This complex story from the early days of psychoanalysis engrosses and even amuses as it unfolds through a series of conversations, treatment sessions and exchanged letters. Scarcely a film one might ...

Breakout star of 2011 Michael Fassbender explores our primal pain in two of the fall's most provocative films, "Shame" and "A Dangerous Method." By Jay A. Fernandez Well, this is Michael Fassbender’s ...

Biopics have always been a difficult genre. Making a film about the life of a famous figure is a balancing act. Bad biopics do little to expand on the figure's established reputation, often coming off ...

The stories of superheroes and heroes resonate with us because they tap into some essential truths about human nature, about our yearnings and aspirations, our demons and dilemmas, our fears and our ...

Adapted by Christopher Hampton from his stage play The Talking Cure, itself based on the 1993 non-fiction book by John Kerr, A Most Dangerous Method. Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, ...

David Cronenberg on A Dangerous Method, His ‘Falling Off’ Body Parts, and Why You Should Never Call His Work ‘Cronenbergian’“I have no desire to impose some preconceived idea of Cronenbergness on the ...