ScreenAnarchy: Features

Pretty Packaging: The SHAWSCOPE VOLUME 4 Boxset Kicks Crazy Shins

Sun, 03 May 2026 09:00:01 -0500

Distributor Arrow has released its fourth boxset of Shaw Brothers films. The previous three were mentioned here in the Pretty Packaging articles, and this one looks very, VERY similar to them. So I wondered: should I put up an article for this release? I mean, look at them...you might be forgiven in thinking that three is enough. The thing is... this might be my favorite one yet, and that has to do with the contents. The Shaw Brothers studios released a lot of weird horror films in the seventies and eighties, absurdly entertaining films of a unique flavor. And while the earlier Shawscope boxsets focused on Martial Arts and historical swordplay, this one goes for the horror. From Black Magic (1+2) to Hex, to its...

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Now Playing: HOKUM Frights, ODYSSEY Thrills, OUR LAND Informs

Fri, 01 May 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Plus: 'The Devil Wears Prada 2,' 'Two Pianos,' 'That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Tears of the Azure Sea,' 'The Million Dollar Bet,' 'Salt Along the Tongue,'

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Echoes: Claymation vs CGI: The Battle Between Handmade Charm and Digital Perfection

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:02:01 -0500

In the world of AI today, there is no doubt that claymation is considered an awe-inspiring niche of animation, even if not a mass market, unlike mainstream cartoons. It is surely time-consuming and expensive to produce, as every second of a shot requires dozens of hand movements and adjustments for a frame. Studios like Aardman have come up with the magnificent Wallace and Gromit vibe, despite not being a dominant kids' medium; I'll explain why. Anime, some of which has been increasingly AI-generated, has a wide audience, but claymation is equally revered and respected. It is an arduous, handcrafted art that has a strong nostalgic factor. Claymation still gets awards, and movies still earn 100% critics' scores on Rotten Tomatoes. The Wall Street Journal narrated...

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Opening This Week: HOKUM Nonstop Frights, ODYSSEY Gripping Thrills, OUR LAND Tragic Truth

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Also: The genre-defying 'The Devil Wears Prada 2.' Plus: 'That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime,' 'The Million Dollar Bet,' and 'Salt Along the Tongue.'

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Now Streaming: Baltasar Kormákur's APEX Pits Charlize Theron vs. Taron Egerton

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Plus: 'No Other Choice,' 'Marty Supreme,' and 'Dolly.'

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Now Playing: OVER YOUR DEAD BODY, FUZE, OMAHA

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Plus: 'Mother Mary,' 'Two Women,' 'Two Seasons, Two Strangers,' 'Buffet Infinity,' 'Mistura.'

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Now Streaming: Aubrey Plaza in KEVIN, Nostalgia Reigns in STRANGER THINGS: TALES OF '85

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Plus: Mythical dreams in 'My Brother the Minotaur.'

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Friday One Sheet: THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:12:10 -0500

What went wrong here, exactly? Normally, this column is a celebration of novel, or exceptionally designed key art from around the world. Today, however we shall take a look at one of the worst posters of the year, one that sits somewhere in the Uncanny Valley, coupled with a kind of generic laziness. This hurts a bit, because I quite liked Olivier Assayas's peek into the Soviet collapse of the 1990s, and the evolution of the Russkiy Mir with the rise of industry Oligarchs and Vladimir Putin to reinvent the state TV as a more media-savvy entity charged to whip the population into a frenzy of hate. I loved Paul Dano and Jude Law's performances, as the political artist and the aspiring dictator, in The...

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THE SUPER MARIO GALAXY MOVIE: Well, What Did We Expect?

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 07:02:07 -0500

Looking at the complicated legacy of adapting Shigeru Miyamoto's seminal videogame series, 'The Super Mario Galaxy Movie' should come as no great surprise.

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Director in Focus: Tommy Wirkola's Brash Adventures, From KILL BULJO to THRASH

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Norwegian filmmaker Tommy Wirkola continues to make irresistibly entertaining genre flicks, including the inspiration for this week's 'Over Your Dead Body.'

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Echoes: As Global Studios Continue to Dominate at CinemaCon 2026, Where Do Mid-Budget Films Fit?

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:02:01 -0500

It is a paradox in itself: on one hand, we have seen the biggest titles fall under Warner Bros.' distribution wing at CinemaCon 2026, and on the other hand, we have seen several smaller players step into the spotlight. At the same time, it's giving the industry an identity crisis; blockbusters are loud, but the demand for new, offbeat stories isn't going anywhere. Everyone is already pumped to see how Final Destination 7 takes shape and how death becomes more creative in choosing its next victims, following Warner Bros.' massive box-office success with Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025). Digger is already making a splash with its intrigue-filled storyline. The Ocean's 11 prequel is making noise due to casting hype, speculation, and the possibility of reinventing the...

