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Secret Mall Apartment Review: Artists Make a Home in the Belly of the Gentrification Beast
by admin|2 months ago|The Film Stage
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 SXSW coverage. Secret Mall Apartment is now in theaters. Shedding light on a quirky 2007 story that made national headlines, Secret Mall Apartment takes us deep into the bowels...
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‘The Friend’ Review: Drama About a Dog-and-Human Bond Barks Up a Familiar Tree
by admin|2 months ago|Slant Magazine
The tidiness of The Friend increasingly plays as timidity across the two-hour runtime. The post ‘The Friend’ Review: Drama About a Dog-and-Human Bond Barks Up a Familiar Tree appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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How the One-Take Approach of “Adolescence” Traps Us in Tragedy
by admin|2 months ago|Roger Ebert
The unbroken shots of Netflix's hit crime drama are more than just for show: They hit at the emotional immediacy of grief and despair.
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Cinequest 2025 Review: I’M NOT AN ACTOR, A Long Distance Drama Unfolds
by admin|2 months ago|Screen Anarchy
A man and a woman audition for a film; he from Frankfurt, Germany, her from Mumbai, India. He is a banker, she is a serious actor, but the only way they get the job is by working together over a...
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‘Holy Cow’ Review: Coming of Age in Rural France, With and Without the Cheese
by admin|2 months ago|Slant Magazine
The film’s rhythms embody the swirling confusion and contradictions of adolescence itself. The post ‘Holy Cow’ Review: Coming of Age in Rural France, With and Without the Cheese appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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SXSW Review: Fucktoys is a Timely Critique of Capitalism with a Grindhouse Spirit
by admin|2 months ago|The Film Stage
Playing like the kinkier granddaughter of Russ Meyers’ Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Annapurna Sriram’s Fucktoys has an axe to grind, and then some. At its core, this is a critique of modern capitalism that feels increasingly relevant, arriving in a...
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Shudder in April: It’s Halfway to Halloween! 825 FOREST ROAD, SHADOW OF GOD, DEAD MAIL, And FRÉWAKA Lead us Into Spring
by admin|2 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Spring has sprung, the days are getting longer and the Sun is showing its face more and more these days. Good thing Shudder has every excuse for you to stay indoors and avoid that glorious burst of life outside.   ...
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THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: THIEF
by admin|2 months ago|Hammer to Nail
(We here at Hammer to Nail are all about true independent cinema. But we also have to tip our hat to the great films of yesteryear that continue to inspire filmmakers and cinephiles alike. This week, “The Curbside Criterion” continues...
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Fantaspoa 2025: Brazilian Festival Announces Mammoth Lineup
by admin|2 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Our friends at Fantaspoa have revealed the whopping, one hundred feature film lineup for this year's festival, taking place in Porto Alegre, Brazil from April 9th through 27th.    Quite frankly, trying to pick highlights out of one hundered titles...
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Cinequest 2025 Review: VOICES CARRY, Grim Generational Trauma Thriller
by admin|2 months ago|Screen Anarchy
If countless genre films have taught us anything, returning to a lake house where you spent your childhood and where some troubling events may have occurred is never a good idea. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what Sam (Gia Crovatin) and her...
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