Festivals: Toronto Film Festival News
WHEN EVIL LURKS: Official Trailer And Poster Are Here, Watch at Your Own Peril
This is a public service announcement, I implore you to try and go into a screening of Demian Rugna's When Evil Lurks as blind as possible. Do not watch this trailer. Do not scroll down and look at the poster. Both...
Toronto 2023 Review: KILL, An Army of One Versus an Army of Train Thieves
Amrit returns from army deployment to find many, frantic messages on his phone. The love of his life, Tulika, with whom he has had a secret relationship with, has been set up in an arranged marriage by her father. The...
WHEN EVIL LURKS Teaser: New Bone Crunching Horror Flick From Demian Rugna!
The new horror flick from Terrified's Demian Rugna has its world premiere at Tiff Midnight Madness next week.
WORKING CLASS GOES TO HELL Trailer: Serbian Socio-Horror Satire Will Premiere at TIFF Midnight Madness
After losing their loved ones, jobs, and dignity to a tragic factory fire and corrupt privatization, a group of ex-workers seeks hope and justice in the supernatural.
Shudder Acquires Senegalese Genre Bender SALOUM
Well now. This is fantastic news. This is amazing news. Shudder has announced that they have acquired the Senegalese film, Saloum. A verifiable kitchen sink of genres, Saloum is equal parts a horror filim, an action film, a revenge...
YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER Trailer: If It's Not Her Mom, Then What is She?
In a North Dublin housing estate Char's mother goes missing. When she returns Char is determined to uncover the truth of her disappearance and unearth the dark secrets of her family. Kate Dolan's debut horror flick, You Are Not...
GOOD MADAM (MLUNGU WAM): Shudder Acquires South African Horror
Tsidi, a single mother, is forced to move in with her estranged mother Mavis, a live-in domestic worker caring obsessively for her catatonic white ‘Madam’ in an affluent Cape Town suburb. As Tsidi tries to heal her family however, a...
Short Film: Seth Smith's existential-animation DUST BATH is on Vimeo
This is public service announcement that Canadian auteur of the surreal and strange, Seth Smith (The Crescent, Tin Can), made a 2 minute animated short about poultry and death and the circle of life, called Dust Bath, which is now...
SUNDOWN Trailer Is a Masterclass in How to Cut a Preview
If you want a brilliant example on how to edit a trailer and artistically present the premise of a film, focusing on mood rather than spoilers, then Sundown has you covered. Superbly so. It is only 4 days into the new...
Friday One Sheet: SPENCER (Also, Full Trailer)
We are looping back around to the detailed fabric and negative space of the key art for Spencer, as it is also an opportunity to embed the full trailer for the film (see below). I do love when key art...
Clip from A BANQUET: One Bite is Too Much
We like to think we have control and dominion over our bodies; but if you're a woman in this world (or non-binary), you're well aware that more often than not, your body is considered public property. But what if you...
Trailer for Pablo LarraĆn's SPENCER
After the stylish and well-received Jackie, Chilean wunderkind director Pablo Larraín tackles the tone and character of another iconic political and deified figure, Princess Diana, in a "what might have happened during those few fateful days" in 1997. Casting a...
VIOLATION: Canadian Trailer For Drama/Horror, in Digital Cinemas This March
Last week we announced the digital-cinema dates for Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli's drama/horror Violation here at home through TIFF and VIFF's online platforms. The rollout begins on March 19th through TIFF then the week following on the 26th through...
VIOLATION: Canadian Digital-Cinema Release Dates For Homegrown Drama/Horror Announced
Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli's chilling drama/horror Violation is coming home. We shared with you not that long ago that Pacific Northwest Pictures had picked up the Canadian rights for the homegrown TIFF Midnighter. Working fast they've secured digital-cinema releases...
The Great Festival Rebound of 2020: Let The Anarchists Speak
We are not at Sundance right now. However, we do have Anarchists who are covering the festival lineup. IFF Rotterdam started today and we won't be there either. But, we do have an Anarchist all raring to go and cover...
The Great Festival Rebound of 2020: Chapter One - The Film Festivals
2020 was some kind of year. There were more pressing matters, of course, but as a film site - any film site - we live and breathe by the beat of the film festival circuit. So as the year...
Toronto 2020: CITY HALL Trailer, Frederick Wiseman Documents Boston Problems, Possible Solutions
The great Frederick Wiseman makes documentaries that are restful yet restless, exploring big subjects that inevitably spiral and split into absorbing moments, capturing a time and place that may never be repeated or replicated. His latest, City Hall, recently enjoyed...
Toronto 2020 Review: VIOLATION Powerfully Vivisects The Trauma Left By Sexual Violence
Rape revenge films are a fraught bunch, while some seem to seek only to exploit an inappropriate titillation stirred in more lascivious audiences, others take a more nuanced look into the psychology of this very specific kind of trauma. The...
Toronto 2020: VIOLATION, Exclusive Image From Canadian Dramatic Horror Debut
Canadian filmmakers Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli will be making their feature film debut at TIFF on Monday with their dramatic horror film Violation. Screen Anarchy has an exclusive image from the film to share with you this morning. From...
Teaser: NOMADLAND's Quiet, Beautiful Pitch
Searchlight Pictures just dropped a short, single-shot teaser trailer for Chloe Zhao's (The Rider) new feature, Nomadland. And it is beautiful, measured, and melancholic, with Frances McDormand at her understated best. Adapting Jessica Bruder's journalism-novel of the same name, the...