Screen Anarchy

You read it here first. Our friend, Justin McConnell (Lifechanger, Clapboard Jungle), has wrapped production on a new horror thriller called Hypernormalized.    Plagued by intense nightmares and a relentless otherworldly entity, one isolated man’s sanity begins to slip. As...

Tickets went on sale today for the opening weekend of the theatrical release of Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, the single, unrated cut of Quentin Tarantino's revenge opus.   Presented in 70mm in limited release, with a single run...

Rhea Seehorn stars in Vince Gilligan's new science fiction drama on Apple TV. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

When studio executives, driven by commercial and not artistic concerns, decide to expand an adaptation of a beloved, long-running Broadway musical, the results will inevitably look and, more importantly, sound like Jon M. Chu’s (Crazy Rich Asians, Now You See...

Memory hardens around those who experience violence, turning guilt or pain into an armor they must carry long after the wounds close. That burden is the doorway into Mamoru Oshii's The Red Spectacles, a film where guilt materializes as a...

Sometime in the 1990s, rental agencies in Japan spontaneously formed around the singular idea of renting people — or to be more exact, renting their time — to act as stand-ins, role-players, and/or performers in everyday events, from marriages to funerals...

A hit in Japan, where it was selected to represent the country at the Academy Awards, Kokuho is a tougher sell elsewhere. Focusing on two kabuki rivals over a 50-year period, the film is nothing if not ambitious. Viewers unfamiliar with its...

Lee Sang-il drills into the emotional ruptures of life. His films study how people break -- and who they become afterward. The Japanese director built a career on emotionally precise, performance-driven dramas that illuminate how people fracture under extraordinary pressure....

She's a lesbian. She's in space. She's also a princess. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

I sat down with internationally acclaimed Canadian Swiss filmmaker, Peter Mettler, to discuss his latest hybrid documentary, his seven-hour magnum opus, While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven Parts (2025), which enjoyed its world premiere at the 2025 Toronto...