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Opening This Week: OVER YOUR DEAD BODY Couple Trouble, FUZE Heist Thrills, OMAHA Grounded

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Plus: 'Two Women,' 'Two Seasons, Two Strangers,' 'Mistura,' and 'Buffet Infinity.'

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Sound And Vision: Cory McAbee

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:00:03 -0500

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at selected music videos by Cory McAbee. Cory McAbee is a conundrum, both as an artist and as a subject for a Sound and Vision. Always on the periphery of mainstream indie cinema he is the true example of an outsider indie artist. His cinematic work is singular, truly oddball and extremely great. The conundrum is this: what kind of artist is McAbee? And could we call some of his art music videos, which is after all the main subject of this editorial? Cory McAbee has a singular voice, and is a jack of all trades. He writes his movies, acts in them,...

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Now Streaming: DUST BUNNY and NIGHT PATROL Lead the Way

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:17:12 -0500

Plus: '180,' 'Verganza,' 'Margo's Got Money Troubles,' 'The Dark Wizard,' and new 'Beef.'

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Now Playing: Ben Wheatley's NORMAL, LEE CRONIN'S THE MUMMY

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Plus: 'Erupcja,' 'Marama,' 'Mile End Kicks,' 'Amrun,' 'Ballistic,' 'Mother Mary,' 'Mad Bills to Pay,' ''The Whistler,' 'Blue Heron.'

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Friday One Sheet: KINDERGARTEN

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:02:10 -0500

The poster for this Quebec observational documentary on early childhood, through the titular jardin d'enfants (kindergarden), has at its centre a whimsical, but dense, illustration from France's Jean Millard. His work in watercolor and gouache (a water-based, opaque paint known for its matte, velvety finish) aims to create infinite worlds open to all. The typeface is clear and clean, leaving the eyes to wander through the secret garden, even as the title seems to be wrapped up in it. The poster is framed, as it were, with the credit block, further adding to the seek-and-find element of the design. The pastel gradient through the illustration feels a bit like a sunrise, which is the metaphor of this earliest phase of life. Kindergarten is structured to follow the gradual...

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Calgary Underground 2026: Curtain Raiser

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:32:20 -0500

Growing considerably over the last five years, the Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) has been continuing its mission as a fan-focused festival. Simultaneously, it has steadily increased the number of Canadian and International talents converging on the city for 11 days of socializing and cinema with its subversive curation. It is second only to Montreal's Fantasia for this kind of smorgasbord of genre programming in Canada. CUFF, in its 23rd year, has become the de facto gateway to offbeat cinema oddities for Canada’s mid-west. A mixture of documentary and fiction features from the festival circuit that would not otherwise grace screens in this part of the country, it is a showcase and launch pad for the work of Alberta talent, and industry gathering. Every year, the...

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Director in Focus: Pete Ohs' Delightful Curiosities, From I SEND YOU THIS PLACE to ERUPCJA

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:02:12 -0500

The multi-hyphenate indie filmmaker continues to stir the imagination.

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Echoes: Selling a Movie That Doesn't Exist Yet

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:02:01 -0500

After writer/director James Gunn and producer Peter Safran were appointed as the new co-heads of DC Studios in November 2022, plans for the studio's rebooted slate began to take shape, with details about upcoming projects gradually emerging. In 2023, it was announced that Andy Muschietti, known for directing the It films and series, would helm The Brave and the Bold. It's 2026 now, and the film still hasn't entered the production phase yet, though The Hollywood Reporter confirmed this past January that Muschietti was still attached to the project, with Christina Hodson (The Flash) tapped to write. Even so, the film has the power to influence people with its waiting time, as DC fans cannot hold their excitement. It will be the first DC film...

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Opening This Week: Ben Wheatley's NORMAL, David Lowery's MOTHER MARY, and LEE CRONIN'S THE MUMMY Lead the Genre Pack

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Plus: 'Erupjca,' 'Ballistic,' 'Mile End Kicks,' 'Amrun,' 'Mad Bills to Pay,' and more.

