Screen Anarchy

It’s the 1920s in Northern China and prized student Qi Quan returns to their martial arts academy. He is there to participate in a formal duel, for leadership of the academy. He will fight Shen An, son of the academy’s...

Here in the States, we are very much enjoying your raucous Northern Irish film Kneecap, which our own Olga Artemyeva described as "bold, entertaining and boisterous - both as a cinematic piece and as a statement. It is also genuinely...

Celebrating its tenth anniversary, Popcorn Frights Film Festival kicks off Thursday night with the world premiere of Beezel and the Florida premiere of Strange Darling. The festival will be a hybrid experience, presenting both in-theater and virtual film offerings, running...

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: Bright Eyes' Bells and Whistles, directed by Josh Boone. Josh Boone's works have never clicked for me. The Fault in Our...

Derek is down on his luck. Separated from his wife and child he lives out of his car, using it for ride-sharing to make ends meet. He meets an old friend, Gilbert, who offers to give him a job testing...

Tamara searches for her missing son in a violent town, falling under the weight of a civil uprising. She comes across a morally questionable ex-detective Brajyuk, who, in a last ditch effort to stay alive, agrees to help her find...

It's tough out there for a single gal. Alex (Blu Hunt) is a woman caught in the throes of malaise, accompanied by a desperate wish to find something worth caring about. Her daily grind is uninspiring, her home life with...

CW: Domestic abuse, realistic violence Exploitation icon Scooter McCrae is back behind the camera with Black Eyed Susan, his first feature film since 1999's Sixteen Tongues. After having directed a few shorts and doing a bit of acting in the...

Lantern Blade is a web-seires directed by Zhu Ziqi at Mote Stop Motion Animation studio in China. Lantern Blade is part of the Tencent Video Original Animation Short Film Collection, an anthology with a stop-mo program. It was released in...

The 24th edition of the Trieste Science+Fiction Festival gets a gorgeous illustration and design from Italian cartoonist Zerocalcare. Parasols, lanterns, and a jackhammer frame the characters from vastly different walks of life as twin moons fade off into the distance. ...