SXSW 2023 Preview - So Many Great Flicks
It's time for another big Texas festival with SXSW getting started Friday. Yes it's the same weekend as the Oscars - which coincidentally look rather likely to be topped by a SXSW-premiering film. But Hollywood glitz and glamor be damned!...
SXSW 2023 Rounds Out Lineup with Matt Johnson's Latest - Full Lineup
We slept on the First SXSW lineup announcement mid-January, but we wouldn't dare not mention that the second wave has been announced and it includes the North American premiere of one pretty damned anticipated film. Blackberry is the long-awaited feature...
Sundance 2023: The Big Festival Preview
It was a very different world the last time the indie film industry gathered in chilly Park City for the Sundance Film Festival way back in 2020. Two online editions have come and gone, and it's oh so pleasing to...
Sundance 2023 Lineup Features New Names and Old Faves
We've been here before, excitedly discussing the Sundance Film Festival lineup announcement promising a return to in-person indie film goodness in the snowy setting of Park City. Let's all hope this time we'll really make the trip. Regardless, the full...
Overlook Announces March 2023 Dates, Submissions Open
Long a highlight of the genre fest calendar, the good folks at New Orleans's Overlook Film Festival have announced next year's festival will be scooting forward a bit. The dates for 2023 have been announced as March 30 to April...
AFI Fest 2022 Announces Full Slate
Film festivals -- and in particular LA-based film festivals -- have been in a fair amount of flux in past years. AFI Fest survives as LA's most prestigious fest, though it has shrink to just 5 days running November 2-6....
Telluride 2022 Fest Lineup Lands with Aplomb
Awards season is officially upon us when the Telluride festival lineup is announced the traditional day before the festival begins. It's a docu heavy lineup this year with notable big films from all the distribs. Without further ado, here is...
Overlook 2022: First Batch Of Flicks and Events Drops
The return of The Overlook is nigh and the today brings the announcement of the first big batch of mayhem. It includes the news that Scott Derrickson's Blumhouse pic The Black Phone starring Ethan Hawke and written by C. Robert Cargill...
SXSW 2022 Preview: Back At Last
Forget it. I'm not even going to try to say something pithy to sum up the two years of pandemic-missed SXSW festivals. It's back. Nuff said. The big Austin fest kicks off today and exists both in person and in...
Seattle International Film Fest Announces Hybrid SIFF in April
The Seattle International Film Festival (or SIFF) has long been known as one of the best regional festivals on the circuit. While the fest has traditionally been a nearly month-long early summer affair, the good folks in the Pacific Northwest...
SXSW 2022 Strong Festival Slate Announced
SXSW is back and in person in 2022! Some films will also be online (if they take the fest up on the offer) but the Austin fest which kicks off March 11, is touting their theatrical lineup and the slate...
Sundance 2022 Preview: A Now All-Virtual Fest (Again) Kicks Off
After a wildly successful virtual Sundance Film Festival 2021, Sundance 2022 was all set to experiment with a hybrid model that would include all of the clever innovations from the '21 fest (increased inclusivity of home access, smaller program, fun...
Sundance 2022: Egg-cellent Trailer Laid for HATCHING
Sundance has gone totally virtual so that means the usual crop of top notch midnight films will just have to be experienced in the safe, quiet, dark, not-at-all-creepy confines of your own home. One such films is the ultra disturbing-looking...
ScreenAnarchy's Top 10 Films of 2021
Hi All, here at ScreenAnarchy we are wishing you the best for 2022! And with the previous year now in the past, let us make a tally of what movies we liked most in 2021. Everyone here was encouraged to...
Sundance 2022 Feature Lineup Announced
Once merely a frigid Utah gathering of the movers and shakers of the indie film world, the Sundance Film Festival now transcends its Rocky Mountain confines to take place simultaneously online and in such remote locales as Lawrence, Kansas, Seattle,...
Indie Memphis 2021 Kicks Off Tonight With RED ROCKET
One of the best regional fests on the circuit is back in action! Indie Memphis kicks of the 24th edition tonight with Sean Baker's Cannes hit Red Rocket. The Tennessee festival runs through Monday the 25th and will feature such...
Overlook Film Fest Returns to New Orleans for 2022
Our long national nightmare is coming to an end. After two cancelled editions, our good friends at the Overlook Film Festival have just announced that the celebration of genre film and interactive mania will return for its 2022 edition, live...
Telluride 2021: Impressive Lineup Kicks Off Fall Fest Season
Telluride is back and the most exclusive of exclusive festivals starts up tomorrow. As is tradition, the lineup was just announced a day prior and it's another impressive list of movies looking make a mark with the tastemakers who have...
SXSW XR 2021 Dispatch: Like VR but Virtual
Virtual film festivals have led to mixed results for those festivals' XR programs. While in many ways, at home viewing of VR projects is much more conducive than crowded festival halls. But the lack of volunteer docents to help troubleshoot...
SXSW 2021 Virtual Fest Preview
The virtual edition of the SXSW Film Festival, aka SXSW Online, kicks off tomorrow, March 16, and runs five short days until Saturday March 20. With fewer days to watch movies, the total list of films is cut down quite...
