Screen Anarchy

Karlovy Vary 2025 Review: SIRĀT Raves at the Edge of Apocalypse
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Oliver Laxe's desert rave road movie fuses Tarkovsky with 'Mad Max,' channeling enlightenment in shockwaves. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Karlovy Vary 2025 Review: IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT Takes Justice for a Ride
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Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi delivers a political revenge thriller infused with absurdist comedy in his latest work, using the framework of post-authoritarian reckoning to examine the moral ambiguities of justice, memory, and collective trauma. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Fantasia 2025 Short Film, Short Review: LE TOUR DE CANADA
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Fuelled by strong beer, broken glass, and raw fish, John Hollands' Le Tour De Canada a frenetic race from St. John’s to Vancouver somewhere in an alternate 1970s - if the chroma keyed backdrops of Toronto are too be trusted, or...
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ARROW Player in August: HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS, Many Cats, And a Coked-out Raccoon
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With just more than a week left in July it is time once again to look to August and find out what the folks at Arrow Video have planned for their ARROW Player.   Probably the biggest title in the...
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Popcorn Frights 2025: Closing Film Announced, SHELL Starring Elisabeth Moss And Kate Hudson
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Down on her luck actress Samantha Lake is invited into the ultra-glamorous world of Zoe Shannon, CEO of wellness company SHELL. When SHELL patients begin to go missing, Samantha realizes Zoe may be protecting a monstrous secret. [Read the whole...
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Fantasia 2025 Review: EVERY HEAVY THING, A DePalma-Flavored Cyber Thriller And Mickey Reece’s Best Film Yet
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Oklahoma auteur Mickey Reece is back at Fantasia 2025 with his latest work of outsider art, in the neon-tinged ‘80s-infused cyber thriller, Every Heavy Thing. Joe (Josh Fadem) lives a pretty milquetoast life in Hightown City , USA. Peddling ads...
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LAST SWIM Review: Youthful Despondency, Soaked in the Sun
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Newcomer Sasha Nathwani delivers a tender, sun-soaked exploration of youthful despondency in his feature-length debut, Last Swim. The story follows Ziba (Deba Hekmat), a British-Iranian teenager whose life is on the cusp of irrevocable change. A single, momentous day in London...
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Fantasia 2025 Review: THE WELL, In A World Where Water Is Scarce, A Young Girl Is Her Family’s Only Hope
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In a not-too-distant future where clean water is scarce, a young woman’s journey to find a way to fix her family’s well leads her to a group of struggling survivors who would do anything to have what she has in...
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THE CONGREGATION: THE BRIDE OF CHRIST Review: Choosing Friends, A Cautionary Tale
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The Swedish series dramatizes a cult leader's paralyzing hold on her community. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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V/H/S/HALLOWEEN: Shudder Announces Directors For Next Installment of Popular Anthology Series
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Shudder has announced the lineup of directors for the next installment of the horror anthology series that simply will not die, V/H/S. This time they are coming after our favorite holiday, Halloween.    They are, in order of announcement, Scottish...
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