Tag: sport
Playback: Jafar Panahi, Cinema Under Pressure, from THE WHITE BALLOON to IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
Jafar Panahi makes films under immense pressure. The Iranian filmmaker's conditions of censorship and surveillance have become the grammar of his storytelling. Out of those limits, he's built one of the most radical bodies of work, where love for one's...
HIM Review: Marlon Wayans Tries to Convert. But HIM Punts.
Marlon Wayans, Tyriq Withers, Julia Fox, Tim Heidecker, and Jim Jefferies star; Justin Tipping directed.
Friday One Sheet: MY SUNSHINE
I am feeling whimsical in the back half of summer, and this simple design for Hiroshi Okuyama's nostalgic love story, My Sunshine, is doing the trick. Normally the Koreans excel at this kind of design, where there is little fuss...
Now Streaming: Akiva Schaffer's HOT ROD, THE WATCH, POPSTAR, CHIP 'N DALE: RESCUE RANGERS
Where to watch the director's first four feature films.
F1: THE MOVIE Review: Brad Pitt's Star Vehicle Revs Up Hyperkinetic, Hyper-Stylized Action
A surface-deep, big-budget, star-driven summer release like Joseph Kosinski’s (Top Gun: Maverick, Oblivion, Tron: Legacy) latest effort, F1: The Movie (hereinafter “F1”), a Formula One racing drama, falls broadly into a modern-day version of film historian Tom Gunning's “cinema of...
STICK S1 Review: Varying Degrees of Comic Amusement
Owen Wilson leads a sports comedy, debuting globally on Apple TV+.
THE BOYS IN THE BOAT Review: George Clooney's Stirring Ode To Boats and Boys
By definition, the sports drama genre depends on an unwavering adherence to an inflexible formula, starting and ending with the underappreciated, often undervalued, occasionally underseen underdog. Whether an individual or a collective, underdogs immediately garner audience sympathy, making them root-worthy...
NEXT GOAL WINS Review: Michael Fassbender Takes On the Worst Soccer Team in the World
Coach Thomas Rongen (Michael Fassbender) is assigned to rehabilitate the world’s worst soccer team in Next Goal Wins, Taika Waititi’s comedic interpretation of the true story of American Samoa’s journey from last place losers to global inspiration. After suffering a...
CREED III Review: Third Entry in the Series Might Just Be the Best
Michael B. Jordan directs and stars alongside Tessa Thompson and Jonathan Majors in the boxing drama, opening in movie theaters everywhere.
Pretty Packaging: ROLLERBALL Gets An Ultimate Edition
With streaming being the major platform, DVD and Blu-ray home releases have become a declining market. There will always be collectors though, and distributors willing to cater to them. Countries like France and Germany still release many stunners these days,...
GOALIE Trailer Premiere: Terry Sawchuk Hockey Biopic is Coming to US Cinemas, DVD and Digital
Sports biopics do not neccessarily fall in line with Screen Anarchy's mandate but a film like Goalie gets a pass for a number of reasons. One, it's Canadian, directed by Adriana Maggs, co-written with her sister, Jane, based on...
Review: Criterion's WHEN WE WERE KINGS Kills it on Blu-ray
When We Were Kings is an undeniably lean and mean piece of work; hard-hitting but not an attack, genuine while showcasing a grand hullabaloo. Boxing! Music! Ali! Foreman! Black power! Cinema power! In its tight eighty-eight-minute runtime, we casually witness the...
AnarchyVision: #TIFF17 Edition!
A look at a slew of Toronto International Film festival (TIFF) films, from Darren Aronofsky's Mother! to the fantastic I, Tonya, The Shape of Water and Jane, as well as Canadian indie Porcupine Lake....
Now on Blu-ray: Early Kitanos VIOLENT COP, BOILING POINT and KIDS RETURN
The last year has been great for Kitano Takeshi fans. While the director's recent output hasn't exactly set the world on fire outside of his two Outrage films, home video collectors have encountered a wealth of treasures as his early...
THE SAMURAI IN AUTUMN (JESEN SAMURAJA): Action RomCom From Serbia
Director Danilo Backovic may very well have delivered the first fight film from Serbia with The Samurai In Autumn (Jesen Samuraja), a film that aims to blend realistic karate and MMA action with comic melodrama and action. The story follows...
Exclusive: Third Window Announces The Rest Of Their 2016 Lineup - Sono, Kitano, Toyoda And More
Our friends at Third WIndow Films have given us the opportunity to exclusively announce the remainder of their planned 2016 releases. Through this point in the year Third Window has put out classics from Kitano Takeshi along with the wonderful...
Review: HAVANA MOTOR CLUB Tools Nicely Through Cuba
The rift between car culture and filmmaking isn't what we might think. Considering both were invented and popularized at the same point in history, maybe this shouldn't be so surprising. Although the rabid devotion that both inspire in their...
Blu-ray Review: DOWNHILL RACER Snaps Into Sharp Focus On Criterion
Here's what the Criterion Collection is good for: equal parts enshrining of significant milestones in the art of film (see last week's review of Ikiru), and the championing of striking works of filmcraft that have somehow slipped from the narrative...
Criterion Celebrates December: Harold Lloyd's SPEEDY, Michael Ritchie's DOWNHILL RACER, And More
The Criterion Collection gets in the spirit of the holiday season in December by offering a silent movie by Harold Lloyd. Now that's a holiday I can support! Speedy features Lloyd in his final leading performance in a silent feature,...
Hey Australia! Win Tickets To See TO THE FORE In Cinemas!
Dante Lam's latest film To The Fore is coming to Australian cinemas next week! The Unbeatable director reteams with popular star Eddie Peng for another exciting sports drama, this time about the competitive world of cycling. Thanks to its distributor in...
