Screen Anarchy

Shudder in March: RULE OF JENNY PEN, BLOODY AXE WOUND, And STARVE ACRE
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Once we have all survived the most lovey dovey of days on the yearly calendar we may turn our attention to what our friends at Shudder have planned for us during the month of March.    Highlight films are the...
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Sundance 2025 Review: RAINS OVER BABEL, Singularly Enthralling Retro-Futuristic Queer Fantasy
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In the retro-futuristic, pop-punk imagination of Spanish Columbian writer-director Gala del Sol (Natalia Hermida) and her unmissable, queer-coded feature-length debut, Rains Over Babel (Llueve Sobre Babel), Cali, Colombia exists in a sublime liminal space, at the crossroads between the real...
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A KNIGHT’S WAR Official Trailer: Black Fawn Picks up Canadian Sword & Sorcery Flick For Distro on Home Soil
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A lone medieval knight follows a mysterious woman to a forbidden realm to help her battle an army of demons and steal the power of the gods. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Sundance 2025 Review: 2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA, Brutal Realities of Modern Warfare
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Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov offers an unvarnished and unflinching look at the frontlines of the Russo-Ukrainian war. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Criterion: KILLER OF SHEEP Headlines May 2025 Releases
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Plus: 'Withnail and I,' 'How to Get Ahead in Advertising,' 'The Wind Will Carry Us,' 'The Three Musketeers/The Four Musketeers,' and in 4K: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg,' 'In the Heat of the Night.' [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Sundance 2025 Review: THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR Looks at Stand Your Ground Laws
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Elections have consequences, as pundits keep reminding us. One of those is Florida's "stand your ground" legislation, which allows the use of deadly force if people feel they are in imminent danger. Composed almost entirely of bodycam and surveillance video,...
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Friday One Sheet: Calgary Underground 2025
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"Lowbrow maximalist illustrations brimming with thoughtful puns, juicy buns, and innuendo." This is how illustrator Hamburger Hands (aka Kyle Schneider) describes his work, here for the 22nd Calgary Underground Film Festival, and its key art. It is an ode to Underground Comix...
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SOMETHING IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN Review: It Lives Up to Its Title
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A character study, a dark comedy, a social satire, with a sly revenge thriller snuck in for good measure, Antonio Méndez Esparza’s portentously titled Something Is About To Happen has a lot going on in its two-hour runtime. One might...
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Sundance 2025 Review: OH, HI!, Anti-Rom-Com Promises Much, Delivers Less
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The title of writer-director Sophie Brooks’s feature-length debut, Oh, Hi!, an anti-rom-com, appears almost immediately in an exchange between longtime best friends, Iris (Molly Gordon) and Max (Geraldine Viswanathan).   Usually saved for a moment combining surprise and levity, here...
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Sundance 2025 Review: DIDN’T DIE, Post-Apocalyptic Zom-Com, Short on Zombies, Short on Comedy
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In co-writer/director Meera Menon’s (Equity, Farah Goes Bang) post-apocalyptic zombie tale, Didn’t Die, a zombie-filled life is barely worth living.   As always, staying alive means not just dodging the walking dead and their appetites for human flesh, but also...
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