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Now Streaming: APPLES NEVER FALL Tries to Teach, MANHUNT Simply Thrills
Annette Bening, Sam Neill, Jake Lacy and Alison Brie star in a family melodrama, now streaming on Peacock TV. Or, you can watch the search for Abe Lincoln's killer on Apple TV+.
Now Streaming: ROAR, From a Whisper to a Scream
Issa Rae, Nicole Kidman, Cynthia Erivo, Merritt Wever, Betty Gilpin, Alison Brie, Meera Syal, Fivel Stewart and Kara Hayward star in the anthology series, debuting globally on Apple TV+.
Now Streaming: CINEMA TOAST, From the Bizarre to the Comedic in Retro Found Footage Experimentation
While pandemic times has brought a lot of difficulties and frustrations to the film and television industries, there are advtantages: given the limitations, people are forced to get creative. What kind of work can we make when we can't physically...
Review: PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN, Bracing, Timely, Jolting Critique
Carey Mulligan stars in a sharp-edged crime comedy, written and directed by Emerald Fennell.
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MotelX 2020: Lisbon Genre Festival Lineup Includes LA LLORONA, THE RENTAL And HOST
Last month we shared the hopeful news that our friends at MotelX, the kick-ass genre film festival in Lisbon, Portugal, were prepping a live edition of their next festival. With some changes to their format and an extra couple days...
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Review: THE RENTAL, You May Want to Choose the Early Check-out
Anyone who’s ever rented a house or signed up for Airbnb lodgings in a remote corner of the world may have felt uncertainty sneak up. Naggingly, your mind begins to wonder: What if it’s all too good to be true?...
THE RENTAL Trailer: This Will Never Be Over
Alison Brie, Dan Stevens, Jeremy Allen White, and Sheila Vand star in Dave Franco's feature directorial debut.
THE RENTAL: 16 Seconds to Tease a Great Location
To be frank, I am not, in general, a fan of brief videos that tease longer videos, yet I must admit that, nonetheless, the brief video for The Rental intrigues me, despite myself. The 16-second video showcases nothing, really, except...
Sundance 2020 Review: HORSE GIRL Gives Alison Brie the Role of Her Career
Actress and co-writer Alison Brie combines forces with director and co-writer Jeff Baena for a consistently intriguing, occasionally brilliant, black comedy
Notes on Streaming: A VERY ENGLISH SCANDAL Simmers, G.L.O.W. Burns Bright
The most frequent complaint about Netflix is that their flood of new series all have too many episodes that are all too long. Here is my two-pronged solution: (1) try another streaming service; (2) watch shorter shows with fewer episodes....
Review: THE DISASTER ARTIST Digs Deep, Dreams Big
I think we were all pretty skeptical upon hearing the announcement that James Franco would be bringing the story of the making of Tommy Wiseau's The Room to the big screen over three years ago; at least those of us...
THE DISASTER ARTIST Teaser: James Franco and Seth Rogen Each Have Their Challenges
In a new teaser for The Disaster Artist, James Franco tries to act and Seth Rogen tries to direct. But it's not going very well. The film explores the making of Tommy Wiseau's legendarily awful The Room, which is what...
Notes on Streaming: GLOW, Wonder Women of the 1980s
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but desperation was the father of women's wrestling in the 1980s. Created by Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch, GLOW is a fictionalized version of how the real-life Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling came into...
Review: GET HARD, Two Men, Two Races, One Joke
Less a movie than a set-up for a haggard series of intended comedy blackouts, the new film Get Hard relies far too heavily on the well-established screen personas of Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart to be successful on its own...
SXSW 2015 Interview: Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart Teach Us How To GET HARD
Getting hard is not an easy process. There are many painstaking steps one must go through to achieve this deity-like way of life. Luckily for me and whoever reads this article, Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart tell us the...
COMMUNITY Season 6 Starts March 17 On Yahoo
Yahoo announced today during their Television Critics Association press session that the sixth season of the much-beloved, already-cancelled and obviously resurrected Community would begin streaming on Yahoo Screen March 17. They will start with two episodes and from there on...
J Hurtado's Top 10 Movie Memories Of 2014
Here we go again!My standard admonition about my own lists is that these are, in no way AT ALL, the best movies of the year. They are the ones that gave me the biggest thrills, made me think, made me...
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Tops Online Film Critics Awards
Wes Anderson's rip-roaring love letter to Lubitsch and Hitchcock, The Grand Budapest Hotel, topped this year's Online Film Critics Society Awards, which counts a number of ScreenAnarchy contributors amongst its global membership. The film won awards for Best Picture, Best...
Destroy All Monsters: Girls and LEGO
Major spoilers for The LEGO Movie follow. If you don't want to read about the ending, bookmark for later! So girls can't play with LEGO? That's the takeaway from The LEGO Movie, a takeaway which I thought was just a...
AnarchyVision: Jason Gorber Talks THE LEGO MOVIE and THE MONUMENTS MEN
Sure, it's a film about building blocks, but The LEGO Movie proves to have all the right pieces. It's a tonne of fun, and easily one of the best films of 2014.Also chatted about the disappointing The Monuments Men, a...
