International: Asia
KUNG FU SOCCER Review: Stephen Chow's Dreadful All-Female Sequel Deserves a Straight Red Card
Twenty five years after scoring a resounding critical and commercial hit with the martial arts sports comedy Shaolin Soccer, Hong Kong film industry legend Stephen Chow unleashes an absolute howler of a sequel that fails to replicate anything that made...
TRAIN TO BUSAN Review: Plunging Into Zombie Chaos
Directed by Yeon Sang-ho, the zombie thriller, remastered and revived, stars Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, Ma Dong-seok, and Kin Su-an.
Anime Weekly: LOVE UNSEEN BENEATH THE CLEAR NIGHT SKY, Romance and Disability
Can true love blossom between a blind person and a sighted person?
Echoes: Has Pakistani VFX Improved Enough for More Zombie / Horror Movies?
After the arrival of Zombeid (2026), I have been talking at length about the potential in the horror genre when it comes to the Pakistani film industry. Despite the story being a downer, an excellent first attempt at VFX is...
Opening This Week: THE END OF OAK STREET, THE WRONG GIRLS, THE RIVALS OF AMZIAH KING
Plus: 'Feed,' 'The Birthday Party,' and 'Train to Busan: 10th Anniversary.'
Toronto 2026: Midnight Madness Drops Its Full Lineup. Duncan Jones! Anna Biller! SABU! Matthew Rankin! Na Hong-jin! Oh My!
With the capable and unpredictable curation of Peter Kuplowsky and his team of brave pre-screeners, the Midnight Madness (MM) sidebar at the Toronto International Film Festival continues to be one of the favourite parts of TIFF here at Screen Anarchy....
Anime Weekly: GOODBYE LARA, How to Refresh IP
She's a little mermaid, but not like those we've seen before.
STAR WARS: VISIONS PRESENTS - THE NINTH JEDI Review: Back to its Samurai Roots, Shaking up The Lore, For The Better
Lah Kara, the daughter of lightsaber-smith Lah Zhima, is pursued by dark forces while on a dangerous mission to deliver his newly crafted lightsabers to those she deems worthy to have one - masterless, wandering Force-sensitives. When we first meet...
Fantasia 2026: Audience Awards Announced!
Fantasia has all but wrapped up for 2026. We returned home after taking up the final leg of the festival after Kurt kicked us off opening weekend and Josh held the line during the industry heavy first full week of...
THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER Interview: Kiyoshi Kurosawa on the Adaptation Between Fiction and Reality
Masahiro Motoki, Masaki Suda, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Munetaka Aoki, and Ryota Miyadate star in Kurosawa's historical drama mystery film.
Echoes: After ZOMBEID, Can Pakistan Build Its Own Horror Universe?
Let me be straightforward here: Yes, it certainly can make its own horror universe after Zombeid (2026), since the ending indicates the possibility of a sequel. Films have the potential of getting a sequel and eventually becoming a franchise if...
Opening This Week: TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA, ICE CREAM MAN, TONY
Plus: 'Late Fame,' 'Mr. Hero,' 'Olmo,' 'Julian,' 'Cookie Monsters.'
Fantasia 2026 Review: THE SPECIALS, A Crowd-Pleasing Yakuza Subversion
A yakuza member named Kumashiro hires four independent, rival assassins to eliminate Boss Honjō, the powerful leader of the rival Honjō-gumi syndicate. Executing the hit has always been complicated because Honjō frequently uses body doubles, leaving constant doubt regarding his...
Fantasia 2026 Review: TOKYO BURST: CRIME CITY, Trades in Solo Grit For Buddy-Cop Chaos in a Worthy Expansion of THE ROUNDUP Universe
Welcome to Kabuki-cho, an entertainment district in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. Called the "Sleepless Town", it is home to a sprawl of host and hostess clubs, love hotels, nightclubs and yakuza hangouts. Shiro Aiba, the Shinjuku Central Police Station’s newest,...
THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER Review: Historical Murder-Mystery, Full of Modern-Day Questions
A new film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
Fantasia 2026 Review: CHERRY AND VIRGIN, A Nervous and Experimental Work of Genius
I was 18 years old when an adult friend I met at a summer factory job recommended that I see Federico Fellini's 8 1/2. I could not make heads or tails of the movie, in Italian, in black and white,...
Fantasia 2026 Review: CAPTURED! Of Ghosts And Growing Up
Misaki is a bright high-school senior who has the grades to get into a good university. Misaki’s reservation is that she lives alone with her mother, who works a night shift to make ends meet. She is more or less...
Fantasia 2026 Review: VILLAGE OF EIGHT GRAVESTONES, Takashi Shimizu Proves Traditional Murder Mysteries Are Better With Ghosts
When Tatsuya’s estranged mom suddenly passes away, he is forced to head out to her old, isolated village and meet the family he has never known, the Tajimi Family. On the way there, he bumps into private detective Kosuke Kindaichi,...
Now Streaming: THOUGH I AM AN INEPT VILLAINESS, The Other Side of Revenge
Plus: 'A Lady Livid's Guide to Getting Even: How I Crushed My Homeland with My Mighty Grimoires' takes a more conventional approach to revenge.
Echoes: Why Is Horror the Most Untapped Genre in Lollywood?
Where horror films began in Lollywood, where they have gone, and what might keep them from going forward.
