Screen Anarchy

Plus: Marvel's 'Thunderbolts*,' Naomi Watts and a great dane in 'The Friend.' [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Simple line art, or is there more?  The key art for Tetsuya Mariko's New York City-set drama, Dear Stranger, has a few interesting textural things going on beyond its doodle-in-the-margin first glance.  First is the subtle texture, like a badly...

Moments into The Roses, screenwriter Tony McNamara (The Great, Poor Things, The Favourite) and Jay Roach’s (Trumbo, Meet the Parents, the Austin Powers trilogy) remake of The War of the Roses, Danny DeVito’s 1989 masterpiece of marital disharmony, the titular...

Shudder is going hard in the final third of the year; this is their tenth anniversary. Shudder will launch its biggest programming event, Season of Scream, next week. From September 1st through New Year's Eve, December 31st, expect new weekly...

I imagine this is the last that we're going to write about this slasher horror, Clown in a Cornfield. With the mighty weight of AMC subsidiary RLJE Films behind the theatrical release, and a publicity campaign that made it the...

Slovenian director Kukla and cast members Sarah Al Saleh, Alina Juhart, and Mina Milovanović discuss the development of the film, a multi-year project shaped by collaborative rehearsal, regional identity, and a visually driven approach to storytelling. [Read the whole post...

Norwegian director director Janicke Askevold offers an in-depth look at the creative process behind the film, unpacking its real-life inspirations, thematic complexity, and the collaborative choices that shaped its distinctive tone and performances. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Julian Radlmeier reflects on shifting away from overt satire toward a more lyrical and layered mode of storytelling in his latest film, born from a single photograph and shaped by the strange, revealing textures of a forgotten East German town....

A collection of Halloween-themed videotapes unleashes a series of twisted, blood-soaked tales, turning trick-or-treat into a struggle for survival. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Mohamed Jabarah Al-Daradji reflects on the wounds that shape his cinema, the ethical complexities of working with traumatized children, and the quiet defiance of making films in a country where storytelling can still be an act of survival. [Read the...