Screen Anarchy

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...]

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...

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...

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...

I remain ever a fan of taking a compelling still frame form the film itself, and composing it into key art. Below is the poster for Yakuza drama, Tatsumi, in which leads Yûya Endô and Kokoro Morita offer each other...