Viggo Mortensen goes full frontal in a knife fight scene in new David Cronenberg Russian Mob flick Eastern Promises. At the premiere, Cronenberg told New York that Mortensen suggested the nudity ...

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The latest film by David Cronenberg is a violent suspense-thriller that tours the subculture of the Russian mafia. It’s the story of an English/Russian midwife named Anna Khitova (Naomi Watts) who ...

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David Cronenberg’s most recent film, “Eastern Promises” showcases London’s Russian vory v zakone, or “thieves in law,” – a shady underworld of criminals who are bound by an 18-point code of conduct, ...

If you have a choice between a run-in with the mob as depicted in “The Godfather” or the Russian mobsters featured in David Cronenberg’s “Eastern Promises,” choose the former. At least you’d get a ...

From David Cronenberg, the director who brought us Scanners, Videodrome, and most recently A History of Violence, has another new film titled Eastern Promises set to hit theaters this year. Starring ...