Now Streaming: WE ARE WHAT WE ARE, Timeless Characters in a Chilling Horror Story
Bill Sage, Ambyr Childers, and Julia Garner lead the cast in director Jim Mickle's dark, dark family tale, now streaming on Shudder.
Screen Anarchists On READY PLAYER ONE
Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One is the legendary director's highest-grossing film in over a decade, and audience reception worldwide is pretty kind towards it. Many critics like the film as well, and some herald it as a return to...
Screen Anarchists On BLADE RUNNER 2049
We almost didn't publish a "Screen Anarchists On BLADE RUNNER 2049" article. I did a quick tally among our editors, critics and contributors, and everybody seemed to like the film. Now that ain't interesting, is it? We want divisiveness...
Have Your Say: The Best Films In Life Come Three!
So a few days ago, a friend posted an innocuous enough question over on Facebook. It was to the effect of: "I've got about 5-8 hours of free time this evening and want to watch a triple-bill. What three films...
Screen Anarchists On KONG: SKULL ISLAND
Unless you've been living under a (skull-shaped?) rock, you're probably aware there is a new King Kong film in theaters. It's called Kong: Skull Island, and opinions about it within Screen Anarchy are divided, to say the least. Kwenton...
Screen Anarchists On: INTERSTELLAR
(All In Good Time, or: just how stellar was Interstellar?) By now Christopher Nolan's Interstellar has been orbiting most of the world in wide release for a week, and it sure has left its mark. It's raking in money, although...
Review: IN FEAR Takes A White-Knuckle Ride On A Dark Night
New couple Tom and Lucy are on their way to a music festival, to meet up with friends, camp, and explore their new relationship, when things go terribly awry. In Fear opens with Lucy in the loo of a pub,...
Sundance 2014 Review: RICH HILL Is A Striking Look At Poverty In America
When writing/directing team Andrew Droz Palermo and Tracy Droz Tragos focus their lens on three kids growing up in the ramshackle Missouri town of Rich Hill, it's not a pretty picture that is captured. Once a thriving mining village, now...
Review: IN FEAR Takes a White-Knuckle Ride on a Dark Night
New couple Tom and Lucy are on their way to a music festival, to meet up with friends, camp, and explore their new relationship, when things go terribly awry. In Fear opens with Lucy in the loo of a pub,...
Guillermo del Toro Opens Up His Private CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Oh for joy! If I had one single Halloween wish, it would be to hang out with one of my favorite living directors, Guillermo del Toro, and be given free reign to run around his creative headquarters, known as Bleak...
F The Whales, Help Save The Tower Theater In Salt Lake City!
When I first moved to Salt Lake City a year ago, many of my friends and cohorts lamented the fact that a cinephile like myself was not going to be in a major market area, where seeing something besides the...
Review: WE ARE WHAT WE ARE, Tastefully Macabre
Let's get this out of the way right off the bat: We Are What We Are is not a remake. Differing greatly from the original Jorge Michel Grau Spanish-language version, the creative team of Jim Mickle (writer/director) and Nick Damici...
Review: LOVELACE, When A Bio-Pic Is Hard To Swallow
Hot on the heels of the sexual revolution, 1972's pornographic breakout hit Deep Throat brought conservative America to its proverbial knees, raking in millions and turning its lead actress, Linda Lovelace, into a bona-fide star. In Lovelace, actress Amanda Seyfried...
Review: FRUITVALE STATION, For Anyone Who Believes In Love And Community
When I first heard that a film based on the shooting of Fruitvale, California resident Oscar Grant had been made, it set off an explosion of hopes and concerns for me. You see, I have a very close connection with...
Review: STOKER Triumphs With Beauty And Violence
Stoker is what you've come to expect from Park Chan-wook: A twisted tale of familial obsession, sexual repression, buried histories, and, in the loosest and grimmest sense, self-liberation. Park's uber-violent Vengeance trilogy, and political thriller JSA: Joint Security Area, are...
Danny Trejo Is Out For Blood And Funding For SNAP SHOT
Check out this very strange and cool campaign ad with grizzled action and genre star Danny Trejo and director Frankie Latina. Their new project Snap Shot, a noir-ish crime thriller, is hitting the bricks today through the Sundance Institute Artist...
TIFF Next Wave Review: Droids, Dreams and Destiny Come Together In 5-25-77
Whether you were one of the first to see it back in '77, or whether you were born well after the pop-culture bomb built by the man named George Lucas blew sky high, chances are Star Wars has impacted your...
Meet The STOKER Family In A New Behind The Scenes Featurette
As Stoker's March 1st release date approaches, let this new peek into the twisted members of the family whet your appetite for Park Chan-wook's highly-anticipated English-language debut. After India's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes...
Danny Boyle's TRANCE Red Band Trailer Looks Bloody Good
My excitement level just shot through the roof. Danny Boyle's upcoming crime opus Trance now looks longer on bloodshed and shorter on laughs than first impressions suggested. Either way, his flair for the visual and knack for high-octane storytelling looks...
Sundance 2013 Review: WE ARE WHAT WE ARE Is Tastefully Macabre
Let's get this out of the way right off the bat: We Are What We Are is not a remake. Differing greatly from the original Jorge Michel Grau Spanish language version, the creative team of Jim Mickle (writer/director) and Nick...
