Articles tagged with david cronenberg

Director David Cronenberg, one-time horror icon, continues to branch into the gangster genre of film with his follow-up to A History of Violence, the Russian mafia-centered, Oscar-nominated melodrama Eastern Promises. Viggo Mortensen stars, as he did in History, as a tough gangster type, with Cronenberg once again peppering his trademark outlandish and extreme violence into the story of a mobster with a heart of gold. It is Mortensen who has earned the film's sole Oscar nomination, for...