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AWARENESS Official Trailer: Spanish Sci-fi Action Flick Coming to Amazon Prime in October
Ian, a rebellious teenager living on the outskirts of society, can manipulate minds with his ability to generate visual illusions. He uses this power to survive running small, indiscreet, scams. When one of his cons goes awry, his abilities publicly spiral out of control and Ian becomes the target of two rival organizations, each seeking to exploit his powers.
Slash 2023: Vienna's Genre Film Festival Announces Short Film Progam
The Slash Film Festival gets underway tomorrow and will run through to October 1st. The 14th annual genre film festival is held in the historic city of Vienna, Austria. Prior to the launch of this year's festival we have...
Toronto 2023 Review: CLOSE YOUR EYES, Time Enough To Remember
It's not a stretch to understand why films are often conflated with dreams (or nightmares); as with how our brains operate when we're asleep, films allow the creator to piece together images and sounds in a way that they hope...
Toronto 2023 Review: THE TEACHERS LOUNGE, A Dazzling Lesson In How Society Crumbles
I took no notes while watching The Teachers’ Lounge. This is rare for me in a festival environment, where I am seeing a lot of films in a short period of time. Yea, I am *that guy* who brings a...
Criterion in December 2023: Guillermo del Toro's PINOCCHIO, Plus BLAST OF SILENCE
Also: 'The Red Balloon and Other Stories.'
Toronto 2023 Review: SHAME ON DRY LAND, A Sweaty And Oblique Euro-Noir
Around midway through this unique Swedish-Maltese co-production, Shame On Dry Land, a question is asked of the main character, “Been a long day?” Dimman, the uncertain, never in control, anti-hero responds, “Yea, it never ends.” This is not a bug...
Vlissingen 2023 Review: THE TASTE OF THINGS
The Film By the Sea Festival in Vlissingen focused this year on French cinema, and on literary book adaptations. With Trần Anh Hùng's The Taste of Things they scored a double-whammy, as it falls in both categories. A loose adaptation...
Toronto 2023 Review: LAST SUMMER, Sex and Power in the Heat of the Season
While it's unusual for an auteur like Catherine Breillat to remake another, recent film, it's not a surprise, in this case, given the subject: sex and power. The filmmaker behind daring works (to say the least) such as Anatomy of...
Toronto 2023 Review: WORKING CLASS GOES TO HELL, Serbian Justice Served Slow And Absurd
Early in Mladen Djordjevic’s tragicomic satire, Working Class Goes To Hell, a young girl eats her lunch in the husk of a dead factory. A faded mural “Long Live Labour Day” peels off the burnt out walls above her. She...
THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE BARN Teaser: Horror Comedy From Magnus Martens Selling Globally, Quickly!
The life dream of the Nordheims comes true: going back to their roots and moving to their old family farm in the Norwegian Mountains. Unfortunately, they are sharing this dream with one of the trickier mythical creatures in Nordic folklore:...
Toronto 2023 Review: THE END WE START FROM, Motherhood at the End of the World
As we begin to see, it feels almost weekly, 'natural' (i.e. created by human activity) disasters happening around the world - floods, fires, you name it - you would be hard-pressed not think about what you would do with you...
THE WELL: New Images For Sitges-Bound Supernatural Horror, Starring Lauren LaVera
With the announcement of this year's lineup of films playing at Sitges this year comes the push from individual films to stand out from the derth of programming. One such film that caught our attention at the production stages was...
Vlissingen 2023 Review: DARK SATELLITES
One of the themes this year at the Film by the Sea festival in Vlissingen was "films based on literature". And one of the International Premieres being shown as part of this theme is Thomas Stuber's Dark Satellites, based on...
THE ELDERLY Trailer: U.S. Release Date Also Announced For Spanish Horror Flick
Following the sudden suicide of his wife, Manuel begins acting violently strange. Soon a series of paranormal events has all of the local elderly behaving oddly. They all seem to know something the young do not - paired with a...
Toronto 2023 Review: LA CHIMERA, Some Precious Things Left to Bury
Arthur (Josh O'Connor) is not having a good day. He's just got out of prison with nothing but the clothes on his back. His former criminal gang is eager to recruit him; the person to whom he plied his trade...
Vlissingen 2023 Review: UNDER THE NAKED SKY Is Very Impressive
On the first full day of Vlissingen's Film by the Sea festival, audiences were treated to a world premiere, red carpet and all. And while the film in question was a small drama, it actually quickly captured the top spot...
Toronto 2023 Review: SOLITUDE Quietly Pushes Back Against Our Too Busy World
Do you know that tentative, tiny hand wave that shows up (oh so gently) in the movies from time to time? A recent example of this is the final shot of Donnie Darko, where Jenna Malone offers a raised hand...
Toronto 2023 Review: HOW TO HAVE SEX, When The Party Brutally Stops
While partying hard and uninhibited lust is hardly only the arena of the young, there is something particular about how those about 25 years old and younger indulge themselves that is both weirdly admirable, since their bodies can bounce back...
DON'T MOVE: First Look at Horror Thriller Produced by Sam Raimi
A seasoned killer injects a grieving woman with a paralytic agent. She must run, fight and hide before her body shuts down.
Mayhem 2023: Short Film Showcase Announced
Mayhem Film Festival has announced this year's short film showcase. Fifteen titles from around the globe will vye for festival goers' appreciation and appease short attention spans. Of particular interest to us here at ScreenAnarchy HQ is the lone Canadian...
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