“Aside from total boredom, nothin’ is gonna happen to you here.” “Here” of course, is the Bates Motel, in this, the Anthony Perkins-directed Psycho III. Its predecessor was shocking, not just in terms of physical jolts but the fact that it was undeniably capable, and a worthy successor to the Hitch original. Not so muchContinue reading “Psycho III”
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Stereo
Is abstract thought possible without language? David Cronenberg’s first full-length feature, the silent (save for voiceovers) STEREO, explores this very question with telepathist test subjects isolated on the brutalist commuter campus of the University of Toronto, Scarborough. As Steven Pinker put it in The Stuff of Thought, “We know that human thoughts are stored in memory* inContinue reading “Stereo”
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