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A Moment in the Spotlight: On The King of Comedy
by admin|10 months ago|Roger Ebert
Congratulations, Mr. Rupert Pupkin. You are definitely one of the creepiest movie antiheroes in the history of cinema, but you and your little “comedy” movie, Martin Scorsese’s “The King of Comedy,” have somehow persisted for more than 40 years, despite...
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SDCC 2024: A New Normal?
by admin|10 months ago|Roger Ebert
Was SDCC 'Finally Back to Normal' in a Post-Pandemic World?  That's what SDCC chief communications and strategy office David Glanzer told Variety, but is it true? As Variety notes, last year's SAG-AFTRA strike "forced almost every studio to pull their panels" and...
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Shared Báth: Huppert, Rois, Minichmayr & Eidinger Set for Ottinger’s “The Blood Countess”
by admin|10 months ago|Ioncinema
It has been over a dozen years in the making. We can confirm that Isabelle Huppert has indeed remained on board, so has Sophie Rois, and they will be surrounded by Birgit Minichmayr (of Everyone Else fame) and Huppert’s About...
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Fantasia Review: The Paragon is a Micro-Budget Fantasy Comedy with Low-Key Charm
by admin|10 months ago|The Film Stage
For a film about saving the universe from cosmic evil, stakes couldn’t be lower in The Paragon. What begins as a man’s quest for revenge takes a hard left into the occult and psychedelic, but its scope never expands outside...
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‘Dance First’ Review: James Marsh’s Biopic Gives Samuel Beckett the Wikipedia Treatment
by admin|10 months ago|Slant Magazine
The film seems content to merely adapt the “Personal Life” section of Beckett’s Wikipedia page. The post ‘Dance First’ Review: James Marsh’s Biopic Gives Samuel Beckett the Wikipedia Treatment appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Fantasia 2024 Review: BLACK EYED SUSAN, A Hard Look at Toxicity And Explotation
by admin|10 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Derek is down on his luck. Separated from his wife and child he lives out of his car, using it for ride-sharing to make ends meet. He meets an old friend, Gilbert, who offers to give him a job testing...
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Fantasia 2024 Review: STEPPENWOLF, A Violent Neo-Western With Moral Complexity
by admin|10 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Tamara searches for her missing son in a violent town, falling under the weight of a civil uprising. She comes across a morally questionable ex-detective Brajyuk, who, in a last ditch effort to stay alive, agrees to help her find...
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Fantasia Review: Black Eyed Susan Confronts the Limitations of Humanity
by admin|10 months ago|The Film Stage
As the world flattens with new technologies to reveal how tragedies we used to only hear about now and then are actually everyday occurrences, we become inured to those horrors as a means to cope. It’s gotten to the point...
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Fantasia 2024 Review: THE DEAD THING, Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places
by admin|10 months ago|Screen Anarchy
It's tough out there for a single gal. Alex (Blu Hunt) is a woman caught in the throes of malaise, accompanied by a desperate wish to find something worth caring about. Her daily grind is uninspiring, her home life with...
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Fantasia 2024: BLACK EYED SUSAN Red Band Trailer, Scooter McCrae Returns After 25 Years
by admin|10 months ago|Screen Anarchy
CW: Domestic abuse, realistic violence Exploitation icon Scooter McCrae is back behind the camera with Black Eyed Susan, his first feature film since 1999's Sixteen Tongues. After having directed a few shorts and doing a bit of acting in the...
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