Screen Anarchy

BiFan 2024 Review: BASE STATION, Paranoia Reigns in Dystopian Indie Sci-fi from Talent to Watch
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After impressing many viewers and critics two years ago with his wildly original debut film The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra, Park Syeyoung returns to BiFan with his second feature, Base Station, which he co-directed with artist and filmmaker Yeon Yeji, who...
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BiFan 2024 Review: IDIOT GIRLS AND SCHOOL GHOST: SCHOOL ANNIVERSARY, Lo-Fi Horror Comedy Lovingly Lampoons Far East Asian Horror Tropes
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Combining The Ring and the Whispering Corridors series, the giants of J- and K-horror, and stirring the pot with tongue firmly planted in cheek, the low-budget horror spoof Idiot Girls and School Ghost: School Anniversary lovingly pokes fun at the...
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Fantasia 2024: Who Wears Short Shorts? We Wear Short Shorts! Wait. What? Shorts Programs Revealed
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Ah shorts. Little bit and bites, snippets of genius, hunks of horror, stabs of action, and blips of wonder. They're just the perfect size for quick cinemantic digestion.    When Fantasia announced the final wave of feature film titles for...
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Friday One Sheet: FAYE
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Lounging by the pool in a silk robe and stiletto heels at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 1977, actress and style icon, Faye Dunaway is shown in a kind of Sunset Boulevard-esque tableaux the morning after she won the Academy Award...
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PARIS IS IN HARLEM Review: Mosaics of Life and Music
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While there are a lot of laws enacted (and sometimes still exist) in cities that seem very odd and specific (I read once about a law forbidding people from hiding bees under their hats), some laws that seem strange on...
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Neuchâtel 2024 Starts This Week
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Tomorrow, the 23rd Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival starts, bringing nine days of horror, fantasy and science fiction films from all over the world to a beautiful Swiss location. This year, the poster and trailer point to a general theme...
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MAXXXINE Review: Ti West’s X Trilogy Comes To An Entertaining But Overstuffed End
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Writer/director Ti West closes out an ambitious trilogy of horror films with the Hollywood-set glam pastiche, MaXXXine. The final chapter in the series headlined by the marvelous Mia Goth, MaXXXine finds heroine Maxine Minx following her dreams of fame to...
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KIZUMONOGATARI -KOYOMI VAMP-: Resurrected Neo-Gothic Anime Coming to North America From Crunchyroll
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Yesterday, Crunchyroll announced that they had acquired the North American rights for Kizumonogatari -Koyomi Vamp-, an amalgamation of three films from 2016 and 2017 that are apparently very difficult to find these days.   It was one fateful evening when...
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IN OUR BLOOD: First Look at Footage For Fantasia-Bound Thriller-Horror
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Moments ago Fantasia announced that Pedro Kos' thriller-horror In Our Blood would have its World Premiere at the festival. Prior to that announcement Deadline jumped the gun, revield that the flick was going to Fantasia, and presented a sneak peek...
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Fantasia 2024: Final Wave Titles Announced! Mike Flanagan And Erik Canuel Honored. Quebecois Dramedy ABABOUINE to Close.
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Here it is, the final wave of titles for this year's edtion of the Fantasia International Film Festival. Combined with the other two waves this makes up a total of 125 feature films and over 200 short films.    It...
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