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SXSW 2024 Review: THE MOOGAI, An Examination Of Indigenous Trauma Let Down By Flaccid Script
An Aboriginal demon steps in for the real-life enduring trauma of Australia’s “Stolen Generations” in Jon Bell’s debut feature, The Moogai. Government sponsored assimilation programs ripped tens of thousands of Aboriginal children from their families to be placed with white...
RELIC Interview: Director Natalie Erika James on Her Deeply Personal Horror Film
In Relic, now playing in Mexican theaters thanks to Tulip Pictures, Kay (Emily Mortimer) and her daughter Sam (Bella Heathcote) travel from Melbourne to Creswick, Australia, after being notified by the police of the disappearance of Edna (Robyn Nevin), the...
Celluloid Screams 2020: UK Horror Fest Gets Physical With PSYCHO GOREMAN, RELIC, And THE STYLIST
Our friends at the Celluloid Screams Horror Film Festival in Sheffield, UK, are preparing for their annual weekend of horror delights. They are planning to run a physical edition this year, with reduced capacity and social distancing measures in place....
RELIC Teaser: True Horror Awaits Emily Mortimer and Bella Heathcote
Just a few words from the official description of upcoming Australian dramatic thriller Relic were enough to fill me with dread at what I might be seeing. Now that a teaser has been released, I'm more convinced than ever that...
Australian RELIC Heads for U.S. Release in a Dark Summer
Releasing a horror film during the summertime may sound counter-intuitive, but actually it sounds quite fitting for Relic, an Australian dramatic thriller. Promising "a fresh and terrifying twist on the notorious haunted-house tale," Relic stars Emily Mortimer and Bella Heathcote...
BiFan 2016 Preview: Recommendations and Anticipated Delights
This Thursday ScreenAnarchy is heading to Korea for the 20th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, the largest celebration of genre cinema in all of Asia. A grand-scale championing of everything cinematic and fantastic on a normal year, this 20th anniversay...
Destroy All Monsters: Gazing At THE NEON DEMON
Spoilers for The Neon Demon, which I recommend everyone see at least twice. Looking is everything in Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon. Besides being the kind of cinematic scopophilia masterpiece that we only seem to get every couple of...
Interview: Nicolas Winding Refn & Elle Fanning Talk THE NEON DEMON and the Art of Rewriting
On a balmy afternoon in the Silver Lake neighborhood in Los Angeles, ScreenAnarchy joined a few hipster film journos on a trip to a castle at the top of a hill. Inside the castle filled with taxidermied beasts, Nicolas Winding...
Have Your Say: What Is Your Favorite Nicolas Winding Refn Film?
Last week, Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon went into limited release in North America, to mixed results and a disappointing box office. Film critics are divided as well, some calling it the year's best, others calling it a shallow...
Review: THE NEON DEMON, Beauty Is Fleeting
If beauty is fleeting, is there anything more precious than protecting it while it lasts? If all you have going for yourself is the outer shell, to what lengths would you go to in order to keep your specialness? Does...
Cannes 2016 Review: THE NEON DEMON, A Dark, Seductive Symphony
If beauty is fleeting, is there anything more precious than protecting it while it lasts? If all you have going for yourself is the outer shell, to what lengths would you go to in order to keep your specialness? Does...
THE NEON DEMON First Trailer: Are You Kidding Me?
The first trailer for Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon looks freaking amazing. (Full disclosure: This is a personal reaction based on less than two minutes of artfully arranged footage, tied together with haunting music.) Just announced for the Cannes...
THE HANDMAIDEN, THE NEON DEMON, AMERICAN HONEY, CAFE SOCIETY And More At Cannes 2016
After a late start, the press conference for the Cannes Film Festival gave cinephiles a treasure-trove of amazing films to be screening at in the main festival next month. There are some familiar faces, such as The Dardenne Brothers, Woody...
Review: In PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES, The P&P Is Fine, But The Z Is ZZZ
Neither as bad as it might have been nor as good as it needs to be, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies lands in that yawning chasm between promising premises and satisfying screen experiences. The movie smacks of shrewd marketing calculations,...
THE NEON DEMON: Keanu Reeves And Christina Hendricks Join Refn's Horror Flick
Keanu Reeves and Christina Hendricks have joined the cast of Nicolas Winding Refn's female-centered horror film The Neon Demon, according to Variety. The report also states that Jena Malone and a second Aussie actress, Bella Heathcote, are also part of the...
Abbey Lee Added To Nicolas Winding Refn's THE NEON DEMON
Abbey Lee, the Australian model turned actress, is in talks to join Nicolas Winding Refn's upcoming film The Neon Demon, according to Deadline. She will star with Elle Fanning, who joined the production not too long ago. In Neon Demon, she plays a cool...
NEON DEMON: Elle Fanning To Star In Nicolas Winding Refn's Horror Flick
According to a report over at The Wrap Elle Fanning (Maleficent, Twixt) is in negotiations to star in Nicolas Winding Refn's upcoming female-driven horror film, Neon Demon. Fanning will play an aspiring model who is caught in a world of...
Nicolas Winding Refn's Next Is Horror Picture THE NEON DEMON
It's amazing, really, that it's taken this long for Denmark's Nicolas Winding Refn - a man who has gone on record repeatedly naming The Texas Chain Saw Massacre as the greatest film ever made - to direct a horror film....
The Eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith, Joins PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES
Matt Smith, who rose to fame as the eleventh Doctor in Doctor Who, is joining the cast of Burr Steers' adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He joins a cast already filled with Lily James (Downtown Abby),...
CONFIRMED: Craig Gillespie Off PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES
And here's another blow for Lionsgate's proposed adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride And Prejudice And Zombies.It was all the way back in August that ScreenAnarchy reported all was not well between the production and director Craig Gillespie with Gillespie making...
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