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NOT A PRETTY PICTURE Blu-ray Review: A Meta Examination of Deep Trauma
by admin|10 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Martha Coolidge might be more known for her teen-focused comedies such as Valley Girl and The Prince and Me, but her work has always been forward-thinking in representations of women, and likely none of her films showcase this more than...
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THE GREATEST SURF MOVIE IN THE UNIVERSE Exclusive Clip: Aussie Animated Raunch Comedy Now in Theaters
by admin|10 months ago|Screen Anarchy
The stop-motion animated comedy The Greatest Surf Movie in the Universe is now playing exclusively in "super rad theaters" thanks to Blue Fox Entertainment. We have an exclusive clip - and the red band trailer - from Blue Fox to...
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By the Stream | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
by admin|10 months ago|Ioncinema
Right Sketch, Wrong Skit: Sangsoo Scans Patterns in Bittersweet Interludes Perspectives of regret and the uncertain odyssey of retrospection emphasize the undertones of perennial auteur Hong Sangsoo’s latest, By the Stream (his second premiere of the year following A Traveler’s...
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Rob Peace
by admin|10 months ago|Roger Ebert
"Rob Peace," based on a true story, is a kind of movie that doesn't get made too often anymore.  The title character, played by Jay Will with the laser-focused intelligence and charisma of young Denzel Washington, was a science-obsessed young man...
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‘Strange Darling’ Review: A Squirm-Inducing Battle of Wills That Keeps You Guessing
by admin|10 months ago|Slant Magazine
This cunningly devised thriller wields our assumptions against us like a sharp implement. The post ‘Strange Darling’ Review: A Squirm-Inducing Battle of Wills That Keeps You Guessing appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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RED ISLAND
by admin|10 months ago|Hammer to Nail
(Check out Chris Reed’s Red Island movie review, in theaters August 16. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Lying off the southeast coast of Africa, the nation of Madagascar—the fourth largest island in the world—is often referred to...
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Close to You
by admin|10 months ago|Roger Ebert
There are two main types of stories about small town people finding themselves: ones where they move away from the suffocating place where they grew up, and ones where they come back. “Close to You” is the second kind of...
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Friday One Sheet: ANOTHER END
by admin|10 months ago|Screen Anarchy
The second poster for Piero Messina's Another End features two lovers sleeping towards each other, almost touching hands, on an 'endless' bed of beige. For me, it evokes the key art for Atom Egoyan's 1997 Canadian masterpiece, The Sweet Hereafter.  The...
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A Woman Without Peers: Gena Rowlands (1930-2024)
by admin|10 months ago|Roger Ebert
“You change your energy and allow another person to haunt your house, so to speak. It’s like being a medium. It left me exhausted and depressed-feeling. Some of the time, when you’re walking out there where the air is thin,...
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The Needle Drop Sessions: Pump Up the Volume & Untamed Heart
by admin|10 months ago|Roger Ebert
Let’s paint a picture: You’re wandering through a local grocery store, and you hear a familiar tune softly playing through the old speaker system — it’s Kenny Loggins’ anthem “Danger Zone.” The sounds of the store fade away, and you’re...
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