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Confessions of a Creature Feature Preacher Interview: MAN FINDS TAPE Writer/Directors Paul Gandersman and Peter S. Hall
by admin|12 months ago|Screen Anarchy
The powers that be here at Screen Anarchy, after much arcane ritual, have agreed with me, your lowly unholy servant, that nothing could be more anarchic than a bi-monthly column from yours truly. I have emerged from my Creature Feature...
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Kill the Jockey | Review
by admin|12 months ago|Ioncinema
They Kill Horse Riders, Don’t They?: Ortega Puzzles with Deadpan Metaphors Nothing is what it appears to be in Argentinean Luis Ortega’s latest film Kill the Jockey, a crime comedy drama which becomes an increasingly complex exercise regarding identity. The...
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa Is Back Online In U.S. Trailer for Cloud
by admin|12 months ago|The Film Stage
What a pleasure it is to see Kiyoshi Kurosawa in his Hong Sangsoo period. The typically prolific filmmaker had an especially verdant 2024: his all-killer, no-filler Chime; Serpent’s Path, a plenty worthy remake of his major 1998 feature; and Cloud, which seems entrenched...
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SENTIMENTAL VALUE Trailer: Renate Reinsve is at Odds with Stellan Skarsgård in Joachim Trier’s Cannes Sensation
by admin|12 months ago|Hammer to Nail
Four years after stunning the world with her Cannes-winning, breakout performance in The Worst Person in the World, Renate Reinsve and director Joachim Trier reunite for their newest collaboration, Sentimental Value. The film made waves at the Cannes Film Festival,...
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Videoheaven Review: Alex Ross Perry’s Whirlwind Tour Through the Golden Age of the Video Store
by admin|12 months ago|The Film Stage
In Videoheaven, Blockbuster––to take after Thom Andersen––plays itself. Now deep in a pop-cultural-scholarship phase inaugurated by his last feature Pavements, Alex Ross Perry has made a generous, absorbing three-hour essay film-cum-documentary on nothing else but video-rental stores, those fabled and...
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The Running Man Trailer: Glen Powell is Hunted in Edgar Wright’s Stephen King Adaptation
by admin|12 months ago|The Film Stage
After a busy last summer with Hit Man and Twisters, Glen Powell is back this fall with Edgar Wright’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Running Man. With a cast also including Katy O’Brian, Daniel Ezra, Karl Glusman, Josh Brolin, Lee...
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The Unloved, Part 138: Rebel Moon
by admin|12 months ago|Roger Ebert
Reclaiming Zack Snyder's gargantuan sci-fi epic after it was abandoned on Netflix.
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Short Films in Focus: Q&A with “Living Reality” Director Philip Thompson
by admin|12 months ago|Roger Ebert
An interview with the director and star of the meta-sitcom short.
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A Dispatch From the Bentonville Film Festival
by admin|12 months ago|Roger Ebert
Looking in at the Geena Davis-founded film festival.
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Sentimental Value Trailer: Joachim Trier’s Cannes Winner Arrives This November
by admin|12 months ago|The Film Stage
Following the sensation that was The Worst Person in the World, Danish-Norwegian director Joachim Trier returned to Cannes Film Festival with Sentimental Value, a story of family and filmmaking that earned him the Cannes Grand Prix. Led by Renate Reinsve,...
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