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...
THE DEAD DON'T DIE: Jarmusch Does Zombies, Awesomely
American auteur Jim Jarmusch successfully tackled the vampire film with his understated and moody Only Lovers Left Alive. So it seems only fitting that the next genre monster he tackles are zombies. And this time it looks like's going for...
RIP Agnès Varda: Filmmaker, Feminist, Auteur, Lover of Cats
Agnès Varda, a filmmaker whose career spans 60 years, who began as the heart of the French New Wave (and its only woman member) and later followed a path that touched narrative, documentary, and experimental cinema, has sadly passed away....
Watch Creepy Short Film AMY, Prepare to Check Over Your Shoulder. A Lot.
L. Gustavo Cooper is a name you're going to want to remember, and a distinct and exciting voice on the indie horror film scene. With several short films under his belt, two features (The Devil Incarnate and June), work on...
Boston Underground 2019 Review: MOPE, What Violently Happens to a Dream Deferred
All jobs and professions require certain skills; most of these can be learned, allowing most people to learn as they go along, and become better the longer they work. But some jobs require a certain kind of talent, or perhaps...
Boston Underground 2019 Review: HAIL SATAN? The Devil is in the Delightful Details
A friend of mine has theorized that that US citizens would sooner vote for a black lesbian muslim before they would vote for an atheist, so ingrained is the notion that one must believe in a deity in order to...
Hey, NYC! Win Tickets to WHY DON'T YOU JUST DIE At What The Fest!?
Who likes free movie tickets! Who likes weird, mind-bending, smart, cool, funky, and all-around head-scratcher kinds of films? Who lives in the New York area? If you answer 'me' to all of these questions (or even just the last one),...
AVENGERS: ENDGAME Trailer Has Arrived, is as Dramatic as Expected
Now that Captain Marvel is kicking butts in cinemas, and the last post-credit sequence has been unveiled, it's time for the official trailer for Avengers: Endgame. Expected faces, lots of hand-wringing and dramatic slow motion, and of course it has...
RELAXER Trailer: The Slacker Dream becomes a Nightmare
I've been playing a lot of Red Dead Redemption 2 lately. A LOT. I make sure I get my work done, but at a certain hour, this wild west video game calls to me, and my cat snuggles on my...
Review: CAPTAIN MARVEL is a Force to be Reckoned With
Marvel films have enjoyed success over the past several years for a number of reasons, among them that they follow a certain formula when it comes to a superhero's origin story. We had a pretty good idea of the various...
