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Fantasia 2024 Review: SCARED SHITLESS, A Creature Feature Worth Taking The Plunge
by admin|11 months ago|Screen Anarchy
A friend of mine, an astute and well travelled film-lover, once told me their ‘big theory’ of audience engagement for most movies: The viewer will like the movie more if the main character is simply good at doing their job....
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THE KILLER’S GAME: Official Poster Revealed
by admin|11 months ago|Screen Anarchy
My interest in action comedy The Killer's Game was piqued for a couple of reasons. Dave Bautista is arguably one of the most entertaining wrestlers who pivoted into acting and it was directed by stunt professional turned director, JJ Perry,...
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ARROW Player in August: Selects by Hendrix, van den Houten’s OFFSPRING 4K, And More…
by admin|11 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Next month's lineup of programming on Arrow Video's ARROW Player has been announced and as always there are a lot of gems coming in August.    First, we have two Selects programs coming up from one of my favorite authors,...
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Anime Summer 2024: THE ELUSIVE SAMURAI, Reluctant Hero
by admin|11 months ago|Screen Anarchy
The light-hearted historical action series is now streaming on Crunchyroll. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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2024 Venice: Corbet, Guadagnino, Haugerud, Kulumbegashvili, Salles, Tsangari & Yeo Siew Hua In Golden Lion Competition
by admin|11 months ago|Ioncinema
21 films were selected for the 2024 Venice Film Festival competition and in the pack we find some surprises and several shoe-ins for the 81st edition (August 28th until September 7th). We will of course be there for wall-to-wall coverage....
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MUBI’s August 2024 Lineup Features Kelly Reichardt, Crossing, The Passengers of the Night & More
by admin|11 months ago|The Film Stage
Mingling retrospectives, themed series, and a handful of new films’ streaming premieres, MUBI’s August 2024 lineup is unveiled. At the top comes “American Outsider: The Films of Kelly Reichardt,” which joins Wendy and Lucy and Meek’s Cutoff with the already-playing...
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THE BECOMERS Trailer: Aliens Navigate Life on Earth in Zach Clark’s Sci-Fi Genre-Bender
by admin|11 months ago|Hammer to Nail
Hammer to Nail loves us some some Zach Clark weirdness! His latest film The Becomers hits theaters and VOD Tuesday, September 24 from Dark Star Pictures. Here’s the official synopsis: Forced to flee their dying planet, two body-snatching alien lovers arrive...
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ONLY THE RIVER FLOWS Review: Finding Acceptable Truth
by admin|11 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Directed by Wei Shujun, the Chinese murder mystery questions what is considered truth in our complicated modern society. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Fantasia Review: The Count of Monte Cristo is a Silly Yet Mostly Good Time
by admin|11 months ago|The Film Stage
While watching the latest take on Alexandre Dumas’ literary classic, this time by directors Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte (who just adapted Dumas’ The Three Musketeers in 2023), I wondered if I was enjoying myself for the wrong...
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2024 Venice: Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Fabrice du Welz, Asif Kapadia, Errol Morris & Harmony Korine Out of Comp
by admin|11 months ago|Ioncinema
While we might still be on the fence about what is being described as a first-person shooter-type experience in Harmony Korine‘s Baby Invasion, but the Venice Film Festival’s Out of Competition section lineup could be just as daring as the...
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