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Now Streaming Weekly Roundup: FALLOUT Returns, CASTLE ROCK Chills, THE GREAT FLOOD Rushes In, BREAKDOWN: 1975 Recalls
Plus, movies making their streaming debut: 'One Battle After Another,' Megadoc,' 'Queens of the Dead,' 'Him,' 'Ne Zha 2.'
Now Playing: THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB Protests, THE HOUSEMAID Cleans Up, IS THIS THING ON? Tests Marriage
Plus: 'Avatar: Fire and Ash.'
Friday One Sheet: EYES WIDE SHUT @ 26
As is the tradition for this column, the penultimate entry before the end of the year is an alternate poster for Stanley Kubrick's final film. It is the 26th anniversary of the original release of Eyes Wide Shut, and hot on...
Screen Anarchy Last Minute Gift Guide 2025 Episode 3: Severin, Criterion Collection, Mutant Records, Collectibles and Collectible Packaging
Welcome to episode three of the Screen Anarchy Last Minute Gift Guide for 2025. This episode highlights homes entertainment releases from Severin and The Criterion Collection. I like to think that the difference between this and other gift guides is...
AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH Review: Another Visual Marvel Undercut by Sloppy Storytelling, Underdeveloped Characters, and Cliched Dialogue
Despite their supposed lack of pop cultural impact or influence, the James Cameron-directed Avatar films (2009, 2022) have collectively grossed more than five billion dollars, suggesting that, whatever the series’s inability to break through to the terminally online, Avatar and...
THE HOUSEMAID Review: Delightful, Surprisingly Effective Trash
Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried star in Paul Feig's new, airport-trashy thriller.
Screen Anarchy Last Minute Gift Guide 2025 Episode 2: Shout Factory, Warner, Neon Eagle and Cauldron
Welcome to Episode two of the Screen Anarchy Last Minute Gift Guide for 2025. The first episode highlighted releases from Kino. This episode covers stuff that was sent by Shout Factory, Warner Brothers, Neon Eagle and Cauldron. I...
IS THIS THING ON? Review: Standup Comedy, Midlife Marital Crisis, Familiar Trajectory
Will Arnett and Laura Dern star in Bradley Cooper's new film.
Dallas Critics Honor ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER as Best Film of 2025
Also: 'Kpop Demon Hunters' as Best Animated Film; 'Sentimental Value' as Best Foreign Language Film.'
Screen Anarchy Last Minute Gift Guide 2025 Episode 1: Kino
Dave Canfield, your Creature Feature Preacher here with the Screen Anarchy Last Minute Gift Guide for 2025. We’ve got several episodes coming in the next few days that showcase a bunch of easily-obtained, movie-related movies, music and collectibles, courtesy of...
Criterion in March 2026: Tsui Hark's THE BLADE, Martin Scorsese's KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, More
Springtime -- specifically, March 2026 -- brings many good gifts for home video enthusiasts from The Criterion Collection, beginning with Tsui Hark's superlative action epic The Blade (1995) in 4K (?!). I love the official description, so allow me to...
HOKUM Teaser Trailer: Adam Scott Stars in Damian McCarthy's Next Horror Thriller
A horror writer visits an Irish inn to scatter his parents' ashes, unaware the property is said to be haunted by a witch. Neon has released a new teaser trailer for Hokum, the upcoming horror thriller form Damian McCarthy,...
Opening This Week: THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB Cries for Help, THE HOUSEMAID Gets Twisted
Plus: 'Is This Thing On?' and 'Avatar: Fire and Ash.'
NORMAL Official Teaser Trailer: Bob Odenkirk's Everyman Hero Blows Stuff up Good
In just a handful of films, Bob Odenkirk has quickly solidified himself as the everyman-hero of action cinema. Building on another franchise's duo of entries, director Ben Wheatley, himself no stranger to ballistic cinema, continues to promote Odenkirk as just...
Now Playing: DUST BUNNY Dusts Off Fantasy, RESURRECTION Puzzles, ATROPIA Laughs
Plus: 'Lone Samurai,' 'Europe's New Faces,' 'Scarlet,' 'Ella McCay,' and 'Silent Night, Deadly Night.'
ELLA MCCAY Review: James L. Brooks' First Film in 15 Years Flounders, Stumbles, Flops
Emma Mackey stars, supported by Albert Brooks, Ayo Edebiri, James Lowden, Jamie Lee Curtis, Julie Kavner, Kumail Nanjiani, Rebecca Hall, Spike Fearn, and Woody Harrelson.
Playback: Rian Johnson, Twists and Turns, from BRICK to WAKE UP DEAD MAN
Rian Johnson wants you on the edge of your seat. The American director delights in twisting beloved genres into razor-sharp puzzles, from slick noir capers to sci-fi paradoxes. His films are (mostly) clever, without condescension. In Brick (2005), he drops...
THE STRANGERS - CHAPTER 3: Teaser Poster Arrives For Final Chapter of Horror Trilogy
In the final film of The Strangers trilogy, Maya (Madelaine Petsch) faces the masked killers one last time in a brutal, full-circle reckoning of survival and revenge. I will be open and honest with you, folks. I have not...
Now Streaming: TROLL 2, REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND, SPARTACUS: HOUSE OF ASHUR, Much More
Plus: 'The Occupant of the Room,' 'Mission: Impossible -- The Final Reckoning,' 'Caught Stealing,' 'The Family McMullen,' 'Architecton,' 'Jay Kelly,' 'The Abandons' and 'Mad Men.'
HIS GIRL FRIDAY 4K Review: Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell Wage One Battle After Another
Directed by Howard Hawks, Criterion's new 2-disc edition includes Lewis Milestone's 'The Front Page,' making for easy comparison between original and remake.
