Screen Anarchy

Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani continue their deconstruction of genre cinema in a visual rollercoaster, consisting of formal pyrotechnics and a disorienting narrative. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Back in 2021, writer-director Kier-La Janisse released Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, a great 3-hours-(and-14-minutes)-long documentary about witchcraft and mysticism around the world, especially as seen in films. That documentary didn't just get a special release on Blu-ray, it basically...

Naian González Norvind and Cristo Fernández star in Urzula Barba Hopfner's directorial debut from Mexico, a gentle and affecting story. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Times are tough in New Jack City. The nefarious Styles Syndicate has a grip on the city, and by-the-book cop Dylan Gamble (Andre Hall) is determined to take down its leader, Silkwaan Styles (Page Kennedy). However, before he can, he...

A quartet of twenty-something friends out for a drive find themselves on a road to nowhere in first time feature director Alexander Ullom’s meditative sci-fi thriller, It Ends, premiering this week at the SXSW Film & TV Festival. Headstrong James...

Yvonne (Zoë Chao) needs to get out of the city and she needs to do it fast. A tragic accident has brought down on her the kind of crushing trauma response that can only be resolved by removing herself from...

An astronaut returns from her maiden voyage into space only to discover that something seems to have followed her back, and its intentions are unclear in writer/director Jess Varley’s The Astronaut. Captain Sam Walker (Kate Mara) has dreamed of being...

Hong Sangsoo's latest film continues his exploration of fleeting social encounters, using his signature minimalism to dissect class, artistic ambition, and underlying tensions within intimate spaces. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Emma Laird stars in Alex Burunova's deeply-affecting drama. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Brooklyn-based documentarians Carter Oakley and Heather Hogan have made a career of focusing on end-of-life issues. As individuals, they themselves have witnessed the process with loved ones and through Hogan’s work as a death doula. The reality is that sometimes...