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Berlinale Review: Oliver Assayas Blends Passions and Personal History in Breezy Comedy Suspended Time
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The memes won’t let you forget, but 2019 was half a decade ago. That was also the year Olivier Assayas’ Wasp Network––an odd return to the realm of his TV series Carlos, and subsequently picked up by Narcos-era Netflix––premiered at...
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Berlinale Review: Bruce LaBruce’s The Visitor is a Love Letter to Pasolini, Penned With Blood, Sweat, and Semen
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It’s safe to call Canadian artist and filmmaker Bruce LaBruce a Panorama mainstay; it’s been two decades and counting since Hustler White premiered in this Berlinale strand in 1996. Between The Misandrists (Panorama, 2017) and his latest, The Visitor (Panorama...
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ROSARIO: First Look at Felipe Vargas’ Debut Horror
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Rosario is forced to spend the night with the body of her deceased grandma, waiting for the ambulance while being attacked by supernatural forces that have taken control of her grandmother's corpse. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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RESTORE POINT Review: Have You Backed-Up Today?
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It’s year 2041 and the technology has found a way to cheat death – to ensure it, you just need to remember to back-up your memory every 48 hours. The action takes place in an unspecified country in Central Europe...
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KRAKEN: Pal Oie’s Upcoming Monster Movie to be Handled by TrustNordisk
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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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