Hollywood Reviews
I PLAY ROCKY Review: Making Of Biopic Leans Heavily into Underdog Nostalgia
For Sylvester Stallone (Anthony Ippolito), a little-known, struggling actor-turned-screenwriter, the phrase “I play Rocky” in Peter Farrelly’s (Ricky Stanicky, The Greatest Beer Run Ever, Green Book) biopic about the making of 1976’s Best Picture winner, Rocky, becomes a life-altering mantra,...
Kino Chases Italian Thrills with New ITALO-CRIME 4K Release
Plus more descents into criminal behavior from KL Studio Classics! -- Walter Hill's 'Johnny Handsome,' 'Tomas Alfredson's 'The Snowman,' and James Dearden's 'A Kiss Before Dying.'
EVEREST: THE OTHER SIDE Review: Documenting a Disastrous Expedition
In films like Meru and Free Solo, Jimmy Chin set a high bar for mountaineering documentaries. His latest, co-directed with Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, is an extremely challenging work that questions the very idea of climbing. Everest: The Other Side is...
Home Video Roundup: THE PINK PANTHER MASTERPIECE COLLECTION 4K, DEADLY BLESSING 4K, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR 4K, More from Kino
The Pink Panther Masterpiece Collection 4K One of the fun things about reviewing physical media is that it gives me a good excuse to go down all kinds of rabbit holes looking for trivia. The character of Inspector Clouseau from...
Guillermo del Toro's Glory, FRANKENSTEIN 4K Review
Frankenstein has always been Guillermo del Toro’s white whale, as anyone following and paying attention to the director, knows, and we’re big fans of GDT here at ScreenAnarchy. (See Kurt’s original festival review out of TIFF here and one of...
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS 4K Review: Nerve Jangling, To Say the Least
Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins star in Jonathan Demme's chilling adaptation of Thomas Harris' novel.
WILDWOOD Review: Often Breathless, Usually Reckless, Always Enchanting
Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Jacob Tremblay, and Cary Mulligan star in the animated action-adventure from director Travis Knight and LAIKA Studios.
CLAYFACE Review: Newly Revived DCU Saves Its Best for Third
Ranked by one supposedly well-respected site as only the 73rd “best” Batman villain, Clayface’s journey from the comic book panel to the big screen has taken a long, not quite circuitous route. Thanks to horror auteur Mike Flanagan (The Fall...
KLARA AND THE SUN Review: Uneven, Unwieldy Adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's Bestselling Novel
Taika Waititi's new film stars Jenna Ortega, with Amy Adams and Natasha Lyonne.
WHALEFALL Review: A Man Trapped Inside A Whale Confronts Mortality And Daddy Issues
There’s something invigorating about a film treating a boldly ridiculous premise with utterly intense sincerity. It’s really the only way to approach a film like Whalefall, which finds its young adult protagonist, Jay (Austin Abrams), trapped in the belly of...
STREET FIGHTER Review: This Is 1993, Baby. It Is What It Is.
Directed by Kitao Sakurai ('Twisted Metal'), the big-screen adaptation stars Andrew Koji, Noah Centineo, and Callina Liang.
YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING Review: A Dizzying, Revolutionary Doc That Challenges The Integrity Of The Form
One of the first related searches that Google offers up when you type in the title of anarchist/documentarian/comedian Nathan Fielder’s latest project is, “Is You Can See Everything a real documentary?”. That is a question that will roll around in...
New York 2026 Review: ARTIFICIAL Doesn't Make a Bigger Splash
The NYFF premiere of Luca Guadagnino ‘s Artificial, which is set for a theatrical release in December, comes one year after the NYFF premiere of the director’s previous live-action feature, After the Hunt. Unlike the previous film, which was highly...
MUSK Review: Must-See Doc That Sadly Will Go Mostly Unseen
At 12:01 p.m. on January 20th, 2029, the 48th president of the United States will be sworn into office. His name — because more likely than not, the next president will be a “he” — will not be Donald...
CRYSTAL LAKE Review: Prequel Series is a Slow-Burn Crime Drama That Doesn't Skimp on Slasher Violence
One year after her young son's tragic drowning, a grieving single mother's dark past is unearthed by two strangers, triggering a disturbing chain of events that reveals the terrifying origins of a horror legend.
OTHER MOMMY Review: Horror Version of SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE No One Really Wanted
Seven-year-old Bela (Arabella Olivia Clark) lives with her mother, Ursula (Jessica Chastain), and her father, Russell (Jay Duplass), who love each other very much. At least, that’s what the girl is planning to say in her introduction speech at her...
TENZING Review: Necessary, If Hagiographic, Corrective to Cultural History
When newspapers, radio stations, and television news programs reported the first successful summit of Mt. Everest on May 29th, 1953, Edmund “Ed” Hilary, a New Zealand member of a spring expedition organized by the British, received prime, sometimes sole credit...
THE ISLAND, TERROR TRAIN, and More Classic Horrors New to 4K from KL Studio Classics
KL Studio Classics, the main sub-label under the Kino Lorber home video brand, doesn't get the praise the "cooler" boutique labels garner, but it's every bit as deserving. Their 4K scans and remasters maintain a high level of quality and...
New York 2026 Review: BEHEMOTH!, Total Ungrip of the Heart
Pedro Pascal stars in director Tony Gilroy's new film.
BEWARE BOIÚNA Review: This Giant Snake Movie Needs Way More Giant Snake
It doesn’t take much for me to completely buy into your giant snake movie. Number one, show me the snake; number two, make the snake exciting; and number three, make the movie fun. Somehow, Mike P. Nelson’s Beware Boiúna comes...
