EDDINGTON Review: Men Would Rather Destroy Themselves Than Go to Therapy
Eddington, the fourth feature from Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar, Beau is Afraid), moves away somewhat from horror and the uncanny we've come to expect in his films, into a combination of a western and crime thriller that focuses in a very fraught...
DANIELA FOREVER Review: The Elusive Perfection of Dreams
Henry Golding stars in the latest feature by Nacho Vigalondo.
ROSA LA ROSE, FILLE PUBLIQUE Review: The Operatic Joie & Tristesse de Vivre
There are many itterations of the prostitute shown on the silver screen: the woman forced into the profession because of poverty, the streetwalker who faces constant danger of violence, the high class call girl, the working girl, the 'hooker with...
BOYS GO TO JUPITER Trailer & Poster: The Slow-Fast Anxiety & Ennui of a Florida December
While there is a prevailing misconception, especially in North America, that animation is for kids, that luckily does not stop creators from making animated films by and for a grown-up audience. Especially in these strange days we live in, animation...
ScreenAnarchy's Top 10 Films Of The First Half Of 2025
Due to February being so short, the second half of 2025 starts today (instead of on the first of July). Logic dictates that this means the first half of 2025 is over and done with... meaning we can make a...
Palm Springs ShortFest Forum: All You Need to Know & What You Need to Learn
There is a lot to learn about the film industry, and not all of it is taught at films schools. Festivals like Palm Springs Shortfest fill the gap, especially from the business side, with knowledge essential to all emerging filmmakers,...
THIRTY TWO SHORT FILMS ABOUT GLENN GOULD Blu-ray Review: The Contrapuntal Biopic
Biopics usually follow one of two structures: the majority giving a general, sweeping account of a person's life, with various scenes focusing on 'important' events that would likely already be known by the audience; these are stories or breadth, not...
EYE FOR AN EYE Review: Violent Retribution, Painful Amends
"Just ignore them and they'll leave you alone;" "They're just insecure;" "Stand up for yourself and they'll go away:" Society has a lot of advice for how to deal with bullying, most of which relies on the victim of the...
THE LIFE OF CHUCK Review: Dance Like Everyone's Watching and Wants to Know How
Mike Flanagan Tackles a somewhat gentler Stephen King story.
Shorts! with John C. Reilly, Bella Ramsay, Alan Cumming, Reggie Watts and more at Palm Springs ShortFest
Short films still remain a vital part of cinema. Yes, they can be so-called calling cards for filmmakers, an entry point to making a feature. But they are also a mode until themselves; some stories just work better in the...
THE MAN IN MY BASEMENT: First Look at Creepy Thriller
We're most of us hard up for money these days, so much so that we're willing to compromise a little in order to earn a little, for some basic survival or to hold on to our housing. But maybe some...
SUNLIGHT Review: Taking This Monkey Show on the Road
We've likely all had very strange reactions to a great trauma in our lives, be it the death of a loved one, the loss of a treasured lover, intimate abuse. Or at least we might have thought about doing something...
Giveaway! Get a Pair of Tickets to I DON'T UNDERSTAND YOU in Montreal
Giveaway time! The amazing folks at Vertical and Route 504 PR have graciously given ScreenAnarchy, 5 pairs of tickets to give away to our readers in Montreal, for an advance screening of the new horror comedy film, I Don't Understand...
KILLER OF SHEEP Blu-ray Review: The Future in a Handful of Concrete Dust
When most people think of American cinema of the 1970s, they focus on New Hollywood, the era of brash independent cinema that blew the roof off the old studio system and offered a more grimy, realistic, intimate look across a...
ALPHA Teaser Poster: 'A' Marks the Spot?
With Cannes about to begin, one of the films we're most excited about at ScreenAnarchy, is Julia Ducournau's Alpha. The filmmaker behind two titles that took the genre film world — well, the whole film world — by storm (Raw...
THE WIND WILL CARRY US Blu-ray Review: Poetry in the Hillsides, Cows Underground
A man from the city comes to a rural village. His real reasons for being there, he keeps to himself, while keeping up a friendly yet elusive story to the locals. They, too, are friendly yet elusive. Among misses connections,...
BONJOUR TRISTESSE Review: The Discreet Ennui of the Bourgeoisie
Chloë Sevigny and Lily McInery star in a new adaptation of the French novel.
ABSOLUTE DOMINION Exclusive: Poster & Trailer For New Martial Arts Film
It has been far too long since we've had a film from Lexi Alexander. Her work in films such as Punisher: War Zone and Green Street Hooligans is legendary, and she's worked in television on such shows as Supergirl, American...
SOME LIKE IT HOT Blu-ray Review: Criterion Re-issues the Perfect Comedy
Some Like it Hot is one of those films that I can't remember not having seen; and yet, every time I watch it, it still feels fresh and funny. There is so much I learned from it for the first...
THE LUCKIEST MAN IN AMERICA Review: Winning Against the Whammies
Lotteries, casinos, game shows: all forms of gambling that seem to be unofficial taxes on the poor. Not that the rich don't go to casinos, of course, and perhaps they might occasionally buy a lottery ticket. But this trifecta seems...
