Viggo Mortensen has played many famous roles over the years, but one movie stands above the rest for him. Even though many ...

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 ...

Warning: This review contains spoilers. Read at your own risk. In an early scene of David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence, an exchange takes place between a news reporter and Tom Stall (Viggo ...

Apart from some effective detail work with classical American cinema archetypes that makes parts of it play like a modern-day Western, "A History of Violence" is a surprisingly conventional film from ...

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 ...

Viggo Mortensen has portrayed everything from a medieval king to a post-apocalyptic survivor, but there is one specific role ...