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SXSW 2024 Review: ODDITY, A Creepy Supernatural Thriller From Ireland
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
The world’s creepiest mannequin holds the secret behind a shocking death in Damian McCarthy’s Oddity. Dani (Carolyn Bracken) is struggling to restore an old estate inherited by her busy doctor husband, Ted (Gwilym Lee). When a mysterious and violent death...
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SXSW 2024 Review: A HOUSE IS NOT A DISCO, Burning Down Preconceptions
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Brian J. Smith directs a love letter to Fire Island Pines, the legendary queer beach town in New York. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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WITH LOVE AND A MAJOR ORGAN Trailer: Opposites Attract in Romantic Sci-Fi Comedy
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
One of the most promising indies of the year, With Love and a Major Organ, may be a movie to tug on your heartstrings this spring. Directed by Kim Albright with a script by Julia Lederer, it is a romantic...
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Give a FECK!: Chaz Ebert on Her New Book About Forgiveness, Empathy, Compassion and Kindness
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
It’s Time to Give a FECK: Elevating Humanity through Forgiveness, Empathy, Compassion, and Kindness, launching on May 7, 2024, is a book by Chaz Ebert, publisher of RogerEbert.com. In it, she combines personal stories, academic research, news events, and practical steps, and warm...
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AN ARMY OF WOMEN
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
For its 31st edition, the SXSW Film & TV Festival will host nine days of screenings from March 8-16, 2024. Check out Chris Reed’s An Army of Women movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Sexual assault...
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Berlinale 2024 Review: THE EDITORIAL OFFICE, Or, THE GODFATHER for the Disinformation Age
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Ukrainian filmmaker Roman Bondarchuk navigates the complex interplay of truth, justice, and media manipulation in his latest socio-political black comedy that veers into a surreal satire. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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The Bikeriders, a Motorcycle Club Film, Highlights a Positive Woman’s Role
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
When selecting movies to screen at the 50th Telluride Film Festival this past August, “The Bikeriders” by director/writer Jeff Nichols was making its premiere. Not only the stellar cast of Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, and Michael Shannon captured...
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Director Maureen Bharoocha on Rita Moreno’s Two Requests Before Signing on for Campy Horror The Prank, Watching the EGOT Winner Break Bad
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
When director Maureen Bharoocha sent Rita Moreno the script for the horror-comedy film “The Prank” the EGOT winner had a few requests before signing above the dotted line. “She read it over a weekend and was like, ‘I have two...
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Latina Documentaries Tell a Different Story
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
“She did not allow society to contain her voice,” says director Carla Gutiérrez of her documentary’s subject, Frida Kahlo. Having won Gutiérrez the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: U.S. Documentary for editing at Sundance, “Frida” will premiere on Prime Video March...
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Like and Survive: Horror Cinema’s Anti-love Affair with Podcasting
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
Even as they become endangered in real life, radio DJs are a tenacious presence in the movies. Just last year, “John Wick: Chapter 4” paid tribute to “The Warriors” with a nearly shot-for-shot recreation of the sultry-voiced DJ who told...
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