Toronto 2026: Wrap -- All Our Coverage (So Far)
Our curtain raiser, our reviews, our poster columns, and an interview.
Toronto 2026 Review: LOOK BACK Sees Hirokazu Kore-eda Struggle to Bring Tatsuki Fujimoto's Acclaimed Manga to Life
Celebrated filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda returns to the pages of Japanese manga for inspiration once again, unveiling this thoughtful adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s acclaimed 2021 coming-of-age one-shot, Look Back. Reuniting actresses Natsuki Deguchi and Aju Makita, both of whom featured prominently...
Toronto 2026 Review: Singaporean Drama AH GIRL Elevated by Assured New Director and Astonishing Young Lead
The debut feature from Singaporean writer-director Ang Geck Geck Priscilla is a semi-autobiographical story of a family’s separation, as seen through the eyes of a seven year old girl. Struggling to fully understand the gravity of the situation, and what...
FrightFest 2026 Review: In Korea-Set Horror NERVOUS, Sara Bolger Loses the Ability to Hear Men
The opening film at this year’s Tubi Frightfest London, Nervous is an ambitious psychological thriller set in the South Korean countryside. Irish actress Sarah Bolger reunites with director Abner Pastoll after the success of 2019’s A Good Woman is Hard...
KUNG FU SOCCER Review: Stephen Chow's Dreadful All-Female Sequel Deserves a Straight Red Card
Twenty five years after scoring a resounding critical and commercial hit with the martial arts sports comedy Shaolin Soccer, Hong Kong film industry legend Stephen Chow unleashes an absolute howler of a sequel that fails to replicate anything that made...
ScreenAnarchy's Top 10 Films Of The First Half Of 2026
We are halfway through 2026 already, a year which has been shaping up so far as an interesting one to say the least. I have already heard several people say they like the first half of 2026 better than all...
ScreenAnarchy's Top 10 Films Of 2025
Here at ScreenAnarchy we wish you all a very fortuitous 2026! And now that we're in a new year, let's close off the old one with our traditional Top 10 list. This time, 21 of our writers forwarded their favorite...
NO OTHER CHOICE Review: It's Murderously Hard to Find a Good Job Nowadays
Park Chan-wook's new film stars Lee Byung Hun and Son Yejin in a delightfully dark comedy.
SONS OF THE NEON NIGHT Review: Juno Mak's Long-Gestating Hong Kong Crime Epic Is all Surface, No Feeling
Visually striking yet narratively incoherent, Juno Mak’s ambitiously staged yet lethargically paced Hong Kong crime saga Sons of the Neon Night finally arrives on home shores, more than a decade after the project was originally announced. Takeshi Kaneshiro and...
Busan 2025 Review: TIGER Charts the Challenges of a Queer Male Sex Worker in a Deeply Divided Japan
Inspired by real stories from Tokyo’s LGBTQ+ community, Anshul Chauhan’s Tiger follows a young man as he navigates the Japanese capital’s underground queer scene, while also struggling to reconcile his chosen lifestyle with the one he left behind. Tiger had...
Busan 2025 Review: NO OTHER CHOICE, Park Chan-wook's Delirious Dark Comedy Is a Twisted Delight
After losing his job of 25 years, an increasingly frustrated family man is driven to the brink in his efforts to protect his comfortable life in Park Chan-wook’s outrageous black comedy, No Other Choice. After debuting at Venice the film...
ScreenAnarchy's Top 10 Films Of The First Half Of 2025
Due to February being so short, the second half of 2025 starts today (instead of on the first of July). Logic dictates that this means the first half of 2025 is over and done with... meaning we can make a...
Brussels 2025: Highlights and Award Winners from the 9th BIF Market Industry Showcase
In the shadow of Brussels’ iconic Atomium, the BIF Market, running in conjunction with the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, celebrated its ninth edition last week, hosting no fewer than 50 projects in various stages of development across a five-day...
ScreenAnarchy's Top 10 Films Of 2024
Hello all of you readers, we have officially entered 2025 so it's time to have a look back at 2024. We asked everyone here what their favorites were, and 24 writers gave a list. On those were a grand total...
NOSFERATU: A SYMPHONY OF HORROR Retains the Power to Chill Your Bones and Haunt Your Dreams
For a great many aspiring cinephiles, F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu: A Symphony Of Horror served as their entry point into both Silent Cinema and also German Expressionism. Perhaps because of the film's subject matter, rooted firmly in the horror genre, Murnau's...
TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIORS: WALLED IN Review: Celebratory Siege of a City
Directed by Soi Cheang, the Hong Kong action extravaganza is packed with martial arts legends and rising stars from Sammo Hung and Louis Koo to Philip Ng and Raymond Lam.
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...
Roger Corman Remembered: 1926-2024
In a conversation with Roger and Julie Corman in September 2010, the filmmakers talked about working in present-day Hollywood, shooting in the Philippines, making 'X: The Man With the X-Ray Eyes,' Allan Arkush, and 'Sharktopus.'
Cannes 2024 Review: TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIORS: WALLED IN, Hong Kong's Nostaglia-Fuelled Gangland Throwdown
Since it was first announced back in 2013, the nostalgia-fuelled martial arts epic set within the labyrinthine back alleys of Kowloon Walled City has nurtured a mythical status to rival the notorious neighbourhood itself. Development of the project dates back...
EVIL DOES NOT EXIST Review: Bold, Chilling, Ominous, From Ryusuke Hamaguchi
'Drive My Car' director Ryusuke Hamaguchi heads in a new direction with his latest film.
