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A Conversation with Mathijs Poppe (THE JACKET)
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
Filmmaker Mathijs Poppe first stepped foot in the Shatia refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon 13 years ago as a volunteer at a youth center in the camp. Upon the first interactions he had with those in the camp, he was...
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SXSW 2025 Review: UVALDE MOM, As Questions Remain, a Hero Arises
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
On May 24, 2022, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, United States, with an AR-15 style rifle. The former pupil fatally shot 19 students and two teachers, while injuring 17 others. These deaths and injuries happened over time that day. While...
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Prime Video’s “The Wheel of Time” Finally Comes Into Its Own With Season Three 
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
It finally feels like “The Wheel of Time” can become the show it was always meant to be.
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Sound And Vision: The Big Joseph Kahn Interview, Part Two
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
(Click here for Part One!) In the second part of our two-article interview juggernaut with music video and film director Joseph Kahn we talk post-irony, Spielberg, Scorsese, the philosophy of laughter and how having children changes your vision on life....
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Short Films in Focus: David and Sam Cutler-Kreutz on “A Lien”
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
A chat with the filmmakers behind the Oscar-nominated live-action short.
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SXSW 2025 Review: CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD, A Lackluster YA Slasher For Gen Z
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
After the death of his wife, doctor Glenn Maybrook (Aaron Abrams) moves out to the rural factory town of Kettle Springs his teenage daughter Quinn (Katie Douglas) in an attempt to give them both a fresh start. However, when an...
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Philippe Lesage on Who by Fire, the Importance of Imperfection, and What TV Can Never Steal From Cinema
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
Back at New Directors/New Films in 2019, I was struck by Philippe Lesage’s deeply moving, boldly structured coming-of-age tale Genesis, ultimately naming it one of my top 10 films of its respective year. Half-a-decade later the Quebecois filmmaker has finally...
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SXSW 2025 Review: GOOD BOY, A Furry Ghost Hunter Leads This Haunted House Chiller
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
We have this aluminum shed in our backyard. It’s leftover from the previous tenants. It is filled with potting soil, various broken garden tools, and at least a decade’s worth of random detritus that we’ve just been too lazy to...
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SXSW 2025 Review: MY UNCLE JENS, Torn By Tension, Comic and Otherwise
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Brwa Vahabpour's surprising feature debut stars Peiman Azizpour, Hamza Agoshi, and Sarah Francesca Brænne. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Interview: Philippe Lesage on ‘Who By Fire’ and Intergenerational Insecurity
by admin|1 year ago|Slant Magazine
Lesage discusses the struggles faced by more than just youth across his films. The post Interview: Philippe Lesage on ‘Who By Fire’ and Intergenerational Insecurity appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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