Screen Anarchy

Exclusive: MALDOROR Trailer Debut, Fabrice du Welz’s Gripping Police Procedural
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Inspired by true events, Fabrice du Welz's police procedural Maldoror is heading to VOD and Digital next month, but we have the exclusive trailer debut ... now! Our own Martin Kudlac saw the film during the 2024 Venice Film Festival;...
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Tallinn 2025 Review: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Heartbreaking Story Tracks a Maid’s Journey Through Egypt’s Fractured Class Dynamics
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Sarah Goher's film, submitted as Egypt's entry for the Academy Awards, offers an intimate, day-long portrait of a child's maid navigating shifting family and class dynamics. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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BUZZKILL: Joe Lynch Horror Comedy Acquired by Bleecker Street
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Even though we don't even have an image to share, I'm excited by the news that a new film by Joe Lynch is heading our way -- especially when I read the premise. Bleecker Street today announced that it has...
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Tallinn 2025 Review: LIFELIKE Moves Beyond Coming-of-Age
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Turkish director Ali Vatansever examines how a family shifts its dynamics as a terminal diagnosis intersects with caregiving, belief, and the virtual spaces that offer temporary escape. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Tallinn 2025 Review: SUNDAY NINTH Probes Memory, Estrangement, Blurred Line Between Fiction and Documentary
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Kat Steppe's feature fiction debut examines the disintegration of memory and identity through a hybrid fiction-documentary lens, using the fractured relationship between two estranged brothers as its narrative anchor. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Opening This Week: DUST BUNNY, RESURRECTION, ATROPIA, Much More
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Plus: 'Lone Samurai,' 'Europe's New Faces,' 'Scarlet,' 'The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo,' and 'Ella McCay.' [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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DOWN RIVER Clip: Shep Shootout
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Arriving tomorrow on digital and on Demand, Down River is described as a Southern Gothic thriller. My colleague Andrew Mack posted the trailer last month, along with a batch of images, and now we have a clip to share that...
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RETURN TO REASON Blu-ray Review: The Dizzying Avant Garde of Man Ray
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The first years of cinema, the seventh art was treated more as a technological marvel than a device with which to tell stories. Even when the technology progressed and storytelling took over, artists still found ways to explore the medium...
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Tallinn 2025 Review: THINK OF ENGLAND Dramatizes Britain’s Attempt to Boost Morale with State-Mandated Porn Films
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Richard Hawkins' film moves from period workplace comedy, rooted in the absurdities of producing a pornographic film for the war effort, toward a psychological drama shaped by mounting instability. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Tallinn 2025 Review: BLINDSIGHT Retools the Amnesia Narrative Through Immersive Experience and Storytelling Rug Pulling
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Adrian Sitaru´s latest work employs first person immersion to build a narrative puzzle that shifts into the register of a Black Mirror episode, revealing a film with far more layers than its early realism and family drama implied. [Read the...
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