Screen Anarchy

I saw Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s (Pulse, Cure) latest film, Cloud, at the 44th annual Hawaii International Film Festival [in October 2024], and man, am I perplexed. I love Pulse (Kairo) and I wanted to love Cloud, but I can’t even figure out what the title alludes to;...

Anthony Mackie and Stephanie Beatriz return in the vehicular combat series. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Do places and living things (be there plant or animal) derive their power and importance from their naming, or simply by being. Who has stewardship and what does ownership mean to a place and its people. We live in a...

Guilt weighs heavy on everyone in a new South Korean thriller. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Birzhan, a big-city detective, moves his family to the remote village of Karatas and is called to investigate an eerie series of events at a maternity hospital. Pregnant women are getting sick, all at once, some of them even dying....

Real-world bullying turns to supernatural vengeance in a new high school horror film from Thailand. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Shot in lush and misty black & white, with superbly framed large-canvas photography, and truly exceptional production design, Malu Janssen’s Barlebas is a 20-minute short of a literal witch-hunt. One which perfectly balances the epic and the intimate, the tender and...

Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Masahisa Fukase is now regarded as one of the key Japanese photographers of the past 60 years. Ravens presents a kaleidoscopic account of his life, anchored by a riveting performance by Tadanobu Asano. The film's...

Opening night at this year's New York Asian Film Festival featured the world premiere of The Informant, a crime comedy from South Korea. Despite engaging stars, this ride hits a lot of potholes. Key to the plot is a ledger...

I don't know about the rest of you, but I certainly had aspirations as a child, to be a detective. I think it's fairly common: once you're of a certain age and have some freedom, you want to prove you...