Screen Anarchy

HOUSE OF NINJAS Review: Shinobi Stealth Success
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Kento Kaku, Yosuke Eguchi, Tae Kimura, Kengo Kora, Aju Makita, and Nobuko Miyamoto star in Dave Boyle's Japanese-language action series. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Rotterdam 2024 Review: THE LIGHT Points Attention To An Art Scandal
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In May 1995, Denmark was celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the end of its occupation by the Nazis during World War 2, and many festivities were planned. As part of these, an art installation called 'Peace Sculpture 1995' was greenlit...
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LA NUEVA (The Newcomer): 2023’s Horror Short Film of the Year? It Just Might be…
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For your consideration.   Let us say that Horror Short Film of the Year were something that was officially awarded by globally recognized group of our peers. Then we say that the honor was awarded to the horror short that...
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Friday One Sheet: TENET (Re-Release)
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Apologies for two re-releases in a row, however, this new key art for Christopher Nolan's Tenet is so, so good. This Saul Bass inspired free fall from design house B O N D is a country mile (forwards or backwards) ahead...
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Sundance 2024 Review: A DIFFERENT MAN, Idea-Rich Genre Mash-Up Stumbles, Falls, Dissatisfies
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In Aaron Schimberg’s (Chained for Life, Go Down South) latest film, A Different Man, Edward (Sebastian Stan), a man euphemistically described as “facially different,” finds himself unmoored from the life he once had and rejected and the life he thought...
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DISCO BOY Review: Decidedly Human, Nuanced and Stunning
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Disco Boy, directed by Giacomo Abbruzzese, is about the search for independence and its subsequent consequences.  Aleksei/Alex (Franz Rogowski) is an illegal Belarusian immigrant in Paris, who enlists in the French Foreign Legion to legalize his stay. This trade has...
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TóTEM Review: Domestic, Universal, Heartbreaking, Morbidly Hilarious
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This movie killed me. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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THE LAST ASHES Review: Female Driven European Western
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Twelve year-old Heléne lives with her family in a commune up in the remote north of Luxembourg. Ruled by the Graff family - a father and his three sons - they have isolated themselves from society, establishing a patriarchy backed...
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Rotterdam 2024 Review: THE ARCTIC CONVOY Provides Chilling Suspense
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The International Film Festival Rotterdam has many international premières for its audiences, one of which was Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken's war drama Konvoi a.k.a. The Arctic Convoy. Solidly researched and excellently executed, Dahlsbakken's film tells a story about the Norwegian ships...
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Rotterdam 2024 Review: SLIDE, A Musical Western Satire By Bill Plympton
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This year, the International Film Festival Rotterdam had independent animation legend Bill Plympton as a special guest. He was interviewed, performed a masterclass, showing how his style of animation worked, drew sketches for attendants, the lot. A true gentleman. Also,...
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