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BeyondFest 2024 Review: ZERO, Servicable Thriller With a Stern Message From It’s Creator
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Two Americans wake up in Dakar, the capital of Senegal, with bombs strapped to their chests. The timers on the vests tell them they have less than nine hours to find out why. Calling them #1 and #2 a mysterious...
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JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX Review: Sweet Psycho Romance Stuck in an Edgelord’s Mess
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Whether she's loved the character since she was a child or is making a calculated attempt at winning an acting Oscar, Lady Gaga's performance as the Joker universe's Harley Quinn is by far the best thing to come out of...
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NYFF Review: Nickel Boys Finds Miraculous Beauty in the Horrors of the World
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Nickel Boys, RaMell Ross’ narrative feature debut, is the story of a stubborn world, resisting change. Adapted from Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys, it’s an experimental rendition shooting mainly through POV. We meet our protagonist not by looking at him,...
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LOOK BACK Review: Emotionally and Visually Beautiful Film, Undone by Melodrama
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
It's no wonder that Look Back is highly anticipated by anime fans. The film is based on the manga of the same name by Chainsaw Man creator Tatsuki Fujimoto and is directed by Kiyotaka Oshiyama, whose resume includes working with...
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NYC Weekend Watch: Samuel L. Jackson, Akerman-Duras, Compensation & More
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Museum of Modern ArtAs the career-spanning Johnnie To retrospective continues, a Samuel L. Jackson series includes Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, and Jungle Fever on 35mm. BAMA Duras-Akerman double bill plays Sunday. Film...
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The Atlas of Cinema: In Praise of Adam Driver
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
In praise of one of the most daring and versatile actors alive.
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‘On Becoming a Guinea Fowl’ Review: A Playfully Searing Drama About the Perils of Denial
by admin|2 years ago|Slant Magazine
Writer-director Rungano Nyoni’s second feature is as acerbic as it is unforgiving. The post ‘On Becoming a Guinea Fowl’ Review: A Playfully Searing Drama About the Perils of Denial appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Friday One Sheet: ENTELEQUIAS
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
With a tagline of "Imagination is not always perfect," Darío Autrán's Entelequias, if judged by its desaturated, asymmetrical, vertically distorted key art, looks to be playing in the narrow liminal space between Solaris and eXistenZ.  This poster eschews a standard credit...
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NYFF: Stranger Eyes, Harvest, Who By Fire
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
A dispatch on three very different films from the New York Film Festival.
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V/H/S BEYOND Review: Horror Anthology Goes to Outer Space and Back
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
If it’s October, it’s practically Halloween and if it’s Halloween, then it’s time for Shudder’s horror-themed found footage anthology, V/H/S, to make its yearly return to the streaming service.  V/H/S Beyond, the fourth entry in as many years, its seventh...
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