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Sound and Vision: Edgar Wright

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:00:01 -0500

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at selected music videos by Edgar Wright. Somehow it is a wonder that Edgar Wright has never done a full blown animation feature, nor a full-on traditional musical, especially when looking at his music video output. In his early and recent music video work, he fully embraces animation as a medium, and the musical as a genre, sometimes mixing both to great effect. One of his early music videos is one of two he made for Charlotte Hatherley. I want to single out Bastardo (see below), where he uses minimal animation and the now somewhat archaic medium of photographed comic books. Bastardo shows the...

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Now Playing: FACES OF DEATH, EXIT 8, CHAO, and More

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Also: 'The Christophers,' ''The Travel Companion,' 'Mermaid,' 'Hamlet,' 'The Yeti,' 'Infiltrate.'

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Now Streaming: THE TESTAMENTS Rekindles Teen Fires, THE BOYS Remains Outrageously Bloody

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Plus more new series: 'Dangerous Truth' and 'The Miniature Wife.'

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Friday One Sheet: IL DIO DELLAMORE

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:00:05 -0500

Francesco Lagi's Il Dio Dell'amore weaves together the lives of several characters dealing with complicated relationships, hidden desires, and fragile emotional balances, in the fashion of Short Cuts or Magnolia. The film gets a classical, handsome piece of key art from Italian design-house, Twinpix. A distressed five colour design, with a Polaroid-style matte-ing design. There is ample white space, and the edges of the wings bleeding out in complementary colours. All sorts of small details add up to a greater whole: the absolutely perfect placement of a studio laurel, the small bit of text of the distribution company at the top, and the above the line talent at the bottom. No credit block though. (boo-urns!) I love the lighting and the shadow of the hand touching the...

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Director in Focus: Steven Soderbergh's Silky Smooth Charms, From BUBBLE to THE CHRISTOPHERS

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:02:12 -0500

The director continues to assert his stylish independence with deceptively mainstream films and television series.

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Echoes: Why Are AI-Driven Films Being Proposed as Any Kind of Solution in Pakistan?

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:02:12 -0500

Facing a lack of funding and infrastructure, why has the Pakistani entertainment industry turned to AI?

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New Directors/New Films 2026 Preview: STRANGE RIVER, TWO SEASONS, TWO STRANGERS, and More

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Presented by Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art, the 55th edition of New Directors/New Films takes place from April 8 through April 19, 2026, with filmmakers scheduled to attend in person. With a focus on innovative cinema that sets the stage for the future of film, the festival champions filmmakers with distinctive visions and bold new ideas that push the art form into new terrain. This year’s selection will introduce 24 features and 10 shorts, including festival winners and favorites from Cannes, Sundance, Locarno, Venice, Berlinale, Rotterdam, Toronto, San Sebastián, and more. Screenings take place at FLC’s Walter Reade Theater and MoMA’s Titus theaters. Below are some of the films I had a privilege to preview:...

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Opening This Week: FACES OF DEATH Goes Digital, THE CHRISTOPHERS Confronts Art, CHAO Gets Romantic

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Plus: 'Mermaid,' 'Hamlet,' 'The Yeti,' 'Infiltrate.'

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Friday One Sheet: BACKROOMS

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:02:10 -0500

One of a pair of character posters for Kane Parson's upcoming, creepy-pasta meets liminal terror horror film, Backrooms, that places Academy Award-nominated actors into some unorthodox and tight framing. The original poster for the big-screen blow up of the YouTube series of mystery-box meets by way of found footage viral videos with a dedicated cult following, perhaps leaned too far and too clean into negative space, to the point of being novel, but rather boring. This one, which has more texture, more grain, and a distressed Renate Reinsve, with unkempt hair, fingernails of unequal length, pushed into the sickly yellow wallpaper that is the hallmark of the series, is a far better use of said negative space, and you feel the negative here more fulsome, more...

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Echoes: Why Found-Footage Horror Is Making a Comeback. Could PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 8 Lead It Further?

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:02:12 -0500

As the Paranormal Activity series prepares to return with a new installment next year, and the remake of the 1978 "Mondo" faux-documentary Faces of Death is set to drop in April, the found-footage genre seems to be having its moment now. At least 13 found-footage horror movies are lined up for 2026 and beyond. The found-footage horror genre began booming in the late 1990s with The Blair Witch Project (1999) and continued through the late 2000s, fueled by the success of Paranormal Activity (2007) and Cloverfield (2008). The first-person cinematography, with shaky camerawork and low-quality footage, might have looked amateurish, but it proved to have a massive fanbase, showing that nonlinear storytelling can succeed rather than fail. High-profile indie hits and hybrid films like Shelby...

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Opening This Week: THE DRAMA, Romantic Tension, THE STRANGER, Classic Updated

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Plus: 'The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.'

