From the cheesy action films of the 80’s to the modern day oversaturation of the superhero flick, violence has always been a part of our own popular culture. The ways in which violence has been ...

The moral core of the beginning of A History of Violence drew me in instantaneously as if the film was directly targeted towards me. Since I began to read philosophy I took to reading on ethics and ...

Did New Line Try To Downplay the Fact That a History of Violence Is Based on a Graphic Novel? When stopping to consider the film’s subject matter, it’s not a total shock that New Line didn’t lean more ...

In many ways, this David Cronenberg classic based on a graphic novel from John Wagner and Vince Locke was the perfect ...

David Cronenberg’s “A History of Violence” presents its materials plainly: a diner, a family, a routine, a sudden act. What distinguishes it, nearly two decades on, is that it withholds the ...