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U.S. Trailer for Coma Gives Bertrand Bonello’s Masterpiece a Long-Overdue Appearance
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
No secret that we love The Beast. But it’s perhaps not even the best Bertrand Bonello film released in 2024. For more than two years I’ve been a major advocate of his lockdown horror Coma (at one point flying to...
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A Filmmaker Flips Through the Past in First Trailer for Judd Apatow-Backed Flipside
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
Premiering at TIFF last fall, Flipside follows filmmaker Chris Wilcha as he reflects on his past and what it means to live a life of creativity. Picked up by Oscilloscope Laboratories for a North American release, featuring Judd Apatow on...
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HANKY PANKY Review: Cheap, Dumb, Delightful
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Lindsey Haun and Nick Roth directed the horror comedy, available April 19 on VOD. "It's a silly movie that just wants to make its audience smile, and it succeeds." [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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FLIPSIDE Trailer: Documentarian Chris Wilcha Reflects on a Life of Shelved Projects, Records, and Creative Meaning
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
Filmmaker Chris Wilcha looks back on a life of lost passion projects and memories in his newest documentary Flipside. The film is the product of Wilcha returning to the New Jersey record store where he worked as a teenage clerk...
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ABIGAIL Review: Ballet Gets Bloody Entertaining
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
It's a juggling act to get an entertaining horror film - one that's fun, funny, yet still scary, with a good share of violence and gore, a decent story with snappy dialogue, and a monster that an audience can root...
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Josh Hartnett is Caught in M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap in First Trailer for Concert-Set Thriller
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
On quite a Hitchcockian-meets Twilight Zone streak with the one-two punch of Old and Knock and the Cabin, expectations are high for M. Night Shyamalan to deliver once again with his upcoming thriller Trap. Featuring a much-deserved lead role for...
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The Jinx – Part Two Continues One of the Most Fascinating True Crime Sagas of All Time
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
“What made you talk to them?” “Still kinda putting that together in my own mind.” That really is the impossible question at the center of HBO’s wildly influential “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst,” isn’t it? Why...
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Calgary Underground 2024: Curtain Raiser
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
The Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) opens its 21st edition today, and runs until April 28th.  Western Canada's largest showcase of genre film, offbeat documentaries, and industry events is housed in the two-screen (stacked on top of one another) Globe Cinema in the heart...
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Banel & Adama Trailer: Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s Cannes-Selected Debut Feature Arrives This June
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
The only debut feature to premiere in competition at Cannes Film Festival last year, Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s West African love story Banel & Adama is now set for a a release this summer. I had the opportunity to catch up with...
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Eliza Hittman Sets Fourth Feature with MOTHERLOVE
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
Emerging as one of the great directors of the sensitives and complexities of youth with her three features thus far, It Felt Like Love, Beach Rats, and Never Rarely Sometimes Always, we’ve been waiting to see what filmmaker Eliza Hittman...
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