L'Etrange 2019 Review: KNIVES & SKIN, Femme Neo-Noir that Soothes and Bristles
Knives & Skin, Jennifer Reeder's second feature film, is a 'noir' of many colours: part neo, part femme, part pastel; it will likely draws comparisons with Blue Velvet for it's oddball yet seedy town setting; Brick and a lot of...
L'Etrange 2019 Review: LILLIAN, The Loneliness of the Long, Long, Long Distance Home
What would you do if you were in a foreign country, where had no money, did not speak the language, and could not find work without the necessary proper documentation? Would you go to your country's embassy to ask for...
Toronto 2019 Review: SYNCHRONIC, The Science of Altered States
The Justin Benson/Aaron Moorhead oeuvre has successfully wandered in the fields of science fiction and horror, examining questions of the meaning and purpose of existence, the nature of love, and the concept of time through some serious philosophical discussions and...
Toronto 2019 Review: THE LONG WALK, Contemplating Grief and Time-Travel
Many people dream of traveling back in time to certain events in their lives in the hopes of changing them, they believe for the better. But what does it mean to travel back, and why do we always think of...
Review: CHAINED FOR LIFE, A Fuzzy Line Between the Freaks and the 'Normal People'
In the modern age of endless selfies, we are hyper-aware of how we look; or perhaps more accurately, how we want to look, and how we want the world to see us. But what if it is impossible to hide...
Trailer for THE UNION OF SALVATION: Epic Drama of Russian History
I'm a bit of a sucker for a historical costume drama; one which is a sweeping epic of a pivotal moment in a nation's history, that also has both non-fictional and fictional characters, that test the waters of love, politics,...
Toronto 2019 Review: PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE, Queering the Costume Drama
Rarely has there been a film title that was so apt in describing a film, and its maker. After contemporary social dramas on queerness and gender identity (Tomboy and Girlhood), writer/director Céline Sciamma's star continues to rise as she deftly...
Review: TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID, Magical, Violent, Terrifying
Thousands of people have been murdered or gone missing in the ongoing violent drug war in Mexico. One of the often unacknowledged side effects is the now-orphaned children, many of whom end up on the streets. In her third feature,...
Review: GWEN, Bleakness and Betrayal in the Welsh Hinterland
The clouds never seem to leave the sky in the peaks of Wales; the wind is almost constant, either in a slow track or relentless howls; and even moments of beauty found in the craggy low mountains hide sinister things...
ScreenAnarchy's Top Movies Of The First Half Of 2019
With 2020 only half a year away, let's do the mid-2019 Top-Ten thing. We asked our staff of writers and editors what, in their opinion, were the best films this year so far. And because that's too easy, as writer...
Frontières Announces Cannes 2019 Platform, Genre Goodies Abound
In recent years, Frontières has become the premiere co-producing platform and market for fantastic genre cinema. If you have a horror, scifi, or supernatural film idea, Frontières is the place for you, and it's become one of the highlights of...
Review: LITTLE WOODS, Risky Navigation of an Uncaring System
Contemporary social realism films from the USA, like much of social realism cinema in general, focuses on the lives of the poor and marginalized, and often involve the potential loss of a home or need for extra money for medical...
Issa López's Festival Hit, TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID, Acquired By Shudder For Late 2019 Release
After over a year on the festival circuit and months of speculation, it was finally confirmed today that Issa López's Tigers Are Not Afraid has been acquired by AMC-owned horror-centric streaming service, Shudder for a release in late 2019. The film...
Review: UNDER THE SILVER LAKE, Contemporary Straight White Male Gaze, Defined
Andrew Garfield stars in David Robert Mitchell's half-baked, superficial story.
Review: TEEN SPIRIT, A Middling Teenager Drama of Angst & Success
The proliferation of reality TV talent contests seem to have given young people (and older people) a false idea of what it means to have artistic talent: mainly, that you don't. All you need to do is win a contest...
STAR WARS Episode 9 Teaser
Entitled Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Not sure about the title. But I am sure about Billy Dee Williams being back and awesome. Here it is....
Sarasota 2019 Review: FERAL, The Space Between the Tunnels and the Light
There are as many stories of how and why someone becomes homeless, as there are homeless people. Sometimes we ignore them, sometimes we give them some money; there are organizations that help, or that we tell ourselves help. Do we...
Review: Claire Denis' HIGH LIFE, In Space, Still Against Type
Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Mia Goth and André Benjamin star in director Claire Denis' first foray into science-fiction territory.
Review: In THE WIND, Demons and Loneliness Terrify
Caitlin Gerard stars in Emma Tammi's feature directorial debut.
FERAL Poster & Stills Hint at the Strange in the NYC Underground
Both the 1980s TV series Beauty and the Beast and the new feature film Us have presented very different ideas of what lies in the tunnels under our urban feet. It's not just subway tunnels and sewers; it could be...
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