

If Videodrome was David Cronenberg reckoning with the darkness and voyeuristic potential of television, Existenz (or, to give it it's proper 90s title, eXistenZ) represents him updating that movie's elements of body horror and questionable reality to the next generation's mass media channels: video games and virtual reality. It was his first original script since Videodrome, and although it's set 30 years in the future, it just about fits into the '[1999 Cubicle Movie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuZKG77vANU)' template. Jude Law plays Ted Pikul, a publicist who's drawn into a strange world of corporate espionage and organic virtual reality when he teams up with Allegra Geller (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a world-famous video game designer whose latest game has made her a target for a fanatical anti-VR group calling themselves Realists. It's very Philip K. Dick, right? Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKajwOkJXkg Regulars know how this works. We meet up online at 7.45pm and everyone presses play together at 8pm, chatting in a WhatsApp group while the movie is on. Link to that and the film will go up 30 minutes before. Don't be late and don't no show!
