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Friday One Sheet: THE DEVILS, 2026 and 1971
As you can tell, in these parts we are super excited for the October re-release of Ken Russell's 1971 masterpiece, The Devils. The aptly named Sister Hyde Design (who we have featured in these parts in the past for the Faces of...
Toronto 2026: Midnight Madness Drops Its Full Lineup. Duncan Jones! Anna Biller! SABU! Matthew Rankin! Na Hong-jin! Oh My!
With the capable and unpredictable curation of Peter Kuplowsky and his team of brave pre-screeners, the Midnight Madness (MM) sidebar at the Toronto International Film Festival continues to be one of the favourite parts of TIFF here at Screen Anarchy....
Friday One Sheet: THE FURIOUS
Today we have a rather abstract poster from Vietnam-based visual artist Khang Giate for the forthcoming mega-action picture The Furious. Given the 'dog-pile' martial arts style practically pioneered by this film (it is indeed something to behold) this poster does a bang-up...
Friday One Sheet: SOUND OF FALLING
As an amateur photographer (who focuses mainly on candid and street photography) my favourite content trope when capturing photos is the shot where everyone is going about their business, but one person is looking directly into the camera. This is...
Friday One Sheet: MAGELLAN
The majestic ode to the age of exploration and sail show in today's key art belies the revisionist historical film from slow cinema maestro Lav Diaz. With its hazy sunrise and high grain, and jaunty tilt (note the waterline, and...
Toronto 2025 Wrap: Reviews, Interviews, News, and More
Our coverage of the 50th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is drawing to a close. A couple of weeks ago, the festival announced their 2025 award winners. We saw a lot of winners, too, which is great...
Toronto 2025 Review: NUREMBERG, Holocaust Courtroom Drama Fails to Justify Its Existence
Russell Crowe, Rami Malek and Michael Shannon star in James Vanderbilt's historical drama.
Toronto 2025 Review: COUTURE, Angelina Jolie Stars in Parisian Fashion Tale
Angelina Jolie makes her French-language debut in Alice Winocour's haute couture drama.
Friday One Sheet: COPPER
This highly unusual poster instantly communicates that it is for a highly unusual film. Completely at odds with the look of the film (which is dust and tan) or the title of the film, Copper, the washed out blue looks...
Toronto 2025 Review: COVER-UP, Takes A Closer Look at Seymour Hersh and The Ongoing American Experiment
“In case anyone cares, this is getting less and less fun. I’d like to quit this doc.” Seymour “Sy” Hersh spars with director Laura Poitras at several points during her feature length documentary ,Cover-up, a career retrospective of the iconic journalist....
Toronto 2025 Review: COPPER, The Driest Slacker-Comedy Ever Made
The latest film from particular and peculiar Canadian-Mexican auteur Nicolás Pereda might flirt at times with a plot, but to view it this way is actually fool's gold. It is much more, specifically, a study of character in a...
Toronto 2025 Review: DIYA Builds an Emotionally Charged Thriller Out of an Ancient Cultural Issue
Wherever you are on this planet, one split second can change your life. This may be instantly, or the first domino in a slow, irreversible crash-out of all the best made plans. For Dane Francis, an NGO driver on the...
Toronto 2025 Review: OBSESSION Gleefully Transgresses Relationship Boundaries with Hellish Precision And Cringe
Cute and apprehensive, but passively sweet Baron, whose friends call him Bear, has one last chance to avoid the Friend Zone with his co-worker Nikki. Quietly, inelegantly, he lusts over her, while outwardly he can only simp in ways...
Friday One Sheet: NOVIEMBRE
27 Hours, 1 Bathroom. 25 Hostages. This festival poster for Tomás Corredor's Noviembre (November) lists the real-life hostages vertically above the catchy tagline. A highly-dramatized account of Colombia's nation-tramautizing 1985 siege and hostage situation at the country's Palace of Justice, the key art...
Toronto 2025 Review: CHRISTY, Sydney Sweeney Shines in Standard Sports Biopic
Sydney Sweeney stars as boxer Christy Martin in David Michôd's sports biopic.
Toronto 2025 Review: HEN, The Chicken Comes First
A parable of corruption in Greece as told through the ingenuity and survival instincts of a chicken, it says something when the most normal film in a director’s filmography is an endurance thriller told entirely from the point of view...
Toronto 2025 Review: THE TALE OF SILYAN, A Miracle of Filmmaking
The myth that I have always associated with storks is that of them delivering babies via the chimneys of Europeans. I remember vividly the first time I drove through the Romanian countryside and saw a nest on every post, and...
Toronto 2025 Review: WAKE UP DEAD MAN, Uneven But Entertaining Third KNIVES OUT Mystery
Daniel Craig returns as detective Benoit Blanc in Rian Johnson's third entry in his mystery movie series.
Friday One Sheet: UNDER THE SAME SUN
A round hug of a one sheet, for Ulises Porra's historical drama, Under The Same Sun uses the title and credit block, above the line and below the line, to form a circle around its multi-racial trio. A young Spanish...
Toronto 2025 Curtain Raiser: The Festival Of Festivals Turns 50
ScreenAnarchy, in a way, was birthed at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) over 20 years ago. At a time when movies were still shown on 35mm film, tickets were printed on paper, and Todd Brown asked a few movie...
