its annual Rock The House Gala will honor multi-Grammy Award-winning band Train and lead singer Pat Monahan in recognition of their longtime support and dedication to the organization.
Now in its 39th year, the annual fundraising gala will take place virtually on Saturday, November 14, 2020 at 6:30pm to benefit Family House, a home away from home for families whose children are being treated for a serious illness at University of California San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital.
This year’s Rock The House Gala, chaired by Kim Scurr VP Operations, at Ucsf Health, boasts an exclusive virtual performance from Train. The special event will also feature finely curated live and silent auctions offering extraordinary experiences and one-of-a-kind items, including Train memorabilia and more. Emmy Award-winning radio & TV personality Liam Mayclem will serve as Master of Ceremonies. All proceeds from the event will help...
Now in its 39th year, the annual fundraising gala will take place virtually on Saturday, November 14, 2020 at 6:30pm to benefit Family House, a home away from home for families whose children are being treated for a serious illness at University of California San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital.
This year’s Rock The House Gala, chaired by Kim Scurr VP Operations, at Ucsf Health, boasts an exclusive virtual performance from Train. The special event will also feature finely curated live and silent auctions offering extraordinary experiences and one-of-a-kind items, including Train memorabilia and more. Emmy Award-winning radio & TV personality Liam Mayclem will serve as Master of Ceremonies. All proceeds from the event will help...
- 9/29/2020
- Look to the Stars
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