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Rotterdam 2024 Review: LA LUNA, Naughty In The Nicest Way
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
This year, the International Film Festival Rotterdam started with the fairly inoffensive comedy-drama Head South (reviewed here), and it closed with an equally inoffensive film: M. Raihan Halim's Singaporean small-town comedy La Luna. In it, we see the daily life...
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Sons (Vogter) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
A Poison Tree: Moller Employs Wrathful Mother in Jailhouse Revenge Drama “A man that studied revenge keeps his own wounds green,” comes to mind in Gustav Möller’s sophomore film Sons, (Vogter) a quote credited to Francis Bacon in his essay...
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BABY ASSASSINS 2: Watch The New Trailer For Hit Japanese Slacker Action Comedy. Coming Soon from Well Go USA And HI-YAH!
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
After being suspended from their agency due to a rules violation, two highly skilled teenage assassins are forced to get "real" jobs to make ends meet. But while the elite duo is forbidden from executing targets or enemies under any...
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Interview: Hanna Gray Organschi / Rubber Hut – 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
We can confirm that it’ll have been a noteworthy 2024 for Hanna Gray Organschi. With a recent visit to Sundance Screenwriters Lab and the eventual premiere of her next short in “F*ck That Guy,” we’re set for what might be...
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All That Kong: When Bob Fosse Wanted to Make a King Kong Movie
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Did you know that in some alternative universe, there could’ve been a “King Kong” movie directed by none other than Bob Fosse (“All That Jazz”) and written by Paddy Chayefsky (“Network”)? I didn’t, either, until last week, and now I’m...
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THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: TRAINSPOTTING
by admin|2 years ago|Hammer to Nail
(Here at Hammer to Nail, we are all about true independent cinema. But we also have to tip our hat to the great films that continue to inspire filmmakers and cinephiles alike. This week, Brad Cook takes a wild ride...
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BOY KILLS WORLD Official Trailer: Bill Skarsgård Stars in Over-The-Top Action Flick
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
A dystopian fever dream action film that follows Boy, a deaf mute with a vibrant imagination. When his family is murdered, he is trained by a mysterious shaman to repress his childish imagination and become an instrument of death. [Read...
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The Great Yawn of History | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
Cave of Forgotten Dreams: Rasti Hunts for Spiritual Treasures There have been countless films about the quest for fortune and glory, but you’ll be hard-pressed to find a film about treasure hunting less esoterically inclined than Aliyar Rasta’s debut The...
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DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD Trailer: Radu Jude Explores Contemporary Image-Making in New Social Satire
by admin|2 years ago|Hammer to Nail
One film that made an unexpected splash on the fall festival circuit, which made it one of the most anticipated films of the year, is Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World. His newest...
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Berlinale Review: Hunter Schafer Shines in Tilman Singer’s Stylish Horror Cuckoo
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Hunter Schafer is a very good actress. This probably won’t be news to anyone who watched even the first episode of Euphoria, where her aching vulnerability seemed to swallow the scenery whole. Fresh from appearing in the latest Hunger Games,...
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