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Screen Anarchy Last Minute Gift Guide 2025 Episode 2: Shout Factory, Warner, Neon Eagle and Cauldron
Welcome to Episode two of the Screen Anarchy Last Minute Gift Guide for 2025. The first episode highlighted releases from Kino. This episode covers stuff that was sent by Shout Factory, Warner Brothers, Neon Eagle and Cauldron. I...
Opening This Week: THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB Cries for Help, THE HOUSEMAID Gets Twisted
Plus: 'Is This Thing On?' and 'Avatar: Fire and Ash.'
Sound and Vision: Rebecca Sugar and friends
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at several songs by Rebecca Sugar, with music video(s) directed by them and their collaborators. Rebecca Sugar, just recently...
Now Playing: DUST BUNNY Dusts Off Fantasy, RESURRECTION Puzzles, ATROPIA Laughs
Plus: 'Lone Samurai,' 'Europe's New Faces,' 'Scarlet,' 'Ella McCay,' and 'Silent Night, Deadly Night.'
Friday One Sheet: SOUND OF FALLING
As an amateur photographer (who focuses mainly on candid and street photography) my favourite content trope when capturing photos is the shot where everyone is going about their business, but one person is looking directly into the camera. This is...
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...
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.'
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.'
Friday One Sheet: THE LIFE OF OTHERS
Not to be confused with the Oscar winning German film on Stasi surveillance, The Lives of Others, Guillermo Arcaya's 35mm shot Venezuelan short, The Life Of Others, has an intriguing bit of key art. There is also a vertical version...
Opening This Week: LITTLE TROUBLE GIRLS, ROSEMEAD, JUJUTSU KAISEN: EXECUTION
Plus: 'Under Current (Noi Mok),' '100 Nights of Hero,' 'Frontier Crucible.'
Sound And Vision: Dick Maas
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at several music videos for Golden Earring, directed by Dick Maas. Dutch cult director Dick Maas made a...
Now Streaming: STRANGER THINGS, BLOSSOMS SHANGHAI, THE BALTIMORONS
Plus: 'Left-Handed Girl,' 'The Beatles Anthology' and new 'Krypto Saves the Day!'
Friday One Sheet: RELAPSE
Sometimes, all you need for an effective piece of key art is a well lit photo and a generous bit of negative space. Frost Foundry's poster for Paul Boyd's live-streaming drug addiction rock and roll drama, Relapse, is just that....
Now Playing: ETERNITY Romance, HAMNET Grief, WAKE UP DEAD MAN Mystery
Plus: 'Zootopia 2' from Disney, and 'The Thing With Feathers,' coming Friday.
Playback: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Civic Tremors, from NEIGHBORING SOUNDS to THE SECRET AGENT
Kleber Mendonça Filho makes politically charged dramas that draw their power from the everyday, letting ordinary Brazilian life tighten with the slow, simmering tension of a thriller. His films lay bare the class rifts and quiet violences embedded in the...
Screen Anarchists On Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN
While Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Frankenstein passed me by during its limited theatrical run, it sure arrived on Netflix pretty fast. I checked it out, discussed it with colleagues, and noticed there were many different opinions on it,...
Sound And Vision: Sam Raimi
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at two music videos by Sam Raimi. In between Evil Dead II and Darkman Sam Raimi made two different...
Now Streaming: GOOD BOY, SANGRE DEL TORO, TRAIN DREAMS
Plus: 'After the Hunt' and 'The Roses.'
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