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THE REVENANT And MAD MAX Win Big At BAFTAs
The Revenant continued its run of award-winning form last night, bagging five awards at the BAFTAs in London. In addition to being named Best Film, director Alejandro Inarritu and star Leonardo DiCaprio were also honoured. The film, which also collected...
Exclusive Clip: CHERRY TREE, A Startling Proposition To A 15 Year Old Girl
In an exclusive clip from Irish horror movie Cherry Tree, a woman makes a startling proposition to a teenage girl. Available today in select theaters and also via various Video On Demand platforms, Cherry Tree follows that surprised, desperate girl as...
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Tops Online Critics Awards
George Miller's action epic continues to pick up steam in awards season as it was named Best Film of 2015 today by the Online Film Critics Society, of which a number of ScreenAnarchy's contributors are members. Miller also nabbed the...
FrightFest 2015 Dispatch: CHERRY TREE, THE UNFOLDING, NEVER LET GO, And More
So here we go again. FrightFest 2015 will present 76 features (and sundry shorts and special events) spread over six screens in four and a half days. It's the very best - and some of the worst - that (mostly...
Fantasia 2015: ScreenAnarchy Wraps It Up With Our Reviews And Top Picks
As the 19th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival came to a close on Thursday, and the awards handed out, the various ink-stained, alcohol-soaked and genre saturated writers lucky enough to be able to party in Montreal for a...
Fantasia 2015 Review: CHERRY TREE Yields Rotten Pits
The mantra "Death is only the beginning," is repeated throughout Irish occult horror Cherry Tree by the coven of witches who have infiltrated a small-town high school. Their sexy long tressed leader wears a guise as the girl's field hockey...
Screen Anarchy's Top 10 Movies Of The First Half Of 2015
As mentioned before, the year 2015 is moving on with breakneck speed, it seems. Currently we're already at the halfway point, and can look back at what's been a pretty surprising cinematic six months. So we asked ourselves what we...
Destroy All Monsters: The Problem With The TOMORROWLAND Thesis
I enjoyed Tomorrowland. There was a joy about the way Brad Bird shot the film that reminded me of early Spielberg, and if the whole thing ends up turning on the audience's willingness to believe that George Clooney has harboured...
Hooray For Hollywood! Meet The Bullet-Points Memo
Welcome to a new semi-regular subsection that we like to call the "Bullet-Points Memo." The idea behind BPM is to highlight multiple contemporaneous entertainment business stories that seem interesting to us (and, hopefully, you). We will be pulling stories, ideas...
Destroy All Monsters: All We Have Are Our Bodies On FURY ROAD
In Mad Max: Fury Road, we get the great existentialist Western of our time. Save one character murmuring prayers in one shot to anyone who will listen, God is not in evidence. The movie is entirely bound up in human...
The Many Faces Of Charlize Theron
Mad Max: Fury Road is putting the pedal to the metal in cinemas worldwide, and two things have become apparent. One: reviews so far are almost ridiculously positive. Two: everyone agrees Charlize Theron is awesome. Thing number two shouldn't come...
Cannes 2015 News: George Miller on MAD MAX - "I'd See It In 3D"
During the press conference for (the sublime) Mad Max here at Cannes 2015, ScreenAnarchy asked George Miller directly about his preference for which version of the film he preferred - stereoscopic, or 2D.Due to comments before the film's release...
The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Worlds of MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
What will the future look like? In Mad Max: Fury Road, director George Miller and his fabulous team conjure up strikingly distinct landscapes for what is, in essence, a chase movie. Yet it's a chase movie with great empathy for...
Review: MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, A Tour De Force Masterpiece
How's this for hyperbole: George Miller is the Australian Spielberg. You've got a director with a wide diversity of films (from The Road Warrior to Babe to Happy Feet), all injected with an almost preternaturally gifted ability to have...
MAD MAX: Will You Survive The New Trailer?
Mad Max. Fury Road. Tom Hardy. Charlize Theron. New trailer. Holy shit....
SXSW 2015: George Miller Introduces THE ROAD WARRIOR And Previews MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
Seeing George Miller walk out on stage to introduce The Road Warrior made all my pains go away. A medical doctor turned filmmaker, Miller may not have magical healing powers, but his movies have the capacity to make audiences forget...
New MAD MAX Trailer Hurts Real Good
Is there a ton of new footage in the new Japanese trailer for Mad Max: Fury Road? Honestly, not so much. But what there is every bit as gonzo as what we saw in the first trailer and it provides...
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Unleashes A Furious New Trailer
We all have good reason to be wary about Mad Max: Fury Road -- the distance from the original trilogy, the production delays, the rumors -- but take a look at the new trailer anyway, just because it's likely to...
Our First Look At Hardy And Theron In MAD MAX:FURY ROAD
EW got the big scoop today with fresh images from George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road. Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron adorn the cover of their upcoming The Apoclaypse Issue. Then inside there are more images of the two plus...
Here's A New Image Of Tom Hardy As MAD MAX
Another pic of Tom Hardy as Max Rocktansky in Mad Max: Fury Road has found its way online. As most productions of such high profile usually are, the flow of information and news has been held to a trickle. Only this...
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