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DUNE: PART TWO Review: Still Handsome. Still Obligatory. Stilgar.
If it does nothing else, Dune: Part Two completes the circle of the Fatboy Slim-Arrakis EU. By opening with Christopher Walken’s Emperor Of The Known Universe, this might just be the quirkiest, and most unexpectedly sly, thing about the...
OPPENHEIMER Review: Layered, Nuanced Character Study Led by a Brilliant Cillian Murphy
To say, “It’s J. Robert Oppenheimer's world and we just live in it,” might sound facile, glib, or even the punchline to an unfunny, bewildering joke, but it’s as true today as it was on July 16, 1945, the day...
Review: DON'T WORRY DARLING, Harry Styles Over Substance
There’s a moment in Don’t Worry Darling, Olivia Wilde’s (Booksmart) second film as director, where the blandly named Jack Chambers (pop-singer-turned-actor Harry Styles) jumps onto a stage with a backing band to dance joylessly at the behest of the singularly...
Review: BLACK WIDOW, Once More Into the MCU Breach
Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, Rachel Weisz and David Harbour star in the action adventure, directed by Cate Shortland.
More BLACK WIDOW Video Action: Oscar Nominees At Work
What I love about a new, "special look" at Marvel's Black Widow is that it features three women who have all been recently nominated for Academy Awards, but it doesn't say that Oscar nominees will be kicking butt. Scarlett Johannson (Marriage...
ScreenAnarchy's Top Ten Films of 2019
As 2019 comes to an end, ScreenAnarchy’s global team of critics and cineastes weighs in with our favourite cinematic offerings from the past 12 months, which saw Netflix lead the charge for cementing the legitimacy of the streaming platforms, while...
BLACK WIDOW Teases Marvel Action For Women
The long-overdue Black Widow teases a return to family roots for Natasha Romanoff, as played by Scarlett Johansson. She's joined by Florence Pugh, Rachel Weisz and David Harbour as 'family' members, with William Hurt as well. This teaser video is...
MOTELX 2019: WHY DON'T YOU JUST DIE! And BAD SEED Win Méliès d'Argent Awards
MOTELX, the Lisbon based genre festival in Portugal, wrapped up yesterday after a successful week. They announced the winners of their Méliès d’Argent awards, two films which will go to Sitges to compete for the Méliès d’Or. Guilherme Daniel's...
MOTELX 2019: MIDSOMMAR, THE LODGE And Local Talent Lead First Wave Titles
MOTELX, the Lisbon International Horror Film Festival, will return for it's lucky 13th year of horror thrills in Portugal. Tonight the festival is announcing its first wave of titles and Ari Aster's daylight folk horror Midsommar is leading the...
Friday One Sheet: MIDSOMMAR Has Lost Its Head
I am revisiting Midsommar's marketing excellent campaign again, to attempt to understand what is going on with the latest poster. Is the central figure here bowing their head? Is their 'head' supposed to be the runes marked on the stone?...
MIDSOMMAR Trailer: Ari Aster Sheds More Sunlight on Rural Horror
Few filmmakers are able to take horror out from the shadows of nightfall and bring terror out into the daylight. So bent on knowing what lurks in the dark it is the night where most of our nightmares happen. However,...
Review: FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY, Hidden in Plain Sight
Oh, I see, it's a British working-class comedy. That's why I liked it so much!
Review: THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL, Park Chan-wook's Engrossing TV Debut
A new Park Chan-wook project is always something to get very excited about, but there was extra reason to get worked up last year when it was announced that the Korean master filmmaker was making his first foray into television,...
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: LADY MACBETH, An Exhilarating and Timely Tale of a Survivalist Woman
Exquisitely acted, framed and paced, William Oldroyd's Lady Macbeth is perhaps the most accomplished debut feature I've seen in years. Based on Nicolai Lestov's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District, a 19th century Russian novel which was adapted and scripted by...
Interview: William Oldroyd on LADY MACBETH and Working with a Largely Female Cast and Crew
I had the privilege to watch Lady Macbeth at this year's New Directors/New Films Series in the spring and got a chance to talk to its director William Oldroyd about his very accomplished first feature. The riveting, radical film was...
