Pretty Packaging: The UK MACROSS PLUS Release May Make You Sing
It's been a while since I featured Anime Limited in this category (the last one was Belle two years ago...), but that doesn't mean the Scottish distributor has been quiet. In fact, the company got itself slightly reorganized and joined...
MEANWHILE ON EARTH Review: How Far Would You Go
Megan Northam stars in a science fiction drama by writer/director Jérémy Clapin ('I Lost My Body').
Pretty Packaging: THE CONVERSATION Is Worth Talking About
Here at ScreenAnarchy, and indeed in this column, we have a few choice distributors whose works keep popping up. Criterion, Anime Limited, Severin, Arrow, Second Sight, Curzon and several crazy Germans and French ones manage to regularly raise our eyebrows....
Camera Japan Rotterdam 2024 Review: THE COLORS WITHIN Shines With Bright Hues
Back in 2016-2017, director Yamada Naoko shook up the anime industry with her high-school bully drama A Silent Voice. The film took an uncommonly candid view of life in school, with people often doing stupid things while still totally unaware...
Camera Japan Rotterdam 2024 Review: LET'S GO KARAOKE! Unites Audiences!
This year, director Yamashita Nobuhiro (Linda, Linda, Linda, Tamako in Moratorium) was the guest of honor at the Camera Japan Film Festival in Rotterdam. The programme showed no less than five films by him, all of which were released in...
Camera Japan Rotterdam 2024 Review: ALL THE SONGS WE NEVER SANG Makes For Fine Family Drama
September in the Netherlands means that the Camera Japan Festival is visiting again, first in Rotterdam and a week later in Amsterdam. Primarily it's a film festival, but music and food always have an important role as well. Often there...
PSYCHONAUT Has a Poster, A Trailer, And A World Première At The Brooklyn Horror Festival
Seven years ago, Dutch filmmaker Thijs Meuwese co-directed the science fiction film Molly, a film overflowing with ingenuity, a no-budget post-apocalyptic superhero epic. You can read my review here... That film had an incredibly impressive finale, and it marked its...
Vlissingen 2024: The FILM BY THE SEA Festival Starts Today
Today marks the start of the 26th Film By The Sea film festival, held in the harbor city of Vlissingen (or Flushing as some English-speakers call it), which is in the Southwest of the Netherlands. It is one of the...
Neuchâtel 2024 Review: ANIMAL Hurts Men, Women And Beasts
Last month, the 2024 edition of the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival ended, so normally by now we'd have finished our coverage. But the review for Emma Benestan's Animale, internationally distributed as Animal, lived rent-free in my brain for weeks,...
Neuchâtel 2024 Interview: ENNENNUM Director Shalini Ushadevi Talks About Immortality
This year at the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival, several juries awarded several films. The Critic's Jury awarded their prize by unanimous decision to Ennennum, an extremely well-written science fiction drama in which Ouso and Devi, a married couple, get...
Neuchâtel 2024 Review: MEANWHILE ON EARTH Wanders Through Grief
Fantastic genres like science fiction, fantasy and horror lend themselves for hiding a message in your entertainment. Throw in monsters, aliens or revolting transformations and you can make the most difficult ethical dilemmas palatable for a larger audience. But some...
Neuchâtel 2024 Review: ETERNAL Takes Its Sweet Time Getting... Somewhere
At the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival back in 2021, several films directly tackled the subject of environmental issues (including the International Critics' Jury Winner that year). This year, the selection skewed more towards emotions of grief, loss, failed relationships....
Neuchâtel 2024: All Awards Round-up
Last Saturday saw the closing ceremony of the 23rd edition of the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival, followed by the Swiss première of Longlegs. In the previous eight days, the festival had been a general place of bliss to visit....
Neuchâtel 2024 Review: ENNENNUM Is Science Fiction At Its Finest
On Saturday the 13th of July, the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival had its closing ceremony, complete with the handing out of its awards. As a part of the Critic's Jury this year, we handed our award for best feature...
Neuchâtel 2024 Starts This Week
Tomorrow, the 23rd Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival starts, bringing nine days of horror, fantasy and science fiction films from all over the world to a beautiful Swiss location. This year, the poster and trailer point to a general theme...
ScreenAnarchy's Top 10 Films Of The First Half Of 2024
The last six months of 2024 contain two more days than the first six do (courtesy of February, even in a leap year as this one...), so we could stretch it a day, but now there's no avoiding it any...
Pretty Packaging: The COFFIN JOE Boxset Doesn't Hurt Your Eyes
Distributor Arrow has rightfully created quite a reputation for itself as a producer of exquisite collector's editions, wriggling itself into the small group in which Criterion and Eureka: Masters of Cinema used to be royalty. But as of late, it's...
Pretty Packaging: The French Limited GANDAHAR Release Is Stacked
The French animation director René Laloux only made three feature films in his career, but each of those became a science fiction cult classic. His Fantastic Planet made it into the Criterion collection, and the DVDs Eureka released of the...
Screen Anarchists On DUNE: PART TWO
Back when we created our ScreenAnarchy top-10 list of 2021, I lamented the fact that I didn't rally our troops to make a group review for Denis Villeneuve's Dune. Because even though the film topped the leaderboard that year, opinions...
Rotterdam 2024: What The Audiences Liked Best
Three weeks ago, Rotterdam was about to wrap up its International Film Festival, and a few days after that they published the final results of their audience rating ballots. These, to me, are always at least as interesting as the...
