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Interview: Bernardo Britto – Omni Loop
by admin|8 months ago|Ioncinema
One of the projects at the Sundance Institute’s 2017 Screenwriters Lab was a film called ‘Omni Loop Blues.’ Flash forward into 2024 and Bernardo Britto‘s Omni Loop premiered at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival and is about to launch theatrically...
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Toronto 2024: RIFF RAFF, Riffs on Parenting, The Holidays, And THE REF
by admin|8 months ago|Screen Anarchy
The foul mouthed holiday film is now, more or less, a cinema tradition.   From Terry Zwigoff’s Bad Santa to National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation to Harold Ramis’s The Ice Harvest, there are plenty of these anti-Christmas yet still kinda Christmas...
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New to Streaming: His Three Daughters, Last Summer, Coma, Cuckoo, Blink Twice & More
by admin|8 months ago|The Film Stage
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. Blink Twice (Zoë Kravitz) Over a close-up of a turtle, ominous sound design builds...
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The Film Stage Show Ep. 548 – Janet Planet (with George W. Myers)
by admin|8 months ago|The Film Stage
Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr are joined by George W. Myers to discuss Annie Baker’s directorial debut Janet Planet, now on VOD. Enter our giveaways, get access to our private...
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THE SHADE Exclusive Clip: Supernatural Horror in Theaters Tomorrow
by admin|8 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Following the loss of his father, a grieving twenty-year-old struggles to hold his family together as an unspeakable darkness plagues his older brother. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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A Conversation with Jennifer Kent (THE BABADOOK 10th ANNIVERSARY)
by admin|8 months ago|Hammer to Nail
Australian director Jennifer Kent directed her first feature, The Babadook, in 2014. That supernatural horror film proved extremely effective at externalizing both grief and a mother’s worst fears about parenting. Starring Essie Davis (Babyteeth) as that mom, Amelia, a widow...
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Day Moves: Josh O’Connor Toplines Kelly Reichardt’s ‘The Mastermind’
by admin|8 months ago|Ioncinema
Keeping up with her pattern of releasing a film roughly every three years, Kelly Reichardt’s next project, The Mastermind, is one extra America indie auteur item to watch out for and if I were Venice Film Festival’s Alberto Barbera, I’d...
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IN THE SUMMERS Review: A Man and His Daughters
by admin|8 months ago|Screen Anarchy
It’s not being provocative — at least not intentionally — to suggest families, biological and otherwise, can seriously f*ck you up. Parents can fail their children. Children can fail their parents. Whether realistic or the opposite, expectations in either direction...
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Interview: Damien Chazelle – Whiplash
by admin|8 months ago|Ioncinema
Whiplash receives a 10th Anniversary re-release – reissued with a new 4K DCP via Sony Pictures Classics and coming directly from a showcase at the 2024 Toronto Intl. Film Festival. We interviewed Damien Chazelle at Sundance back in 2014. Here...
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SUPER/MAN: THE CHRISTOPHER REEVE STORY Review: Deeply Moving Portrait of the Actor Behind the Superhero
by admin|8 months ago|Screen Anarchy
For Gen X’ers and Millennials, Superman in live-action form started and ended with Christopher Reeve. Across four films and a decade (1978-1987), Reeve embodied Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster’s Depression-era, comic-book creation, a secular savior, a super-powered alien from a...
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