THE ANGRY BLACK GIRL AND HER MONSTER Review: Bold and Fearsome, Combining Horror and Social Commentary in New Ways
Laya DeLeon Hayes, Denzel Whitaker, Chad L. Coleman, Reilly Brooke Stith and Keith Holliday star in a horror thriller, directed by Bomani J. Story.
THE WRATH OF BECKY Review: Teenage Girl Versus Upscale White Supremacists
Lulu Wilson and Seann William Scott star in a brutal thriller, directed by Matt Angel and Suzanne Coote.
Fantasia 2023: The First Wave is Here! Premieres Galore From Gans, The Adams Family, and More. Larry Kent to Receive Trailblazer Award
The impending summer means it's nearly time for our annual trip to Montreal with the Fantasia International Film Festival! We'll have multiple members of the Screen Anarchy team on the ground again this year, ready and eager to let you...
Chattanooga 2023: First Wave Arrives With WE MIGHT HURT EACH OTHER, Fest Returns In Person And Online
The Chattanooga Film Fest returns in style this year between June 23rd and the 29th to celebrate its tenth anniversary. The first film festival to pivot to an all-virtual event back in 2020 had remained online only in '21 and...
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 Review: Closing Time
Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana and Bradley Cooper star. James Gunn wrote and directed the Marvel adventure.
THE ARTIFICE GIRL Review: Indie Sci-Fi Done Right
Franklin Ritch, Sinda Nichols, David Girard, and Lance Henriksen star in the sci-fi mystery thriller, directed by Franklin Ritch.
Calgary Underground 2023: Curtain Raiser
With the Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) getting underway today, and continuing until April 30, we are pleased to offer a sampling of the more sumptuous genre, documentary and live event offerings over the next 11 days. The festival...
EVIL DEAD RISE Review: No One Is Safe
Lee Cronin directed; Lily Sullivan, Alyssa Sutherland, Morgan Davies, Gabrielle Echols, and Nell Fisher star in the horror film.
SXSW 2023 Review: SATAN WANTS YOU, Examining The Birth Of The '80s Satanic Panic
We don’t often cover documentaries here, but once in a while a film will cross our paths that it makes sense to discuss. Directors’ Steve J. Adams & Sean Horlor’s new film definitely fits that bill. An exploration of the...
SXSW 2023 Review: TETRIS, Taron Egerton Anchors Fun Cold War Thriller About Legal Contracts
When we think of video game movies these days, the first mental images that surface are inevitably garish, computer generated characters, over the top, cartoonish performances; maybe the occasional survival horror adaptation. Rarely does one imagine a procedural thriller about...
SXSW 2023 Review: FURIES, A Confused Uber Sleazy Actioner Misses The Mark
We all love Ngô Thanh Vân, better known in the West by her professional name, Veronica Ngô. First introduced to savvy genre film fans in the ‘00s through her kickass collaborations with Johnny Tri Nguyen in The Rebel (Dòng máu...
SXSW 2023 Review: CHRONICLES OF A WANDERING SAINT, A Magical Realist Triumph From First Time Filmmaker Tomás Gómez Bustillo
A magical realist fantasy, first time director Tomás Gómez Bustillo’s Chronicles of a Wandering Saint imagines the path to heaven for a pious woman with dreams of sainthood. Combining old world, small town charm with modern technology and gentle humor, Saint...
SXSW 2023 Review: MONOLITH, Single Setting Sci-Fi Delivers Creeping Dread
A disgraced journalist tries to claw her way back into the game through a podcast on the metaphysical mysteries of the unexplained in first time feature director Matt Vesely’s Monolith. A single character, single location science fiction thriller, Monolith delivers...
SXSW 2023 Review: EVIL DEAD RISE, A Gloriously Blood Soaked New Direction For An Old Fave
Lee Cronin’s Evil Dead Rise confidently tackles the beloved franchise with new vigor and violence, opening up a world of possibilities for one of horror’s most cherished franchises. Much like Raimi’s third entry in the original series, Army of Darkness,...
SXSW 2023 Review: BROOKLYN 45, Ghosts Of The Past Bring The War Back From The Dead
It’s two days after Christmas, 1945 and the war is over, or at least it’s supposed to be. When Colonel Clive Hockstetter (Larry Fessenden) invites his old army buddies over for dinner, they all suspect it’s just a simple get-together...
SXSW 2023 Review: ABERRANCE, A Bold Debut Thriller From Mongolian Director Baatar Batsukh
You can’t really trust anyone, including your narrators, in the twisty new Mongolian thriller Aberrance, making its international debut at this year’s SXSW. Written, directed, and shot by Baatar Batsukh, Aberrance is a visually dynamic, at times perplexing film that...
SXSW 2023 Review: IT LIVES INSIDE, An Indian American Teen Faces A Monster From The Old Country
It’s a banner year for debut filmmakers at SXSW, and Bishal Dutta’s It Lives Inside is one of the reasons that we can make that claim. A horror story centering around first generation Indian-American teens, It Lives Inside balances the...
SXSW 2023 Review: THE ANGRY BLACK GIRL AND HER MONSTER, A Different Kind Of Frankenstein Story
Transposing the classic Frankenstein story to the milieu of a black neighborhood in the South, The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster uses well-worn horror tropes to examine the experiences and fears of the African American community through horror. Writer/director...
SXSW 2023 Review: MOLLI AND MAX IN THE FUTURE, A Handmade Lo-Fi Sci-Fi Rom-Com Gem
While the age of the classic romantic comedy seems to have passed us by, films like Michael Lukk Litwak’s Molli and Max in the Future remind us that there is still magic to be wrung from well worn tropes if...
SXSW 2023 Review: THE WRATH OF BECKY, Hell Hath No Fury Like This Teenage Girl's Scorn
Becky is back, and this time it’s… pretty much the same as last time. Three years ago, the world witnessed one of the craziest heel turns in recent history, funny guy Kevin James (The King of Queens, Paul Blart: Mall...
