Screen Anarchy

Crendices, meaning 'superstitions', premièring at the Portuguese horror film festival Motel X, is a very local film. It hails from Madeira, an island that is part of Portugal, and that has local practices that are extremely specific to that region....

Aleksander Radivojevic is best known as a co-writer for A Serbian Film. That film is infamous for its brutal portrayal of Serbia, pulling no punches, and becoming so dark the contents of the film became a meme in and off...

It's not easy watching one's parents get old, and having to care for them, mostly because we don't like to be reminded of how we're all end up with the problems of aging. The task of looking after aging parents...

Wherever you are on this planet, one split second can change your life. This may be instantly, or the first domino in a slow, irreversible crash out of all the best made plans. For Dane Francis, an NGO driver on...

Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli return with a 70s-intimate-sci-fi horror sophomore feature. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

After a striking opening scene, in which a young man and a young woman connect in a massage parlor after a clandestine handjob, and she invites him over to meet her parents immediately, the credits of Buzzheart start. They consist...

Anything That Moves is that rare thing: a truly bizarre oddity of a film, for better or worse. Best described as a pastiche of sexploitation films, mixed with a serial killer thriller, it is something truly special: a sex-positive film...

If a person cannot be understood, if they need something outside of what is common in order to full live and thrive in our society, they are often shunted to the side at best, or at worst, treated as burdens...

Cute and apprehensive, but passively sweet Baron, whose friends call him Bear, has one last chance to avoid the Friend Zone with his co-worker Nikki.   Quietly, inelegantly, he lusts over her, while outwardly he can only simp in ways...

Stalk-like creatures wriggling out of walls. Endless trenches that hide dangers. Half-men, half-robots in fetish wear. Removable eyes. These are just some of the wonders and weirdos that await in Takahide Hori's latest animated film, Junk World. Bizarre, funny, sometimes confusing,...