Screen Anarchy

FIND YOUR FRIENDS: Shudder Acquires Izabel Pakzad’s Feature Debut Thriller
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Amber and her friends visit Joshua Tree for a fun girls' trip but face hostility from locals. As tensions escalate and Amber's dark past surfaces, their rebellion ignites - turning their desert getaway into a jaw-dropping game of revenge. [Read...
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Echoes: Why Are AI-Driven Films Being Proposed as Any Kind of Solution in Pakistan?
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Facing a lack of funding and infrastructure, why has the Pakistani entertainment industry turned to AI? [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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THE LAND OF SOMETIMES Review: Careful What You Wish For
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Ewan McGregor, Alisha Weir, Andrei Shen, Asa Butterfield, Helena Bonham Carter, and Mel Brooks star in the British animated musical adventure. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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New Directors/New Films 2026 Preview: STRANGE RIVER, TWO SEASONS, TWO STRANGERS, and More
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Presented by Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art, the 55th edition of New Directors/New Films takes place from April 8 through April 19, 2026, with filmmakers scheduled to attend in person. With a focus on innovative...
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Opening This Week: FACES OF DEATH Goes Digital, THE CHRISTOPHERS Confronts Art, CHAO Gets Romantic
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Plus: 'Mermaid,' 'Hamlet,' 'The Yeti,' 'Infiltrate.' [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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STAR WARS: MAUL – SHADOW LORD Review: The Galaxy’s Most Dangerous Survivor Returns
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When we reunite with the former Sith apprentice to Darth Sidious they are now the Zabrak crime lord, one-time leader of the large criminal alliance, the collapsed Shadow Collective.   We are one year after Order 66, between their betrayal...
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Diagonale 2026 Review: PORTRAIT OF NOWNESS Assembles a Fragmented Mosaic
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Co-created by Juri Rechinsky and Mario Hainzl, the film constructs a first-person docu-experiment in which body-camera footage across multiple continents reframes notions of everyday life through contrasting conditions of normalcy. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Diagonale 2026 Review: THE STORIES Turns Familiar Tragicomic Family Saga Tropes into Finetuned Crowd-pleaser
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Abu Bakr Shawky's film unfolds as a multi-generational family saga that situates an intimate love story within the shifting social and political landscape of Egypt from the 1960s to the 1990s. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Diagonale 2026 Review: WAX & GOLD Probes Memory and Myth of Ethiopia’s Beloved Autocrat
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Austrian filmmaker Ruth Beckermann uses the spatial and historical layers of the Hilton Addis Ababa to examine how the legacy of Haile Selassie is constructed, negotiated and contested through personal memory, archival material and competing narratives. [Read the whole post...
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FACES OF DEATH Interview: Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei on IP, Censorship, and Horror History
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Turning a maybe not quite beloved but certainly important cult object like 1978's faux-snuff/faux-documentary Faces of Death into a multiplex-friendly narrative film with aspirations of taking on major social media companies is no small endeavor, creatively or culturally. That's part...
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