Screen Anarchy

Every genre, sub-genre, and micro-genre eventually exhausts itself. But genres typically don't end; they expand, they evolve, and adapt, drawing on new ideas from outside the genre, mixing elements from other genres, and ultimately resurrect themselves, reborn on the ashes...

Smile 2 picks up right where Smile left off. Well, "six days later," as onscreen text tells us. It's a bold move from writer/director Parker Finn that combines with a bravura long-take opening sequence to announce that Smile 2 is...

Starring Nick Frost and Synnøve Karlsen star. A couple who find their jovial cab driver diverts them to a remote, haunted road, revealing disturbing motives and his true intentions. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Even with all the collective force of human imagination, evidenced by books, scripts and conspiracy theories, nothing can be as wonderfully and sometimes scarily incredible as reality. Some history lessons, even seemingly lesser ones, are so genuinely wild it’s hard...

A plane crashes in the Amazon jungle leaving a sole survivor, a five-year-old child named Rebecca, who is then saved just in time by an Indigenous Iruaté man. Nine years pass, and Rebecca (Helena Zengel) is now widely known as...

Clearly inspired, and having some old timey fun with modern filmmaking tools and more than a touch of self-awareness, Mike Stasko's goofy homage to Plan 9 From Outer Space! era Ed Wood, Vampire Zombies...From Space! has been working its way through the...

It's hard to imagine what any of us would do, if we were driving along a quite road and came across a dead body, let alone the body of a member of our family. For Shula (Susan Chardy), on her...

The world has been ravaged by a pandemic. Alone and outside the safety of the forest, Marko faces a shattered world shrouded in silence and danger. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

It seems like election conflicts are the norm right now, or perhaps it’s always been this way, and we just notice it more in the age of constant social media and news. Kip Oebanda’s (Abandoned, Liway) latest film, Balota, addresses...

Hippo examines the coming-of-age of two step-siblings: Hippo, a video-game addicted teenager and Buttercup, a Hungarian Catholic immigrant with a love of classical music and Jesus. Like the Ancient Greek Aphrodite, Buttercup’s love is unrequited by a brother who prefers...