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FURIOSA: Giving the Heroine a Prequel Plays a Dangerous Game
This essay, originally titled "The Days I Don't Remember," appeared as backmatter for high-tier Kickstarter backers of my book, The Cinema of Survival: Mad Max Fury Road. I've edited and updated it now that the Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga...
FAST X Review: The Beginning of the End for the Globetrotting Action Franchise
Vin Diesel stars in the action-adventure, directed by Louis Leterrier.
Review: F9: THE FAST SAGA, Embrace the Absurdity, Love the Insanity
There’s a moment in F9: The Fast Saga, the Justin Lin-directed ninth entry in the Fast & Furious franchise (not counting spin-offs) that got its start 20 years ago, where Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel), a onetime professional thief, street-car racer,...
Review: THE ADDAMS FAMILY Seeks a New Home in a New Age
The animated film features the voices of Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz, Finn Wolfhard, Nick Kroll, with Bette Midler and Allison Janney; Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan directed.
Review: TULLY Delivers the Postpartum Depression Vibe
Or: Postpartum Depression: The Movie. Up front, I feel as though I should offer a bit of disclosure: I know this one. No, I did not have anything to do with the making of the film, its development, or...
AnarchyVision at Fantasia 2017: ATOMIC BLONDE, GOOD TIME, LADY MACBETH
Reporting once again from Montreal's famed Fantasia Film Festival, in this edition I look at Cannes Palme d'or contender Good Time, directed by the Safdie brothers and starring Robert Pattinson, along with Charlize Theron's punch-up Atomic Blonde, and the sublime...
Review: In ATOMIC BLONDE, Charlize Theron Breaks the Glass Ceiling By Punching Through the Berlin Wall
I love a good espionage thriller, and what better setting than the fifty year Cold War between the Western democracies and their deadly enemies in the Communist East? This underground conflict has bred some of the most magnificent films of...
Review: THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS Hits the Accelerator
Vin Diesel and his gang are back for yet another round of supercharged ridonkulousness with The Fate of the Furious, the eighth film in the ever-expanding, infectious cars and crime franchise. Like a boisterous but fun relative who keeps rolling...
The Many Faces Of Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
This week, Travis Knight's Kubo and the Two Strings appears in cinemas, and it carries a strong word-of-mouth, like the review by our Jim Tudor. The latest animation by Studio Laika, the film blends stop-motion puppetry with computer graphics, and...
Review: KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS Makes Thrilling Music
In ancient Japan, strange things are afoot. Magic, both good and bad, is coming to a head as a particularly animated supernatural dysfunctional family prepares for their grand showdown. Of course, “good” and “bad” are in the eye of the...
FAST 8: Helen Mirren Buckles Into The FAST Franchise
The everlasting British actor Helen Mirren is going to grace the world of the popular Fast franchise. The Wrap is reporting that the admitted car enthusiast has signed to fill in a role of an undetermined nature in F. Gary...
FAST 8: Iceland Is On Fire In BTS Pics!
Icelandic site Visir posted some behind the scenes shots from Fast 8 today. The film was shooting on a frozen lake yesterday and will move to Arkansas soon. You got your Subaru, a decked out Charger, a Rally Fighter. And...
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...
KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS: Watch The Full Trailer For Laika's Latest Stop Motion Spectacular
Coraline, ParaNorman and The Boxtrolls lead animator Travis Knight graduates up to the director's chair on Kubo And The Two String, the latest from stop motion animation house Laika. And, true to typical Laika form, it looks absolutely gorgeous. Clever,...
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...
Fantasia 2015 Review: DARK PLACES, An Affecting Autopsy Of The 1980s Satanic Panic
1985. In a rural community of Kansas there was a young teenager named Ben Day (Tye Sheridan channelling Ezra Miller) who was very into the punk rock outfit The Misfits. He filled his sketchbooks with black-inked antichrist art, and was accused...
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...
