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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,...

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...