4 months ago

KRAKEN: Pal Oie’s Upcoming Monster Movie to be Handled by TrustNordisk
by admin|4 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Mentioning this because we haven't spoken about this movie up until now. Pal Oie, director of the 2019 disaster action movie The Tunnel, is heading back to the director's chair this year with a monster movie, Kraken.    Kraken will...
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KICKBOXER: ARMAGEDDON: Scott Adkins Joins The Final Chapter of Action Trilogy
by admin|4 months ago|Screen Anarchy
THR broke the news last night that fan favorite action star Scott Adkins has joined the cast of Kickboxer: Armageddon. This will be the final chapter in a trilogy of films that started in 2016. Once again, Adkins is going...
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RAPTUS: First Trailer And Poster For A.I. Sci-Fi Thriller
by admin|4 months ago|Screen Anarchy
The frist trailer and poster have been sent to us for writer-director Bennet De Brabandere's sci-fi thriller, Raptus. It is the latest from the Canadian writer-director who we last spoke of when we covered and reviewed their film Cherrypicker (then...
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BLACKOUT: Larry Fesseden’s Werewolf Movie is Coming This Spring
by admin|4 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Painter Charley (Alex Hurt, Minyan, TV's New Amsterdam) wakes up in an upstate motel where he appears to have been living for some time. After he packs and leaves he encounters various people in the small town where everybody knows...
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A Conversation with Asmae El Moudir (THE MOTHER OF ALL LIES)
by admin|4 months ago|Hammer to Nail
Moroccan filmmaker Asmae El Moudir’s The Mother of All Lies premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, after which it traveled to other festivals such as TIFF (where M.J. O’Toole reviewed it) and then Sundance 2024 (where I reviewed it)....
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MCCABE & MRS MILLER Blu-ray Review: Robert Altman’s Frontier Western Remains a Masterpiece
by admin|4 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Part of both the New Hollywood era and the second wave of Westerns, Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs Miller might have suffered from poor box office on its release, but luckily did not have to wait long to find its...
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Berlin Film Festival 2024: Small Things Like These, Crossing, Cuckoo
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
It’s early, but the Berlinale has already granted three enriching films of distinctly different backgrounds. In fact, usually for these dispatches, I try to pair films of similar genres. In this instance, I think having these works together clues you...
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The Arc of Oblivion
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
"The Arc of Oblivion" is a documentary about a lot of things, including the futility of its own existence. Writer-director Ian Cheney, who also narrates, presents himself as, basically, a hoarder, mainly of hard drives containing photos, video and audio of...
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America’s Greatest Threat? A New Documentary Argues It’s Christian Nationalism
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
In an election year full of anxiety, documentary filmmaker Dan Partland has given us another reason to lose sleep at night. The director of “Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump” returns with “God & Country,” a sobering examination of the...
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Spirit Awards 2024: A Platform for Essential Independent Films
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
The Spirit Awards, hosted by Film Independent, will take place Sunday, February 25, and once again will be held under a tent on the beach in Santa Monica. The organization is helmed by its President, Josh Welsh, and Brenda Robinson, the Chair...
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