Weird Features
Sound And Vision: John McNaughton
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: The Resident's Floyd, directed by John McNaughton. John McNaughton has been working on the periphery of the mainstream with films like...
Friday One Sheet: MICKEY 17
Who needs credit blocks anymore? The new poster for Bong Joon Ho's science fiction cloning comedy Mickey 17 sees Robert Pattinson framed in ochre and rust. The numbers 1 through 16 are cleverly hiding in plain sight, anchored by the...
Sound And Vision: Gore Verbinski
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: Gore Verbinski's music videos. Gore Verbinski has had an erratic career, going from big blockbusters to weird passion projects. With genres...
Sound And Vision: the 100th one!
I can't believe I've written a hundred of these, so allow me to indulge myself by looking at the past, present and future of the Sound and Vision. The Sound and Vision series started as a friendly conversation between me...
Sound And Vision: Just Jaeckin
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: Elton John's Who Wears These Shoes, directed by Just Jaeckin. In 1988 Sir Elton John came out of the closet as...
Friday One Sheet: DEAD MAIL
Delightfully low-fi and textured, the key art for Joe DeBoer's and Kyle McConaghy's Dead Mail not only is a great reflection of the analog style of the film, but also offers a significant amount of information about the plot. The...
Sound And Vision: Zia Anger
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: the music videos from Zia Anger. What's in a name? Just like the emotion that is her last name, Zia Anger's...
Sound And Vision: Alex Ross Perry
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: the music videos and films that Alex Ross Perry made for Ghost and Pavement. Alex Ross Perry is a rock and...
Sound And Vision: Brady Corbet
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: two music videos by Brady Corbet. Brady Corbet, the sometime actor has carved out a singular movie career as the director...
Midnight Dankness: Toronto's LoFi Remix Unofficial TIFF Pre-Game Hang
It was 2021 and most film festivals, big or small, were in an online only model. Perhaps due to its late summer sweet spot, The Toronto International Film festival managed a soft-hybrid, with a significantly reduced number of films, some of...
Sound And Vision: Tim Burton
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: two music videos Tim Burton made for The Killers. Tim Burton wears his influences on his sleeve. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which premieres...
Sound And Vision: Alex Proyas
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: several music videos by Alex Proyas. I'm an Alex Proyas-apologist. His film record is widely considered spotty with Dark City and...
Sound And Vision: Mark Pellington
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: four music videos by Mark Pellington. In the works of Mark Pellington, music video and film alike, words have all the...
Sound And Vision: Josh Boone
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: Bright Eyes' Bells and Whistles, directed by Josh Boone. Josh Boone's works have never clicked for me. The Fault in Our...
Sound And Vision: Denis Villeneuve
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: two music videos for Bundock Lanoie by Denis Villeneuve. Denis Villeneuve made a few music videos in his career, the two...
Sound And Vision: Alma Har'el
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: two music videos by Alma Har'el. Alma Har'el has been on the cusp of truly breaking through to the mainstream, and...
Fantasia 2024: Let Us Raise the Curtain on North America's Largest Genre Festival
The 28th Fantasia International Film Festival runs from July 18 to August 4 in a hot hot hot Montreal. For those of us located in North America, it is one of our favourite times of the year. Due to its...
Sound And Vision: Ti West
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: Justin Timberlake's No Angels, directed by Ti West. Ti West is obsessed with several themes, among them hedonism and the hive-mind...
ScreenAnarchy's Top 10 Films Of The First Half Of 2024
The last six months of 2024 contain two more days than the first six do (courtesy of February, even in a leap year as this one...), so we could stretch it a day, but now there's no avoiding it any...
Sound And Vision: Shunji Iwai
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: several music videos by Shunji Iwai. Shunji Iwai is very prolific. Not only has he made about more than ten feature...
