From The Editors
ELLA MCCAY Review: James L. Brooks' First Film in 15 Years Flounders, Stumbles, Flops
Emma Mackey stars, supported by Albert Brooks, Ayo Edebiri, James Lowden, Jamie Lee Curtis, Julie Kavner, Kumail Nanjiani, Rebecca Hall, Spike Fearn, and Woody Harrelson.
ALL YOU NEED IS KILL Official Trailer: Big, Animated Sci-fi Action in Canadian Cinemas This January
Warner Bros. and Cineplex Pictures here in Canada are releasing the animated sci-fi action film, All You Need is Kill, in theaters on January 16th. The official trailer came out today, you can check it out below. Set in...
DUST BUNNY Review: Highly Enjoyable, As It Straddles the Line Between Whimsy and Gruesomeness
Mads Mikkelsen, Sigourney Weaver, and David Dastmalchian star in writer/director Bryan Fuller's dark, fantastical tale.
Playback: Rian Johnson, Twists and Turns, from BRICK to WAKE UP DEAD MAN
Rian Johnson wants you on the edge of your seat. The American director delights in twisting beloved genres into razor-sharp puzzles, from slick noir capers to sci-fi paradoxes. His films are (mostly) clever, without condescension. In Brick (2005), he drops...
LONE SAMURAI Review: A Mythic Promise Gets Washed Ashore
Legend says Japan was saved twice by a miracle. In 1274 and again in 1281, as Kublai Khan's Mongol forces advanced to conquer the archipelago, samurai mounted a desperate coastal defense, only for brutal typhoons to surge in and tear...
Exclusive: MALDOROR Trailer Debut, Fabrice du Welz's Gripping Police Procedural
Inspired by true events, Fabrice du Welz's police procedural Maldoror is heading to VOD and Digital next month, but we have the exclusive trailer debut ... now! Our own Martin Kudlac saw the film during the 2024 Venice Film Festival;...
Tallinn 2025 Review: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Heartbreaking Story Tracks a Maid's Journey Through Egypt's Fractured Class Dynamics
Sarah Goher's film, submitted as Egypt's entry for the Academy Awards, offers an intimate, day-long portrait of a child's maid navigating shifting family and class dynamics.
BUZZKILL: Joe Lynch Horror Comedy Acquired by Bleecker Street
Even though we don't even have an image to share, I'm excited by the news that a new film by Joe Lynch is heading our way -- especially when I read the premise. Bleecker Street today announced that it has...
Tallinn 2025 Review: LIFELIKE Moves Beyond Coming-of-Age
Turkish director Ali Vatansever examines how a family shifts its dynamics as a terminal diagnosis intersects with caregiving, belief, and the virtual spaces that offer temporary escape.
Tallinn 2025 Review: SUNDAY NINTH Probes Memory, Estrangement, Blurred Line Between Fiction and Documentary
Kat Steppe's feature fiction debut examines the disintegration of memory and identity through a hybrid fiction-documentary lens, using the fractured relationship between two estranged brothers as its narrative anchor.
Opening This Week: DUST BUNNY, RESURRECTION, ATROPIA, Much More
Plus: 'Lone Samurai,' 'Europe's New Faces,' 'Scarlet,' 'The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo,' and 'Ella McCay.'
DOWN RIVER Clip: Shep Shootout
Arriving tomorrow on digital and on Demand, Down River is described as a Southern Gothic thriller. My colleague Andrew Mack posted the trailer last month, along with a batch of images, and now we have a clip to share that...
RETURN TO REASON Blu-ray Review: The Dizzying Avant Garde of Man Ray
The first years of cinema, the seventh art was treated more as a technological marvel than a device with which to tell stories. Even when the technology progressed and storytelling took over, artists still found ways to explore the...
Tallinn 2025 Review: THINK OF ENGLAND Dramatizes Britain's Attempt to Boost Morale with State-Mandated Porn Films
Richard Hawkins' film moves from period workplace comedy, rooted in the absurdities of producing a pornographic film for the war effort, toward a psychological drama shaped by mounting instability.
Tallinn 2025 Review: BLINDSIGHT Retools the Amnesia Narrative Through Immersive Experience and Storytelling Rug Pulling
Adrian Sitaru's latest work employs first person immersion to build a narrative puzzle that shifts into the register of a 'Black Mirror' episode, revealing a film with far more layers than its early realism and family drama implied.
THE STRANGERS - CHAPTER 3: Teaser Poster Arrives For Final Chapter of Horror Trilogy
In the final film of The Strangers trilogy, Maya (Madelaine Petsch) faces the masked killers one last time in a brutal, full-circle reckoning of survival and revenge. I will be open and honest with you, folks. I have not...
THE WHISPER (El Susurro): Official Trailer Shows an Energetic Mix of Snuff, Psycological Horror And Vampire Lore
We have the official trailer from the upcoming horror flick, The Whisper (El Susurro), the new film from Uruguayan genre director Gustavo Hernández Ibáñez. They are the director of films we have talked much about on these pages: The Silent...
Now Streaming: TROLL 2, REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND, SPARTACUS: HOUSE OF ASHUR, Much More
Plus: 'The Occupant of the Room,' 'Mission: Impossible -- The Final Reckoning,' 'Caught Stealing,' 'The Family McMullen,' 'Architecton,' 'Jay Kelly,' 'The Abandons' and 'Mad Men.'
ScreenAnarchy's Top 25 Films Of The 21st Century
We're almost at the end of the year 2025, and that means that the first quarter of the century is already gone. How did that happen so fast? Do quarter centuries currently go by as fast as decades did when...
Now Playing: KILL BILL, JUJUTSU KAISEN: EXECUTION, LITTLE TROUBLE GIRLS, More
Plus: 'Man on Tape,' 'Under Current (Noi Mok),' '100 Nights of Hero,' 'Frontier Crucible.'