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Sound And Vision: Corin Hardy

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:00:02 -0500

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at selected music videos by Corin Hardy. Corin Hardy is best known as the director of The Nun, part of the Conjuring-universe, and the recent Whistle, a horror feature about an Aztec deathwhistle summoning death. Lesser known, but quite great is his earlier music video and short film output. Hardy started out as an animator with the excellent stop-motion short Butterfly, which straddles the line between early Tim Burton and the cinematic output of graphic novelist Dave McKean. This influence can also be seen in his early music videos, where the McKean influences are most overtly present in his music video for The Horrors'...

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Now Playing: THEY WILL KILL YOU, YES, A MAGNIFICENT LIFE

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Our guide to genre fare opening this week in movie theaters includes a straight ahead horror thriller, a comic horror movie, a different type of thriller, and four strong indies. Read on for more information about each film. They Will Kill You The film is now playing, only in movie theaters, via Warner Bros. Visit the official site for locations and showtimes. Our review by J Hurtado: "Kirill Sokolov has stepped into the Hollywood spotlight and made a big statement here, and horror fans are definitely going to respond. They Will Kill You is a big, bloody blast of energy, and isn't that the stuff big screen dreams are made of?" Official synopsis: "The film unleashes a blood-soaked, high-octane horror-action-comedy in which a young woman...

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Now Streaming: DETECTIVE HOLE Nordic Noir, SOMETHING VERY BAD IS GOING TO HAPPEN Slow Horror, THE RED LINE Scams

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Plus: 'The Mortuary Assistant,' 'Pretty Lethal,' and much more.

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Friday One Sheet: THE END OF OAK STREET

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:30:00 -0500

A fine vertical teaser is this, the key art for the long awaited return of David Robert Mitchell. After the instant cult success of It Follows, he failed to connect with a mass audience with the sprawling neo-noir conspiracy oriented Under The Silver Lake. Now, 8 years later, and teaming up with J.J. Abrams Bad Robot and Warner Brothers comes a science fiction survival picture with A list stars, and a high concept. But let us talk about the poster, shall we? An overhead, drone-ish shot of neat and tidy suburbia, mangled by what appears to be a giant lizard or dinosaur. Like a modern urban protest, the title card is painted vertically on the street that divides the neat and ticky-tacky homes ("little boxes...

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Echoes: Why THE GLASSWORKER, Pakistan's Official Academy Award 2025 Submission, Matters

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:02:11 -0500

How the animated film continues to ripple and has pushed investors, studios, and young artists to seriously consider animation's future in the region.

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Opening This Week: THEY WILL KILL YOU Threatens, FORBIDDEN FRUITS Beckons, OUR HERO, BALTHAZAR Promises

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Plus: 'Yes,' 'A Magnificent Life,' 'John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office,' 'Kontinental '25,' 'The A.I. Doc: How I Became an Apocaloptimist.'

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SXSW 2026 Wrap: All Our Reviews

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:02:11 -0500

The 33rd edition of the SXSW Film and Television Festival announced their Audience Award winners, led by Jorma Taccone's Over Your Dead Body in the Headliner section, Robb Boardman's Plantman & Blondie: A Dress Up Gang Film in the Narrative Feature Competition, and The Ascent, directed by Edward Drake, Scott Veltri, Francis Cronin, in the Documentary Feature Competition. Dave Boyle's Never After Dark won the Audience Award in the Midnighter section. Check out all the Audience Award winners here. Our in-person coverage was led by my hard-working fellow editor J Hurtado. Due to a late-breaking acute bronchitis attack, I was unable to make the trip, but I did my best to contribute remote coverage, and contributing writer Daniel Eagan also reviewed a film remotely. And...

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Sound And Vision: Aidan Zamiri

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:00:06 -0500

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at selected music videos by Aidan Zamiri. Aidan Zamiri named his first feature film The Moment. In this mockumentary, based on Charli XCX's Brat album- and tour-role-out, the notion of being an 'it'-person and being culturally relevant becomes bleakly comical and quietly unnerving. The idea that you, as a person, could come to be described as 'the moment', an ethereal disembodied notion signifying imminent death, is enough to send Charli XCX spiraling. Cultural cachet and relevance is what happens to be the name of the game for Aidan Zamiri, who himself could be described as an 'it'-person and who has turned his directorial fame...

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Now Playing: READY OR NOT 2: HERE I COME, PROJECT HAIL MARY, More Genre Movies

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Plus: 'Do Not Enter,' 'Miroirs No. 3,' 'Tow,' 'Two Prosecutors,' 'Late Shift,' and more.

