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Monster Squad: Hong-jin Goes Full-Blown Extraterrestrial For his fourth feature, South Korean director Na Hong-jin goes for breakneck, relentless mayhem in the curiously titled Hope. Always tending to blend genre elements in his previous efforts, Hong-jin has increasingly leaned into...
Fruit on the Vine: Marrakchi Harvests Bitter Justice “We give our bodies. All that for peanuts,” is an anguished remonstrance from the protagonist in Strawberries, the first feature film from Moroccan filmmaker Laïla Marrakchi in over a decade. A story...
Rosé is the Warmest Color: Herry Explores a Liver of No Return In several ways, Jeanne Herry’s latest socially conscious drama Garance (unfortunately outfitted with the inconspicuously bland international title, Another Day) serves as a maturation of her storytelling style,...
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at selected music videos by Gus van Sant. Gus van Sant is a weird director, but you wouldn't necessarily...
A full decade since The Neon Demon—with mega-length streaming projects Too Old to Die Young and Copenhagen Cowboy perhaps comprising a separate, wholly worthwhile career—Nicolas Winding Refn has returned to feature filmmaking. From the first look, it seems little, thankfully,...
Potty-mouthed police officers and hill people try to cope with a mysterious creature that's ripped their home to shreds. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
The sci-fi comedy series returns on Adult Swim for a ninth season of intergalactic adventures and cosmic mischief. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
It’s never night in Hope Harbor. At least so long as we’re there. The eschatological events of writer-director Na Hong-Jin’s high-octane, highly anticipated Hope unfold over the course of one long, grueling, nonstop chase of a day for its rag-tag...