Screen Anarchy

Japanese filmmaker Shuntaro Uchida discusses the creative and production choices behind 'Incinerator,' from adapting Kaori Ekuni's short fiction and directing first-time performers to constructing a distinctly cinematic vision of childhood through rhythm, sound, light and shadow. [Read the whole post...

As a child of the 1980s, I've come full circle: I loved it while I was in it (thank you Molly Ringwald and Amblin Entertainment), I felt cringe about it for a looong time (thank you jelly shoes and side...

Plus: 'Take Care of My Cat' and '40 Watts to Nowhere.' [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Ochre and clay and sulphur, oh my! The poster for Agnieszka Smoczynska's big budget Artificial Intelligence dystopian sci-fi thriller, Hot Spot, is from Gravillis, the design house who did yeoman's work on the campaigns for Sinners and Obsession in the past year. ...

At one point in Nicolas Winding Refn’s oblique, morally agnostic, performatively high-camp melodrama, a character pontificates, “You know, this movie is not going to fix us.”   They are probably right. The director is far more interested in mise-en-scène still-lives...

Directors Maryam Ataei and Hossein Keshavarz discuss the clandestine production, collaborative method and international trajectory of their film, a Tehran-set drama about artistic freedom, friendship and resistance under political pressure. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Punk doesn’t just mean rebellion or — in James Gunn’s avowedly unironic definition — kindness.   At its core, punk also means opposition to the Powers-That-Be, to corporate capitalism and its defenders, to a people-first, profits-last attitude, a way of...

A hypnotic, unhinged thriller with an original story promising plenty of glamour, sex, and violence. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

A woman wakes in the back of a moving camper trailer with a badly infected wound. A voice from the truck towing it tells her they must reach a doctor within the hour or she'll suffer a horrific fate. [Read...

Kevin Macdonald's ticking-clock thriller, The Runner, premieres globally on Prime Video on September 2nd, 2026. The official trailer and poster have arrived today. Check out the trailer, down below.    In the pulse-pounding psychological thriller The Runner, Maia Marten (Gal...