From The Editors
THE MONKEY Official Teaser: Osgood Perkins is at it Again in Red Band Teaser
The first official teaser for Osgood Perkins' The Monkey, based off of the short story by Stephen King, is here. As expected, it kind of kills, literally and figuratively. When twin brothers Bill and Hal find their father's old...
SOUR PARTY: Anchor Bay Entertainment Acquires Worldwide Rights For Comedy
Sour Party follows Gwen and James, two broke, flailing 30-somethings on a quest to scrounge money from a collection of low lives and failed artists in an attempt to show up to Gwen's sister's baby shower with a proper gift.
HEATHER Trailer Premiere: Be Careful Who You Bully
A philanderer is lured into a kinky encounter by a provocative woman, only to discover she has undergone gender reassignment and was once the boy he terrorized in high school. Anthony Repinski's horror thriller Heather will release on digital platforms...
Montreal Nouveau 2024 Review: THE HUMAN HIBERNATION, Under a Cow's Eye
Like many Canadians (and others who live in a colder climate), I often dream - at least fleetingly - about hibernating for the winter, like our bear brethren. Sleeping away those colder months, and reawakening with the earth as it...
Sitges 2024 Review: PUSH, A Well Crafted Horror Thriller
After the death of her fiancé, Natalie moved to America for a fresh start. When we catch up with her she is 8 months pregnant at her job as a real estate agent. She has take on a challenging listing,...
Hawaii 2024 Review: Kurosawa's CLOUD Baffles
I saw Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s (Pulse, Cure) latest film, Cloud, at the 44th annual Hawaii International Film Festival, and man, am I perplexed. I love Pulse (Kairo) and I wanted to love Cloud, but I can’t even figure out what the...
New York 2024 Interview: Paul Schrader on Realizing Russell Banks' OH, CANADA
In Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada, adapted from Russell Banks’ Foregone, a renowned documentary filmmaker named Leonard Fife subjects himself to a filmed interview while battling the throes of death. This final interview, to be captured by a former pupil turned...
Making Waves Montreal 2024: Mini Hong Kong Fest Features ROB N ROLL And ALL SHALL BE WELL
A weekend of Hong Kong cinema is coming soon to Montreal, during the weekend of October 24th through 26th, at Making Waves Montreal. Presented by the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society, in collaboration with Chicago Asian Pop-Up Cinema, sponsored...
Lausanne 2024 Preview: CALIGULA, FLESH GORDON and Other Subversions
The Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival (LUFF) returns for its 23rd edition, presenting a program that blends experimental cinema and innovative music performances, continuing its tradition of showcasing avant-garde and subversive works that challenge conventional boundaries.
BAD GENIUS Review: How to Win Fake Friends and Influence Wrong People
Since we live in a time when every single film ever produced should be remade at least once, it’s fair to expect a new reimagining of some intellectual property come out every other few week or so. Some of those,...
Hawaii 2024 Review: SISTER MIDNIGHT Has a Punk Rock Flavor
Sister Midnight from Karan Kandhari (Bye Bye Miss Goodnight) is a hard film to review and classify, but I’m going to try after seeing the film at the 44th annual Hawaii International Film Festival. Funded in part by the British...
BeyondFest 2024 Review: A MOTHER'S EMBRACE, Brazilian Horror Doesn't Capitalize on Fear Building
A young firefighter, Ana, and her team take a call to an old people's home that is at risk of collapsing during the worst storm to hit Rio de Janeiro in thirty years. However, everyone is strangely reluctant to leave...
Filmmaker François Simard Charged With Sexual Assault
Quebecois filmmaker François Simard has been charged with sexually assaulting two children. Because there has not been much of any English-language press about this, collectively ScreenAnarchy felt it was our responsibility to share this news with you. This report...
BeyondFest 2024 Review: SHADOWLAND, Compelling, Infuriating, And Sobering
In 2021 Finnish filmmaker and documentarian Otso Tiainen, together with their co-writer Kalle Kinnunen, set out to Montségur, France, a commune nestled in the French Pyreneese mountains and a homestead for practitioners of the occult. Initially filming started out as...
New York 2024 Review: THE DAMNED (IL DANNATI), Neorealist Anti-Western About the Senselessness of War
Roberto Minervini’s new film, which premiered earlier this year at the Cannes Film Festival, is the second feature in this festival round to be titled The Damned. Another movie with the same English-language title, directed by Thordur Palsson and featured...
New York 2024 Review: PAVEMENTS Has Great Fun Selling Out
In the romanticizing of 90s indie music, it's oft said that no band better epitomized the rock & roll slacker ethos of rebelling against establishment/commercialism/‘whatever else ya got’/etc. than Pavement. If true enough, then how exactly do you make a...
Friday One Sheet: MICKEY 17
Who needs credit blocks anymore? The new poster for Bong Joon Ho's science fiction cloning comedy Mickey 17 sees Robert Pattinson framed in ochre and rust. The numbers 1 through 16 are cleverly hiding in plain sight, anchored by the...
Montreal Nouveau 2024 Review: THE HYPERBOREANS, The Puppetry of Memory
Human memory is fallable, at least on an individual level; though as some cultures can tell you, a poor memory has also been of great service to larger groups of people who need to forget, or need others to forget,...
PIECE BY PIECE Review: Colorful, Engaging, Surface-Deep Bio-Doc
As a music producer, singer-songwriter/rapper, and serial entrepreneur with a career spanning three decades and two centuries, Pharrell Williams's genre-redefining contributions to American pop culture can't be fully explored, evaluated, or even quantified in a standard ninety-minute documentary. The bio-doc...
