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SXSW 2025 Review: FRIENDSHIP, It’s Hard Out Here For Dudes
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Cringe comedy master Tim Robinson makes his feature lead debut alongside an always dependable Paul Rudd in Andrew DeYoung’s hilarious bromantic-comedy, Friendship. Craig Betterman (Robinson) is a man in a rut. He lives his life in an unending triangle between...
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THE 4 RASCALS Review: Vietnamese Comedy of Errors Sometimes Turns Dark
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Trấn Thành's latest populist hit is a broad comedy, overlaid with menacing melodrama. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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OPUS Review: Splatter Horror, Black Comedy, and Cults
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Ayo Edebiri, John Malkovich, Mark Anthony Green, Murray Bartlett, Amber Midthunder, and Stephanie Suganami star in Mark Anthony Green's film. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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SXSW 2025: SLANTED, SHUFFLE, More Get Jury and Special Awards
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Ripped from the pages of our email in-box: "The South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference and Festivals announced the 2025 Jury and Special Award winners of the 32nd SXSW Film & TV Festival. "Feature films receiving Jury Awards were selected from...
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Berlinale 2025 Review: LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS Merges Irreverent Humor with Queer Sci-Fi Coming of Age
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Leela Varghese and Emma Hough Hobbs directed the funniest film of this year's Berlinale, a campy queer coming-of-age space opera. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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SXSW 2025 Review: DESCENDENT, A Father-to-Be’s Alien Abduction Exposes Male Anxieties
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One night while on patrol at his job as late-night security for an elementary school, soon-to-be father Sean (Ross Marquand) spots strange floating lights in the sky. As they flit around, he marvels, then when he goes to change a...
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SXSW 2025 Review: HALLOW ROAD, A Folk Horror Two-Hander On A Deep, Dark Forest Lane
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A tragic accident, a terrified teenage girl, a pair of panicked parents, and a long lonely road in the woods feature in Iranian-British director Babak Anvari’s latest chiller, Hallow Road, premiering as part of this year’s SXSW Film & TV...
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Berlinale 2025 Review: 1001 FRAMES Exposes Power, Performance, and Control
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Mehrnoush Alia's audition thriller examines the blurred boundaries between artistic authority and coercion in an Iranian take on a casting couch. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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SXSW 2025 Review: MERMAID, A Florida Meth-Head Finds Love in this Absurd Comedy
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Doug’s life sucks. He’s broke, strung out on meth, his ex-wife hates him, he owes money to some very dangerous people, and he doesn’t really see a way out. He’s at the end of his rope when he stumbles across...
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NOVOCAINE Interview: Directors Dan Berk and Robert Olsen Talk Their Action Comedy. And Pain.
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Directors Dan Berk and Robert Olsen discuss pain, rules, shotlists, storyboards, and making a movie for a "broad audience to just come and have a fun time." [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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