Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Locarno coverage. Drowning Dry opens in theaters on July 18. Memories can be slippery things. Take what happens around the halfway point of Laurynas Bareiša’s beguiling second feature: two...
Annapurna Sriram discusses how her hallucinatory, sex-positive debut 'Fucktoys' reclaims grindhouse cinema through the female gaze, fusing occult symbolism, Southern grit, and unapologetic DIY energy into a radical vision of liberation. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
Aster discusses what his pandemic-era dark comedy has to say to audiences in 2025. The post Interview: Ari Aster on ‘Eddington’ and the Experience (and Absurdity) of Alienation appeared first on Slant Magazine.
In I KILL U, from director Yoo Ha, taekwondo athlete Kang Sun-woo (Kang Ji-young) reluctantly agrees to pose as the double for an heiress (also Kang) implicated in a hit-and-run scandal. The money is good and the task seems simple...
An offbeat beauty industry "celebrity" struggles to maintain her lifestyle and sanity after an internet scandal, new love interest and obsessive and violent new fan base turn her life upside down. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
News today from Variety is that Mongrel Media have boarded Anouk Whissell's psychological horror, Holi Womb, for Canadian distribution. The news comes ahead of the project’s bow at the opening pitch session at Frontières on July 23rd. Holi Womb...
A bit of catching up this morning. If you have not seen this news on other channels then take a look at the practical effects used in the upcoming creature feaure, Pacifico. In the film, a group of young...