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A Conversation with Sinéad O’Shea (BLUE ROAD: THE EDNA O’BRIEN STORY)
by admin|7 months ago|Hammer to Nail
Irish documentarian Sinéad O’Shea (Pray for Our Sinners) has a new film out, Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story, which just premiered at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival—aka TIFF—where I reviewed it. As per the title, it offers a...
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FRANKIE FREAKO Review: Gooey, Chaotic, Freaky Family Film With a Twist
by admin|7 months ago|Screen Anarchy
A painfully bland office worker gets his world turned upside down by a trio of tiny cosmic weirdos in Steven Kostanski’s latest gonzo comedy, Frankie Freako. After he hit cult comedy gold with 2021’s Psycho Goreman, Kostanski and his usual...
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THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT Review: Engaging and Confusing, In Equal Measure
by admin|7 months ago|Screen Anarchy
A pair of siblings on the run after a robbery take refuge in a house with mysterious time-warping qualities, only to find that the law isn’t the only thing they have to fear. Things Will Be Different, the latest from...
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New York 2024 Review: NO OTHER LAND Chronicles Living Under Occupation
by admin|7 months ago|Screen Anarchy
The suffering of people in this film is staggering, but so is their resilience. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Lingering Influence: Meryem Benm’Barek Filming ‘Behind the Palm Trees’
by admin|7 months ago|Ioncinema
A project initially scheduled for a 2023 shoot has finally been greenlit, with Cineuropa confirming that Meryem Benm’Barek has been filming her sophomore feature since midway point last month. Behind the Palm Trees stars Sara Giraudeau and Driss Ramdi in...
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Fantastic Fest 2024 Review: MADS, Wide-Eyed Descent Into Apocalypse
by admin|7 months ago|Screen Anarchy
One of my favorite films of Fantastic Fest 2024 was this taut piece of single-take cinema from France. An already high teen visits his dealer hoping to score the latest designer drug. But before he can get to the ,...
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V/H/S/BEYOND Interview: Director Kate Siegel And Their Star Alanah Pearce
by admin|7 months ago|Screen Anarchy
With the streaming premiere of V/H/S/Beyond coming up this Friday we were fortunate to spend a moment speaking Kate Siegel, director of the segment, the sci-fi horror short Stowaway. We were joined by their lead actress and a multi-hyphanite herself, Alanah...
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THE BECOMERS Review: Romcom Invasion of the Body Snatchers
by admin|7 months ago|Screen Anarchy
While big studio sci-fi films seemingly struggle while trying to manage too many expectations, obligations and money, the indie sector of the same genre is definitely on the rise. The Becomers, the latest outing from Zach Clark, the director known...
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SALEM’S LOT Review: Promising King Adaptation Hampered by Compressed Running Time
by admin|7 months ago|Screen Anarchy
For Stephen King’s Constant Readers, adaptations of his novels or short stories into film, TV movies, cable/streaming miniseries, or comics are almost as plentiful as King’s prolific output over the last 50 years. His first published novel, Carrie, became an...
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Daaaaaali! | Review
by admin|7 months ago|Ioncinema
Good Golly, It’s Dali: Dupieux Dreams Surreal in Distinctive Biopic It seems surrealism’s pioneer Salvador Dali is experiencing something of a culturally concentric resurgence as a cinematic subject, granted his most appropriately thematic rendering yet in Quentin Dupieux’s Daaaaaali!, the...
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