Screen Anarchy

The debut feature from Singaporean writer-director Ang Geck Geck Priscilla is a semi-autobiographical story of a family’s separation, as seen through the eyes of a seven year old girl. Struggling to fully understand the gravity of the situation, and what...

Rinko Kikuchi stars in filmmaker Josef Kubota Wladyka's beautiful, vibrant, quirky, weird, imaginative, and genuinely moving portrait of moving on from devastating loss. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Plus: 'Don't Play With Fire,' 'The Uprising,' 'Practical Magic 2,' and 'The Fix.' [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Watching movies isn’t always fun if one is a critic but the idea that it should be is a nice one.   No matter how seriously we approach the medium of film, no matter how many greatest-films-of-all-time lists are generated,...

Roger Ebert once described film as a “machine that generates empathy.” For writer-director Christian Mugiu, this is very much true. But what if that empathy was slyly and sharply weaponized into a provocation? Enter Fjord.   In our increasingly globalized...

When Practical Magic was released in 1998, no one probably thought it would become a special movie for a whole slew of teenage girls and young women. And not just because of witchery, black cats, and pointy hats, even though...

For a brief, not-quite-shining moment, Paul Greengrass’ (Captain Phillips, United 93, the Jason Bourne series) latest film, The Uprising, bore a subtitle added by studio marketers, “The Rise of Robin Hood,” only to remove it after howls of outrage from...

Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, and Martin Balsam star in Sidney Lumet's feature film debut, now in 4K from The Criterion Collection. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Directed by Griffin Dunne, and written by Robin Swicord, Akiva Goldsman, and Adam Brooks, the film is based on the bestselling novel written by Alice Hoffman. The book was published in 1995. Practical Magic is full of many wonderful witchcraft...

If Xavier Burgin's Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror is the equivalent of a survey course you might take freshman year at college, Maya Annik Bedward's Black Zombie is the kind of class you take junior year that makes...