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Isabelle Huppert on Becoming a Vampire, Ulrike Ottinger’s Timeless Touch, and Asghar Farhadi’s Parallel Tales
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Isabelle Huppert’s performance in Ulrike Ottinger’s The Blood Countess, a vampire fantasia set in Vienna (and co-starring no less of a local icon than Conchita Wurst) that marks the 158th credit of her remarkable career, got me thinking. Sitting face...
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The Next Best Picture Podcast – “The Drama”
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For this week’s second podcast review, Ema Sasic, Dan Bayer, Lauren LaMagna, and Larry Fried join me to discuss Kristoffer Borgli’s “The Drama” starring Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Alana Haim, Mamoudou Athie, Zoë Winters & Hailey Benton Gates. The dark romantic comedy follows a happily engaged couple who...
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GEMS Vancouver Announces 2026 Genre Film Lab Teams
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GEMS (Gender Equity in Media Society) has announced the five feature film projects from female and gender-diverse filmmakers from across Canada that will participate in this year's The Genre Film Lab 2026.    The accelerator program takes projects that are...
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The Academy Sets Dates For The 99th And 100th Oscar Ceremonies
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and ABC today announced the 99th Oscars will take place on Sunday, March 14th, 2027, and the 100th Oscars will take place on Sunday, March 5th, 2028. The shows will air live at 7 p.m. ET / 4...
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ALIEN: EARTH’s Noah Hawley to Direct Remake of Demián Rugna’s TERRIFIED
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Well, well, well. THR is reporting that Noah Hawley is set to remake Atterados (Terrified) the Argentine supernatural spectacular that introduced the world to writer-director Demián Rugna.    One of the best supernatural horror flicks to come from the LatAm...
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Diagonale 2026 Review: WHITE SNAIL Subverts Girl-Meets-Boy Into Anti-Romance
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Austrian-German filmmakers Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter's fiction debut reworks social drama conventions into a psychologically driven, docu-fiction hybrid centred on an unstable relationship shaped by loneliness, death and an implied autocratic backdrop. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Unnamed Footage 2026: Micro Review Roundup
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Due to unexpected technical issues and an equally frustrating amount of time resolving those issues we found ourselves crunched for time to get full coverage of the Unnamed Footage Film Festival.    No thanks to these time constraints and other...
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HAMLET Review: Thrillingly Cinematic Internal Journey Into Personal Hell
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Riz Ahmed, Morfydd Clark, and Joe Alwyn star in director Aneil Karia's modern-day adaptation. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Director in Focus: Steven Soderbergh’s Silky Smooth Charms, From BUBBLE to THE CHRISTOPHERS
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The director continues to assert his stylish independence with deceptively mainstream films and television series. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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A Conversation with Adam Meeks, Will Poulter, Emily Meade, Elise Kible, Brad Becker-Parton & Annette Deao (UNION COUNTY)
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Union County is a drama about the opioid epidemic that does something rare: it focuses on recovery rather than despair. Writer-director Adam Meeks’s feature debut follows Cody Parsons (Will Poulter), a young man in rural Ohio navigating a county-mandated drug...
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