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Now Streaming: 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR, Fabulously Entertaining, Eminently Quotable

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Plus: 'Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man,' 'Radioactive Emergency,' 'Invincible,' 'The Lady,' 'Imperfect Women.'

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Friday One Sheet: FACES OF DEATH

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:30:00 -0500

Exploiting on the one of the odder alleys of nostalgia, a modern remake of the American Mondo cult classic Faces of Death gets its turn in the meat grinder of capitalism.

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SXSW 2026 Doc Roundup: CEREMONY, FIRST THEY CAME FOR MY COLLEGE, ONE ANOTHER, YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:02:03 -0500

From Canada to Florida, from friendship to data points, four highly-charged documentaries made a mark at SXSW.

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Echoes: Are the Oscars Changing Faster Than Hollywood?

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 01:02:01 -0500

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has historically faced intense criticisms regarding a lack of diversity, declining viewership, elitist voting habits, and chaotic campaign tactics. To combat these issues, the Academy implemented several significant changes for the 2025-2026 awards cycle, aiming to implement transparency, improve viewer engagement, and address modern industry shifts. Hollywood has changed massively over the past few years, but the last year alone has redefined the Academy with a 180-degree turn. For example, the addition of 10,000 plus members in the Oscar voting body with diverse demographics, a mandatory prerequisite for the voting members to watch the film first, the introduction of a new category named "Best Casting," and the formation of separate branches for animated features and short...

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Opening This Week: READY OR NOT 2: HERE I COME, PROJECT HAIL MARY

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Plus: 'Do Not Enter,' 'Miroirs No. 3,' 'Tow,' 'Two Prosecutors,' 'Late Shift,' and more.

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Sound And Vision: Slava Tsukerman

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:00:06 -0500

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at two different videos by Slava Tsukerman. Slava Tsukerman passed away recently at the age of 86. He left behind only a handful of features, half of them documentaries, some shorts and two music videos. The two music videos in question are stylistically immediately recognizable as his work, using a pop art sheen and deliberately flat-looking effects work to build a colorful, vibrant and joyful vision with a punk queer edge. Tsukerman's most famous film is Liquid Sky, a film that uses eighties New Wave and Punk fashion to tell a gender blending and bending story about aliens and drugs in New York. In...

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Now Playing: SLANTED Disrupts, UNDERTONE Unnerves, THE GATES Do Not Open

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Plus: 'Bodycam' and 'The Ugly.'

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Friday One Sheet: OBSESSION

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:02:11 -0500

We posted the trailer and poster for Curry Barker's darkly whimsical horror comedy, Obsession, earlier this week. However, the key art, from design house grandson, bears a bit more discussion in today's column. Sometimes, simply an iconic still from the movie does indeed make the perfect poster. As the lead stares uncertainly at the 'magical object' that is about to turn his life upside-down in a 'monkey's paw' kind of way, his would-be girlfriend ominously stands in the background as a shadow bathed in light -- a superb visual storytelling image in a film filled with them. Meanwhile, the title card comes literally between them, with a hint of chromic aberration. Much like the work of Akiko Stehrenberger, the credit block eschews its formal marketing placement...

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SXSW 2026 Curtain Raiser: 21 Films To Get Excited About At This Year's Festival

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:00:05 -0500

Spring has nearly sprung, and in the film world that means that SXSW Film & TV Festival is finally upon us! 2026 marks the festival's 40th edition, and we've got a bumper crop of films to choose from. Screen Anarchy will be covering both from the ground and remotely in order to get you the biggest bang for your film news buck, and with that in mind the team has put together a handy (non-exhaustive) look at 21 titles that we are really excited to talk about over the next year or so. The last decade at SXSW has seen a decided uptick in adventurous genre film programming, including the boast-worthy world premiere of Academy Award Best Picture winner Everything Everywhere All At Once among...

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Berlinale 2026 Wrap: All Our Reviews, Interviews, News

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:02:07 -0500

The 76th edition of the Berlinale was held during the month of February 2026, featuring the latest films by a bevy of exciting directors, presented in a glamorous atmosphere (see above). As the indispensable David Hudson noted in his wonderfully expansive wrap report at Criterion: "More than 270 films from around eighty countries screened at this year's Berlinale, and even the total number of these winners of so many awards represents a mere fraction of the full lineup." The festival is anchored by its wide-ranging selection of films, but there is also business taking place at the concurrently-occurring European Film Market, where more than 12,500 film professionals attended, and 606 films (?!) were screened. This year, we were happy to have several writers contributing to...

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