Screen Anarchy

THE DEAD THING: New Poster Debuts Ahead of World Premiere at Fantasia
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A young woman lost in a series of meaningless connections falls in love with a charismatic and sensitive man, who hides a dark secret that turns her affair into a dangerous obsession. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Fantasia 2024: ESCAPE ATTEMPT, Short Film Short Review
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In the future Saul hitches a ride with Anna and Vadim, a young couple on their way off planet for a vacation. Saul requests that they simply drop him off at the nearest uninhibited planet. He says he's done with...
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Neuchâtel 2024 Review: MEANWHILE ON EARTH Wanders Through Grief
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Fantastic genres like science fiction, fantasy and horror lend themselves for hiding a message in your entertainment. Throw in monsters, aliens or revolting transformations and you can make the most difficult ethical dilemmas palatable for a larger audience. But some...
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Fantasia 2024: THE SECOND, Short Film Short Review
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Editor Tony Zhou and Illustrator Taylor Ramos are perhaps best known for their YouTube channel Every Frame A Painting, their video essay side-hustle away from their day jobs in the TV animation industry.   Early pioneers in this space nearly...
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Neuchâtel 2024 Review: ETERNAL Takes Its Sweet Time Getting… Somewhere
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At the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival back in 2021, several films directly tackled the subject of environmental issues (including the International Critics' Jury Winner that year). This year, the selection skewed more towards emotions of grief, loss, failed relationships....
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Fantasia 2024 Review: 4PM, Where The Social Contract Is Weaponized.
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Jay Song’s two-hour long, complete implosion of the social contract, 4PM, is delightfully frustrating, and terribly absurd. Loosely based on the Belgian novel, “The Stranger Next Door,” written by Francophone author Amélie Nothomb, the film plays as if that scene...
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Karlovy Vary 2024 Review: Political Satire RUMOURS Takes Surreal Turn
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Guy Maddin teams up with Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson on a trippy political comedy in a dystopian predicament led by Cate Blanchett. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Karlovy Vary 2024 Review: PARTHENOPE is a Fantasy of Womanhood Through Male Gaze
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Paolo Sorrentino, the Oscar-winning Italian director, returns with Parthenope, a visually opulent that serves as both a love letter to Naples and a very male exploration of womanhood through the intertwining lenses of myth and modernity. [Read the whole post...
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Fantasia 2024 Review: BOOKWORM, A Parenting Adventure In The Wilderness
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Early on in Bookworm, a doctor struggles to have a conversation with a child about her injured mother. The medical professional tries to ease the child’s anxiety and kind of makes a fool of himself, because the young girl just...
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WOLVES AGAINST THE WORLD Red Band Trailer: Heavy Metal And Werewolves Together,
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Two members of a defunct neo-Nazi metal band reunite at the site of their bandmate’s suicide. One sinks into depravity and grievance and one tries to atone for what he has done. What ensues is an occult battle of wills...
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