Calgary Underground 2026: Curtain Raiser
Growing considerably over the last five years, the Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) has been continuing its mission as a fan-focused festival. Simultaneously, it has steadily increased the number of Canadian and International talents converging on the city for 11...
Spectacular Optical Launches Indie Film Label with MELODY, A YEAR IN A FIELD, and More
I keep hearing rumours of a renaissance of physical media and in-person creative events, and as one who keeps buying books, cd's, blu-rays, etc., I for one welcome such as renaissance. We're in a golden age of boutique labels and...
MĀRAMA Review: Combining the Personal and Political, In Gothic Form
Ariana Osborne, Toby Stephens, and Umi Myers star in writer/director Taratoa Stappard's gothic horror mystery.
MILE END KICKS Review: Contemporary RomCom Captures a Challenge of Epic Proportions
Barbie Ferreira, Devin Bostick, and Stanley Simons star in director Chandler Levack's music-laced romantic comedy.
TRAUMA OR, MONSTERS ALL Exclusive Clip: Kicking a Hornet's Nest
A new film by horror indie auteur Larry Fessenden is always cause for celebration, and for those lucky enough to be attending the Overlook Film Festival, they have the chance to attend the world premiere of his new film Trauma or,...
GILDA Blu-ray Review: The Atypical Noir Gets a Fresh Restoration
Probably like many people of my and slightly older generations, I was first introduced to Gilda from a scene in The Shawshank Redemption, during which the prisoners are watching the film and one insists that his friend pause in asking a request until...
ALPHA Review: Violent Grief and Desperate Love
Grief is not a straight line that slowly leads from deep sorrow to acceptance and remembrance; it comes in waves, and can reignite like a bonfire at the strangest moments, even decades on. Fear can likewise come like an tornado...
I LOVE BOOSTERS Trailer and Poster: Important Community Service
After the off-the-wall, bizarro genius of his feature Sorry to Bother You, about a man using a white voice in his telemarketing hob that leads to uncovering a conspiracy that includes people turning into horses, and his limited series I'm A Virgo,...
THE MILLION DOLLAR BET Trailer: Running for the Money
I've only been to Las Vegas once, but it was enough to witness room after room of people drawn into the world of gambling; whether they be sitting at a slot machine for hours on end, in a monotonous routine,...
VIRIDIANA Blu-ray Review: Revelations Over Last Suppers
Luis Buñuel understands the significance of supper. This evening meal, when family and/or friends gather to share the stories of the day, when time can stretch out, ideas discussed, philosophies debated, and ties renewed, it's an event where the bodily...
HONEY BUNCH Review: How Love Survives. But Should It?
Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie, Jason Isaacs, and Kate Dickie star in a gothic psychological thriller, directed by Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli.
THE INFINITE HUSK Review: The Human Body Is a Prison and a Wonder
While many films (and art in general) grapple with the question of what it means to be human, science fiction offers the tropes and syntax to make that question more palpable, or give means to approach it from an atypical...
TEARS TO A GLASS EYE Exclusive Trailer: Warming Up a Cold Trail
Did someone ever say that money doesn't get old? Maybe not, but money makes people do some awful things, and even if that money's been missing for a while, those awful deeds and the justice that was never served leave...
28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE Review: Give In to Your Inner Beast
Ralph Fiennes, Jack O'Connoll, and Alfie Williams star in the fifth installment of the infected saga, directed by Nia DaCosta.
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...
THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE Review: Portrait of a Lady on Religious Fire
Amanda Seyfried stars in Mona Fastvold's ode to the 18th century religious figure.
DUST BUNNY Review: Highly Enjoyable, As It Straddles the Line Between Whimsy and Gruesomeness
Mads Mikkelsen, Sigourney Weaver, and David Dastmalchian star in writer/director Bryan Fuller's dark, fantastical tale.
RETURN TO REASON Blu-ray Review: The Dizzying Avant Garde of Man Ray
The first years of cinema, the seventh art was treated more as a technological marvel than a device with which to tell stories. Even when the technology progressed and storytelling took over, artists still found ways to explore the...
NO MORE TIME Exclusive Trailer: Are You Paranoid or Is It Real?
While speculative films about outbreaks of illness and plague are not new to cinema, we definitely look at them differently, and have more personal and arguably somewshat accurate stories to tell along these lines, given that we have lived through...
Screen Anarchists On Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN
While Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Frankenstein passed me by during its limited theatrical run, it sure arrived on Netflix pretty fast. I checked it out, discussed it with colleagues, and noticed there were many different opinions on it,...
