Screen Anarchy

The fine folks at Sitges have announced the first wave of titles for this year's 58th edition.    Julia Ducournau's Alpha will open the festival this year. Other big titles from the festival circuit this year include The Ugly Stepsister,...

Norwegian filmmaker Nina Knag unpacks how her morally complex debut feature interrogates power, privilege, and female desire, blending psychological realism, social critique, and quiet provocation into an unflinching character study shaped by empathy and ethical tension. [Read the whole post...

Director Mstyslav Chernov reflects on the ethical, storytelling, and aesthetic challenges of documenting war from within a Ukrainian platoon, offering insight into the filmmaking choices behind his visceral new documentary. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Young climate change scientist, Elias falls in love with an aspiring singer, Anita. But when an opportunity arises for him to join a mission researching a dangerous climate change phenomenon—a mysterious fracture on the ocean floor—he chooses career over love....

To call the Criterion Collection's October 2025 lineup anything less than masterful would be doing the films and the label a disservice. It's more like: wow! The official announcement is bookended by David Cronenberg: first, a 4K of A History...

A jungle kayak adventure descends into terror when a group of friends becomes the target of a merciless, bloodthirsty tribe. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Our friends at the Popcorn Frights Film Festival just announced the second wave of programming for their 11th edition, which will be held in South Florida, U.S., from August 7-17. Some 25 film premieres have been added, along with special...

Eddington, the fourth feature from Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar, Beau is Afraid), moves away somewhat from horror and the uncanny we've come to expect in his films, into a combination of a western and crime thriller that focuses in a very fraught...

Fantasia is nearly upon us, and with almost two hundred feature films spread out over three weeks of cinematic bliss, we thought you could use a bit of a roadmap to success in what to look forward to at this...

Annapurna Sriram discusses how her hallucinatory, sex-positive debut 'Fucktoys' reclaims grindhouse cinema through the female gaze, fusing occult symbolism, Southern grit, and unapologetic DIY energy into a radical vision of liberation. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]