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ScreenAnarchy's Top Ten Films of 2019
As 2019 comes to an end, ScreenAnarchy’s global team of critics and cineastes weighs in with our favourite cinematic offerings from the past 12 months, which saw Netflix lead the charge for cementing the legitimacy of the streaming platforms, while...
Friday One Sheet: The Best Posters of 2019
I hope you have enjoyed this column (almost) every Friday for 2019 as much as I have enjoyed writing it. Here is a cumulation of the best posters of the year. They are in no specific order, as they are...
Friday One Sheet: EYES WIDE SHUT @ 20
My favourite Christmas movie turned 20 this year. Stanley Kubrick's final film has taken almost as long to get its due in the popular culture, but I feel it has achieved consensus (more or less) for the final Kubrickian masterwork...
Los Cabos 2019 Dispatch: Festival Galas THE IRISHMAN and JOJO RABBIT
The eighth edition of the Los Cabos International Film Festival kicked off with the Latin American premiere of Martin Scorsese’s latest gangster masterpiece The Irishman. At the opening gala, the legendary Robert De Niro himself presented the film, though his...
Now Streaming: THE MANDALORIAN Kicks Off Another Disney STAR WARS Era
Pedro Pascal allegedly stars in Jon Favreau's new series; Dave Filoni directed the first episode.
Now Streaming: BABYLON and SPECIAL 7 Make Politics Deadly
Also briefly noted: 'Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal,' man and T-Rex vs. the world; 'Seis Manos,' martial arts in retro Mexico. Plus trailers for all four series.
Friday One Sheet: MIDWAY, Woody Harrelson is Not Impressed
As floating head ensemble posters go, the latest key art for Roland Emmerich's Midway is the Bloomin' Onion variant. A spreading cluster (which, by the way, is still under half of the films principle cast of World War II military...
Fantastic Fest 2019: Dispatch From the Streaming Wars
'In the Shadow of the Moon,' 'In the Tall Grass,' 'Fractured' and 'Dolemite Is My Name' all showed why they belong on the big screen.
Friday One Sheet: THE REPORT Redacts Truth
Analog newsprint and redaction feature heavily into the key art for The Report. In noisy high-contrast black and white, Adam Driver in a pretty natty suit, is rendered in newsprint text with headlines poking out. "Fabricated Information" is underlined via...
Friday One Sheet: JOJO RABBIT And The Handbill Aesthetic
A mixture of techniques in play make for an interesting, photo-free, text heavy poster for Taika Waititi's last film, Jojo Rabbit. The large splashes of text all over the key art looks painted with a wide brush. It being a...
Melbourne 2019: ScreenAnarchy Reviews First Glance Features
Now for something a little different. The Melbourne International Film Festival, like every year, has revealed its First Glance titles. These are a hodgepodge of different program streamed films and documentaries to whet the appetite prior to the full guide...
70s Rewind: THE BIG FIX, Sleepy Times Are Over
Richard Dreyfuss stars as a former radical turned mellow private detective in Los Angeles who finally wakes up.
Friday One Sheet: WONDER WOMAN 1984
Call it the Guardians Of The Galaxy Effect. When Marvel Studios took the chance on adapting 'the oddballs save the universe to the sounds of a rockin' mix tape', with a big budget and a lot of humour, they went...
70s Rewind: BLUME IN LOVE, George Segal Seeks Peace, Love, Understanding
Also: how a certain sequence in Paul Mazursky's mainstream romance ripples unpleasantly through time.
70s Rewind: THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION, Reviving Sherlock Holmes
Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall and Nicol Williamson star in Herbert Ross' adaptation of a cinematic detective tale.
70s Rewind: DOMINIQUE, A Man Out of Time
What, exactly, was Cliff freakin' Robertson doing in the 1970s?
New Genre on VOD: MISS BALA Rises Above, A VENGEANCE Strikes Back
Plus: 'The Wind' terrifies with loneliness in the West. Oh, and demons too.
Notes on Streaming: ULTRAMAN and TWILIGHT ZONE Return
Plus: Teasing Korean 'Persona.'
New on VOD: Joyous THE KID WHO WOULD BE KING, Shattered GLASS
Plus: Keanu Reeves brings 'Replicas' to life.
Pretty Packaging: John Carpenter's PRINCE OF DARKNESS
(OK, seeing as how the releases are so similar, I'm cribbing the first bit of this article from my previous one about Escape From New York...) Back in November, UK distributor StudioCanal released two of their John Carpenter titles with...
