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Review: GLASS ONION - A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY, Daniel Craig's Super-Sleuth Takes on the One Percent (Again)

Over the last several weeks, the cult of personality centered on onetime tech “genius” (and billionaire) Elon Musk suffered a major setback, a self-inflicted wound that threatened to take down one of the largest, most popular social media platforms. Beware,...

Friday One Sheet: THE (Animated) FRENCH DISPATCH

It has been over a year since The French Dispatch (of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Star) was to premiere at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival. After numerous date changes and the typical COVID release dance seen for major titles, the...

15 years on, Spike Lee's 25th Hour remains an effective post-9/11 catharsis, and one of his strongest films

Spike Lee has a noted history of dissent through cinema. It is, more or less, how he rose to prominence. When you think of moments like Mookie throwing that trash can through Sal's window in Do the Right Thing, or...

Blu-Ray Review: KINGDOM OF HEAVEN Ultimate Edition - A Primer for EXODUS

A decade before Ridley Scott brought Exodus: Gods and Kings to the big screen, he tackled another epic about religion, faith and pragmatism. Kingdom of Heaven was Scott's film about the Crusades, a rousing, rambunctious film that tried to...

New York 2014 Review: BIRDMAN, A Visual and Comedic Feast For The Eyes and Mind

This year's New York Film Festival came to a satisfying conclusion with one of its best selections, Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), the oddly titled (and punctuated) fifth feature by acclaimed Mexican filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Returning in...

Matt Damon And Paul Greengrass BOURNE Again?

Although Universal is still developing a possible sequel to the Jeremy Renner spin-off The Bourne Legacy, with Justin Lin attached to direct, the studio has also taken serious positive steps towards resurrecting the original Bourne franchise, according to movie news website...

Watch The Trailer For Wes Anderson's GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL

Many love him. Many hate him. And after the runaway success of Moonrise Kingdom, director Wes Anderson is back with The Grand Budapest Hotel. Written, directed and produced by Anderson from an original story by Anderson and Hugo Guinness, The...

Exclusive: Roman Coppola Talks CHARLES SWAN, Breakups, And Wes Anderson

I had the pleasure a few weeks ago of chatting with Roman Coppola, writer/director of the irritatingly titled A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swann III. This is the first feature from Coppola sitting in the director's chair since...

TTTT: An American Film Geek's Top 10 for 2012

Amid fiscal cliffs and digital revolutions, we are all adrift on a sea of change. Never mind that your boat-mate may be a hungry Bengal tiger, sometimes it's hard enough just to keep your head above water.To date, I've viewed...

Review: THE BOURNE LEGACY Hits the Reset Button

It's a cold world out there for a modern-day spy. The Bourne Legacy takes place in parallel with the events of 2007's The Bourne Ultimatum, picking up the story from a different, wider perspective. Byer (Edward Norton), a high-ranking intelligence...

Weinberg Reviews MOONRISE KINGDOM

Wes Anderson doesn't do formula. Love, hate, or ignore his movies, there's little denying that the man has a decidedly unique visual approach to cinematic storytelling, one that amuses many and leaves others cold. Personally, I have yet to see...

3 New Clips From MOONRISE KINGDOM

Chances are good that if you're an indie film fan in one of America's major metropolises, you've already had a chance to see Wes Anderson's summer indie-blockbuster MOONRISE KINGDOM (did you catch this Anderson news yesterday as well?). With seven...

Sydney 2012 Review: MOONRISE KINGDOM

Filmmaker Wes Anderson may not be the 'King of the World', but he is certainly the ruler of his movie universe. He decides how it looks, chooses what people live in it and even dictates their ways of living. Every...

TTTT: SNOW WHITE in the MOONRISE KINGDOM

Welcome to ScreenAnarchy, or as it's now known, Prometheusville. Yes, here at everyone's favorite home for news and reviews of strange films from around the globe, we've all gone positively Giger gaga, chestbursting with excitement to commemorate the release of...

Watch The Animated Companion To Wes Anderson's MOONRISE KINGDOM

Fans of Wes Anderson take note: You may not yet have seen all there is to see of Moonrise Kingdom, even if you ponied up to see the film on the big screen.Anderson tipped a while back that an animated...

Jeremy Renner Kills In Absolutely Flawless New Trailer For THE BOURNE LEGACY

To everyone who ever wondered how there could possibly be a point to making a Bourne movie that did not include Jason Bourne, here's your answer.A new trailer has just released for the Tony Gilroy directed The Bourne Legacy. And...

Review: MOONRISE KINGDOM

Perhaps the chief delight of Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is that it is the most quintessential Wes Anderson movie to date. That is not to say it is his best film, or his most insightful film, or even his...

Cannes 2012 Review: MOONRISE KINGDOM Eclipses High Expectations

There are only a few directors in the history of cinema that have manged to craft, even from their earliest works, a consistent, signature style.  Most fimmakers adjust in major ways project to project. Others seem content (some may claim...

Six Clips From Wes Anderson's MOONRISE KINGDOM

Prepare yourself for all the self-aware art direction you can handle! A whopping six clips from Wes Anderson's Cannes opening Moonrise Kingdom have arrived online and we've got 'em all. Cub Scout love, ho!Set on an island off the coast...

Japanese Teaser For THE BOURNE LEGACY

Jeremy Renner is a badass. If you had any questions about that a new Japanese teaser for The Bourne Legacy has arrived to sweep those away. While the footage is mostly the same as the previous US teaser there is...