Heavens Gate is infamous at the movie which bankrupted United Artists and reined in the excesses of the 70s auteurs. Director Michael Cimino, hot off the Oscar-winning success of The Deer Hunter was given free rein and budget to bring to life this sprawling Western, loosely telling the story of the 1892 Johnson County Wars…
The Dead Zone
The Dead Zone is my favourite of David’ Cronenberg’s movies. At university, I once wrote a dissertation on Cronenberg’s earlier ‘body horror’ movies – including Shivers, Rabid and Scanners. These were all typically set in a Canadian winter and are fundamentally very cold, dour and disturbing movies, with little known casts. They had a pretence…