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The Problem and the Solution: Why Palpatine from Star Wars is One of the Great Movie Villains
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
George Lucas gets a lot of flak for his screenwriting, but credit must be given when due: Sheev Palpatine, the humble senator from Naboo who becomes a galactic despot in the "Star Wars" movies, is one of the great screen villains.  The narrative...
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The Last Stop in Yuma County
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
"Last Stop in Yuma County" is the kind of movie where you root for the worst to happen, because every escalation of misfortune makes things more entertaining.   Written and directed by Francis Gallupi, "Yuma" is a period piece that makes...
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VIOLENCE: Rohan Campbell And Maddie Hasson to Star in Connor Marsden’s Debut Thriller
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Here's one for the hometown crowd here in Canada. Prodcution will begin next month on Connor Marsden's operatic punk rock thriller Violence in Northern Ontario. Today it was announced that Canadian lad Rohan Campbell and American lady Maddie Hasson will play...
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2024 Hubert Bals Fund’s HBF+Europe: Erige Sehiri, Danielle Arbid & Ala Eddine Slim Projects Get Coin
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
Ten projects are the latest to be awarded by the Hubert Bals Fund’s HBF+Europe support schemes. Ten projects in all are receiving coin and among them we have an Anonymous project, plus the latest from Erige Sehiri, Danielle Arbid and...
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WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES Review: Deft, Stylish, Emotional
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Matt Reeves completed the trilogy with dexterous style and an emotional approach to a weighty subject, developing into the best 'Apes' movie ever, as of 2017. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Review: Bold and Brash
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Review by Jason Gorber. There will be plenty of hyperbole flung about in celebration of this film with the joy and abandon of an ape playfully lobbing his poop at an appreciative audience. Yet like the scatological simian show at...
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ROOFTOP FILMS 2024 LINEUP: See The Indie Hits Coming To NYC This Summer
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
Do any New Yorkers have plans this summer? How about chilling under the sun to some of this year’s hot new indie films? Rooftop Films has just announced its lineup for its 2024 Summer Series, which will take place throughout...
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DARK MATTER Review: Of Twists, Turns, and Alternate Lives
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Connelly, Alice Braga, and Jimmi Simpson star in Blake Crouch's mind-twisting series, debuting on Apple TV+. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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A Good Reason to Be a Coward: Jim Cummings on The Last Stop in Yuma County
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
The premise for Francis Gallupi’s directorial debut, “The Last Stop in Yuma County,” feels like it’s setting up a long-winded joke: a traveling knife salesman, two bank robbers, a traveling elderly couple, and two wannabe criminals walk into a diner...
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Harmony Korine Assaults the Senses In New Aggro Dr1ft Trailer
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
After a contentious fall-festival run where people either had to declare Aggro Dr1ft the future of cinema or an abject embarrassment––I propose it’s sufficient to think “this looks neat” and find yourself chortling across 80 fleet-enough minutes––Korine’s EDGLRD is migrating from initial...
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