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Fighting to Be Seen: On Emma Seligman’s Bottoms
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
As a teenager, how often did you want to be someone else? Do you still wish for it now? As a closeted, queer teenager, the need to be anywhere other than where I was and to be anyone but me ...
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Has The Needle Moved on the Impact of Women in Cinema for 2023?
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
It’s natural to believe 2023 was indeed the “Year of Women in Cinema,” especially with the release and hype surrounding “Barbie.” Some pundits proclaimed that Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie’s blockbuster paved the way for a big year for women...
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Sing Sing Trailer: Colman Domingo Finds Healing Through Performance in Acclaimed Drama
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
With a major last 12 months, starring in half a dozen films and receiving an Oscar nomination, Colman Domingo’s best performance of the bunch is in Greg Kwedar’s drama Sing Sing. A TIFF premiere that was picked up by A24...
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PREY ‘The Crash’ Clip: Action Thriller Starring Ryan Phillippe, Emile Hirsch And Mena Suvari Coming Next Week
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
A young couple is compelled to leave their Christian missionary station in the Kalahari Desert after being threatened with death by an extremist militant gang. After crashing their aircraft they must battle man and beast for their lives. We're going...
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Glitter & Doom Review: Indigo Girls Musical is Colorful, Charming, and Ultimately Shallow
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
Let’s start here: the production design in Tom Gustafson’s Glitter & Doom is impeccable, colorful, and memorable. Too often these days films lack an adventurous color palette. Here we have a welcome outlier. Production designer Geo Martínez breathes life into...
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BLOOD FOR DUST Trailer: Crime Thriller Starring Josh Lucas, Scoot McNairy and Kit Harington, in Select Theaters This April
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Cliff, a traveling salesman drowning under the weight of providing for his family and the myth of the American dream, finds himself on a dangerous path after a chance encounter with Ricky, a colleague from a dark past. [Read the...
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DUSK FOR A HITMAN Trailer: Quebecois Crime Thriller Coming This April
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
In the late 1970s, the most feared hitman in the Montreal underworld, Donald Lavoie, found himself hunted down by his former accomplices and by a tenacious police officer. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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THE PEOPLE’S JOKER Trailer: Vera Drew’s Queer Superhero Parody Arrives in Theaters This Spring
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
One film that has certainly made waves over the past few years is writer/director/actor Vera Drew’s superhero parody, The People’s Joker. Despite a world premiere screening at TIFF 2022, Drew had to pull it due to copyright issues. However, there...
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Trailer for The People’s Joker Brings DC-Skirting Film to Theaters
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
For a little while it seemed The People’s Joker might be lost to time, a new generation’s Day the Clown Cried or, if you like, Promises Written in Water. Despite an initial screening in TIFF’s Midnight Madness program, director Vera...
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A Conversation with Molly Manning Walker & Mia McKenna-Bruce (HOW TO HAVE SEX)
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
How to Have Sex was written and directed by Molly Manning Walker. The film stars Mia McKenna-Bruce as a teenager on a spring break trip with her mates. It played in the Cannes film festival in the Un Certain Regard...
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