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ROAD HOUSE Review: Jake G. and His Abs Almost Make You Forget the Original
Minutes into Doug Liman’s not entirely unwelcome remake, Elwood Dalton (Jake Gyllenhaal), fresh off of beating several bikers into bloody, messy pulps, politely offers to drive them to a nearby hospital. Like viewers on the other side of the digital screen,...
Review: STRANGE WORLD, Top-Notch World-Building, A-Level Animation
For Strange World, its 61st feature-length animated film in its 85-year-old history, Disney Animation Studios tapped veteran animator Don Hall (Raya and the Last Dragon, Moana, Big Hero 6) and playwright-turned-screenwriter Qui Nguyen (Raya and the Last Dragon), the former to...
Review: AMBULANCE, Michael Bay Elevates the Bayhem to Extraordinary Heights
To know Michael Bay is to love and/or hate Michael Bay (the Transformers franchise, Pearl Harbor, Armageddon). Through three decades and 15 culturally impactful films, up to and including his latest, mid-budgeted actioner, Ambulance, a remake of a little-known, 80-minute-long,...
AMBULANCE: Bayhem on Full Display With a Billion Car Wrecks in New Trailer
This new trailer for the action thriller Ambulance is for all you Michael Bay lovers out there. Everything that Bay does really, really well is well on point here. And now someone gave the director some goddamned drones to...
Review: THE GUILTY, Modest, Mid-Level Fuqua-Gyllenhaal Collaboration
Jake Gyllenhaal stars in director Antoine Fuqua's remake of a Danish original, now in theaters and streaming soon on Netflix.
Review: SPIRIT UNTAMED Draws Within the Lines
Isabela Merced, Marsai Martin, Mckenna Grace, Andre Braughter, Walton Goggins, Julianne Moore and Jake Gyllenhaal lead the cast of an animated Western.
SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME Trailer Takes Peter Parker's Superhero Game on The Road
The next Spider-Man film Far From Home swings into cinemas on July 5th and the first trailer just arrived. It looks to be the right mix of action, spectacle and humor that made Homecoming such a hit. Speaking of...
VELVET BUZZSAW Trailer: Art Eats the Beholder in Dan Gilroy's Latest
Velvet Buzzsaw looks insane. It's a supernatural horror film centered around the cutthroat world of art collecting, buying and selling, where the art literally starts eating its critics and greedy sellers. I'm so in! The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal and...
Genre Briefs: Jake Gyllenhaal Is THE GUILTY, Jodie Foster Is WOMAN AT WAR, New AGGRETSUKO
Two remakes of note and a nifty animated special are all on their way.
Los Cabos 2018 Dispatch: BORDER and THE SISTERS BROTHERS, Two Of The Festival's World Highlights
At the core of Let the Right One In, one of the most memorable vampire films of the past decade, was Oskar (Kåre Hedebrant), a lonely, misfit, and bullied young boy with little attention from his divorced parents. He found...
Leiden 2018 Review: In WILDLIFE, Carey Mulligan Rises From the Ashes
How does one cope with feelings of inadequacy, the acknowledgement of imperfection -- both in themselves and loved ones -- and what is a person’s own happiness truly worth? Wildlife, Paul Dano’s astounding directorial debut that has been making a...
Leiden 2018 Dispatch: International Favorites THUNDER ROAD, PROFILE and More Are Sure-Fire Crowd-Pleasers
The Leiden International Film Festival came to a close on Sunday November 11 but we were lucky enough to attend its final weekend, which was jam-packed with quality films. The festival, taking place in a college town in South Holland...
Vancouver 2018 Review: THE SISTERS BROTHERS
The Sisters Brothers is an excellent movie, but it is being marketed in all the wrong ways. I suppose if it results in a financial success, then all's well that ends well. I worry, though, that once general audiences see...
ScreenAnarchy's Favourite Films of 2017
Another year over, and what an annus horribilis it proved to be in so many ways. But away from the political atrocities that took place in pretty much every country you care to mention, and the sexual harassment scandals that...
10+ Years Later: DONNIE DARKO, the Boy Who Leapt Through Time
[note: the write-up below only takes the theatrical cut of Donnie Darko into consideration. I have not seen the director’s cut nor read Kelley’s The Donnie Darko Book] When Kojima Hideo released Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater in 2004...
Marshy's Favourite Asian Movies of 2017 Part 1
As we hit the halfway point of the year, it is time to look back over the past six months, specifically the cinematic offerings from Asia. This year’s crop of new releases has been a mixed bunch, with precious few...
Review: OKJA Makes For a Grand Feast
An endearing family adventure, a bitter ecological plea and a rousing action film all rolled into one, Okja proves once more that Bong Joon Ho is a master of twisting something new out of the familiar. While Netflix's gamble screams...
Jake Gyllenhaal, Tatiana Maslany in STRONGER: Watch First Trailer
Hollywood's first attempt to dramatize the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, Patriots Day, did not turn out so well in the eyes of local resident -- and our associate editor -- Michele "Izzy" Galgana. (Read her complete article as to why.)...
AnarchyVision: LIFE, WILSON and Kristen Stewart in PERSONAL SHOPPER
This week's segment looks at the Spacephalopod romp Life, Woody Harellson's misanthropic turn in Wilson, and Kristen Stewart in the ghostly Personal Shopper....
Destroy All Monsters: NOCTURNAL ANIMALS Is Sadly On-Point For Women In Hollywood
We might call Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals divisive, except I'm unsure who exactly it has successfully divided; one half of film Twitter from the other, I suppose. The film is intentionally noxious, centered as it is around a vulgar potboiler...
