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CONSUMED Review: A Walk in the Woods Goes Wrong in More Ways Than One
by admin|10 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Beth (Courtney Halverson) and Jay (Mark Famiglietti) want to celebrate a one-year anniversary of Beth’s cancer remission. Apparently, neither of them is acquainted with horror classics, so they decide to go on a camping trip to the woods. Everyone familiar...
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TRUST IN LOVE
by admin|10 months ago|Hammer to Nail
(The Vashon Island Film Festival ran August 8-11 on beautiful Vashon Island, WA. Check out Alan Motley’s review of Trust in Love. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Trust in Love closes its theatrical roadshow in Seattle...
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VERONIKA Review: Troubling Visions, Perverse Murders, Cold Cases
by admin|10 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Alexandra Rapaport and Tobias Santelmann star in the psychological thriller series from Sweden, making its U.S. premiere on Viaplay. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Locarno Review: Foul Evil Deeds Is a Very British Anthology of Wrongdoing 
by admin|10 months ago|The Film Stage
Indiewire having encouraged us to reminisce about the 2000s through its recent Best of the Decade list, there’s the reminder of one key thread defining that era: the prominence of digital video and the prescient idea that it would alter...
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Sound And Vision: Alex Proyas
by admin|10 months ago|Screen Anarchy
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: several music videos by Alex Proyas. I'm an Alex Proyas-apologist. His film record is widely considered spotty with Dark City and...
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Locarno 2024 Awards: Lithuanian Drama TOXIC Dominates 77th Locarno Film Festival
by admin|10 months ago|Screen Anarchy
The 77th Locarno Film Festival culminated in a triumph for Saulė Bliuvaitė's Toxic, which led the awards tally alongside notable wins for Kurdwin Ayub's Moon and Laurynas Bareiša's Drowning Dry, showcasing a diverse range of new cinematic voices. [Read the...
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The Most Vital Actress of Her Generation: A Goodbye to Gena Rowlands
by admin|10 months ago|Roger Ebert
Richard Brody, the highly esteemed critic of The New Yorker, would often wish Gena Rowlands a Happy Birthday on the 19th of every June, writing in 2022 that she was “the most inventive, creative, original, transformative actress in the history...
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LAIKA Studios Returns in First Teaser for Travis Knight’s Wildwood
by admin|10 months ago|The Film Stage
With the current re-release of Henry Selick’s Coraline netting a rather staggering $11.3 million at the U.S. box office, LAIKA is back in the conversation. The Oregon-based animation studio isn’t just hanging on its laurels, however, as they are in...
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Locarno Film Festival 2024: Eight Postcards from Utopia and Sleep #2
by admin|10 months ago|Roger Ebert
Radu Jude is a cheeky filmmaker, espousing a biting Romanian humor that takes to task the history, politics and culture of his country and the outside economic forces by world powers that have unmoored it. He arrived at Locarno Film...
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Neuchâtel 2024 Review: ANIMAL Hurts Men, Women And Beasts
by admin|10 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Last month, the 2024 edition of the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival ended, so normally by now we'd have finished our coverage. But the review for Emma Benestan's Animale, internationally distributed as Animal, lived rent-free in my brain for weeks,...
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