Screen Anarchy

Belgian-Guatemalan filmmaker César Díaz delves deeper into his personal past with his latest film, which intertwines the intimate struggles of family with the broader socio-political turmoil of the Guatemalan Civil War. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Steven Kostanski's deep dive into the films that influenced their own filmography continued with their ode to 80s small creature features, Frankie Freako. The film had its world premiere at Fantasia last month, well received by that uproarious crowd, no...

The counselors of a summer camp are terrorized by a masked killer. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Directed by César Díaz, the film delves into the intense conflict between revolutionary ideals and maternal duty, set against the politically charged backdrop of 1980s Mexico. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

On the last night of 1999, two high school juniors crash a New Years Eve party, only to find themselves fighting for their lives in this dial-up disaster comedy. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Albert Brooks made his directorial debut with a sharp-eyed, witty satire starring Charles Grodin and Frances Lee McCain, now on 4K and Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Some 15 years ago, Coraline graced our movie screens. Last weekend, it returned in a new, remastered 3D edition, via LAIKA and Fathom Events, and surprise! The animated film made $9.6 million at the box office in the U.S., good...

At a press conference in Cannes in 1990, director Jean Luc Godard said about his choice of Alain Delon for the role of the hitchhiker in his movie New Wave: 'There was a role for 'him' in which I saw...

A peerless actress was Gena Rowlands. She was also the muse of actor and rightly renowned avant-garde filmmaker John Cassavetes (†1989), to whom she was married from 1954. It was an inspiration that was mutual. A number of great Cassavetes...

The British BBC documentary Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods dryly and with restraint shows the harshness and bloodiness of life and death on the Ukrainian front this past winter. Drones and increasingly precise artillery are turning life on both sides...