Screen Anarchy

Everything in Hot Milk is about to spoil. The movie unfolds in a low-rent resort in Almería on the southeast seacoast of Spain. There, Sofia (Emma Mackey) and her mother Rose (Fiona Shaw) are trapped in a "vacation" that shows no signs...

27 Hours, 1 Bathroom. 25 Hostages. This festival poster for Tomás Corredor's Noviembre (November) lists the real-life hostages vertically above the catchy tagline. A highly-dramatized account of Colombia's nation-tramautizing 1985 siege and hostage situation at the country's Palace of Justice, the key art...

Mads Mikkelsen and Sigourney Weaver Star in Candy-Coated Monster Film [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Stephen King began writing his first novel, The Long Walk, a dystopian thriller set in an alternate, totalitarian America, as a college freshman at the University of Maine in the fall of 1966.   It wasn’t published until more than...

There is a tiny scene in Anders Thomas Jensen’s latest irreverent and absurd character study, The Last Viking, that is utterly pure in regards to why I love his films and his storytelling sensibilities.   A man tells a story...

Grief can manifest in a myriad of ways, and there is not necessarily any perfect or 'sensible' way to process the loss of family, even if they're of an age where it's not a surprise. And it's natural to have...

Director Dag Johan Haugerud's film is part of the Oslo Trilogy. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Vadim Baranov was an artist among politicians, and a politician for artists during the tumultuous times of the late 20th century and early 21st century Russia. The son of a high ranking Soviet academic (who burned out and faded away...

Sydney Sweeney stars as boxer Christy Martin in David Michôd's sports biopic. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

A parable of corruption in Greece as told through the ingenuity and survival instincts of a chicken, it says something when the most normal film in a director’s filmography is an endurance thriller told entirely from the point of view...