Tag: drama
THE KING TIDE Review: The Fable of a Miracle Gone Wrong
Living in a harsh landscape, somewhat apart and isolated, means you make certain choices about how much assistance you will receive, and how much protection you will offer your community. It also means that legends can grow up around people...
Now Streaming: Bertrand Bonello's Cinematic House of Pleasures
As 'The Beast' continues to roll out its U.S. release, four films by the French director are now available to stream.
IN FLAMES Interview: A Conversation With Director Zarrar Khan
Earlier today we sat down with Zarrar Khan, director of the Pakistani Canadian drama horror In Flames. Opening tomorrow in cinemas on April 12th In Flames was Pakistan's submission in the previous Acadamy Awards, is a double nominee for the...
IN FLAMES Review: The Supernatural Meets Patriarchal Conditioning
The term 'gaslighting' is now quite ubiquitous, and one which still remains scoffed at by many (usually those who hold power). But if you're a member of a marginalized group, that gaslighting could come not just from one person, but...
CALIGULA: THE ULTIMATE CUT: Drafthouse Films Acquires North American Rights to New Version, Reimagined And Restored in 4K
Drafthouse Films acquires North American rights to Caligula: The Ultimate Cut, fully reimagined and restored in 4K. Opens in theaters throughout North America this summer, followed by a release on 4K UHD Blu-ray and digital platforms.
WICKED LITTLE LETTERS Review: A Foxy-a••ed Clever Eruption of Suppressed Rage
I'm sure that I'm not the only one who has written - either in their head or possibly on virtual or real paper - a letter that they never sent; the kind of letter that lets out all the anger...
(Good) Friday One Sheet: HUMANE
Curious timing on the Christian calendar for today’s column. We are not at the resurrection yet on Good Friday, only the sacrifice, and the death-heavy poster for Humane shows that. Perfect ordered body bags, in an neutral grey setting, suggest...
IN A VIOLENT NATURE Official Trailer: Chris Nash's "Genre-Redefining Zombie-Slasher" is Coming For You
By all accounts In A Violent Nature, the feature film debut from writer/director Chris Nash, is a game changer, a single film that revolutionizes the slasher genre. One of the buzziest titles to come out of Sundance this year we're...
STAR WARS: THE ACOLYTE Trailer: The End of The High Republic is Nigh
This isn't about good or bad, it's about power and who is allowed to use it. The next Star Wars series, The Acolyte, is coming to Disney+ this June. It takes place during the final days of the High...
Screen Anarchists On DUNE: PART TWO
Back when we created our ScreenAnarchy top-10 list of 2021, I lamented the fact that I didn't rally our troops to make a group review for Denis Villeneuve's Dune. Because even though the film topped the leaderboard that year, opinions...
SXSW 2024 Review: BIRDEATER, This Vivisection Of A Toxic Relationship Will Make You Squirm
An Australian stag party goes off the rails when the details of the happy couple's relationship get spilled during a night of heavy drinking and drugs in Jack Clark & Jim Weir's Birdeater, making its international debut at this year's...
SXSW 2024 Review: SEW TORN, An Enchantingly Whimsical Rube Goldberg Action Thriller
A struggling seamstress plays a dangerous real life choose-your-own-adventure game in Freddy Macdonald’s debut feature, the whimsical comedic thriller Sew Torn. Barbara Duggen’s (Eve Connolly) sewing shop in an idyllic hamlet in the picturesque Swiss Alps is on the rocks....
Friday One Sheet: THE ROOSTER
This dark, moody and minimalist key art from Australian design house Barlow.Agency injects some metaphor and iconography into Mark Leonard Winter's feature film debut, The Rooster. We have featured the design work of Timothy Barlow's company a few years ago for...
2024 Canadian Screen Awards: BLACKBERRY, HUMANIST VAMPIRE, And INFINITY POOL Rack up Massive Nominations
I'm a bad Canadian. Technically, I'm a bad Canadian resident, but that's a story for another day. I'm a bad Canadian because until today I've not really given much attention to the Canadian Screen Awards. I can always say that...
PREY 'The Crash' Clip: Action Thriller Starring Ryan Phillippe, Emile Hirsch And Mena Suvari Coming Next Week
A young couple is compelled to leave their Christian missionary station in the Kalahari Desert after being threatened with death by an extremist militant gang. After crashing their aircraft they must battle man and beast for their lives. We're going...
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PURE O: Trying NOT to Say Every Thought in Your Head
I imagine that many of us have found certain 'foibles' (for lack of a better word) that we might have, have turned out to be, or turned into, problems that interfere with our daily lives. Sometimes to the point where...
THE COMPLEX FORMS: Watch This Trailer For Italian Sci-fi Drama
There is an ancient villa where desperate people have the opportunity to solve their fate by selling their body to a mysterious entity in exchange for money. When enormous, centuries-old creatures emerge from the deep woods surrounding the villa, a...
Friday One Sheet: THE BIKERIDERS
Exuding casual mid-century mid-western cool, freedom and wide open space, the key art for Jeff Nichols' biker saga, spanning the 1950s and 1960s rise of The Vandals, wears its iconography with ease. No credit block for this bad boy, just...
DUNE: PART TWO Review: Still Handsome. Still Obligatory. Stilgar.
If it does nothing else, Dune: Part Two completes the circle of the Fatboy Slim-Arrakis EU. By opening with Christopher Walken’s Emperor Of The Known Universe, this might just be the quirkiest, and most unexpectedly sly, thing about the...
ERIC ROHMER'S TALES OF THE FOUR SEASONS Blu-ray Review
Four films make up a year's worth of light drama from French New Wave icon Éric Rohmer in a new set from the Criterion Collection.
