SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D'ETAT Review: Invigorating, Infuriating Documentary Epic
Like much of the jazz that soundtracks it, Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat doesn't hold your hand. From the start, the film unleashes a frenetic, almost overwhelming, visual language. It's a visual language that, along with the phenomenal titular soundtrack,...
SMILE 2 Review: Effective, But Overlong and Obvious Horror Spectacle
Smile 2 picks up right where Smile left off. Well, "six days later," as onscreen text tells us. It's a bold move from writer/director Parker Finn that combines with a bravura long-take opening sequence to announce that Smile 2 is...
JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX Review: Sweet Psycho Romance Stuck in an Edgelord's Mess
Whether she's loved the character since she was a child or is making a calculated attempt at winning an acting Oscar, Lady Gaga's performance as the Joker universe's Harley Quinn is by far the best thing to come out of...
LOOK BACK Review: Emotionally and Visually Beautiful Film, Undone by Melodrama
It's no wonder that Look Back is highly anticipated by anime fans. The film is based on the manga of the same name by Chainsaw Man creator Tatsuki Fujimoto and is directed by Kiyotaka Oshiyama, whose resume includes working with...
RED ROOMS Interview, Part 2: Pascal Plante Talks the Music and Ethics of His Thriller
In part 1 of our interview, Red Rooms filmmaker Pascal Plante talked extensively about how individual scenes were designed and shot. In part 2, we got more into the musical score and the ethics of making his thriller. Red Rooms...
RED ROOMS Interview, Part 1: Pascal Plante Talks the Craft of Making a Thriller
In Martin Kudlac's review of Red Rooms, he writes about how the film draws on Michael Haneke, its "enigmatic" protagonist Kelly-Anne (Juliette Gariépy), and the ways it repeatedly "bucks genre expectations" as a film ostensibly about a serial killer. More...
Popcorn Frights 2024 Review: LIVESCREAMERS Brings Gaming to Screenlife
Michelle Iannantuono's horror thriller stars Michael Smallwood, Kristopher Bosch, and Christopher Trindade.
DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE Review: Self-Awareness Doesn't Make the Multiverse Less Exhausting
Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman star in the latest Marvel movie, directed by Shawn Levy.
FLY ME TO THE MOON Review: Landing Among the Stars
Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum star in director Greg Berlanti's flighty comedy.
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...
Chattanooga 2024 Review: VIDEO VISION Looks Backward to Look Forward in a Wonderful Queer Romance Body Horror Story
Video Vision wears its Videodrome influence on its sleeve. Of course there's the name, but it goes further than that; both are about their central characters becoming one with analog technology and both make fantastic use of practical effects, especially...
Chattanooga 2024 Review: NOCLIP Goes Nowhere On Purpose
NOCLIP opens with a silly animated commercial for the Kansas City Missouri mall Crown Center. It's a real mall that's existed for more than half a century now, though I haven't been able to determine whether or not the commercial...
Chattanooga 2024 Review: SWEET RELIEF, Or, BLUE VELVET for the 21st Century
While many films, including some of its festival mates at the Chattanooga Film Festival this year, regurgitate some of David Lynch's images and ideas, Sweet Relief offers something comparable to, rather than derivative of the master of modern dark surrealism....
JANET PLANET Review: A Lovely Window Into Small Moments
Julianne Nicholson, Will Patton, and Zoe Ziegler star in Annie Baker's directorial debut.
TIGER STRIPES Review: Beautiful, Incisive Story of the Monstrous Feminine
Amanda Nell Eu wrote and directed "a beautiful and incisive story of the monstrous feminine." Zafreen Zairizal, Deena Ezral, Piqa, Shaheizy Sam, June Lojong, Khairunazwan Rodzy, and Fatimah Abu Bakar star.
THE LAST STOP IN YUMA COUNTY Review: Thrilling, Enjoyable Neo-Western
Jim Cummings, Jocelin Donahue, and Sierra McCormick star in a film by Francis Galluppi.
THE FALL GUY Review: A Rousing Crowd Pleaser
David Leitch has had ups and downs since co-directing John Wick a decade ago. While he's always been an incredibly talented action filmmaker, courtesy of his background as a stunt performer and coordinator, his apparent passion for mixing action and...
HANKY PANKY Review: Cheap, Dumb, Delightful
Lindsey Haun and Nick Roth directed the horror comedy, available April 19 on VOD. "It's a silly movie that just wants to make its audience smile, and it succeeds."
Calgary Underground 2024: Curtain Raiser
The Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) opens its 21st edition today, and runs until April 28th. Western Canada's largest showcase of genre film, offbeat documentaries, and industry events is housed in the two-screen (stacked on top of one another) Globe Cinema in the...
THE GREATEST HITS Interview: Ned Benson, Lucy Boynton, Justin H. Min on Los Angeles and Everchanging Relationships with Music
In my review of The Greatest Hits, the new sci-fi romance from The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby writer/director Ned Benson, I mention that it opens with a montage of two young lovers “generally doing things that young, hip couples do...
